Month: November 2020

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!

 

Happy Guy Fawkes From P1A

I hope you have all had a good week. The children enjoyed their socially distant Halloween party last Friday. We have some super dancers in Primary One!

Some learning the children would like to share with you-

The children have enjoyed using shapes and paint to create their own fireworks.

 

 

 

Writing   

This week we have been working hard to further develop our skills in persuasive writing. The children were asked to give their opinion on how fireworks made them feel. Some super sentences below!

You may notice that at the bottom of each writing page there are core writing targets. The children are working hard to achieve them by using a capital letter, finger space, full stop etc.

Word Boost

This week we introduced a new learning tool called Word Boost. BOOST words are good words for supporting your child with their talking, listening and later with their reading and writing. They are more ‘grown up’ words and we choose them from children’s story books. We want children to learn words like enormous and tiny so that they can use these as well as words like big and small. We teach Boost Words through a story the children enjoy. The story is read daily and 4-5 words are choosen. We talk about what the words mean, what they sound like and how we can use  them in all sorts of ways. We use the words lots of times because that is how children learn them. We will go back over the words from time to time because this helps your child to remember them.
Pictures below of this weeks Boost Words and story.

Maths – Shape

As well as number work  we have had a focus on 2D shapes and 3D objects. We have been sorting them and using them to build rockets, gates and robots.

As well as shape, I set the children a problem solving challenge. They were asked to draw as many different ways as they could to make 5 using 2 different coloured apples. They did really well, I’m very proud of them!

Health and Wellbeing – Celebrating Difference

Last week the children identified similarities between themselves and others in the class.  This week they identified differences, some responses below

Indie said ” I’ve got a sister and Katie doesn’t”

Conlon said “He has ginger hair and no-one else has”

Emily said “I like drawing and Sahel doesn’t”

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. More learning on next weeks blog.

 

 

 

Primary 1B Learning Highlights

Health and Wellbeing

As we continue to focus on the topic of Celebrating our Differences,  we have been identifying how we are different and what exactly makes us special. It was very interesting to hear about everybody’s unique talents, abilities or little quirks which make us the person we are. Here are some of the examples which we shared with each other.

Finlay – I am good at writing words and that makes me special.

Kaleb – I am learning my name and how to write it and that makes me feel special.

Lucy – I am really good at playing games and that makes me special.

Leighton – I can ride my bike without stabilisers and that makes me feel special.

We are working together with Primary 1A to build a special display to highlight our hard work in Health and Well Being over the last few weeks. We will share the finished result with you when it is ready.

Literacy

This week we have had a focus on building and extending our vocabulary. We have been using a new and exciting programme called Word Boost. Each week we focus on a new story and learn all about 4 exciting and ambitious WOW words. This week we read the story Leo’s Dream by Antonie Schneider. Our boost words were –

Celebrate

Reply 

Investigate

Enormous

Parents should have received a special ‘parent postcard’ detailing our new words to practise using in everyday conversation in the red homework folders.

We have devised a secret signal for when we hear a boost word being spoken, we will tap our noses. Suffice to say there has been lots of nose tapping this week. It has been great fun learning about these words and matching them up with pictures. We even had a go at drawing our own pictures too….

 

We now know that there are different types of words. Words which are coloured yellow are adjectives (describing) and red words are verbs (doing words).

Numeracy 

This week we have been continuing our hard work with teen numbers and using the ten frames to represent these numbers.

We have also been working on recognising number words and matching the numeral to the word or the collection. We have been enjoying using the laptops in the class to develop this tricky skill.

A great game we have discovered is ‘Numbers to Words Fruit Shoot’ on  the topmarks website. Here is the link to have a go at home.

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/early-math/number-words-fruit-splat-game/

We are getting really good at describing how we see dot patterns and now we can use the = and + symbols when recording a number story.

Bonfire Night

Seeing this Thursday is Bonfire night we have been learning a little bit about the history behind why we celebrate bonfire Night on the 5th of November. We discussed how Guy Fawkes had a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Mrs Walker set up a fun activity where we could practise our printing and colour mixing skills. We made the most beautiful fireworks pictures and even added a little sparkle too.

We hope everyone has a happy and safe Bonfire night and a lovely weekend when it comes.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

 

 

Primary 4’s Week

In Numeracy we have started working on subtraction. We completed an assessment to see where we are all at so that Mrs Hillan knows where we need supported or challenged.

It was fun but a little bit tricky – Erin R

It was quite easy but some of the sums were quite hard – Alyssa

When there was a big number and a small number you had to count in between which took a bit of time – Derry

It was hard work! – Summer

In our assessment we could only use our whiteboards to help us – Chloe

It was tricky but we were allowed to use our whiteboards to work out sums – Ariah

 

 

For literacy this week we have continued working hard on our new spelling words and we have these home again to practise. We have our new homework out which requires us to pick two tasks from the grid to help us learn our spelling words. It is really important that we complete these each week.

In writing this week we have looked at Persuasive Writing again and created a one-sided argument. We used Fireworks as our theme this time. We assessed ourselves using our core target grids and our genre target grids for persuasive writing. We spoke about the pros and cons of fireworks to help us decide which side of the argument we wanted to write from. We will look at another persuasive piece next week. Here are some pieces from this week:

 

 

 

We continued our topic of The Egyptians this week. We finished creating our questions on what we would like to find out about the Egyptians, here are some of them:

Who was the King? – Maisy

Where do they sleep? – Jessica

How did they survive? – Ciaran

Where do they get soap? – Shay

What did the Egyptians do for fun? – Holly

Where did they get the sand from? – Lacey

How did they speak? – Joe

What food do they eat? – Gracie

How did they make pyramids? – Caelan

Where do they live? – Daniel

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