Day: May 6, 2021

Weekly Update From P1A

I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend and managed to have some fun time with your family.  Although it has been a short week we have been very busy carrying out tasks from the dragon. We have finished Jack’s beanstalk and made a beautiful golden goose. Some pictures below –

Writing – Narrative

The children have really enjoyed writing “once upon a time” stories where they have been encouraged to use their imagination. They have written stories about kings, princes, wolves, hungry dragons etc. Some super examples below-

We thought it woulds be a good idea to grow our own beanstalks. So we have planted and watered them and are going to record their progress. We also looked at the life cycle of a bean. Once they start to grow the children will bring them home and you can plant them in the garden. Hopefully they will grow into large beanstalks with lots of pods!

Maths – Measure

We have done a little measuring this week using non-standard units. The children drew around their feet and cut out their foot shape and used it to estimate and then measure objects. They also used cubes, magic beans and stones. Some of thier estimates were fairly accurate!

 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will back next week with more updates.

 

 

 

 

Primary 1B Learning Highlights.

It’s been a super short week but we have managed to cram lots of fun learning into a short space of time. Here is a little snapshot of one of our learning experiences this week.

One of our learning highlights this week has taken from our focus on a new maths topic  ‘Measure’. We have been exploring all the different things we can measure both inside our classroom and outside in the natural environment. On Wednesday we took our learning outside to find natural resources as units for non standard measure. We had lots of fun experimenting with all the different things we found. Here are some pictures to explain further.

We were lucky enough to have Mrs Anderson teaching us some more yoga this week also. We focused our yoga on one of a favourite texts ‘The Wonky Donkey’. There was lots of stretching and breathing but also an awful lot of giggling!!

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

 

A Short, but Busy Week in P4/3!

It was a fantastic start to our week as we took part in a virtual lesson with Mrs Liddell, from museum services. She was able to share her knowledge about the Egyptians and showed us some artefacts too! It was really interesting to learn some new facts and also to apply our questioning skills to broaden our understanding. Here are some of the questions we asked:

“Why was the bracelet so important to Egyptians?” Lexie

“What food did the Egyptians eat?” Elkie

We continued to work on the explanation genre of writing, using the context of ‘How a Caterpillar Morphs into a butterfly” Almost all children were more confident with the content and structure of writing and next week we will continue to practise, but with less help from Mrs Morrison! I’m sure the children will rise to the challenge!

In numeracy, we continued to develop our skills in multiplying numbers. Some children worked on describing and building arrays (groups of), whilst others tackled multiplication word problems. It was a challenge for all, but we gave it a go, well done P4/3!

I’m sure next week will be just as much fun!

Mrs Morrison

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