Month: November 2021

Another great week had by all!

We enjoyed writing questions and predictions about our new books.  We learnt to use different types of conjunctions and we wrote a persuasive text regarding the importance of bees.

For numeracy, we continued finding the missing numbers and we began learning how to use written subtraction with borrowing.  In Maths, we revised on our knowledge of tessellation.

For Health and Well being, we played Futsal and began our journey to understanding our dreams and goals.

We have really enjoyed creating algorithms during our digital technology class with Mrs Buntin.

Have a happy weekend everyone!

Literacy

We have been learning how to summarise.

Hope – Only pick out key points.

Debbie – Write in your own words and put events in order.

Writing

Hope – I enjoyed planning the persuasive writing. You need to include facts.

Lily-Elen – You need to use persuasive language.

Numeracy

We have been adding numbers which bridge ten or a hundred using mental methods.

Amy – We can use partitioning.

Joel – We can count on.

Emily – When adding several numbers we look for ways to make it easier such as making number bonds to 10.

PE

Kyle – I liked playing football outside this week .

Bailey – My team won!

Topic – WW2

This week we organised events on a timeline.

Bailey – I didn’t know Hitler went to jail. He wrote a book called ‘My Struggle.'(Mein Kampf).

Lily-Elen – My Grandad told me they had to put guards outside his prison cell.

Bella – Germany invaded Poland.

Kyle – I loved playing Mallets Mallet.

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

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.

Primary 5 have been working hard on their tasks this week.

In Numeracy we have been looking at Place Value and what this means. We discussed that a number like: 1276 – would mean that the 1 would have the value of 1000 (thousands), the 2 would have the value of 200 (hundreds), the 7 would have the value of 70 (tens) and the 6 would have the value of 6 (ones). We also discussed the possibility of having numbers containing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions.

We played some good Place Value games online as well as a board game.

The board game:

In Literacy we have been practising our spelling words with some rainbow writing and some partner work. We also created some stories using our spelling words, you can see these below. It is important we practise these at home too.

In Reading we have started looking at the Reciprocal Reading strategy of Summarising  – this means:

‘Just to tell you the main parts of the story’ – Sophie C

‘If you have a long story, you shorten it up by saying the main parts of the story.’ – Summer

‘You just add the main facts.’ – Lewis

‘Summarise by saying the key facts.’ – Olivia

‘You need to mention who, what, where, when and why’ – Ariah

 

In Writing we have been looking at our new genre of Persuasive Writing. We wrote pieces this week about whether we thought fireworks should be made silent or not. Here are some of our pieces:

We look forward to another busy week next week!