Deans Primary School Blog

This week in Primary 5 we have been very lucky to start sessions on digital learning with the help of Mrs Buntin. We are beginning by looking at coding. This week we spoke about creating algorithms and we made some up to make BeeBot move to make a chosen digital number by going forward, left, right or backwards:

We are excited to learn more next time! Here are some pictures of us this week:

In Reading we have gone back to revisit our prediction skills. We did these for our group readers this week. Here are some we made:

Sophie C – Fern is going to go back to the barn and Wilbur is going to be missing.

Sophie G – I think that Fern’s mum is going to start believing the stories that Fern has been telling and she will go to the barn and see Wilbur and Charlotte etc all talking.

Erin R – I think that when all the kids go to see the Queen, the castle is going to stink-bombed.

Ariah – I think crickets are going to wake up Wilbur. He is then going to go to Fern’s house and Charlotte is going to go and look for him, then get lost.

Jessica – I think that when Mr Stofflees is finished painting that the tiger is going to come to life.

 

In Spelling we practised our words by writing them in alphabetical order. This was challenging, especially when some of our words started with the same letter! We also selected some other tasks to help us practise our words.

In Writing we created a new narrative story. This week we took some inspiration from our class novel where one of the characters was briefly taken back in time to when he was born. Then Mrs Hillan showed us part of a story she had created, but this time her character went into the future! We used these stories to then create a plan first, then used this to write our own Adventure in Time stories, remembering that we needed to include a problem and resolution. Please have a look at us hard at work and read some of our stories below:

In Numeracy this week we have continued using our division skills and we have worked hard using the SHM textbooks. One group have looked at dividing by 10, 100 and 1000’s and the other has worked on dividing by 2, 4, 5 and 8.

In topic, we have put our Space topic on hold to do a Scottish Mini topic on The Celts. We have started this week by creating a thought shower together of what we know, what we would like to know and how we can find out. The Blue shows what we already know, the Orange shows what we would like to find out and the Green shows how we might find out:

 

P6/5 Week starting Monday 10^th January

 

Monday:

Maths – All groups were looking at fractions today; one group were sorting various activities and games into degrees of difficulty. We looked at the forward plan to help us discuss the learning intentions for these activities and decided most them were covered by “to sort and compare fractions”.

Literacy – reading groups have new reading books so we all looked at the skill of prediction.

PE – we all looked at possible activities for the coming term and decided to focus on tennis, rugby and continue football.

To help us with our understanding of vertebrates and  invertebrates, and our artistic skills, we drew skeletons.

Tuesday:

Maths: continuing work on fractions in our groups, looking at denominators and numerators.

Literacy: continued work on prediction (the rest of the book). Progressed from making notes to writing this up in sentences (some in paragraphs) into jotters. We also did an extended writing piece – a narrative story of each child’s own choice.

Mrs D STEM activities in the afternoon. Fractions

Wednesday:

Maths –  Fractions, with one group focusing on simple fractions of a number, the rest on equivalent fractions. A small group were also able to work on percentages and how they relate to fractions.

Literacy – generating questions (and corresponding answers) about their group reading books, which will feed into a reading comprehension activity. We also peer assessed the narrative writing from the previous day.

In the afternoon we used our drama skills to further our understanding of “Macbeth” and what a medieval battle might have sounded like.

We also continued working on our skeletons. We extended this activity today by getting some people to label the different bones while some people  drew examples of other animal’s skeletons.

 

 

 

Thursday

In maths some continued their work on fractions of a whole number, while another group worked on related word problems.

In literacy some were creating questions about the text they were reading, while others had to catch up on their reading.

In the afternoon the class continued their work on “Macbeth” and practised their drawing skills by creating an image of the three witches.

Friday:

Assembly, when LH got the star award for sensibly supporting others.

Maths: how to make a loop game, and using these to practice maths including decimals and fractions.

PE: throwing and catching, relating to racket and ball skills

 

 

What a very busy start to the new term! We have welcomed three new pupils into Primary 2 so it has been a very exciting week!

Writing

We have moved on to our next genre in writing which is narrative. The children have worked very hard to create their story about ‘The Lost Puppy’. We are trying to remember a capital letter, finger space and full stop in all of our sentences.





PE

We are now doing basketball for PE. This week we have worked on dribbling, chest passes and have started trying to shoot into the basket, which is a challenge! The children have really enjoyed basketball and cannot wait to play a proper game.






Topic

We are doing a mini topic on Scotland. We have discussed this week what we already know about Scotland and what we would like to learn about. We also sang ‘Heid, Shooders, Knees an Taes’ as we were looking at Scots language. They found Scottish slang very funny as they think it sounds very ‘weird’. Just in case you hear any slang about the house!

I am extremely proud of how hard the children have worked this week.

Have a lovely weekend!

Literacy
This week, we have been working hard practising our spelling words. We have been playing spelling games with our friends to develop our skills when sounding out words.

         

In writing this week, we started learning about narrative writing. We use a story mountain to help us plan our story. We had to use our imagination to create a text to entertain the reader. We were writing a story where we went through the wardrobe and we went into a different land.

Numeracy
This week, we have been focusing on missing number addition equation. This is an addition equation where we have the answer and one of the digits we are adding and the second digit is missing. We could use the count on strategy or the take away strategy.

 

IDL
We have been learning about Christian beliefs this week. We have learnt that Christians believe in one God and they pray to God to give thanks, to give them guidance or for forgiveness. We also were learning that Christians believe that God created the universe in 6 days and on the 7th day God had a rest. Then, we had to design a poster to display the key features if Christian beliefs.

 

Happy New Year from Primary 5! We hope everyone is safe and well!

We are excited to be back at school for a new term and looking forward to learning lots of new things.

This week we have spent some time discussing our New Year’s Resolutions and what these mean. Here are some of the resolutions we have made:

Daniel – To be a better drawer.

Ryley – To feed my dog and play with my dog more.

Erin P – To learn to play football.

Erin R – To play a full song on my trombone.

Lewis D – To take my skills in football to the next step.

Chloe – To spend more time with my family.

Ciaran – To get better at football.

We have also discussed what we really liked about last year and our hopes and goals for this year. Here are some of them:

In our writing this week we have started our new genre of Narrative writing. We discussed how this is where we can really let our imaginations run wild! We have to work on giving lots of details for characters, setting etc. We started off this week by looking at the example in the big book, which was all about a Great BMX Race. We discussed this piece and then thought about races or competitions that we have taken part in and this is what we wrote about. Here are some pictures of us busy writing our stories:

Some of us also shared our stories with the class:

In Numeracy we have been continuing to work on our division skills and started off by testing each other on our knowledge so far. We have also worked on our Number Talk skills, looking at the place value of numbers to work out our answers.

Next week we look forward to some more new learning!

Welcome back to our blog!  We hope you’ve had a fantastic Christmas break!

This week we…

SLC- enjoyed writing about our Christmas holidays.

SC-  we had fun learning how to dribble and pass a basketball.

We loved seeing each other again and were excited to hear about each of our Christmas experiences.

We have been busy creating out New Year’s resolution as well!