These characters helped us improve our descriptive writing this week. Each group had their own character which they named and described. We had names like Eleven, Speckles, Bob and Scales. There were some great descriptions and we are looking forward to sharing the finished versions.
DB I learnt how to use metaphors. In Metaphors we use the words is or was for example:
Simile- I am as strong as the Hulk
Metaphor- I am Hulk when I’m angry.
FS- I learnt how to write a descriptive text. I know that it has to have a title, introduction, characteristics and evaluation.
GH- I learnt how compare numbers.
TN- I learnt to find to add and take away 100000 from a 7digit number.
EH- I know how spell words with ph.
MG- I enjoyed recreating Henri Rousseu’s painting of a Toucan.
It has been another busy week in P4/3 as we continue to challenge ourselves in our learning. Mrs Morrison and Miss Swanson are proud of the children, well done P4/3
We made the most of the dry weather and enjoyed our first time together on the trim track. We discussed the safety rules and I am happy to report that everyone took part safely and responsibly.
In numeracy this week, we have been exploring number sequences, identifying odd and even numbers and recalling number bonds. Here is an example of our work
A big success this week has been the children’s focus and enthusiasm towards their writing tasks. Miss Taylor visited our class to share her knowledge of descriptive writing. All children were able to write a descriptive piece about dogs and The Big Friendly Giant and as they were doing so, were learning to write in paragraphs. Here are some of the comments from the class about their learning.
” I challenged myself with my writing” Ashley
” I was confident about my writing” Finlay
“I am trying to work independently” Tadas
Well done P4/3 for an amazing week!!
This week we have been doing chimney sums. When we were doing chimney sums we found That if you made sure that you put each number in its own square it was much easier.
For outdoor learning we went to Eiliburn park with Mrs Dobbie to look for hazards. We went to the lake and saw some swans. We also saw swan eggs.
We also did activities to help us with our literacy and spelling. For grammar we looked at adjectives, verbs, pronouns, proper nouns, common nouns and conjunctions (connectives).
We have been super busy in P2 this week!
Writing
Vrishti – “We were describing our friends”
Summer – “Miss Taylor showed us a big book”
P.E
Ethan – “We were exercising and doing push ups and sit ups”
Max – “We were doing star jumps”
Louie – “We were exercising like Joe Wicks”
Outdoor Learning
Jayden – “We went to the field to find different things to make flowers”
Sophie – “We were looking at nature”
Maths
Euan – “We did some addition colour by numbers”
Mark – “Number jacks have been helping us learn”
Layla – “My favourite part of this week was drawing crayons in topic”
Andrew – “My favourite part of this week was reading the book”
We have also been speaking about how to be sensible in the toilets.
Come back to check in with us next week!
It has been another really busy week for P1A and the children would like to share some of their learning with you. We have just started our Autumn topic. We have been reading Autumn stories and painting trees for our display.
Literacy – Phonics
The new sound “c” was introduced on Tuesday and we have been working really hard on forming the letter correctly using a variety of media.
We have also been sorting pictures according to their initial sound – m or c
Numeracy
We are continuing to practise counting forward and back, order numerals, saying the number before and after. This weeks focus has centered around 5 (forming it correctly) and finding different ways to make it.
We are learning how to use 5 frames which are a great way to develop a sense of number. Why not ask your child about them.
Health and Wellbeing
We continue to focus on feeling safe. The children were asked to draw a picture of where they feel safe and belong. We had lots of super suggestions- “when daddy gives me a big hug”, “when I am in bed and Mummy is reading me a story” “when I go to visit gran”.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend. More updates on next weeks blog.
This week we have been getting to grips with using Numicon to help us when learning all about number. Each Numicon represents a number from one to ten and can give us a picture of what a number can look like and can help us begin to see relationships between numbers, each piece has one more hole than the previous. Below are some examples to show you what they look like!
We have been exploring the shape of the Numicon and matching the number of holes in the Numicon to the number it represents. We have found that there are lots of different ways we can use Numicon in our class to help us with our learning. Below are some pictures which explain how this fantastic resource has been helping us this week to make sense of all things number……
Matching the Numicon to the numeral. Mrs Stevenson wrote numbers on our desks and we had to match the Numicon to the numeral.
Numicon shape pictures. We need to manipulate the Numicon to make it fit the picture to complete the shape.
Numicon can help us to develop our fine motor skills too. Whilst we are getting reading to be fantastic writers in primary One we have been working hard on developing our finger muscles so they are ready to write. We had to use the tweezers to place the pom poms into the holes in the Numicon. This was tricky but it also helped us see the number of holes and help us with counting too.
We also made our own Numicon city. We had to match the Numicon to the shape of the sky scraper, we were able to count up to some pretty big numbers!
Our school value this week has been centred around RESPECT. On Monday we had a discussion about what respect means to us, what it looks like and what it sounds like. We have been earning raffle tickets and pegs all week for always showing respect to others. This means, being a good listener, following instructions, taking turns and of course always using kind actions.
Being and feeling Safe and happy.
In our health and well being focus this week we have discussed where we feel safe, happy and belong. Here are some of our thoughts.
Reuben – “I feel safe and happy when I am in school with all my friends and at home with my family.”
Kaleb – “I feel safe and happy when I am with my dad watching the rugby.”
Mikah -” I feel safe and happy when I am at home watching the television.”
Saatvik -” I feel safe and happy when I am in my garden with my flowers. ”
We drew some pictures to illustrate our ideas and shared what our pictures meant with Mrs Stevenson. We are becoming very confident at discussing our learning and adding lots of important details into our pictures. Here are some pictures of our work.
We hope you enjoyed just a little snapshot of some of our learning from this week.
Mrs Stevenson and Primary1B
This week Primary 4 have been busy again. We have been looking at fables with Mr Turner and for part of this we created our own little animals from clay. We will be using these to create our own fables and story scenes. We had to use our creativity and modelling skills for this. These are our creations below before they dried.
In Numeracy this week we have continued with the theme of addition this week by looking at carrying over in our work. Some of us have found this quite challenging, so we should be practising this at home when we can. I have asked the children to look up some addition with carrying questions online or to ask someone at home to create some for them if possible.
In Literacy we have been looking at descriptive writing. We worked together to create a description of Pandas, including a title, an introduction, the main characteristics of pandas and finally an evaluation saying what we think about pandas. We will continue with descriptive writing but using different contexts. Here are a few of our pieces:
We have also continued our novel study and have been creating drawings of all the characters we have met so far. We have had to use our creativity and imagination, as well as what we have read in order to do this. Each group had a character to draw. Here are some of our characters:
Outdoor Learning
This week we have enjoyed various activities outside.
Sofia-I enjoyed the scaled model of the solar system that we made on the school field.
Bella-I enjoyed planting apple, plum and cherry trees outside with Mrs Dobbie.
Anna-I was excited about planting the trees because I like getting mucky.
Robbie – I was excited about the sun coming out because I knew it would help the trees to grow.
We also learnt about nouns and went outside on a ‘Noun Hunt.’
STEM/Literacy
As part of our novel study (George’s Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen Hawking) and science studies (The Solar System) we practised using our engineering skills to design ‘Moon Buggies of the Future.’
Lily-Elen-I enjoyed designing the moon buggies.
Numeracy
We have continued to practise understanding place value of numbers.
We have learnt strategies to compare and order numbers and considered different ways of representing numbers.
Bailey – I challenged myself and worked with a partner to show different ways of representing a 7 digit number!
It’s great we are enjoying our non-fiction books again. We are looking forward to sharing what we learn from these books with our classmates.
Our outdoor P.E. is challenging us to come up with new games and activities. On Thursday we played a running elimination game and a version of Ladders. Lots of fun and exercise!
