Month: November 2020

Literacy

During Literacy this week, we were up-levelling our writing by adding adjectives and using our core writing targets.

Alexis- “I was writing sentences about Pudsey Bear”.

We read through our reading book and then answered comprehension questions about the text. When reading, we made predictions about what might happen and looked at the picture for clues.

Tyller J. “I was reading my book”.

We have been practicing our new spelling sounds every day. We practice using our whiteboards, rainbow writing and using our spelling words when writing a sentences.

Maths

In maths this week, we were learning about patterns. We were also completing a number sequence and identifying the rule of the number sequence. We used a 100 square to support us and work out the rule and complete the number sequence.

Calvin- “Pattern is when the same thing is repeated”.

Aaron – “We were learning about number sequence. This is when you add the same amount to each number”.

IDL

For our topic this week, we were learning about Vikings homes and what they wore. We looked at what Vikings made their homes from. We compared a Viking house to our home and discussed the different materials that were used and the advantages and disadvantages of these materials. We also learned about how the Vikings dressed and the materials that their clothes were made from. The Viking used materials such a wool, leather and fur to make clothes and shoes.

Robyn- “We were learning about what the Vikings wore. They wore capes”

Scarlet- “They wore jewellery and broaches”.

It has been another great week!  The P7/6 class have been working extra hard at learning division strategies and they have been busy writing an expository text.  They have been learning about the history and significance of Remembrance day as well.

The children have been heavily involved in organising Children in Need activities and it has been a successful venture.  For IDL, they have been working in groups research 3 different types of animals from the Amazon.  They have been learning about the different diet, habitat as well as food chain.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Wow! What a busy week we have had in P2 this week! Have a read to see what we have been up to.

Spelling

Charli Mae – “We had to sort the pictures into the right box. We had to decide if the word started or ended with b”

Euan – “We had to play matching pairs. In this game you had to match your spelling words and say them”

Writing

Max – “We had to persuade someone why pets are good”

Archie P – “Pets are good because you can play with them”

Connor – “Pets are good because you can run races with them”

Number Talks

Jayden – “We are thinking of good ways to bridge the number 10”

Maddison – “10 is a happy number and we need to try and make that”

Under the Sea

Jacob – “We were painting the different zones of the ocean”

Sophie – “We had to start with the lightest shade and then it got darker and darker”

Mark – “I remember there was the sunlight zone, then the twilight zone, then the midnight zone, then the abyss, and the trench is at the very bottom of the ocean”

Remembrance Day

Archie M – “Remembrance day is a special day because it’s all about remembering people who died in the war”

Andrew – “We made poppies out of red and black paper to remember the soldiers who died in the war”

Children in Need

Jordon – “We have been exercising for 5 minutes every morning with Joe Wicks”

Amee – “We made Pudsey ears out of paper”

Kayden – “We had to measure our heads and then use glue to stick our ears on”

Have a great weekend everyone!

Health and Wellbeing

This week in health and wellbeing we have been focusing on completing activities for children in Need. We are very excited to dress up in colourful spots on Friday! We have been thinking about how we can ‘connect’ with our friends. We discussed all of the different things which make a good friend. We shared with the class examples of how we feel about our friends.

Saatvik – Kaleb runs with me so he is my friend and I like him.

Alfie – Leighton is always kind to me.

Kellan – Saatvik always plays and includes me in his games.

We also have been learning all about why we take part in Children in Need activities. We watched a powerpoint and learned some very interesting facts. Did you know that since Children in Need started it has raised over a billion pounds for children who are less fortunate than ourselves. That’s pretty amazing!We had a chance to decorate our own Pudsey bears with bright and colourful spots.

We were also very, very lucky to have an exciting online yoga lesson from the fabulous yoga teacher Mrs Anderson from Lotus Learn Yoga. We got to meditate at the start wearing our special yoga glasses and then we learned some new super stretchy poses like the cat, cow and the horse. Finally, after all that stretching and breathing we got to have a ‘savasana’ which is when we could lie on our backs and blow out little air bubbles. It was very relaxing and we look forward to taking part in another session again soon.

Literacy

This week as we continue to work on the Persuasive writing genre we have been sharing our opinion on why we like to play. We learned and used the fancy new joining word ‘because’ to explain our opinion and link up our ideas.

Cooper – I like to play because it is fun and I play with Finlay at the park.

Alfie  – I like to play because it is friendly.

Jake – I like to play because it is fun.

This week we wrote ‘I like to play because it is……’. We had some excellent writing examples from all the boys and girls.

Numeracy

This week we have been movie stars during our numeracy time. Mrs Stevenson has been recording us playing our favourite number games. We are very excited to share this learning with you all very soon. Watch this space for our film debut!!

Remembrance Day

This week we celebrated Remembrance day. We discussed all about why we celebrate this day and what the poppy flower means. It was very interesting and we were incredibly respectful during our 2 minute silence on Wednesday. One of our activity stations this week was to create a poppy picture using a printing technique. These are some of our fabulous creations.

To round up our weekly blog I would like to remind parents and carers to continue to send in the red reading folders everyday so we can continue to deliver quality reading experiences for your child.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

In Numeracy we have continued working on subtraction. We have used this in our Number Talks also. This is one of the sums we had to work out and say how we got our answers:

In writing this week we have looked at Persuasive Writing again and created a one-sided argument about why having a school garden is important. We began by coming up with good reasons for this before completing our pieces.

Children’s pieces:

We have taken part in daily activities to raise awareness of the Children in Need theme this week. We have discussed our goals for each day as well as what we are grateful for and any worries we may have. We have thought about how we can help ease our worries also. Here are some of our thoughts and some pictures:

It helped me discuss how I felt and why I felt that way – Alyssa

I feel happy after writing about all my worries – Erin R

It is good to let the teacher know what your worries are about – Kayleigh

I am grateful for having my family, pets and friends all around me – Maisy

Also as part of this we did Joe Wicks 5 minute workout every morning to start off our day. This was fun and got us energised for the day!!

Well done Primary 4 for working hard again this week!

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 ………………