February 2020 – Deans Primary School Blog

Another busy week for P3/4!

P.E

We continued with our block of athletics. This week the children were learning about throwing for height and distances. To warm ourselves up we played a game of human skittles. This allowed the children to understand the different kind of throws that are needed in different situations. It also gave the children an opportunity to revise their jumping skills as the balls were rolling towards them.

Maths

This week the children continued exploring money. The learning this week focused on subtraction from a total amount, this also links in with what we are learning in our numeracy work. This will help the children to deepen their understanding of how money works when we start with an amount and then we purchase something we end up with less. Maybe the children can use this knowledge when spending their pocket money!

Topic

P3/4 and P3 came together this week to rehearse the final run through of their t.v adverts. The children were given the opportunity to expand their skills in listening and talking, collaboration and leadership within this lesson. After, the children then performed their adverts to the class. These performances were recorded and played back to them the following day. The children all done an amazing job convincing their audience why people should visit Glasgow.

Sharing The Learning

P3/4 and I would like to say thank you again to all of the parents/carers that joined us on Tuesday afternoon for our sharing the learning session. The children really enjoyed having you all there. The focus of this lesson was exploring persuasive language and looking at how we can do this in an advertisement. The children and parent/carers were as to create a poster convincing tourists to swap the high temperatures and to spend some time in our beautiful country. The end results of this tasks were fantastic, so a massive well done from me! There was some great taglines using persuasive language and the pictures were detailed and bright of some of the amazing landmarks that this country has to offer.

Another great week P3/4! See you all again on Monday!

P6/7 Class

What a fantastic week we’ve had! We have been demonstrating our school values throughout the week.

For Literacy, we learnt to practise our comprehension skills by visualising the text. We also got our new reading books. We start our Guided reading sessions next week.

SCIENCE/ TECH

We were learning to decompose sequences. This meant that we had to create a series of instructions for coding a robot.

We have also been researching information about different types of eco-friendly technology.

In numeracy, we learnt to divide decimals by 10 and 100 and 1000.

IDL- We learnt how the Incas lived in their time and how their civilization died.

What’s on this week…

Week beginning 3^rd March 2020

Mon –

Nursery Stay and Play sessions

P1 and P2 multi-sports lunch club

P4-7 Football club 3.15pm

P5-7 art club 3.15pm

P5-7 Choir 3.15pm

Tue-

PEEP sessions @ 9.10am and 2pm

NYCOS working with p4

Ukulele lunch club

Basketball lunch club

P3/4 Sharing the Learning

Planet soccer nursery session

Netball club at 3.15pm

Home learning club 3.15pm

Wed-

P4 trip to Edinburgh

Scripture Union lunch club

Planet soccer nursery session

P1-3 football club 3.15pm

Lego club 3.15pm

Numeracy club 3.15pm

Thu-

World Book Day!

P4 Futsal session

Zumba club 3.15pm

Cookery club 3.15pm

Lego club 3.15pm

Football tournament 3.15pm at DCHS

Fri-

Fitness Friday Breakfast club (p1-3)

P5/6 Class assembly

Handball P3-5 12.30pm

Primary 2

Numeracy

We started learning about money this week.

Skye – “We were putting the coins in the right order”

Darby – “We tried figuring out which coins were behind each box.”

Writing

We collaborated in teams to use technology to research interesting facts about Stirling Castle and turn these into notes.

Lexie – “We were learning to find the important parts of a sentence.”

Sophia – “We researched facts about Stirling Castle.”

P.E.

We started creating a gymnastics sequence involving jumps, rolls and balances.

Mia – “We were doing different kinds of balances and rolls.”

Brendan – “We used collaboration to do different balances to create a sequence.”

Science

We have been investigating which materials are bendy and which are not bendy.

Charlie – “We had to pass a ball and say different materials.”

Ethan – “We went around the classroom to see what was bendy and what was not bendy.”

Topic

We looked at different jobs people did around a castle.

Isla – “I applied to be a Marshal because it looked fun!”

Levente – “I wanted to be a Watchman because I like swords.”

Exciting News from Primary 1

We have had the most exciting week in Primary 1! It all began last Friday at assembly. The children who took part in the STEM challenge were all given a certificate and a winner from each class was chosen. Our winner was Elizabeth who created a super model of the Loch Ness Monster. Well done Elizabeth!

Our star award winner for doing extra reading practice at home was Maddison. Well done Maddison! keep up the great work.

On Monday afternoon we came back from lunch to find something very strange on our carpet.

It was a trail of glitter leading into our library. The trail ended beside a cushion and there on the cushion was a scroll!

We excitedly opened the scroll and read it.

The letter was from a dragon. The dragon was very sad and needed our help. He explained that Fairyland was disappearing, he had no castle to protect and all of the other characters had no where to live because people were not reading fairytales anymore. The dragon had already visited our classroom and thought it would make an excellent fairyland from himself and his friends to live in. Our challenge is to rebuild and read lots of fairytales. The children are so so excited. The first things they wanted to do was build a castle for the dragon to protect. They did this by drawing castles, making them from wooden blocks, cubes and lego.

We have written letters to Mrs Stewart asking for her permission to decorate and change our classroom.

We have read Jack and the Beanstalk and have started building a beanstalk(pictures in next weeks blog) We have worked collaboratively to retell the story in the correct order.

More adventures from Primary I next week. Have a lovely weekend.

P5 Have Another Busy Week!

P.E.

Our hockey skills continue to develop. This week we practised dribbling, tackling and shooting before getting into games.

Mason – I have got better at using the reverse stick.

Lacey – I have got better at passing.

Literacy

We continued to read our group novels and some of us practised using different strategies to work out the meaning of tricky words. One group applied the skills we had been learning about persuasive writing and produced road safety posters as one of the characters dashed out into the road without looking!

With Miss Taylor we designed characters in preparation for World Book Day.

Chloe – I designed a famous footballer.

Eva – I came up with the idea of the richest singer in the world.

Mason – A famous taekwondo athlete.

On Wednesday we learnt how to write an exposition. First we looked at an article that someone had written about why dogs make the best pets. Then with a partner we wrote our own persuasive piece. Some of us persuaded other people that Lewis Capaldi was the best singer and others that McDonalds was the best restaurant!

Lacey – I liked writing about Lewis Capaldi because he is funny and I love his music.

Numeracy

Using the laptops we were able to consolidate our learning about fractions by playing fraction games.

Lacey – I liked ‘math man.’

Eva – I enjoyed ‘Jelly Golf.’ It helped me get better at fractions.

Charlie – I liked matching fractions to pictures – it helped me understand them.

We learnt how to use various strategies such as our multiplication skills and fraction walls to compare and order fractions.

Art

During our last lesson on ‘line’ we drew a landscape. First, we looked at a landscape called ‘Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gogh then we drew our own. We were impressed with the results!

Keris – I enjoyed the line art and using dark and light lines. It actually looked better than I thought it would!

Health

This week we learnt about how cigarettes can have a negative effect on the human body. We had to answer multiple choice questions about smoking in groups.

WWII

We learnt about how WWII started and debated whether it actually could have been prevented. Keris suggested that if the countries talked to each other more it might have been stopped. In the future we decided that this was a good idea when we have any disagreements.

A Mysterious Visitor…..

It’s been a very exciting week in Primary 1/2! On Monday a very curious and strange thing happened. During our wet lunch time we returned to the Primary One classroom where we found a sparkly glitter trail leading into the story corner! It was such a surprise! At first Mrs Fleming and Mrs Stevenson thought it was us children! Some of us even thought we had a ghost in the class. Tadas thought it was a glitter monster and Ashley thought it might be a robber! Upon further inspection we discovered a very smoky smelling and burnt letter addressed to us. This letter was from a very sad dragon who has nowhere to live, his home Fairyland has been destroyed because people aren’t reading enough fairytales and believing anymore. It is so sad. Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 have decided to help this poor dragon out. We are going to help rebuild Fairyland and give the dragon and his friends somewhere to live one again.

We wasted no time in getting straight to work. In the letter, the dragon spoke of Jack not having a beanstalk anymore, so our first job was to read Jack and The Beanstalk. We had couple of different versions of the story which we have been reading and listening to over the course of the week, we discovered that there are many differences between each one. We definitely love the ‘Stinky’ Jack one the best. Euan loved that he had to sleep outside in the barn with Daisy the cow!

In Primary 2/1 we are all fantastic artists and very creative, so we decided to make Jack his very own beanstalk in our classroom. We used lots of different materials to create textured leaves to add to the vines. We even used fine black liner to add little beasties. Watch this space as our beanstalk grows over the next week, it is going to be amazing!

Reading the fairytale Jack and the Beanstalk got us talking about whether we would climb a beanstalk or not, or what we would trade for some magic beans. I must say we are all very brave in Primary 1/2 as most of us said we would definitely want to climb up!

Belle wanted to see the view and Ashley fancied a golden egg so she would be rich!! Kayden said he would trade his Xbox for some magic beans to be rich. Nathaniel said he would trade his toilet!!! for some magic beans because he has two already!

We practised our writing skills and as we are focusing on extending our sentences we used the word ‘because’ in our writing to explain our reasons. We created a lovely display of our work by adding dangling legs and clouds to our pictures. We think Jack would be impressed. We also added some pictures of Daisy the cow to our display. We worked really hard on our listening skills to follow instructions to draw a cow step by step. Jordon thinks our display looks good and is excited to add more to it.

Later on in the week our friendly dragon delivered a shiny mail box to outside our classroom, we have had great fun writing letters and drawing pictures to him to help cheer him up.

In Numeracy and Maths this week we have still been working hard on our tools for subtraction. We are getting really good at using a number line to help us jump backwards to take away. The friendly dragon must want to help us with our learning too, as he left us a little maths measuring challenge. We had to find classroom objects longer and shorter than the giants footprint. This was a great activity for estimating and using a variety of non standard units and of course getting us used to using this mathematical language.

Other learning highlights this week.

Andrew really enjoyed making a castle in the Den this week, he used pencils and pens and made sure to colour in the lines.

Elkie loved building the leaves for the beanstalk, because she liked painting and even added ladybirds to hers.

Euan loved making the giants legs in our writing task.

Kayden felt really proud of himself this week for writing so many oo words by himself.

Belle really challenged herself when writing the oo sound and joining the two letters together.

We are really excited about what is going to happen in Fairyland next week.

This week in Primary 3

P3 are Telling the Time!

This week in Numeracy and Maths we have been focusing on Time. We have been looking at O’Clock, Half Past, Quarter Past and Quarter To. We made our own clocks and have been using these to help us. We enjoyed creating our own designs on the clocks. We have been working hard to learn our times and Mrs Hillan will be asking us our times often throughout the day. Some of us have been matching written times to the clocks and some of us have been recording times in digital and analogue. As a class we have been using some interactive games to test our knowledge and also help us learn something new. We will continue to consolidate the times we have learned so far, as well as trying new ones next week.

“When the big hand is pointing to the 9 it means quarter to”– Ryley

“When the big hand is at 9 on analogue, on digital you would write 45 for quarter to” – Summer

“When the big hand points to the 3 and the small hand points to the 8, it is quarter past 8″– Olivia

“When the big hand goes from one number to another number that means it’s been 5 minutes” – Erin

“When the big hand gets to the 6 that means half past” – Lewis D

“When the big hand points to the 12, it is o’clock” – Shay

P3 Filming with P3/4

This week we filmed our TV adverts to encourage people to visit Glasgow. We were working with P3/4 in mixed groups. We had to create a script as well as a piece of drama. We had lots of fun and had a few laughs along the way! We gave feedback to each group as we watched and filmed. A lot of similar feedback came up for our next steps, such as projecting our voices more and not having our backs to the audience. There was also a lot of positive feedback such as good acting in our dramas, sharing good information and some of us spoke loudly and clearly. Unfortunately we can’t upload the videos as the files are too large!

Snack menu in Deans Den

Here is the snack menu for the coming week; (paper copies will also be sent home)

Monday- Fruit

Tuesday- Ham or cheese sandwiches

Wednesday- Bagels with ham or cheese

Thursday- Fruit platter

Friday- Yoghurts or fruit choice

Special dietary requirements will be catered for. Any concerns please talk to Mrs Morrison ASAP, thank you.

Primary One Science Club

Today in science club we finally got to make our own volcano eruption.

We started off by learning a little bit about volcanoes and what makes them erupt. Did you know that lava starts off as magma when it is below ground? We also learned that there are many different types of volcanoes, the one we found most interesting was an underwater one!!

The experiment was really simple and one that can be easily tried out at home. All we needed was bicarbonate of soda and some vinegar ( we added some food colouring …just for fun!)

We made some predictions about what we thought was going to happen and took turns to put the ingredients into plastic bottles. It was great fun watching the volcanoes erupt. Not every volcano erupted and we had some super discussions about what we would change and do differently next time to ensure a more dramatic eruption.

It was lots of fun watching the eruptions and learning about volcanoes.

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