Day: January 31, 2020

P5’s Mary Queen of Scots Assembly!

This week we have spent a lot of time rehearsing for our class assembly based on Mary Queen of Scots.

Hannah – I enjoyed practising the assembly.

Keris – I was nervous at first but then afterwards I felt good.

We have still been busy learning about other things besides our topic.

 

Literacy

On Monday we read the next chapters in our reading books and practised the skill of ‘metalinguistics.’ We learnt how to use various strategies to work out the definition of tricky words.

Numeracy

Some of us practised our table facts and some of us practised using a calculator to help solve tricky problems.

Lewis Douglas – I enjoyed using a calculator. I learnt they use solar power.

We have a new numeracy target – to accurately recall x9 table facts. We can talk about patterns in the x9 table.

Health

We discussed what our ideal jobs would be.

Samuel – I would be a librarian because I like books.

Chloe – A footballer – I like football.

Lacey – A pet-sitter – I love pets.

Eva – A fashion designer-I like clothes and experimenting with colours.

Using the laptops we researched what qualifications were needed for these jobs and what duties were required when you had the job.

S.T.E.M.

We thought carefully about real-life problems and just like engineers in real life we have designed solutions in the form of machines to fix these problems.

Emma – My robot helps people who don’t have arms.

Lacey- My robot helps you with homework.

Keris and Logan designed beds for people who can’t sleep.

Keris – My bed reads people stories.

Music

This week we learnt a new skill – drumming. It was very difficult and we had to persevere and show resilience in order to manage this skill.  Next week is our last ‘Move to the Beat’ workshop and we have decided to invite Mr Turner’s class to come and watch.

Aleena – I thought the drumsticks were really fun.

Dream Garden Challenge in P6/7

Our theme across the school for health just now is “Dreams and Goals”.

Having linked this to our skills and strengths for our “Developing Young Workforce” activities, we then looked together at how working towards our future dreams and goals can start now!

Part of that involves taking care of our own physical and emotional health. This was the challenge –

“In your group of 4/5, design a Dream Garden which would promote Health and Wellbeing.” Everyone in the group had to design one main feature/ area and all had to work together to design and complete the layout.

Here are our results: 

This Week in P3/4

In PE this week we all tested our stamina by taking part in the bleep test. This followed on from two session of our focus had been on our running and breathing skills.

“It was really hard, but i liked how everyone joined in” Anton

In maths and numeracy this week P3/4 were learning more about money and how we can use different coins to make a certain amount.

“I liked working which coins I could use to make a set amount” Grace

We also expanded our knowledge of subtraction this week. We were focusing on subtracting using multiples of 10 and bridging through 10.

“I really enjoyed challenging myself with these number strategies” Sophie

We also did a carousel of weighing activities in class. We had to predict our answer and then check it out. We used lots of skills in our groups like collaborating and communicating.Good work P.3/4.

This week we continued working on our ‘ Oor Wee toor’ of Scotland with the P3’s. The children were set the task of creating a poster to present facts about Aberdeen that they had researched.

This has been another great week of learning. Well done P3/4! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Working on climate change.

We are very excited at the possibility of working in collaboration with the publisher DC Thomson on a project about climate change, and possibly incorporating some of their characters, including a boy who sits on a bucket!

This week we have also started to draft to letter to the BBC to seek permission to use a video clip from their excellent program “Climate Change – The Facts”.

We also managed to incorporate this subject into our maths lessons as we had to measure the capacity of different buckets.

Primary 7

Maths

This week we have been learning to solve problems using maths operations. We have worked well on this but a majority of us feel that we need to spend some time learning our tables.

Mums and Dads  can you help with this.

We have also been learning to use a protractor and ruler accurately drawing triangles. We hope to get outside soon to investigate angles in the playground.

Literacy

Our class novel at the moment is Charlotte’s Web. We are enjoying reading through the story and completing all the tasks.

Keeley “It’s interesting so far”

Brooke “I think it’s really enjoyable”

Ava “It’s a great story”

The class have been working hard preparing the assembly for next week. Hope to see you all there.

Writing

With Ms Taylor on a Tuesday we have started to write narrative stories. We will put examples on the blog when they are completed.

Topic

This week we have been organising an itinerary for the holiday we are planning.

Science

With Mrs Lockhart on Wednesday we were doing a challenge to assess how much we have learned so far.

Congratulations to Nicole and Alannah for getting the star award for collaborating well in science.

Primary 2 this week

This week we have been learning about Scottish words for body parts. We created a life size picture of Katie Morag and labelled her body using Scottish words.

We have also been learning more about telling the time. We have started learning about quarter past and quarter to.

Brendan – “I enjoy working in pairs during maths.”

Mia – “I find it tricky but I’m going to keep trying and never give up!”

This week we went to the school library to explore all of the different books.

Sarah-Louise – “The library has so many interesting books for us to choose.”

Calvin – “I had fun reading all of the different books.”

In Science we went on a material hunt around the classroom to find different textures.

Lucy – “The carpet is rough.”

Charlie – “Some things were soft, like the library rug.”

Sophie – “The plants are a bit jaggy.”

Ethan – “The tables are smooth.”

 

Our P.E. days are now a Monday and a Tuesday. Please ensure all children have a suitable P.E. kit on these days. Thank you.

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