P4/3 had a great time in class with Halloween themed fun on Friday. Everyone was dressed up and the class was decorated. We wrote instructions to make a witches brew, then we had a Halloween maths problem to solve. After that, we had Halloween party bags full of treats and we played Halloween themed games including dooking for apples, Halloween twister, pin the scar on Frankie and Halloween bingo. Well done everyone for joining in!
We watched a creepy film and enjoyed extra friendship time. But we have been working hard all week too! We wrote spooky stories and practised the ‘Timewarp’ dance. Miss Dufton was very good!
Literacy
Also we have now moved on to a new writing genre – exposition. This is a form of persuasive writing.
Topic
We completed our research about how WW2 started.
Outdoor Learning
During our Green Gym session we planted seeds that will bloom next year. They are bee-friendly.
Art
This had a halloween theme. Here is a terrific piece from Piotr:
What a fantastic week we had!
We started learning to write a persuasive text, we learnt to use exclamation mark appropriately and we wrote literal questions about a text.
For Numeracy, we began learning subtraction strategies focusing on inverse operations. We also revised on fractions and percentages.
We thoroughly enjoyed FUTSAL on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Mrs Buntin taught us how to use and access Glow/ TEAMS.
We had a lot of fun writing spooky stories to day and of course we loved our Halloween Party.
On Thursday we had fun creating a spooky atmosphere for Halloween.
Then on Friday………
We dressed up for Halloween.
Also we practised our spooky song and dance routine with Megan. Hope you can come along on Sunday to see us perform.
Some highlights from our busy week!
Writing – Persuasive
The children have began a new writing genre. From now until the end of term they will be exploring persuasive writing. This week the topic was Halloween. They were given a sentence starter “Halloween is good because ………..” They came up with a number of reasons- “you get to trick or treat”, “you get to dress up in a scary costume” “you get to scare people” etc. Some super examples below.
Phonics – “a” sound
This week the children were introduced to the “a” sound. This is an important sound as it enables the children to start blending and reading 3 letter words. They used sound mats to support the blending process. They did really well, I am so proud of them.
Numeracy
In numeracy this week we have been sorting, counting and ordering numbers!
As a special Halloween treat the buddies came to help Primary One carry out some spooky Halloween art!
Lastly we are still working on our Autumn display. We think it looks fantastic!
I hope you all have a great Halloween weekend and the children enjoy dressing up and eating lots of sweets! I will be back next week with more updates.
In Green Gym this week we have been working on improving the biodiversity of our school though building nests for the Bees. During the colder months bees need a safe place to keep warm to help them survive. We have been learning about the important role that bees play in worldwide food production therefore we all need to do our bit to help save them. Whilst we had the tools out we also decided to make some hedgehog nests and some wild flower bombs to help encourage the growth of more flowering plants in our schools grounds.
This week we have been introduced to a new writing genre, ‘Exposition‘, this is where we have to argue one side of an issue. This week we thought it would be a great idea to focus our writing on arguments for reasons we should be making steps to save the bees!
We came up with some excellent reasons. Here are some of our examples.
Ashley – If we didn’t have any bees we wouldn’t have any chocolate or pizzas!
Nathaniel – Bees can make our world more healthy.
Isla – Bees can pollinate other flowers and encourage biodiversity.
This week we have started learning how to play basketball in gym. We have started off by practising throwing, catching and bouncing the ball with a partner. We even had to try and catch the ball one handed, it was really tricky!
We hope you enjoyed reading our blog, we wish everyone a Happy and safe Halloween.
Literacy
In order to help understand a text in more detail we have been designing our own questions before reading, during reading and after reading.
Oscar – I liked doing questioning – it was different.
We read Gorilla by Anthony Browne.
Bella – The story was interesting. The gorilla fit the dad’s clothes perfectly.
Anton – I enjoyed questioning.
Numeracy
We have continued with our topic on TIME.
Grace – I feel I am improving.
Debbie – I am getting better at am and pm.
Fraser – I enjoyed learning about time.
Amy – I feel I am improving.
IDL/Topic
Kyle – I like doing the WW2 topic. I learnt how it started – it was because Hitler wanted to make Gerany great again.
Naavah – I enjoyed the WW2 topic.
French
With Mrs Dobbie we learnt the French alphabet.
Health
Our new topic is ‘Celebrating Difference.’
We learnt about a boy called Theo who was visually impaired.
Kyle – Even though he was blind he wanted to be treated like everyone else.
P.E.
Piotr – I enjoyed P.E. because we played some games first and then we played football if we wanted to.
Hope – I enjoyed playing games.
Literacy
This week, we have continued to practice our spelling daily. We have been completing rainbow writing, playing roll, read and write and quizzing our friends.
In reading this week, we have been focusing on our questioning skills. We have been using our skim reading skills to answer questions about our text. Then, we had to create our own questions to ask a friend.
Numeracy
In numeracy, we were looking at odd and even numbers. We had to look at ones column when were are identity if two, three or four digit numbers are odd or even. We also used a chant to help us identify odd and even numbers.
IDL
In topic this week, we were learning about hurricanes. Hurricanes are large, swirling storms. They produce winds of 74 mph or higher and they are formed over hot waters.
Maths: today we did some clockwise stuff. We drew circles clockwise and we used compasses to help. This week we have also been rounding decimals. We have also been doing various activities related to time and times tables.
For spelling we have done another spelling test.
For reading we read a book that helped us understand how to make persuasive writing. We also read our group novels and did questions on them. We also did questions on COP 26. We read an article on the BBC to find out information to create and answer the questions.
Our new topic is now COP 26 and climate change.
In PE we did basketball. We practised dribbling and shooting.
This week we enjoyed a variety of fun learning experiences.
For Literacy, we practiced reading and writing our spelling words, we learnt how to use commas when writing a list and for reading, we used our clarifying strategies to define the word- Hibernation.
For Numeracy, we learnt to add 2 digit and 3 digit numbers with exchanging. We also worked on our number facts during Number Talks.
For PE, we played Futsal and Tennis.
