Month: December 2019

P.E

Our week began with some Scottish dancing in P.E. We were learning the ‘Gay Gordons’. The children picked this dance up pretty quickly. They all worked  collaboratively in their pairs and showed each other respect. It certainly got us moving, especially when we added the music.

Anton: “I enjoyed dancing with a partner”.

Anna: “Learning the dance was a fun challenge”.

Maths and Numeracy

In numeracy we were continuing with the addition of whole 3-digit numbers without carrying. Next week we will start to look at carrying numbers over using the column number strategy.

In maths we continued to use our time story book to challenge our learning. The focus this week was the time in 24hr. The children worked really hard during this session. I am sure our class could be heard cheering each time we got a right answer!

Kiera “It was very hard but we all worked together to find the correct time”.

Health and Wellbeing

This weeks focus within our celebrating difference topic was around bullying. The children were asked what they would/should do if they were to witness any signs of bullying. They were also asked to discuss the difference between bullying and falling out with a friend. As this sometimes is something that gets misunderstood. We spoke about how as a school we should always use kind words and respect one another.

Science

In science this week, P3/4 and P4 got together to learn all about viruses and how they can be spread. The children watched part of ‘operation ouch’ to gain a deeper understanding of how viruses spread and how we can avoid this happening. After, Mrs Morrison and I demonstrated what happens when we all sneeze using a balloon, some flour and a very sharp pencil. This was a really fun experiment. Lets just say my carpet wasn’t blue for long!!

Kara: “I loved it when the balloon was popped and the flour went everywhere”.

Literacy

The children learned about similes this week, they really enjoyed coming up with their own and sharing these with the class. The class will be set the challenge to begin to use these in their creative writing.

For writing this week we worked on the final part of our series of lessons. We used our work from last week to help us create our first drafts of our fantastic Viking stories. The class were able to look back at their characters that they had created and the settings that they had described to help them hook their audience. Before the lesson had ended pupils shared some of their stories and peer assessed others work.

Sophie “I really enjoyed this task, it was fun and interesting”.

Emily “I learned about similes this week, I was able to include them in my writing”.

P3/4 have worked really hard again this week! Well done everyone!

 

It has been another busy week in Deans Den. Mrs Wallace visited the den on Wednesday as Mrs Morrison was working in P4. During her visit the children discussed the emotion’ scared’ and’ frightened’ and talked about what makes them feel this way.

” The dark makes me frightened sometimes” Max

Spiders and monsters make me scared” Maddison

“My Mummy helps me when I’m scared” Charli- Mae

” Mummy and Daddy help me when I’m frightened” Andrew

Firstly I would like to say thank you to everyone who managed to join us last Friday for the Big Bedtime Read. The children had a fantastic morning and hopefully you have had time to read some of the books the children were given. Some of our favourite pictures below.

Literacy – Phonics

This week we have been focusing on the “ck” sound which appears at the end of words. The children have successfully blended ck with different consonant and vowel sounds to create words.

Elizabeth and some of the other children are beginning to use their knowledge of blending to create words independently. I am so proud of them!

Reading

We continue to practice reading and tricky words as often as we can. This week the red group were reading Fun at the Beach. One of the tasks was to draw themselves at the beach with their family and write a sentence about their picture. It is important that children can make a link from a story they are reading, to an event they have or may experience. Louie was extremely proud of his detailed picture and matching sentence. Well done!

Writing

This week we have been focusing on our writing targets. The targets are to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. As well as ensuring we meet our targets some children are challenging themselves to write 2 or 3 sentences.

We are also beginning to look more closely at how to improve our learning across all areas of the curriculum. The children are now more aware of their “Next Steps” and how to achieve them. More general information about this will be posted on the blog.

Numeracy

This weeks challenge was to firstly use their knowledge of number bonds to 10 and then to break the bonds down further e.g. 5+5 =10 – 2+3+5 also equals 10. They used numicon frames to build towers of 10 with different combinations.

Health and Wellbeing

As a continuation from last week we discussed in more detail what we should do if we are being bullied. Layla said ” we should tell a teacher or an adult” Sophie said we should say “I don’t like what your doing” Emily said we should tell them to “stop”. We drew pictures to demonstrate our understanding.

The children are very excited about our Nativity “It’s a Baby”. We are now practicing on the stage with P2 and P3. It’s all beginning to come together.  We look forward to seeing you on Thursday 12th or Friday 13th December.

Have a lovely weekend. Only 20 sleeps to the big day!!

 

 

 

 

The sharing shed itself is well stocked – please help yourself!

We have over 50 books for all ages in our sharing shed already!!

Thanks to everyone for contributions so far!

Please come and help yourself to something to read on the dark nights!