Day: January 21, 2022

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.

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.

 

What a fantastic week we’ve had!

We learnt to use apostrophes to shorten two into one, we got a visit from Draco the Dragon who asked us to write  a story about him and we asked questions about our novels.

For IDL, we used google maps  to locate our school and where we are in relation to the map of Scotland.  We also used ICT to find information about John Logie Baird.

For Numeracy, we revised on all the multiplication strategies we have learnt and played games based on this topic.  We learnt to do doubles and trebles as well.  We create patterns using everyday objects as well.

We hope you have a nice weekend everyone!