Deans Primary School Blog

Literacy

In order to help understand a text in more detail we have been designing our own questions before reading, during reading and after reading.

Oscar – I liked doing questioning – it was different.

We read Gorilla by Anthony Browne.

Bella – The story was interesting. The gorilla fit the dad’s clothes perfectly.

Anton – I enjoyed questioning.

Numeracy 

We have continued with our topic on TIME.

Grace – I feel I am improving.

Debbie – I am getting better at am and pm.

Fraser – I enjoyed learning about time.

Amy – I feel I am improving.

IDL/Topic

Kyle – I like doing the WW2 topic. I learnt how it started – it was because Hitler wanted to make Gerany great again.

Naavah – I enjoyed the WW2 topic.

French

With Mrs Dobbie we learnt the French alphabet.

Health

Our new topic is ‘Celebrating Difference.’

We learnt about a boy called Theo who was visually impaired.

Kyle – Even though he was blind he wanted to be treated like everyone else.

P.E.

Piotr – I enjoyed P.E. because we played some games first and then we played football if we wanted to.

Hope – I enjoyed playing games.

 

Literacy

This week, we have continued to practice our spelling daily. We have been completing rainbow writing, playing roll, read and write and quizzing our friends.

In reading this week, we have been focusing on our questioning skills. We have been using our skim reading skills to answer questions about our text. Then, we had to create our own questions to ask a friend.

Numeracy

In numeracy, we were looking at odd and even numbers. We had to look at ones column when were are identity if two, three or four digit numbers are odd or even. We also used a chant to help us identify odd and even numbers.

IDL

In topic this week, we were learning about hurricanes. Hurricanes are large, swirling storms. They produce winds of 74 mph or higher and they are formed over hot waters.

Maths: today we did some clockwise stuff. We drew circles clockwise and we used compasses to help. This week we have also been rounding decimals. We have also been doing various activities related to time and times tables.

For spelling we have done another spelling test.

For reading we read a book that helped us understand how to make persuasive writing. We also read our group novels and did questions on them. We also did questions on COP 26. We read an article on the BBC to find out information to create and answer the questions.

Our new topic is now COP 26 and climate change.

In PE we did basketball. We practised dribbling and shooting.

This week we enjoyed  a variety of fun learning experiences.

For Literacy,  we practiced reading and writing our spelling words, we learnt how to use commas when writing a list and for reading, we used our clarifying strategies to define the word- Hibernation.

For Numeracy, we learnt to add 2 digit and 3 digit numbers with exchanging.  We also worked on our number facts during Number Talks.

For PE, we played Futsal and Tennis.

After having a well deserved rest we have returned to school this week raring to go!

Firstly, Mrs Dobbie and the rest of the staff at Deans would like to congratulate Brendan who won the sunflower competition back in September. Well done Brendan for growing such a super sunflower!!

This week we have been learning about the new reading skill of Summarising and we are looking forward to putting this into practise next week. This week we focused on using the skill of clarifying  to complete a Frayer Model to help us learn about the word and clarify the meaning of  Hibernation. Have a look at what we have been working on.

We were also lucky to have a session of Futsal this week. We practised our dribbling and defending skills through playing a game of ‘splat tig’.

We tried our hands at the skill of Zentangle. This means ‘calm doodling’ using a simple black and white repeated pattern. We used a pumpkin template to practise this technique.

We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of our learning this week.

Literacy

 

In reading this week, we continued to focus on our clarifying skills. We use our clarifying skills to help us find the meaning of words we don’t know yet. We read around the word to help us clarify the meaning. We can also think of words that sound similar.

 

In writing this week, we wrote our assessment piece of recount writing. We wrote a recount of our morning routine at school. We have to use the correct structure and use our core writing targets.

 

Numeracy

 

In numeracy this week, we were looking at number sequences. We were given a number sequence that had some missing numbers. We had to use our problem skills to solve rule of the sequence and fill in the missing numbers. There were different strategies that we could use to help us. Some of us used our fingers and some of us used a 100 square to calculate the missing numbers.

 

IDL

 

This week, we were looking at plastic pollution and the environmental impacts of plastics. We completed a reading comprehension task about plastic pollution. We had to use our skim reading skills to help us answer the questions.

We were also learning about how recycling can be one of the possible solutions to help reduce plastic pollution. We had to think things we could do in school to help protect the environment. In school, we can put paper or cardboard in blue recycling bin. Items such as laminating sheets and paper towels cannot be recycled, therefore, we must put them in the black waste bin.

 

This week we have been busy writing a Recount about our PE Lesson.  We practiced our clarifying skills and began our questioning task for reciprocal reading.

For Health and Well- being, we investigated what assumptions mean and the consequences it might have.  We practiced tap ups and serve skills in Tennis.

For IDL, we made Roman Bathhouses after we explored the ways in which they were used.  We created patterns to make mosaic art as well.

For Numeracy, we have been learning to find half and quarter of a number.  We also revised on our chimney sums.

Have a lovely October Break everyone!

Every Friday P.5 is working with Megan on our song for the performance at Howden Park. We are working really hard and progress is excellent!