Month: January 2022

Primary 2

Scotland

We have been looking at the famous artist Steven Brown this week and made our own McCoos.

We also looked into the history of tartan and made some of our own tartan.

Writing

For our narrative topic, the children had Mrs Stewart’s job for the day and they had to decide what they would do when something went wrong! Some of the children were giving Mrs Stewart her job back but other children thought they would make a good boss.

Basketball

We are working hard to be aware of the space around us to be able to pass the ball to our partner. We are still working on our dribbling skills, as it is not easy to move around the hall without bumping into someone and bouncing the ball at the same time!

 

 

This Week in P3

LiteracyIn reading this week, we have been developing our reciprocal reading skills. We also had to create questions about the text to ask a friend. We then had to identify the key details of the story in order to summarise the text.In writing this week, we continued to develop our narrative writing skills. We were using our imagination to create a story about a magic key. We had to read over our work to check that we had used our core writing targets.MathsIn maths this week, we were continuing to learn about time. We were focusing on o’clock and half past. Throughout, the day we would check the time on the analogue clock.In numeracy, we continued to look at subtraction. We were learning about the column subtraction method. This is where you take away the ones colum and then the tens. With some equations, we needed to regroup.IDLIn RME, we were looking at the Christan bible story. We were learning about Jonah and the whale. As a class, we had create a discussion about moral decisions Jonah had to make and what our personal views were on these decisions.

P4 Class 28.01.2022

What a great week we had!

We have been revising on all our past numeracy and maths work.  It has been great to see that we remember most of the concepts we have learnt.

We have been learning to highlight key words and information while we read a text.  This helped us skim and scan for information much quicker as we try to answer questions about the text.  We wrote another story about Draco (the dragon) this time we have put in speech within our story.

We have also been learning to multiply 3 digit numbers by 1 digit.

 

What have P6 been up to this week?

Literacy

We learnt about how important adverbs are when writing.

As part of our narrative science-fiction writing unit we imagined a planet and practised describing in detail.

Reading – We consolidated our prediction skills in group reading.

Maths

We learnt about how to create repeating patterns using shape and made some for our partners to complete.

Bailey – I liked designing posters about triangular and square numbers.

Topic

On Thursday it was ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’.

Jaxson – I liked the video we watched about Holocaust heroes who saved so many Jewish people.

Hope – We learnt about propoganda which was persuasive posters designed to make people help win the war.

Kyle – I liked doing the propoganda posters but I was not prepared for the air raid siren this week!

Bailey – I liked the ‘Dig for Victory’ poster because it would make people healthy.

P.E.

Isabella – I am proud of my hockey skills – my passing and scoring. Also I got the star award this week!

P6/5 Week starting Monday 24th January

P6/5 Week starting Monday 24th January

 

Monday:

Literacy focus on spelling Scottish words. Also extended writing on adventure stories. KH was proud of their written work.

Maths was spent looking at mathematical patterns.

Art focus was on looking at the work of Charles Rennie Macintosh.

 

Tuesday:

In Maths most of the class continued their work on percentages, with a small group engaging in more challenging material. Another continued their work reviewing what they have done so far.

The class also finished their extended writing pieces and continued with their personal projects.

We also filmed the maths video that the class had previously written the script for.

DW was proud of their knowledge of the geography of South America.

 

Wednesday:

Maths was a continuation of yesterday’s work on percentages.

In literacy today the class got their new spelling words and continued their work on Macbeth, creating drama about the battle scene, the three witches, Banquo and Macbeth. SJR proud of their ever developing reading. SS was proud of their spelling work.

The class were also making their own pocket garden with Mrs Dobbie!

Thursday:

Digital Day all day! Great fun! 100% of the class said they really enjoyed it.

There were three different activities: stop frame animation, keyboard skills and coding. AD, LM, EC, SD, ShP, DW, CB, AS, EY, JH and MM excelled in animation. The following people also excelled in coding: AS, AD, MM, SS, SU and KH. Finally the following excelled in their keyboard skills: LH, MxD, MM, EY, LM, SoP, EC, MDs, ShP, KH, DW and SU.

Friday:

Spelling, as usual.

Maths, looking at various activities relating to fractions and percentages, including net based.

PE: activities based on basketball, including space awareness, team-work development, shooting and dribbling. The greatest thing today was that SU was able to lead the learning and introduced the class to a passing practise activity.

 

Weekly Update From Primary One

 

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Welcome to this week’s  blog. It has been another busy learning week at Deans. Some highlights the children wanted to share with you.

Maths – Time

This week we have been learning to tell the time. We have been ordering days of the week, seasons and exploring months of the year. On Monday, we began to  focus on o’clock times and next week we will look at half past.  The children have made their own clocks and have been challenging each other to tell the time. Some action shots below-

                     

                     

 

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This week we continued with our narrative writing genre and used The Three Billy Goats Gruff story to help us. Firstly, we read the story, then we sequenced it-

Then we used puppets to re-tell the story-

               

Next we re-told the first part of the story including the “who and where”-

 

Lastly we challenged each other to make a bridge big enough for the troll to fit under-

             

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We have celebrated Rorbert Burns birthday this week by reading stories about Hamish McHaggis (ask your child to tell you about him). The children love hearing him speak Scottish, for example – “stop your blethering!”, “haud your wheesht!”. We have also attempted to create our own Deans tartan-

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more updates.

 

 

 

 

This Week in Primary 5

This week in Primary 5 we have been busy filming our Sharing the Learning video to send out to our parents and carers to tell them all about what we are learning in Numeracy and Maths and how people at home can help us.

We have been working on dividing by 8 and 6, or showing the link between division and multiplication this week. One group had an opportunity to use a calculator with their tasks this week.

 

In Spelling this week, we practised our words by creating spelling flowers. This is where we write the word in the middle and then write the letters which make up the word on each petal. We also played noughts and crosses using our spelling words. Every time we got a word right, we got to put our nought or cross down!

 

In Writing we have continued our Narrative writing. This week we used an idea from watching an Author’s Live episode with Cressida Cowell who wrote the ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ books, where we drew a map first and then used this map to create a plan for an adventure story. Mrs Hillan showed us a few examples of maps, such as the map of Neverland. We will use these maps and plans to write our stories next week!

In Reading we made predictions again, based on where we are at in our group readers. It is interesting to see if our predictions are correct as we read on.

Lewis D – I predict that the tiger will turn out a different colour from the colour a tiger is meant to be.

Olivia – I predict that the children are going to be late to the palace because the police are going to stop them for too long.

Erin R – I predict that the crowd of people are not going to let the children past and the Queen will think they are not coming.

Kayleigh – I predict that Biff and Wilf got trapped and then the man took the Blue Eye.

Chloe – I think the man has the Blue Eye but the children get it again and they go back to the castle.

Sophie C – I predict that the ferris wheel will break down at the fair.

 

Since it was the celebration of Robert Burns on Tuesday, we talked about him, listened to some of his poems and did a little bit of research on him. We also designed our own tartans.

Primary 2

17/01/2022

Maths

The children have started a new topic in maths this week with Mrs Lockhart. They have been learning to tell the time with a key focus on o’clock.

Yoga

We are continuing to work on Yoga in the classroom to help us focus on our work. There are many different Yoga poses for us all still to learn.

Writing

We are doing two writing slots a week now! A recap of the learning they previously did with Mrs Lockhart and our new genre. I am so impressed at how much the children challenge themselves and so many are trying to work independently to develop their writing skills. Please ask your child to share what their writing was about. We do writing on a Monday afternoon and Thursday morning.

Sharing the Learning

We have been very busy recording our learning to share with you next week. We hope you enjoy watching!

This Week in P3

Literacy

 

In reading this week, we were developing our skimming and scanning skills. We were given a text about Robert Burns and then we had to answer questions about him and his life. We would highlight the key words and find the answer in the text. This would help us when writing the answer.

 

In our writing this week, we were using our imagination to write a story about an accident. We had to read over our next steps from last week to ensure we were challenging ourselves.

 

Maths

 

This week, we were learning about subtraction. We had to use an effective strategy to help us solve the equations. Some of us have been using number lines, counters, partitioning and the column subtraction method.

 

 

IDL

 

On Thursday, we had a fantastic time at our digital day! Mrs Buntin had organised a variety of fun activities. Throughout the day, we worked our way around 3 stations. We were learning to code on the Bee-Bots and the iPad. We also created stop frame animations, which is where we create a film through moving the props and taking pictures. These have been uploaded to Seesaw so you can see your short films. We were also developing our typing skills, by logging into the laptop and then playing a keyboard game.

P6/5 Week starting Monday 17th January

Monday:

Maths – All groups were looking at fractions again today; one group were looking at a problem solving activity that involved common denominators. They were also then given support to teach another group how to solve word problems.

Literacy – new spelling words out to all. Continuing work on our group reading books. Also started writing the script for a short film “How to use Loop Games”.

PE – team sports. Looking at strategies and applying these to a variety of team sports including football, hockey and dodgeball.

Tuesday:

Maths: still working on fractions, today we were looking at more complex multiple fractions of a whole number, and used this to help our ability to multiply and divide. A small also extended their learning by looking at word problems.

Literacy: extended writing on a narrative theme, with a focus on structure, similes, metaphors and adjectives.

In the afternoon we looked at coding with “Mrs B and the Beebots”.

Wednesday:

Assessments for both numeracy and literacy. One group also worked on writing questions about the text they were given on dog statues. Another group worked on story writing and characterisation. To support these activities we also used appropriate activities on Education City.

The class were also training to go to Mars with Mrs Dobbie!

Thursday:

Maths: finishing off work on fractions

Literacy: using questions about the groups reading texts that the children had created. Making notes for the answers and then transferring these into a short summary of the text.

Art with Ms T in the afternoon.

Friday:

Assembly, where RM got the star award for the class and the whole class won the peg challenge.

Maths: one group started a review of all the work they have done on Maths, another started work on percentages, with some of these also looking to extend their learning with more challenging resources.

 

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