Deans Primary School Blog

What a productive week it has been.

For literacy, we wrote a recount on Flying a Kite with Ms Taylor, we learnt to use past tense form of the verb by adding “ed”  We uplevelled our sentence writing skills by adding adjectives using our describing bubble.

For Numeracy, we have been revising on writing numbers in words and digits form.  We have also been learning to use partitioning strategy for addition.  For Maths, we explore the properties of 3D shapes and classified them according to their properties.

For HWB, we learn about the roles of people in our community as well as our on roles as children.  For PE we have been working on our hand eye coordination and concentration skills as we performed catching and serving the bean bags on our rackets.

For IDL, we have learnt about how the Romans came to Britain, where the came from and who Julius Caesar was.

Literacy

In reading this week, we were using our skimming and scanning skills when answering questions about a passage. We had to pick out the key word in the question and then we would skim read for that word in the text.

In writing this week, we continued to develop our recount reading skills. We had to read our feedback from last week and try and up-level our writing. This week, we were writing a recount of our experiment about absorbance.

Maths and Numeracy

In numeracy this week, we were learning about less than, equal to and greater than. To help remember the correct symbols, we had to think of a crocodile and the crocodile always eats the largest number.

In maths, we were learning about 2d and 3d shapes. We also had a STEM shape challenge. Working with a partner, we hard to create shapes using cocktail sticks and Playdoh.

IDL

In science, we were learning about absorbance. When a material is absorbent, it soaks up liquid. We were given 4 materials and we had to put the same volume of water in each. Before the experiment, we had to write a hypothesis, predicting the material that would absorb the largest amount of water. Working in groups, we had to collaborate and record what was happening during our experiment.

Orientation

This week we have been completing various activities.

Sequence of Events

This week in literacy we have been practising our spelling using various strategies. We have continued to read our class novel and learnt how to predict before, during and after reading.

Emily – I was proud of the detail I put into my writing.

This week we wrote a recount of a special event.

In numeracy we all feel much more confident about using decimals.

During PE we were fantastic at basketball.

Joel – We had ‘Green Gym’. We built obstacles outside for other people in class. We practised the skills of teamwork and communication. In ours we had to collect balls during the course.

In health we started our new Jigsaw unit, ‘Being Me in My World.’ We discussed our achievements and goals for the year.

Personal Statement

We hope we have a fun week next week!

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

This week we got our new family home learning sheets and spelling lists home. We are excited to practise these at home with our loved ones.

This week in Health and Wellbeing we have been learning what it means to be part of a team. Our value focus for this week has been Included, we all know that being part of a team means we feel included. In pairs we came up with words to go alongside the feelings of being ‘Included‘ and ‘Excluded‘.

We were set a tricky challenge of working together as a class team to pass a ball around the circle without using our hands or feet. We really had to work together for this, we had a lot of laughs as we came up with some imaginative ways to pass the ball. Lexie used her head, Charlie used his elbows and Vratko used his ears! We made up word diamonds to choose the most important vocabulary to go with being part of a team and how it makes us feel.

We also started our topic this week, The Victorians.

We are excited to start learning about all of the gruesome things they did in the past! We started off by developing some research questions to shape our learning over the next few weeks.

Here are some of the questions we came up with.

What kind of clothes did they wear?

What did their toilets look like?

Did they have cars?

What did their houses look like?

Who helped sick people?

How did they celebrate holidays like Halloween and Christmas?

What was school like?

What inventions did they come up with?

We can’t wait to get started and share all our discoveries with you.

We hope you have enjoyed a little snap shot of our learning this week.

This week in Primary 5 we have been given our new home learning sheet for the month along with our first week’s spelling words. We have been practising these in class and should continue to do so at home.

We have now been given our group reading books. We have started reading these in class and have made predictions on these already, saying what we think the book might be about and why we think this.

We have continued our Recount writing genre and this week we wrote a recount of our birthdays. Mrs Hillan went through each stage with us, sharing information on her birthday recount, and this gave us ideas for our’s. Read some of these below :

In Numeracy we did a number talk on addition, initially looking at 2 digit numbers, then we were given a 4 digit number to try. We could see that no matter how large the number was, the process was just the same! We also got an opportunity to look at some online numeracy games this week.

For our Novel Study this week, we created images of all the main characters for our display. We used what we had read to help us decide what they would look like.

We also created some questions in groups for some of the main characters in the story. We then used these to do a ‘hot-seating’ activity, where one of us pretended to be a character from the book and the rest of us took turns asking our questions. The person in the role of the character had to use their knowledge of them from the story to answer the questions as they may do. We all got a turn of being a character and asking questions.

Here are some photos of us creating our questions:

Here are some photos of our hot-seating activity:

We look forward to another week of learning next week!

What a fantastic week we had!

We learnt to many things about recount writing by working together.  Our teacher gave us text samples of each feature of the text and we had to work as group to classify them into Title, Orientation, Sequence of Events and Personal comment.

We also assessed and our own as well as our peer’s recount writing.  We are getting better at giving feedback based on our success criteria.

For Numeracy, we learnt to use partition strategy for addition.  We also identified the value of digits within a number.  We are up to the Thousands now.   For Maths, we created 2D shapes using popsicle sticks.  We named the shapes and talked about it’s properties.

Orientation

kaiden – Welcome to the BLOG and the best class ever. Here is what P6 have been doing this week.

Sequence of Events

In literacy we have been learning how to write a recount. A recount is a retelling of events in the past so we have decided to write our BLOG in this way. There are four sections : Title, Orientation, Sequence of Events and Personal Comment.

In maths we have had a focus week learning about 2D and 3D shapes.

Debbie – I liked drawing an animal made of shapes. It was a cat made from circles, ovals, rectangles and squares.

Bailey – This week in Basketball I enjoyed the game where someone tries to knock the ball out of the court.

Kyle – I enjoyed playing small games. I liked it.

Jaxson – I enjoyed drawing my shoe. I was proud of it.

Emily – We had a secret compliment challenge. We were given a secret person at random. Then all week we gave them compliments. We had to guess who our secret person was at the end of the week.

Kyle – I feel great when I get compliments.

Emily – I enjoyed designing a graffiti brick.

We were able to design a graffiti brick when we were caught using positive and encouraging language.

Personal Statement

Emily – We had a great week.

Grace – I hope we have a good week next week.