Month: November 2021

Monday 22^nd November

Maths: Word problems relating to long division. A small group (SD, AD, SU and MM) were working on decimals and fractions word problems. CB also lead the learning of a group that he was working with.

Literacy: Reciprocal reading – questioning. ShP and JH were proud of their work in this.

Writing: persuasive with one group lead by SB, with a smaller group with Miss T.

PE: activities relating to team sports. We also noted that in one of the activities people were practising transferable skills that could be used in rugby and even fencing (AS and MM), relating it to “Hamlet”.

Tuesday 23^rd

Maths: long division of decimals. CB again excelled in this and is proud of the work he produced, as are JH and SHp. In another group SJR lead the learning, supported by MDr.

Literacy: one group continued their work on persuasive writing, with the learning lead by SB, who also identified the pronoun. LM, once again demonstrated his wide vocabulary, as well as his drama skills, when doing Hamlet.

ICT: continuing work on Teams and Education City, DW continuing to be very supportive.

Wednesday 24^th

French with Mrs D

Maths: Fibonacci Sequence, and fractions and degrees

Literacy: self-assessing and “bumping up” work

Thursday 25^th

Another hard working day of assessing, up-levelling and flling the literacy work we have done so far this year.

We also played games to help us practise and learn our times tables, decimals and fractions.

We have had another busy week in Primary 2!

Numeracy 

We are still working hard on subtraction. The children are using different strategies to support their learning and are trying so hard.  

Literacy 

In writing this week, the children did a piece of persuasive work. They had to provide reasons why their choice of pet was the best. The children came up with great arguments. 

Music 

The Nativity songs have started! (I am sure you have heard them all at home!) The children are enjoying singing ‘Down in the Stable’. We look forward to performing the Nativity in December.  

Literacy

In writing this week, we were persuading the reader about our favourite pet. We had to look at our feedback from last week and had to uplevel our work

As a class, we have been focusing on our questioning and summarising skills. We paused when reading to ask our friend questions about the text.

Maths

This week, we were looking at angles. We were identifying that a right angle is 90°, an acute is less than 90°, an obtuse angle is between 90° and 180° and a straight angle is 180°. We were using concrete materials to help us identify the type of angle.

IDL

In expresive arts this week, we were using charcoal to create representation  of extreme earth. We were learning to shade by using the charcoal to create different dimensions.

We have hit the ground running with P4 business enterprise.   There will be a pop up Stationery Station very soon.  So watch this space!

We have thoroughly enjoyed our week as we have been learning to follow directions to find treasure.  We learnt to estimate answers to addition sums and we have been practicing rounding.

For Literacy,  we consolidated all our learning all of our reciprocal reading strategies.  We continued writing persuasive text and practiced our spelling words.

 

 

Primary 4 are building a bug hotel and yesterday they were sawing branches that they had found.

 

This week has been a busy and quick week.

On Monday in Green Gym we were being animal detectives. We had previously laid cat food out in trays of soil and mud. We then came back to these trays to investigate and look for any animal footprints. We were convinced that we saw deer footprints! We also played a game of Predators and Prey, we had to camouflage ourselves from the prey to avoid getting eaten! We are really enjoying green gym, it is great to be active outside whilst learning about our environment.

This week our teachers apprentice group had the great honour of presenting to Mrs Cochrane. They did a fantastic job of leading the learning and facilitating a discussion surrounding their chosen text about dinosaurs. We are getting very good at using the language of reciprocal reading and being able to apply it to our reading tasks within the classroom. Some of us were a bit nervous but we rose to the challenge and felt proud of our efforts afterwards.

In numeracy we have been looking at strategies to assist subtraction, including exchanging, place value and being able to read word problems for numbers up to 1000. We thoroughly enjoy a challenge and although we initially found this a bit of a challenge we persisted and learned from our mistakes to help us feel confident in out learning.

In writing this week we have been focusing on the planning stage for next week’s task. We have been revising all of the concepts of Persuasive writing and looking at appropriate vocabulary to up level our work. Next week we will be writing about why Santa should give us our chosen present.

We hope you enjoyed a brief snapshot of our week in Primary 4/3.

We have had a busy week in Primary 5 this week.

In Numeracy we have continued looking at Place Value and larger numbers in general.

We worked together on some number talks this week too. We looked at Friendly Numbers. We could see how if you worked out the answer to one question, then you could use this to easily answer a question with similar numbers involved.

 

In Literacy we have been practising our spelling words this week by creating some spelling rainbows and some partner work. We played Spelling Tennis this week, where we spelled out our words whilst passing the ball back and forth on each letter.

 

In Reading we have revisited our predicting skills this week. We used where we were in our group readers, to then make predictions of what we thought might happen next. Here are some of our predictions:

Chloe – Gran, Biff and Chip will make something to stop the builders of the motorway.

Lewis D – I thought that Superdog was going to save everyone he knew and around him.

Sophie C – I think the pig is going to be sad because he can’t make a web like the spider.

Jessica – I thought that there was going to be a thief and the dog will try to scare him.

Erin R – I predicted that dad was going to snap and that would make Jimi-Luke be alive again.

Caelan – Since the pig can’t make a web, he is going to try to get out of his pen and find lots of string to tie together.

 

In Writing we have continued our genre of Persuasive Writing. We wrote pieces this week about why recycling was important. Here are some of our thoughts and some of us working on our pieces:

Sophie C – I think recycling is very important for the environment.

Gracie – I think recycling makes everyone happy.

Kayleigh – I enjoyed writing about recycling so now everyone knows how to recycle.

Lewis R – Recycling helps the environment.

 

In topic we have been creating images of our Solar System as well as doing some research on the International Space Station. We will continue more research next week. Some of us worked with Mrs Hillan on creating a rocket for our display.

We are looking forward to more new learning next week!

Literacy

 

This week, we have been practicing our spelling every day. We have been practicing our words in many different ways. We have been playing games with our spelling words such a roll, read and write.

 

In reading this week, we have been continuing to develop our skills when reading with expression. For our reading comprehension, we have been developing our reciprocal reading skills. After answering questions about our text, we have to create questions to ask to a friend and write a summary.

 

For Scottish book week, we had to Stop, Drop and Read. This was exciting as we were watching Newsround when the bell went off. As a class, we have been sharing our recommendation of books to read. We also loved coming into school in our jammies to get our book bags to take home.           

 

Numeracy

 

This week, we started learning about addition. We have been learning that using concrete material such as 100 squares or counters can help accurately calculate the answer. We were looking at partitioning as an effective strategy to help us calculate the answer.

 

         

 

IDL

 

For our topic this week, we were learning that a tsunami is created when an earthquake or a volcano erupts under the water. This causes a gigantic wave to be created under the surface instead of on the surface from the wind. A tsunamis hits land and causes destruction.

When watching the news, we also learned there was a small earthquake in Scotland at the start of the week. We are loving how we can research current affairs related to Extreme Earth.