Month: August 2021

Literacy

In writing this week, we were beginning to learning about the recount genre. We looked at the structure and then we studied an example of a recount piece. Then, we collaborated in small groups to create a recount of our first day in primary 3.

 

During reading, we were focusing on our predicting skills. Before we read the book, we predicted what we thought might happen and then explained our predictions.

 

Numeracy

This week, we continue to develop our place value skills. We were looking at ones, tens and hundreds. We were using the Dienes materials to help us identify the ones, tens and hundreds.

In our place value house, we can only have one digit per column. The smallest number in the column is 0 and the largest number is 9.

 

IDL

In science this week, we continued to develop our scientific vocabulary. We were identifying the advantages and disadvantages of materials. We were given the same object in 3 different materials and we had to state the pros and cons of each.

 

Health and Wellbeing

In P.E. this week, we started gymnastics. We were learning to create movement patterns and balances. We worked at different stations to develop our skills.

Numeracy

We have been learning about place value this week.

Alexis – I am proud of my maths.

Literacy

This week we practised our prediction skills. Based on evidence from the text so far we acted out what we thought might happen next in our class novel.

We also developed our ability to ask open-ended questions when interviewing a character.

Finally in writing this week we discovered the different sections to writing a recount and made paper chains representing these different parts which are:

Title

Orientation

Sequence of Events

Personal Comment

Health

We have been learning to play basketball.

Emily – I was surprised that I like basketball.

Bella – I am getting better at dribbling.

Kyle – I enjoyed playing the basketball version of piggy in the middle.

Jaxson – I enjoyed the dribbling game when you had to protect your ball and keep possession.

Health/Art

Emily – I am proud of my silhouette drawing. It turned out better than I thought.

We included information about what is important to us in our silhouette drawing.

MM- This week we learnt about how to do a recount writing.  The purpose is to retell an event. We started writing about Our First Day Back at School.

DN- We learnt place value.  I know that I need 10 1000s to make 10,000.

SA- I learned using clues on the front cover of a book to make a prediction of the story.

HK- In PE, we were learning to bounce the ball on a racket without dropping it.

 

What a busy week we have had!

This week, we began ELF. During ELF, we work in group rotations around different stations completing tasks that help our literacy learning. This week, some of our tasks included making our names from playdough, working on our fine motor control and learning how to make a prediction. The Primary 2s were working so hard with Mrs Morrison on their spelling that we didn’t have a chance to take some pictures!

During Numeracy, we have been working on forwards and backwards number sequences. All of the children are loving practising this and we have a super catchy song to help us learn! Here is the link if you would like to listen at home.

Let’s Get Fit | Count to 100 by 1’s | 100 Days of School Song | Counting to 100 | Jack Hartmann – YouTube

The Primary 1s have also been learning all about the number 1 and number 2. We have been working on our formation of the numbers, as well as understanding how the numbers are made. Here are some photos of us finding things around the classroom that have 2 parts.

We also had the chance to work with our buddies to create an Elmer who is proud to be different. We had a discussion about what makes us special and how being unique is great!

We can’t wait for another fabulous week of learning next week in Primary 2/1! 

What an unexpectedly sunny week we have had. Luckily we have been able to get outside and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine for gym this week. We have really enjoyed playing a range of team building games and learning all about what it means to be a team player.

This week we have started to learn about a new genre in Writing. This is called Recount, where we are learning to retell and evaluate past events and experiences. This week we have been writing about ‘Our First Day In Primary 4/3′. We examined an example text and looked at all the different parts that make up a recount text. Mrs Stevenson challenged us to identify and name all the different parts of the text and label and colour code an example. We really enjoyed working with a partner to do this.

After examining the structure of the text we looked at some of the language that we could use in our own writing. We explored past tense verbs and time ordering words.

After devising a plan for our work, the next day we had a go at putting our learning into practise and writing our recount. We did a pretty good job! Check out some of our pieces below.

We are taking our time to think about and devise our class charter. One activity we did this week was to think about our own most important value. We shared with each other what we thought was an important quality to possess. As a class we designed a class flag using all of our key values. It is proudly on display in our classroom and we feel it represents Primary 4/3 very well. One of the most common values that appears on our flag is ‘kindness’.

We hope you enjoyed a little snapshot of our week in Primary 4/3. We hope everyone has a lovely, sunny weekend.

This week we have continued with our fantastic learning in Primary 5! We have completed some other assessments in Spelling and Reading and have started some in Numeracy and Maths. These will continue next week.

In Reading we have started our Novel Study. Our book is Ratburger by David Walliams. We started off by making predictions of what we thought the book was going to be about based purely on the title. Here are some of our thoughts:

Erin R – It will be about a place where rats are cooked or the hamburger pates are made from rats.

 

Ariah – It’s going to be about a man who goes into a restaurant every day and order a burger and puts a rat on it and eats it.

Daniel – It is going to be about a rapper who loves burgers.

Ciaran – It is going to be about a cook who makes a burger with a rat inside.

Then Mrs Hillan read the blurb and asked us again. Here are some other predictions:

Caelan – It is going to be about a really hungry man who puts anything on a burger.

Holly – It will be about a man who wants to cook someone’s rat.

Lewis D – It will be about a man who looks for a rat in a restaurant to put in a burger.

Gracie – It will be about a man who cooks a rat and brings it to the wrapping station and makes the rat dance.

Ariah – It will be about a the girl feeding a rat burger to the bully.

 

We started a new writing genre this week too – Recount. This is where we have to retell and evaluate events and experiences. We went through an example with Mrs Hillan, and then created our own recounts of our first day back at school.

 

We look forward to seeing what next week brings!

In Primary 3 we have had a fantastic start to the year! We have enjoyed seeing our friends and hearing about how we spent our summer holidays.

We were practicing our tricky words and playing with some of our literacy games. During our story, we made predictions at the beginning and different points throughout the story.

In numeracy, we had an introduction to our place value topic. We were learning about ones and tens. We were using dienes materials to represent the number provided to us by our partners and we had to peer-assess one another’s work.

In science we learning about materials. This week, we learning about the properties of materials. We were given different materials and discussed their properties as we identified there similarities and differences. When we were discussing the properties of the materials, we had to use the correct scientific vocabulary.

We have had a fantastic start to our new school year!

Bella – It was great seeing friends again.

We enjoyed friendship time today. What a treat!

Health

Jaxson – We enjoyed going on the trim track!

We have been playing various icebreaker games in order to help us get to know our new class mates.

Emily-I liked the memory game when we had to remember each other’s hobbies.

Joel – I liked the, ‘Me Too’ game with string .

Hope – This game showed us how we are all connected as a class.

We have learnt about self-esteem and in future lessons will be focusing on how to make ourselves more confident and happy.

Art/Design

Lily-Elen-It was a good idea to make a birthday card for everyone in the class to open when it is their birthday.

Bailey-I enjoyed the art activity where we designed a poster showing our talents and personality.

Mrs Dobbie

Mrs Dobbie will take the class on a Tuesday morning for outdoor learning. Please remember to wear suitable clothes.

Alexis – I enjoyed French with Mrs Dobbie.

Literacy

This week we wrote a letter to Miss Stanway sharing our holiday news. We also started reading our class novel – The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Numeracy

Our first maths activity involved dealing with numbers connected to us e.g. rounding our house number to the nearest 10.

 

 

This week in primary 5/6 we started with settling in to school again after the long summer, we got to meet our new teacher and classmates it was really fun.

After we got to choose our seats but they were not permanent after we chose, we started our work we were doing 3 tests 2 math 1 spelling and at the end of the day we were playing a game with toilet paper it was a math game to get to know about everyone. It was however many sheets of toilet paper you took is the amount of things you had to say about yourself.

On Wednesday we had started to line up in Alphabetical order to get better at it, CB is at the front and EY is at the back, we had then got trays sorted out every student had gotten 2 trays each. the left is for jotters and stuff the right is for drawings and pencils we had also went over to the library to choose books some people had chose animal books some cars others science or fiction we had then read till the end of the day we had also labelled the jotters.

On Thursday we had a spelling test