Primary 2

Literacy

We have continued to work on our stations during ELF. We were working on our spelling sound of the week, tricky words, sentence structure, comprehension and reading! (Yes, we are very busy!) The children have worked hard in their final week of ELF.

Topic

The boat test!!! We are happy to report that all boats were able to float for the 10-second challenge. The children identified some things that they would like to change so we might revisit this challenge next term.

   

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We also created some very colourful Turtles in relation to our topic. The children are very proud of their work!

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I hope you have a lovely weekend 🙂

P4 06.12.2021

What a lovely week we’ve had!  We had our digital learning day on Tuesday.  We learnt how to use digital technologies to upload documents in glow.

We have been learning to write story plots based on Christmas.  We proofread and edited sentences and for reading, we used the internet to research information for our class talk.

For numeracy and maths, we have been revising and consolidating the concepts we have learnt throughout the term.

We had a great time making Christmas decorations too.

P6/5 Friday 10th December

Monday 6th

Maths: continuing our work on algebra this morning we looked at function machines. MM and SU continued their work on word problems. ShP was again pleased with the work he produced.

Literacy: summarising group reading books. MiD was especially pleased with the neatness of the presentation of his work. We finished reading “Macbeth” as a class.

PE: Continuing activities based on balancing, we focused this week on tightrope walking – only about six inches above the ground! AS showed her previous experience gained from doing bar work in gymnastics and MM also excelled.

Tuesday 7th

Literacy: made notes on “Macbeth” and re-wrote these as a summary. SD, DW, KH, SP excelled in their summary, and especially AS, who has really trimmed the fat off her writing.

Maths: continuing our work on algebra this morning we looked at using symbols instead of numbers and the functions. SJR excelled, and did two sets of work. MM, SD and SU continued their work on word problems.

Wednesday 8th

Out-door learning and Tuckshop with Mrs D

Maths: practicing instant recall of tables using BMBT, working on the application of tables to problems on Ed. City, with the children able to choose an activity appropriate to themselves. EY significantly improved her score in BMBT.

Literacy: continuing work on “Macbeth”.

Thursday 9th

Maths: created beautiful posters demonstrating the wonderful maths we have been doing this year. SU, MM, AS and EY all excelled. In fact the whole class excelled in this activity.

Literacy: spelling assessment. Again the whole class were extremely pleased as the great emphasis we have put on spelling recently has paid off and everyone  has progressed really well. We also continued work on “Macbeth”. ShP was especially proud of the fact that he was able to incorporate his learning in this into the next activity:

Art: creating drawings of myths and legends from around the world. AD, SoP, JH, EC, AS and SB were especially proud of the work they did.

Friday 10th

PE: football, star of the match was MxD.

Maths: algebra using letters instead of symbols and briefly looking at equivalence, which MxD showed a good understanding.

Literacy: looked at some of the best examples of persuasive writing, CB, SB, AD, DW and EY excelled in this.

 

 

Weekly Update From Primary One

 

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Welcome to this weeks blog. On Friday of last week the children took part in Participation Friday. This event happens once a month and enables the children to become more involved in the local community. In Primary 1, we will be  visiting local attractions in Deans and giving them a rating out of 5 stars. Some picture below of us visiting the park and feedback from the children.

     

   

             

They loved it with most of them giving it 5 stars!

Writing santa clus - Saint Athanasius Catholic Academy

As this week was the end of our  persausaive writing block we had a little fun! The children had to persude the reader that “Santa should visit me because……….” It was lovely to hear how kind and helpful they had been all year. Some super examples below-

     

    

I am sending their writing home for you to enjoy!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I will be next week with the last post of 2021!

 

P6 Digital Day

P6 had fun during their Digital Day today.  They experienced creating short stop frame animations, trying block coding and improving their keyboard skills.  They have also practised uploading files to their class teams page.

To see more  digital learning, take a look at our Twitter page @MrsBuntinICT

 

P4/3 Learning Highlights this Week.

This week we have been getting into the festive spirit in our classroom. We have enjoyed opening the Deans decisions Makers advent calendar each morning. We have loved the fitness challenges and sharing what has been making us happy each day. We have also started researching all of the Victorian Christmas Traditions which we love to celebrate at this time of year. We worked together in pairs to use the internet and some research texts to find out as much as we can.

Here are some of the facts we found out-

Sometimes Victorians had a upside down Christmas tree hanging from their ceilings.

Candy canes were invented to keep children quiet during ‘living’ nativity scenes and the shape was to represent the shape of a shepherds crook.

Victorians sent the first Christmas cards and some Victorian Christmas cards were very strange!

We had a go at making our own Victorian decorations. We made Cornucopias and paper chains. Cornucopias are cone shaped decorations hung from a tree with ribbons and filled with delicious sweeties.

To complete our block of Persuasive writing we wrote letters to Santa to persuade him of how well behaved we have been this year. We had some fantastic arguments from the everyone. Here are some examples.

I have been helpful to my mum by cleaning the kitchen – Elkie

I have been helping by looking after my pets – Nathaniel

I have been helped my mum by watching my baby sister and letting mum have a wee rest – Lennon

We are fairly certain that Santa will have no choice but to deliver all of P4/3 amazing gifts this year.

What have P6 Been up to This Week?

Health

We discussed why people bully and strategies to deal with bullying.

As part of this learning we role-played different situations.

Maths and Numeracy

In number talks we consolidated our addition skills.

On Tuesday we played an addition and subtraction loop game.

Jaxson and Naavah came first! They won 5 raffle tickets each.

We also experimented with chance and probability in a dice rolling experiment.

Literacy

Reading

After reading the next section of our group novel we designed our own book cover.

Bella – I drew a spaceship with a dog inside barking. There was an alien in it. The alien said ‘shut up dog!’

Digital Learning Day

On Thursday we were able to practise various skills.

Hope – I enjoyed the scratch coding activity. I learnt how to put blocks together to make things move.

Bella – I enjoyed practising my typing skills. I scored over 100 point and had 5 stars.

Emily – I was proud of my typing – I got lots of ‘Well Dones. We learnt how to type without looking at the keys.’

Topic

We have started to present our WW2 research in a PowerPoint! These are going to look great!

Rugby

Bella – It was my first time playing and I thought I was good at passing and catching.

 

Our Week In Primary 5

We have had another busy week in Primary 5 and we started it off with a very fun day of Digital Learning on Monday! We worked in 3 groups – one on typing skills, one on making Stop Frame Animation and one on coding. We discussed how these skills will be useful for us not only now, but in the future when we are looking to get jobs. Most, if not all jobs nowadays, use digital technologies.

Here are our thoughts on our Digital Learning Day:

Chloe – It was fun playing the typing game and doing the coding.

Ryley – I enjoyed when we were doing the typing skills as we could figure out without looking, where to put our fingers.

Giullia – It was really exciting to do the lego for the coding.

Erin R – When I did the stop frame animation it was very fun, and when I did the coding on the ipad, it was also very fun!

Ciaran – It was really good to know how to type fast as you can get to different websites on the internet faster.

Sophie C – I enjoyed doing the coding with the lego with Rihanna. It didn’t really work out but it was still fun!

Summer – It was really good for a change instead of doing maths, reading etc.

Kullyn – It was really exciting when we were doing the stop frame animation.

 

Here are some photos of us:

In Numeracy we have been back looking at our Division skills. We have been trying hard to remember that we can use our knowledge of our times tables to help with this.

In Literacy this week, we have written a letter to Santa to persuade him to visit us this year with some presents. Here were some of the reasons we gave:

Ciaran – I said I was kind at school.

Erin P – I said that I make my bed every morning.

Ryley – I said I have been feeding my dog every single day.

Chloe – I said I do the dishes every day.

Ariah – I said that I take my dog out every second day of the week.

In topic we have continued our research. Here are some pictures showing our International Space Station drawings and our research so far on what we have learned from space explorations:

We are looking forward to next week when we will have more learning, but also our Silent Disco! We must remember to practise for Deans Got Talent if we want to audition for this on the 17th!

P4 Digital Day

Today P4 have been working on all things digital as part of DYW / Digital Learning.  They were very competitive learning keyboard skills.  They had to do a lot of problem solving and debugging to get their Lego creations to move correctly.  Everyone enjoyed creating a short stop frame animation.

Everyone had a great time.  “It didn’t feel like we were at school we were having so much fun”.  Well done everyone for working so well together and trying your very best.  You managed to upload lots of your work and your animations to your class team page.

To see more  digital learning, take a look at our Twitter page @MrsBuntinICT

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