Month: October 2021

After having a well deserved rest we have returned to school this week raring to go!

Firstly, Mrs Dobbie and the rest of the staff at Deans would like to congratulate Brendan who won the sunflower competition back in September. Well done Brendan for growing such a super sunflower!!

This week we have been learning about the new reading skill of Summarising and we are looking forward to putting this into practise next week. This week we focused on using the skill of clarifying  to complete a Frayer Model to help us learn about the word and clarify the meaning of  Hibernation. Have a look at what we have been working on.

We were also lucky to have a session of Futsal this week. We practised our dribbling and defending skills through playing a game of ‘splat tig’.

We tried our hands at the skill of Zentangle. This means ‘calm doodling’ using a simple black and white repeated pattern. We used a pumpkin template to practise this technique.

We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of our learning this week.

Literacy

In reading this week, we continued to focus on our clarifying skills. We use our clarifying skills to help us find the meaning of words we don’t know yet. We read around the word to help us clarify the meaning. We can also think of words that sound similar.

In writing this week, we wrote our assessment piece of recount writing. We wrote a recount of our morning routine at school. We have to use the correct structure and use our core writing targets.

Numeracy

In numeracy this week, we were looking at number sequences. We were given a number sequence that had some missing numbers. We had to use our problem skills to solve rule of the sequence and fill in the missing numbers. There were different strategies that we could use to help us. Some of us used our fingers and some of us used a 100 square to calculate the missing numbers.

IDL

This week, we were looking at plastic pollution and the environmental impacts of plastics. We completed a reading comprehension task about plastic pollution. We had to use our skim reading skills to help us answer the questions.

We were also learning about how recycling can be one of the possible solutions to help reduce plastic pollution. We had to think things we could do in school to help protect the environment. In school, we can put paper or cardboard in blue recycling bin. Items such as laminating sheets and paper towels cannot be recycled, therefore, we must put them in the black waste bin.

This week we have been busy writing a Recount about our PE Lesson.  We practiced our clarifying skills and began our questioning task for reciprocal reading.

For Health and Well- being, we investigated what assumptions mean and the consequences it might have.  We practiced tap ups and serve skills in Tennis.

For IDL, we made Roman Bathhouses after we explored the ways in which they were used.  We created patterns to make mosaic art as well.

For Numeracy, we have been learning to find half and quarter of a number.  We also revised on our chimney sums.

Have a lovely October Break everyone!

Every Friday P.5 is working with Megan on our song for the performance at Howden Park. We are working really hard and progress is excellent!

This week in Primary 4/3 we have been working hard on finishing off our topic of gymnastics in gym. We have been working on linking a series of movements together, including a balance, a pose and a jump into a roll. We have thoroughly enjoyed this topic in gym and are looking forward to learning some basketball skills after the October Holidays.

We also had a very exciting and a little soggy session of Green Gym this week. Alice was our teacher and she was teaching us all about bees and biodiversity. We learned all about how pollen spreads and how we can help save the bees by planting more flowers.

In our Victorians topic this week we have been exploring different methods of creating texture within a piece of art. We used, smudging, crumpling, tearing and shading to create a picture of a chimney sweep.

We hope you enjoyed a little snapshot of our week. We are very much looking forward to a little break during  next week. Happy Holidays!

Primary 5 have had a great week on the lead up to the October break!

In Literacy we have continued reading our group readers, enjoying discussions on these and talking about any words we are unsure of that we could clarify. We also continued working on our Clarifying grids from last week. We picked out some super words to clarify!

In Writing this week we had our final Recount piece. This was our assessment piece. We were given the choice to write about an event or a holiday/trip. Here are some of our finished pieces:

In Spelling we completed an interim assessment on the words we have been working on this term. On the whole we scored really well. Mrs Hillan encourages us to continue to practise as much as we can at home as it definitely helps!

In Numeracy this week we have been working on a pre-topic assessment on Division. Here are some of our thoughts:

Chloe – It is similar to your times tables and if you don’t know them it will be hard to do.

Caelan – When we start doing division is starts to get more challenging as you grow up, but you know more.

Sophie C – At first it’s hard but when you start to get used to it, it gets easier.

Iona – It was a bit of a challenge, but once we pushed ourselves it was a bit easier.

Summer – If you want to do division is times a number that’s in sum that will help give you the number at the start.

For IDL we have introduced our new topic of SPACE! We are very excited to get started on this. Here are some of the things that we listed that we would like to find out about:

-Why is Pluto a dwarf planet?
-Can you lie down in space?
-How big is the moon?
-How many stars are there?
-How many people have been in space?
-How many holes are in the moon?

-Why can you find water on the moon?
-Has there ever been a pet on the moon?
-Can you eat food whilst walking on the moon?

We hope everyone has a super October break and stays safe!

Maths

We have started a new topic – TIME.

Bailey – I enjoyed the funny time song and can use quarter past.

Bella – I feel I now know how to tell the time.

Alexis – I am better at telling the time.

Some of us practised converting 12 hour times to 24 hour times.

Literacy

This week when writing a recount we wrote one together as a class.

Emily – This was fun. I enjoyed putting all of our ideas together.

Bailey – I have improved my handwriting and showed it to Mrs Stewart.

Philosophy

During our talking and listening learning we discussed some thunks. Thunks are questions with no correct or incorrect answers.

1. If I read a magazine in a shop without paying for it would that be stealing?
2. If pigs ruled the world what changes would we see?

P.E.

Kyle – I enjoyed basketball. I am better at shooting.

Health – Headstrong

We had another visit from Mark this week.

Bailey – He explained that sometimes it is O.K. to be scared and asked us to think about how we could deal with things we are scared of.