On Thursday, as we had been learning all about the properties of 3D shapes, we decided to practise drawing them. We used a step by step approach and we became experts!
On Friday we were encouraged to wear our Christmas jumpers and that made for a jolly, festive classroom.
This week, P4/3 learned about stop frame animation during their time with Mrs Buntin. All of the children made contributions to re-telling the Christmas story using the technique of stop frame. A big well done to Ashley and Nathaniel who were able to describe and demonstrate the process to Mrs Morrison!! Look out next week (via e-mail) for the finished piece of work, well done P4/3!
Next week, we will enjoy our last week of term before the Christmas holidays. A big well done to all of the children for dealing so well with the changes that have had to be implemented due to COVID-19. Mrs Morrison is proud of you all!
Special events next week:
Tuesday 15th December- movie afternoon and snacks!
Wednesday 16th December- P4/3 record a Christmas poem. Children to wear Christmas jumpers or something sparkly!!
Enjoy your weekend and I will check in with you all next week.
Drama
This week we listened to the story of the birth of Jesus Christ and then in small groups acted out the story.
We used props to represent the baby Jesus and practised using our voice, facial expression and body language to represent how the different characters were feeling.
Can you guess who was the sheep in this scene, who was the angel and who was the proud father?
Going Digital
As well as acting out the Christmas story we completed a scene of the Nativity using stop frame animation. We did this with Mrs Buntin.
Alexis – I enjoyed this.
Colin – We learnt how to move the figures a little bit each time.
Jaxson – Then we took 50 million photographs.
Anna – Then you put the photographs together to make a video and narrators record a message over it.
Christmas Lunch
One highlight of the week this week was the Christmas lunch.
Bella- My favourite part of lunch was macaroni cheese and ice-cream!
Jaxson – It was nice to see Joy.
Sophie S – I liked the Christmas music at lunch.
Numeracy
This week we practised formal methods of subtraction using columns.
Lily-Elen – I am more confident at subtraction.
Health
This week we kept running for 5 minutes during P.E.
Piotr – I enjoyed the 5 minute run!
Jaxson – I was proud of everyone for running for 5 minutes.
Hope – I enjoyed football and am more confident at tackling.
Art / Music
Bailey – I enjoyed looking closely at paintings.
This was part of our work with ‘Limelight Music.’ We then went on to listen to a piece of music and draw a picture depending on how we felt about the music. Everyone interpreted the music in a different way.
Topic – Europe
Cameron – I enjoyed playing the online games.
Sara – I didn’t know Russia was so big.
Anna – I learnt that in Lithuania they make beads out of tree sap when it is hard.
I hope you are all well and managing to get organised for Christmas. In school, the excitement is building. It began with the children’s Christmas lunch (in their bubbles of course)
Next the children wrote a letter to Santa. They decided they were all definitely on the nice list and have been good all year! The letter said “I have been good. Can I have …………………… please”. Some children are now able to write short sentences independently. So proud of them. Some examples below-
We are also busy practising a Christmas poem that will be available for you to view in the last week of term. We have been practising it everyday and making candy canes. This is the poem and some candy canes we are preparing for the performance.
Today we read the most beautiful story “Little Robin Red Vest” . It’s about a little robin who is kind and gives away his 7 vests to other animals who need them in the week before Christmas. So by Christmas eve he has nothing to keep him warm but Santa has been watching his kindness and Mrs Claus makes him a special red vest. The children absolutely loved it and wanted to make a vest for the little robin. We used a guided draw. I think you will agree the children did really well!
Maths – Money
This week we have began looking at money. I started by asking the children what “does money mean to you and what do we use it for?” I noted down some of the responses-
For now, the children are exploring and sorting different coins. We will move onto investigating their value and how we can make different combinations. Our Dean’s Store will help.
Lastly after all the hard work we enjoyed some Yoga from Mrs Anderson via Skype.
Have a lovely weekend and I will be back with the last blog of the year next week!
What a busy and quick week it has been in Primary 1B. We have had our special Christmas lunch and we would like to say a huge thankyou to the dinner ladies for working so hard to ensure we had a delicious meal.
This week in Literacy we have been learning two new words, ‘go’ and ‘into’ alongside the new sounds ‘l’ and ‘g’. We have also been writing to Father Christmas to share our Christmas lists with him. We explored how to write a letter and what details we needed to include, like Dear and From.
We have been working hard to develop our reading skills. This week we have been introduced to two different types of reading skills tasks. The first task was called a cloze activity. This is when a word is missing from the text and we need to figure out what the missing words are. Here are some examples of our work.
The second reading task was a fun one! We were given a jumbled up sentence from our reading book. We had to read the sentence and put the words back into the correct order. We could use the clues in our book to help us and knowing where a capital letter and full go really helped us too.
During our yoga session this week we went to the Winter Olympics and were learning to move our bodies around in a safe space. We made different shapes to represent particular winter Olympic events, such as, snow boarding and skiing. I still think that our favourite part of yoga is the sleepy and relaxing savasana at the end! A big thank you goes out to Sonja and Ruth at Lotus Learn Yoga for planning such fun activities for us to complete in the safety of our classroom.
We are looking forward to our final week of term when we can take part in lots of Christmas craft activities and maybe even bring home a few Christmas presents for the adults at home.
Have a lovely cosy weekend everyone.
Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B.
In Numeracy we have looked at some more subtraction problems. We have been looking at subtraction facts to 20 this week as well as subtraction problems involving odd and even numbers. Here are some examples of our good work:
In writing this week we wrote a letter to Santa or a letter about what we would like to do in the holidays. We used the skills we have been learning about, such as an introduction and using paragraphs. Here are some of our letters:
In Reading this week we have continued reading in our groups as well as listening to and discussing our class novel which is The Christmasaurus. Here are some of our thoughts on the story so far:
I like William because he is trying his best to stand up for himself. I don’t like Brenda because she is a big bully! – Emily
Brenda Payne is really mean to William because he is in a wheelchair. – Ryley
I thought Brenda was nice at first, but now I hate her! – Erin R
The book is funny and silly at the same time. – Ariah
The book is very interesting and spooky because we wouldn’t want to be watched by someone in a postbox! – Chloe
It is good to be able to predict what will happen next! – Derry
Brenda is mean and selfish – Hadiyaah
There is a dinosaur in the North Pole who wants to fly like the reindeer. – Lacey
It was funny when the Christmasaurus was born! – Stevi
The dinosaur’s egg was in ice. – Summer
Today in P6/5 we were learning how to do persuasive writing. We looked at our blog to help us think about why we need blogs. A small group of pupils are writing this for you.
We think blogs are important because it helps us know what is happening in our school and when. For example, this week we have Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day. It helps us use computers and check our writing makes sense. We need to know about computers for now if we need to be on teams.
Some people say you might get sore eyes, get addicted to computers or be distracted from other work.
We still think we should use the blog because it can be fun and interesting for our classes and parents!
Literacy
This week we have been reading our books. We have been reading in our groups and discussing the text. We have been developing our skim and scanning skills when answering questions about our text.
Mia- “We have been asking questions about the book. We answer these questions in sentences”.
We have been practicing our spelling words this week. We have continued to use the look, say, write, check strategy. After we have done this, we write the words with our eyes closed to help us visualise them.
Belle- “We were doing rainbow writing to practice our spelling words”.
Maths
In maths this week, we have continued to develop our addition skills. We can use a number of strategies to support us calculate the answer. We can partition numbers, count on with our finger or use a number square or sticks.
Sai- “We were adding numbers together. I used a 100 square to help me”.
Aaron- “we were doing dice addition”.
IDL
We were learning about the Viking Gods this week. We really enjoyed learning about them and sharing our knowledge of the Viking God’s Thor and Loki.
This week we also enjoyed designing and painting our Christmas baubles.
We have been learning to use apostrophes for possession. We practiced our debating skills (about deforestation). CW
We learned of the features of a Discussion text. We now that in the introduction we do not write our opinion we only talk about what the issue. MG
For Numeracy, we have been revising on all the four operations and we were working out Time intervals. CE and AF
We have also been practicing our Christmas Poem. TN
We learned about tessellation/tiling this week. We worked out that some shapes were better than others for tiling (remember you can’t overlap or leave spaces). Rectangles, squares, triangles and even hexagons were good but circles were not. We created our own tiling patterns and some were fabulous!
It was really good fun but challenging! – Derry
My tessellation turned into a 3D drawing! – Erin R
It was quite challenging because the shapes had to be the same size. – Chloe
It was tricky but we got the hang of it in the end. – Summer
