Deans Primary School Blog

This week we have been looking at the events in Glasgow, COP 26 and climate change.

For one of their activities related to this the children created and published web based interactive quizzes. I am trying to work out how you can all access them.

Watch this space!

Mr C

It’s been another busy week in Primary 4/3.

On Monday we checked on our bees nests and hedgehog homes, they are still intact, thankfully! We also took the opportunity to smash our clay flower bombs. We can’t wait until Spring to see all the wildflowers grow in the field and know that we have done a little to improve the biodiversity of our school grounds.

On Tuesday we worked on some fireworks inspired art. We investigated the work of Wassily Kandinsky and used one of his famous abstract pictures ‘Colour Study’ to help us complete our pictures. Here are some of the finished products. We think they look great.

Keeping to the theme of Bonfire Night we decided to write about why we should or shouldn’t ban fireworks. We discussed in depth reasons both for and against. We are getting good at using persuasive language and arguing for what we believe. Here are some examples of our writing.

We hope you have enjoyed reading a few of our learning highlights from this week.

Primary 5 have been working hard on their tasks this week.

In Numeracy we have been looking at Place Value and what this means. We discussed that a number like: 1276 – would mean that the 1 would have the value of 1000 (thousands), the 2 would have the value of 200 (hundreds), the 7 would have the value of 70 (tens) and the 6 would have the value of 6 (ones). We also discussed the possibility of having numbers containing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions.

We played some good Place Value games online as well as a board game.

The board game:

In Literacy we have been practising our spelling words with some rainbow writing and some partner work. We also created some stories using our spelling words, you can see these below. It is important we practise these at home too.

In Reading we have started looking at the Reciprocal Reading strategy of Summarising  – this means:

‘Just to tell you the main parts of the story’ – Sophie C

‘If you have a long story, you shorten it up by saying the main parts of the story.’ – Summer

‘You just add the main facts.’ – Lewis

‘Summarise by saying the key facts.’ – Olivia

‘You need to mention who, what, where, when and why’ – Ariah

In Writing we have been looking at our new genre of Persuasive Writing. We wrote pieces this week about whether we thought fireworks should be made silent or not. Here are some of our pieces:

We look forward to another busy week next week!

We watched a creepy film and enjoyed extra friendship time. But we have been working hard all week too! We wrote spooky stories and practised the ‘Timewarp’ dance. Miss Dufton was very good!

Literacy

Also we have now moved on to a new writing genre – exposition. This is a form of persuasive writing.

Topic

We completed our research about how WW2 started.

Outdoor Learning

During our Green Gym session we planted seeds that will bloom next year. They are bee-friendly.

Art

This had a halloween theme. Here is a terrific piece from Piotr:

What a fantastic week we had!

We started learning to write a persuasive text, we learnt to use exclamation mark appropriately and we wrote literal questions about a text.

For Numeracy, we began learning subtraction strategies focusing on inverse operations.  We also revised on fractions and percentages.

We thoroughly enjoyed FUTSAL on Wednesday.

On Thursday, Mrs Buntin taught us how to use and access Glow/ TEAMS.

We had a lot of fun writing spooky stories to day and of course we loved our Halloween Party.

On Thursday we had fun creating a spooky atmosphere for Halloween.

Then on Friday………

We  dressed up for Halloween.

Also we practised our spooky song and dance routine with Megan. Hope you can come along on Sunday to see us perform.