Day: November 4, 2021

Weekly Updaye From Primary One

Welcome to this weeks blog.

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Firstly a picture from last weeks Halloween party. A great time had by all.

Writing

This week the children had to persuade someone that fireworks can be dangerous.The children came up with some very persuasive agruments including – you can get hurt, other people can be silly putting you in danger and pets can get very scared. Some examples below-

   

Phonics – “i” sound

This week we have been exploring the “i” sound. Having another vowel sound has enabled the children to blend more sounds to create 3 letter words. They have also been working on their letter formation. Some pictures below-

   

Numeracy

This week we have focused on the nubmer 10. The children have been using ten frames to support their learning. They are an amazing learning tool that support counting, place value, addition and subtration.

We have also been carrying out daily number talks. Number talks or dot patterns are an important tool to help children build a visual link to composing and decomposing small numbers.  Dot patterns provide opportunities for children to work on counting, seeing numbers in a variety of ways, subitising and learning number combinations. An example of a 9 dot pattern detailing the children’s thinking below.

I hope you all have a safe and enjoyable Bonfire night. I will be back next week with more highlights.

 

 

 

P6/5

This week we have been looking at the events in Glasgow, COP 26 and climate change.

For one of their activities related to this the children created and published web based interactive quizzes. I am trying to work out how you can all access them.

Watch this space!

Mr C

Primary 4/3 Learning Highlights

It’s been another busy week in Primary 4/3.

On Monday we checked on our bees nests and hedgehog homes, they are still intact, thankfully! We also took the opportunity to smash our clay flower bombs. We can’t wait until Spring to see all the wildflowers grow in the field and know that we have done a little to improve the biodiversity of our school grounds.

On Tuesday we worked on some fireworks inspired art. We investigated the work of Wassily Kandinsky and used one of his famous abstract pictures ‘Colour Study’ to help us complete our pictures. Here are some of the finished products. We think they look great.

Keeping to the theme of Bonfire Night we decided to write about why we should or shouldn’t ban fireworks. We discussed in depth reasons both for and against. We are getting good at using persuasive language and arguing for what we believe. Here are some examples of our writing.

We hope you have enjoyed reading a few of our learning highlights from this week.

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