Day: November 6, 2020

Mrs Lockhart’s Days

In our Health & Well Being lesson this week we had to challenge our assumptions or as Ariah put it ” Not judge a book by its cover “.

It was really interesting work. We looked at pictures of different people and tried to guess their hobbies and interests from their appearance. Then we discussed our answers – often we were way off! We all realised how much we judge people on appearances and how misleading that can be.

It was a very engaging, thought provoking activity and we all learned a lot.

Have a go ………………

A Week in P5

Literacy
Writing
We continued to develop our persuasive writing techniques.
In addition we practised using various openers to create interesting sentences.
Reading
In group reading we read our texts, discussed them and practised using different techniques to work out the meaning of unknown words in order to improve our vocabulary.
We also discussed what made a good story and then with our partner wrote down what we thought would happen next in our novels. Some of us wrote great beginnings that would make the reader want to read on. Some of us applied what we had learnt about openers earlier in the week and used them in our stories. Also some of used some descriptive adjectives and powerful verbs!
Bailey – I am enjoying the class novel.
Spelling
Sophie Smith – I am proud of my spelling.
Numeracy
We all feel we have improved our addition skills.
Hope – I learnt strategies to help solve problems.
Topic
We practised using the art of collage to decorate flags of various European countries.
Bailey – I enjoyed making the flags. I learnt that each country has a different flag.
Health
This week we learnt that spreading rumours and name-calling is unacceptable and we discussed different strategies that we could use to deal with this.
Grace – I also enjoyed completing my racism ribbon from last week.
Art
This was linked into our learning about shape and we drew worlds where everything was made up of geometric shapes.

This Week in P3/2

Literacy

 

This week we have been practicing our spelling every day during ELF and Smart Start.

Harrison- “We have been spelling our words in different colours”.

 

We have been reading our book to ourselves and in our groups. We also were using the book to help us answer the questions.

Lucy- “We were skim reading to find fact in the book”.

 

We continued writing a persuasive piece of writing this week.

Levente- “I was persuading the reader that snow was fun because my brother and I love to play in the snow”.

 

Maths

 

This week we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10.

Tyler N. “We use the chant 0 to 4 slide to the floor. 5 to 9 clime the vine. This helped us work out if we round up or down. For 54, we look at the ones and because it’s 4 we round down to 50. For 99, we look at the ones and because there is 9, we round up to 100”.

IDL

This week we continued to learn about the Up Helly Aa Festival. We had to collaborate as group and create a small drama to describe the key features of the Up Helly Aa.

P7/6

We have had a successful learning week!

For Literacy, we learnt to use emotive language and rhetorical questions in our persuasive writing.

We have been working so hard at developing our comprehension skills.  We have been learning to use clues in the text to make inference.  We also used our skimming and scanning skills to find answers to comprehension questions.

Numeracy

We have been learning about the inverse relationship of multiplication and division. We are also developing our skills in short division.

HWB

We are developing our understanding of discrimination and prejudice.

 

 

P4/3 Update

It has been another successful week in P4/3 as we continue to challenge ourselves in our learning.We have been learning new sounds this weeks and I can tell from the results of the dictation carried out this morning, that all children have made improvements. This is so nice for Mrs Morrison to see the children motivated and wanting to improve, well done P4/3!! A big thank to parents/carers for all your hard work in supporting your child’s learning. Here are a couple of spelling tasks that have been completed at home and in class:

In numeracy this week we have been learning about place value, which involves identifying the value of a number. Some children have found this concept tricky to grasp, so we will continue to explore this further next week.

Have a lovely weekend and I will check in with you next week.

 

 

Update from P2

We have had a brilliant week in P2!

Writing

Jayden – “We were writing about why fireworks are dangerous”

Euan – “We were trying to persuade people why we think fireworks are dangerous”

Spelling

Charli Mae – “We did firework spelling”

Maddison – “We worked with different adults in ELF to practise our tricky words”

Maths

Andrew – “We were measuring with a meter stick”

Vrishti – “We went outside and measured things that were the same size”

Numeracy

Jordon – “We have been doing addition”

Layla – “We used cubes to hep us add numbers together”

IDL

Louie – “We learned about Guy Fawkes. He was a naughty man”

Sophie – “People sometimes make him on bonfire night and put him in a fire”

Oliver – “He tried to blow up the houses in London so he was locked up in a cell”

 

Please remember reading books need to be brought to school every day. We aim to read daily in class as well as completing comprehension activities and this can be difficult if not everyone has a book. Reading books are put in quarantine for 72 hours before they can be re used so it is very important that they are returned to school on Thursday. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. 

 

Have a great weekend!

 

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