Month: March 2020

Latest News From Primary One

We have had such a busy week in Primary 1. We have had another visit from the dragon and celebrated World Book Day.

Our star award winner from last week was Layla. Well done and keep up the good work Layla!

We have read Jack and the Beanstalk and have been taking part in lots of activities centered around the story. This weeks smart start included bean counting, escape the giant (subtraction activity) and matching dots patterns on beans to numbered flower pots. Some pictures below.

We have also been planting bean seeds (hopefully we will all have small beanstalks to take home) and will be recording their growth and learning about the life cycle of  beans and other plants.

We have been using our imaginative writing skills. Our first writing task was to think about what we would do if we found a magic bean. Some pictures of our thoughts and ideas.

In our second piece of writing we had to think about why we would climb a beanstalk and what we might find at the top.

We also had a another visit from the dragon. So so exciting! He is really pleased with our progress so far and left a present. Castle booklets for everyone to write plans, thoughts and ideas in. Our first entry was about how we felt when we knew the dragon had visited our classroom.

In maths we have been looking at different ways to display information and we thought it would be a good idea to make a graph about out favourite flavour of jelly beans. Blueberry was the clear winner.

Lastly a big thank you to the children who took part in our World Book Day competition- Emily, Louie, Sophie and Connor. A fantastic effort! We all enjoyed sharing our favourite stories with our favourite toys and each other.

More updates from Primary I and the dragon next week. Have a lovely weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

An exciting week in Fairyland for Primary 1/2

It has been an exciting week in Primary 1/2 as we continue to build Fairyland in our classroom and have had exciting deliveries from our friendly dragon.

On Monday we had an unexpected delivery after lunch. A bag of compost, some seeds and a selection of plant pots!! We knew straight away that we needed to plant the seeds to grow our own mini beanstalks in the classroom. We learned all about how to care for our seeds to nurture them into proper beanstalks. We learned that all plants need water, sunlight, soil and the right temperature to grow. We have been very diligent when watering our plants every day and have been filling in a special bean diary to observe and record any growth.

          

Jordon was happy  to add the castles at the top of our beanstalks.

Nathaniel felt excited to plant his very own beanstalk.

The dragon also delivered a little pot of beans with all of our sounds written on them. We think he wants to help us get better at spelling, we have been having lots of fun spelling fairyland words with the beans.

Belle was practising her common words with the beans.

Euan had a go at writing speedy Gonzalez because he was watching it at home.

We were so excited to come into class and see that Jack’s beanstalk had appeared in our home corner. We worked so hard on creating different leaves and are very proud of how fantastic and realistic it looks. We think the dragon will be very happy with it and Elkie thinks it looks good.

On Tuesday we had yet another exciting delivery, Castle booklets and a trail of green glitter EVERYWHERE! He’s one messy dragon!! We couldn’t wait to get started writing in them. Mrs Stevenson even let us use the fancy pens.

  

On Wednesday we continued to practise our writing skills with a special focus on ‘listening carefully to the sounds in each word to help us spell independently. We thought about what magical things we would like to happen to us if we got our hands on some magic beans.

Georgia thought she would get a mansion for her family.

Ashley wanted her magic to make everyone in our school happy.

Erica’s magic beans would turn into an aeroplane to take her to the candy shop!

We decorated castles and wrote our magical ideas onto a special bean. Mrs Stevenson put them on display in the classroom and once again we are so proud of our learning.

It really has been a week of exciting deliveries, on Thursday yet more magic beans appeared. This time they were colourful ones, this got us talking about our favourite flavours of jelly beans! We decided to conduct a survey of our favourite flavours and then display the information on a class bar graph. It was really interesting to see all of our choices on the wall and we were able to answer questions like, what was the most and least popular flavour. Then we had a go at making our own bar graphs! This dragon really is helping us learn so much.

On Thursday we also had the added excitement of World Book Day. We thoroughly enjoyed wearing our comfy pyjamas, bringing our favourite soft toy and of course sharing our most favourite stories throughout the day. We enjoyed our library time with P5/6 and sharing our most favourite stories.

Archie brought in Goodnight Tractor because he likes the pages.

Robyn brought in The Stinky Sprouts and the Station Mouse because she likes them and they are very good.

We are very much looking forward to our Sharing the Learning event next Tuesday   (10th March) 2pm to 3pm and hope you can all make it.

 

 

A Busy Week for Primary 3

Primary 3 have been working with Mrs Smith on designing and constructing models while cooperating in a group. This is part of our Technology and will eventually link to our next class topic. The children had the challenge to build a tower from the materials provided – marshmallows and spaghetti, which you will see from our photographs. Our challenge worked to an extent, but unfortunately the spaghetti broke easily! Thankfully each group did manage to build something. This week the children will try using wooden sticks and marshmallows to see if that makes a difference.

Primary 3 have been continuing to work on Time in our Numeracy and Maths. We have looked at recording times on clocks as well as saying times one/two hours before and after a given time. We have been finding Time tricky, but if we continue to practise at home as well as in school, this should help us!

 

For World Book Day this week, we have taken part in a number of activities. The theme for this year is ‘Share a Million Stories’. We have been sharing some of the stories we enjoy most, and have picked out quotes that we like best from these. We have also listened to short parts of a number of stories which we have really enjoyed. The children have created mini book covers, book bubbles on why we share stories, posters to advertise our favourite books and made book marks. We will use some of these to display in our library area in class. Hopefully next week we can share some pictures of us in our pyjamas with our teddies and favourite stories.

Primary 7

This week we have been focusing on reading and writing in all areas of the curriculum. For our topic we have been taking notes on different subjects so we can write a piece for our holiday brochures.

We have been researching the question “Is it important for a child to have a healthy breakfast?”. From the research we have make a list of what the scientist are saying about this subject and also looked at what our own opinion is. We are preparing to debate this in class.

We have been working well in groups this week taking responsibility for different roles.

In maths we have once again been looking at negative numbers only this time we have been learning to multiply and divide with them. It gets complicated when a double negative is a positive.

Jack asked a good question while working on his maths. “When will we use negative numbers?” After discussion we came up with a few ideas.

  1. Working in a bank or building society and dealing with accounts that are overdrawn.
  2. Thermometers have negative numbers so any type of scientist/nurse/doctor who works with temperature will work with negative numbers.
  3. People who work in catering and need to have a knowledge of food storage temperatures.
  4. Maths teachers.
  5. Architects and surveyors who deal with elevations.
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