P5/6 have been looking at the works of Scottish artist/architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We looked at example of his work and discussed their features.
We then sketched some of the these features in our sketch books.
We will then use these ideas to create our own art work inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
It’s been another busy old week down in Primary 1 and Primary 2/1.
We have been learning the f sound and been using it to build lots of different words. We have been practising forming the letter using various materials we have found in the classroom, like play doh, buttons and even beans.
We have been working together to build a plan for our work on seasons. We are learning all about Winter. We know lots of things already and have made a map of what we would like to learn next.
Lewis had the great idea of making some winter art. We learned about hot and cold colours and talked about how they made us feel. We used lots of cold colours to paint the landscape and then added bare trees and snow to complete our lovely pictures.
Lucy – I really liked doing my painting because it looked really good at the end.
Kayleigh – I liked using all the different cold colours.
Brendan – I enjoyed tearing the paper to make the snow because I LOVE snow!
Today the British Transport Police visited our school. They talked to us all about their job and how they can help to keep us safe in the community. It was really interesting.
Finlay learned that it was important not to go on the train tracks.
Ethan reported back that if you drop something on the tracks only the police can get it back for you.
Ashley said that if you got lost you can always ask a police officer to help you.
Kayleigh explained that part of the job of the police is to arrest people who steal things. Stealing is bad.
Brendan said that it was important never to touch electricity because we could get electrocuted.
Sophie told us all about the little film clip about staying safe with our parents.
We learned lots of new information.
We are looking forward to taking part in ‘Show and Tell’ in The Den on Thursday. Pupils will be bringing in photos, toys or books from home to share with The Den Gang who will listen and ask questions.
Keep your eyes peeled later in the week for photos of what we brought in!
We are all happy to see everyone back in class after the holiday. We have been very busy this week.
We have been learning about place value and we use thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. We had fun making different number using the year 2019. The biggest number we made was 9210 and the smallest number we made was 129. We have been practising working with big numbers and sorting them into order.
We have been reading new books, writing thank you letters to Santa and we have been learning to take notes. We have also been exploring our sense of touch and we have had fun using a feely bag.
Week beginning 14th January:
Monday –
P4-7 Football After School club 3.30-4.30pm
Parent Council Meeting @ 6pm
Wednesday –
P1-3 Football After School club 3.30-4.30pm
Friday –
P5/6 Values Assembly (school only)
Maison- We all wish you a Happy New Year.
Roman, Brendan and Rihanna got off to a great start and did some good work when we learned about writing the digits for this year. We thought 2019 was a very big number with 4 digits!
We have been trying really hard to be ‘excellent illustrators’ we are making our pictures detailed, colourful and neat.
Skye- I hope you like our pictures.
Mrs Cochrane and Mrs Stevenson shared the story ‘Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish’ by Michael Foreman.
The children were really good at recalling the main events of the story.
Brendan- A greedy man cut down all the trees and made factories that puffed out lots of smoke. All to reach a pretty and shiny star.
Lexie- All the little animals and flowers disappeared.
Tyler- The world was untidy, messy , dark and stinky!
Ethan- Dinosaurs and the man saved the planet by sharing.
Lucy- They planted flowers and trees.
We decided to look after our special world at Deans Primary School. The first thing we did was go on a litter audit of our school grounds.
We found lots of rubbish!
Sophie- I was shocked.
Elkie- I was really angry.
Sarah-Louise- I was very, very angry.
Scarlet- I was sad.
We found that the biggest problem was at the front of our school.
Aayan was really grumpy and Maison was shocked and couldn’t believe his eyes.
Even the trees and bushes had rubbish in them. We don’t think ‘Pot Noodles’ grow in trees! We are going to take action and be ‘litter Police’ to help look after our school environment. Even the smallest changes can make a big difference. We sat down with the teachers and made a big plan together. We talked about what we wanted to do and what we wanted to learn about this term. Here are some of our ideas so far.
Aayan suggested that we should make signs and learn about how littering affects animals.
Mark- Wants to design real life litter heroes.
Kullyn and Kayleigh had the great idea of doing a litter pick.
Brendan- Wants to learn how we can keep our playground healthy and how to make bug hotels.
Lucy- Wants to learn where the rubbish goes.
Elkie suggested that we need to look after our paper and use it well. She would also like to learn the colours of recycling.
We found some planters and thought we might be like the dinosaurs and plant some flowers. Lexie- That will make our playground look nice and tidy and bees will come and make honey.
This week we have learned the ‘e’ sound and made e for Elmo.
We had a team challenge to see how many e’s we could write in 1 minute. We then picked our favourite e from the other team. We were very proud of ourselves.
We had a go at making a giant e using our bodies and working as a team.
It was an eeeeeenergetic challenge and we think we did an eeeeeeeexcellent job.
Each week P7 have been having a mindfulness session with Mrs Moyes. To begin with we find a comfy space to sit or lie in, we take 3 big deep breaths in through our nose and then we begin listening to relaxing music. Mrs Moyes then reads us a mindfulness story to help us relax. The stories help us be calm, relax and focus.
Emma – Once we have done mindfulness we go back to class and we are able to concentrate and finish our work
James L-S – We sometimes get to hold the guinea pigs during mindfulness, stroking them makes me feel relaxed
Brandon – The story makes me see pictures in my head
Kevin – Mindfulness makes me feel relaxed
