Deans Primary School Blog

We have had another really busy week in Primary one.  The children have taken part in a number of math’s challenges (as you can see below) . We have been ordering and writing  numbers, counting in 10,s, drawing number collections as well as identifying number patterns.

You will have noticed that the children now have tricky words as well as sounds to learn. They are updated weekly and your support in helping them to read and recognize them is greatly appreciated.

We have had great fun reading  Room on the Broom. The children have been retelling and ordering the story , discussing the characters and even making a new broom! We challenged P1 and P2/1 to collected items from the field outside the school to make the witch a new broom. The children enjoyed this task and the discussions that went on were thoughtful and imaginative. New parts to make the broom go faster, a bigger broom for more characters etc.

A big thank you to all parents who put in a tremendous effort in making fantastic costumes. I took a group picture before the disco, looking at it today on the smart board they thought they looked “really scary”. Autumn and Halloween art have been a big focus. We have a tremendous Pumpkin Patch. The children used a range of media including marbling, paint washes, chalk, line and shape to create a variety of pumpkins.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

What a busy start to the week it has been in P 2/1.

We started off Halloween week  by concocting our own ‘Silly Soup’ recipes. We tried to think of as many disgusting ingredients as we could. We used super adjectives to describe our revolting ingredients, we had some pretty gruesome ideas! We thought about using phrases such as ‘a dash of’, ‘a pinch of’ or a ‘sprinkle of’ when writing our recipes.

To continue our spooky Halloween theme we created some fiery bats. We used yellow, orange and red paint and sponges to print around a bat template. It was messy but lots of fun and the pictures ended up looking fantastic.

One of the stories we have been reading this week is ‘Room on the Broom’, by Julia Donaldson. It is a super spooky story about a witch who keeps on dropping things but fortunately she has some helpful friends who come to her rescue. At the end of the story her broom snaps in two. We went on a hunt outside to find leaves, twigs and sticks so we could design and make her a new broom stick. It was great fun and then we even made one giant broomstick for all of us!

In literacy this week we have been learning all about the sound nnnnnnnnn. It is a long, stretchy and loud sound made with the tip of our tongues. We made newspaper n’s to help us remember the shape of the letter and help us when we are writing it. Primary 2 have been building and writing lots of n words in their jotters and drawing detailed pictures too! We have enjoyed practising our new common words this week by playing ‘Splat’ using the fly squatters. It is a fast and furious game but it helps us with our reading skills and recognising our new words.

Thank you boys and girls for all your hard work so far this week!