Day: November 10, 2021

Primary 4/3 have been packing lots of exciting learning into this week.

On Monday in Green Gym, we were set the challenge of building a hibernacula, for an animal to use to hibernate in during the winter months. We had 15 minutes to find as many natural materials as possible to insulate our hibernacula.  We then filled up a pot of hot water which was to represent our animal, if after 15 minutes the pot was still hot our animal would have survived the winter!

Keeping on our topic of conservation, sustainability and helping the environment, we decided to write our persuasive piece of writing focused on why we should help save trees in our environment. This week we looked at using some more convincing and persuasive language to help reinforce our arguments.  Here are some examples of our work.

We have also been thinking about why we celebrate Remembrance day. The Primary 7’s have been selling Poppies all week so we decided to create our own poppy picture of Flanders Fields. We  used water colours to create a wash effect for the sky and used bright red and black for our poppies. In the fields we added grass using crayon. We are very proud of our efforts in this art task.

We hope you have enjoyed a little snapshot of our learning from this week.

 

We have had another busy week in Primary 5.

In Numeracy we have continued looking at Place Value. Some of us were looking at numbers that contained hundreds and thousands and some of us were looking at numbers that contained tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands.

When some of us were finished, we offered peer support to anyone who was finding it tricky. We played some good Place Value games online too!

 

In Literacy we have been practising our spelling words with some silly sentences and some partner work. We wrote our spelling words on our partner’s back and they had to guess which word it was! It is important we practise these at home too.

 

In Reading we have started looking at the Reciprocal Reading strategy of Summarising. We looked at pieces together and discussed some key questions relating to each piece of text. These questions helped us to get the main ideas to then create a summary.

 

In Writing we have continued working on our new genre of Persuasive Writing. We wrote pieces this week about the importance of fundraising. This was relevant to us at the moment as Poppies are on sale for Remembrance Day and it will soon be Children in Need. Here are some of our pieces:

We are looking forward to more new learning next week!