Month: April 2021

Welcome back to our blog! Have a read to see what we have been up to!

Numeracy

We have started our new topic of time. This week, we have been focusing on the months of the year – how to read and spell them, and also the order in which they come.

Jayden – “There are 12 months in a year”

Euan – “2 months after January is March, and April is the fourth month”

Vrishti – “Halloween is in October”

Archie M – “There are different months in different seasons”

IDL

Our new topic for this term is World of Work.

Maddison – “We spoke about different kinds of jobs”

Ethan – “We looked at different job sectors and wrote the jobs that are in that sector”

Writing

We began learning a new writing genre this week – explanation.

Max – “An explanation is when you explain something”

Mark – “First comes the title, then the identifying statement, then the explanation sequence, then the summary statement”

Andrew – “A summary is when you say what has happened”

Fun in the sun

We have been out enjoying the sun this week. We were learning how to make daisy chains and found it quite tricky and fiddly! Some of us got the hang of it after a while!

Some of us were learning to assess risks by climbing a tree.

Jordon – “There were stable branches and unstable branches”

Louie – “We had to make sure we were testing the branches and only standing on the stable branches”

Charli Mae – “We couldn’t go too high up to the top because the branches were unstable”

Sophie – “I was happy but also scared because I had to make sure I didn’t fall off”

Have a lovely weekend in the sun!

 

It has been lovely for us all to be back together after the Easter holidays. Everyone (including Mrs Morrison) is feeling refreshed after the break and looking forward to the term ahead.

This week we have been revising spelling sounds from last term and practising the more tricky words. Next week, we will introduce new sounds for the children to work on.

In numeracy, we have been assessing our learning as a way of demonstrating our knowledge, but also as a way of identifying areas we still need to improve. Next week we will explore multiplication and I know some of the children are excited about this!

During home learning our Egyptian topic was put on hold and we focused on exploring our country, Scotland. Mrs Morrison was delighted the efforts the children put into researching facts about Scotland. Now we must use these research skills to find out more about Ancient Egypt. Look out for some facts on the blog in the coming weeks!

Finally, we made the most of the sunshine and took our learning outdoors. It was so nice to be together, have fun and learn as well! Let’s hope the sunshine is here to stay!!

Have a lovely weekend and I will check in next Friday.

Mrs Morrison

We have had a wonderful and very busy first week back in Primary 1B. It has been lovely to see so many smiling faces and see so many of the children so eager to resume their learning.

Health and Wellbeing

We have begun to explore a new topic this term focusing on ‘Healthy Me’. We started by discussing what the word Healthy meant to us. We drew some pictures of us making our own healthy choices and wrote about what we do to keep our bodies healthy.

        

The children all had fantastic ways to suggest how to keep our bodies healthy. We are a healthy bunch in Primary 1B.

Kellan – Brush your teeth twice a day.

Leighton – You should eat bananas.

Reuben – You can eat lots of vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes and cauliflower.

Kaleb – We can keep our bodies clean by washing our faces and hands.

Cooper – We get fresh air and exercise.

We read a wonderful story about a very unhealthy wolf called Wilfred who managed to turn his life around to become fitter and healthier.

This story inspired us to pledge to make our own healthy choices. Here are some of our ideas…..

                     

Writing

This week in writing we had a go at writing a ‘recount’ piece of text. This is where we think of an event which has happened and we retell it in our own words. To begin with we kept it simple and wrote about ‘playing’. We talked about a time we had great fun playing and simply wrote about it. Have a look at some examples below, we are very proud of our hard word.

  

Numeracy

This week we have been working on our subtraction skills. Seeing the weather has been kind to us, we decided to take our learning outside to practise this skill. We had lots of fun making up our own subtraction number stories.

We hope that the sun continues to shine for us next week too. We hope you enjoyed reading our blog.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

 

We have had a busy first week back in Primary 4 and everyone has been working really hard.

In Literacy we have been looking at the skill of summarising. Mrs Hillan read a chapter of the class novel and we summarised what we had heard. We are now starting to get the hang of picking out the key points from what we have heard or read. Here are some of our summaries:

In Numeracy we have continued with multiplication. We have been looking at the 8x table or the 5 and 3x tables. We also enjoyed playing a times table challenge where two of us were asked a question to see who could answer first! We definitely need to keep practising these at home.

 

In our topic this week, we have finally been able to get back on track with our Egyptians topic! We created a timeline of events from Ancient Egyptian times:

We also looked at information about the River Nile and picked out the key facts which told us why it was so important to the Egyptians. We recorded this on a mind map:

We look forward to more learning next week!!

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

Writing 

Maddison – “We wrote an information report all about Spring”

Charli Mae – “Sheep have lambs during Spring”

Archie – “The bees and wasps start to come out when it is hot”

Outdoor Learning

Louie – “We went into the playground and flew our kites”

Andrew – “Flying my kite was so fun”

Kayden – “We made out kite out of paper”

STEM 

Euan – “We had to work with a partner to build a parachute for an egg. It was fun dropping them off the stairs”

Elizabeth – “We had to design our egg and we called it Sheldon”

Mark – “Next time, I would put more stuff around the egg so it didn’t crack”

Alfie – “Next time, I would put 7 layers of paper on Steve so he didn’t crack”

 

Have a safe and restful Easter Break!