Day: March 12, 2020

Latest Exciting News from Primary one

Our start award winner from last week was Viktor, he received his reward for displaying our school values by making everyone feel included.

We have had another visit from the dragon! We came back from lunch on Monday to find a trail of green glitter leading to 3 bears sitting beside 3 bowls of porridge.

From the clues we guessed that the dragon wanted us to read Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. We have had great fun reading and carrying out activities around the story. We created a story map using pictures to tell the story and we have completed 2 pieces of writing. The first one was a wanted poster. The children had to describe Goldilocks and where she was last seen. The second was a letter from Goldilocks saying sorry to the bears for going into their cottage without permission and causing damage. Some pictures below.

We are also creating an interesting wall display. Pictures in next weeks blog.  Great news our bean plants now have little shoots. This week we have explored the life cycle of the bean plant and are early tracking their progress!

A group of children worked really hard to sequence the story. They communicate, collaborated and problem solved (all skills from Developing the Young Workforce). They were very proud of the results.

We are continuing to look at different ways of displaying information. This week we created a pictogram using our eye colour  and a bar graph of animals in the zoo. The children can now identify just by looking at the graphs what is the most/least  popular and some can say how much more popular one is than another.

Almost all children are now leading some part of learning, and some are feeling confident enough to support others. See below.

Some of our highlights as described by the children.

Vrishti – “I enjoyed writing  the sorry letter to the bears”

Mark – “Number talks so that I can challenge myself”

Sophie “writing facts about Goldilocks for the wanted poster”

Archie – “writing sentences”

Louie – “using the big number line to count on and back”

Summer – ” learning our new l sound”

Connor ” reading fairytales”

We hope you can make it to our sharing the learning tomorrow. I will post pictures next week incase you are unable to come.

Have a lovely weekend.

 

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Health

Mrs Wallace helped us in health this week. We learnt about how to be calm if we were faced with an emergency.

Keris – I learnt how to do the recovery position.

Literacy

In group reading this week we practised using a dictionary to find the meaning of tricky words. Thinking about alphabetical order helped us to find the words quickly.

During a visit to the library, we found some books about our new topic, WWII.

In pairs, we searched the contents page of a WWII book and choose an area to research. Initially when we read the pages there were some quite complicated words so we used the strategies we had practised to work out the meaning of these words.

This week in spelling we learnt how to spell the past tense of irregular verbs and we also learnt how to use the apostrophe for possession.

Numeracy

In number talks this week we have started to discuss efficient multiplication strategies.

We practised converting decimals and fractions to percentages and some of us practised finding 50 per cent of a quantity.

Topic – WWII – Drama

We learnt about children who were evacuated from their homes during the war. During drama we used pair and group role-plays to show how the children and their families would be feeling.

Lewis – I learnt that evacuees were evacuated to the countryside.

Logan – I learnt that the U.K.used propaganda posters to help win the war.

Georgie – We designed our own WWII propaganda posters.

We were able to use our art skills and make links to our learning about persuasive writing.

R.M.E.

We learnt about one of the parables that Christians believe Jesus told in order to teach people how to live their life. It was called ‘The Prodigal Son.’ When we had watched a cartoon version of the story we discussed the moral of the story and wrote a recount of the events in our book.

Afterwards we watched a clip of Veruca Salt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and discussed the meaning of this modern day parable!

P.E.

This week we all (especially Miss Stanway) thoroughly enjoyed an enthusiastic game of Dodge Ball!

 

 

Primary 2/1 Sharing the Learning

We have had yet another busy week in Primary 2/1 with one of our main highlights being our sharing the learning afternoon on Tuesday.

Prior to Tuesday we had a surprise in the story corner on Monday…. 3 bowls of porridge and 3 little bears! We think the dragon was telling us that he wanted us to read the fairytale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, which we did! We then tried our hand at making our own story map, this is where you retell the story but instead of using words you draw pictures. They were really successful and helped us improve our retelling and sequencing skills at the same time.

Elkie really liked this activity because it helped her to improve her drawings.

  

 

On Tuesday afternoon we welcomed parents and carers into our classroom to share some of the fantastic learning which has been taking place. We had a ‘Goldilocks’ theme for the afternoon with a main focus on literacy based activities. These are some of the activities we had in place.

Word building using the magnetic boards and CVC cards, a Goldilocks story sequencing, Goldilocks free writing with story  mats, Story telling with our puppet theatre and props, word splat and the chance to share a fairytale with your adult using our  word pointers to find some tricky words.

Euan enjoyed using the puppets to put on a show for his mum and gran, he even acted out the story of Jack and the Beanstalk too.

Nathan enjoyed making a bear face with his mum and sharing with her.

Andrew loved adding all the details onto his bears face.

Ashley enjoyed making the porridge bowls using patterns with her mum and gran.

It was a successful afternoon and we loved showing everyone around our classroom and having the opportunity to talk about our learning and even help create our Goldilocks display. A huge big thank you to everyone who attended, we very much value your support and encouragement and thoroughly enjoyed having you all in our class.

 

Here is our finished Goldilocks display…. we think it is super and love the fact that our parents and carers helped us create it.

On Wednesday we had a go at writing letters to the three bears from Goldilocks to say sorry for all of the chaos she caused in their cottage.  We are getting very good at reflecting on our learning at the moment. We are using green for growth (for something we could improve on) and tickled pink (for something we did well). This is helping us to identify our own next steps in our learning.

In numeracy, we are still focusing on Subtraction and applying the tools to help us answer calculations. This week saw us focus on word problems, where Mrs Stevenson would read out a problem and our task was to write down the calculation to find the solution.  We are getting very confident at this and have enjoyed leading our learning by making up our own word problems for our friends to solve.

In PE we are still working on developing our football skills. This week we played body ball where we took our ball for a walk by passing it carefully from one foot to the other and when a body part was called our we had to place that part on the ball, it was tricky getting into some of the positions especially for ‘back’ ball! We have been improving our ability to dribble and pass the ball with control and co-ordination, so this week we put this to the test with a simple game. We got into groups of 3 and made a triangle shape and passed the ball to our partners. We had to pay attention and make sure we could stop the ball with our feet only..no hands allowed and then pass the ball to our other partner with control and accuracy.

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