Deans Primary School Blog

It has been a very quick week in Primary 1B. We have had lots of exciting learning experiences this week. Here is a little quick snapshot of our week.

Health and Wellbeing

This week we have been talking about growing up and how we have changed since we were babies. We know that our bodies, minds and appearance have changed lots since we were very little. Here are some of the changes we were discussing.

Leighton – I don’t wear a nappy anymore and all my clothes are different now.

Sophie – I don’t drink milk from a bottle anymore or have a dummy.

Reuben – I eat lots of different types of food now, not just mushy food like porridge.

Cooper – I can do different things with my body, like run and jump or even press ups! My hair has changed colour.

Kellan – I can talk and walk.

Mikah – I know lots more things now than when I was a baby.

Bryan – My body is bigger, my arms and legs are longer.

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A little reminder, if you have any old reading books at home could they please be returned to school as soon as possible. Thanks!

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B.

Another busy week in P4/3! We continue to work on improving our literacy and numeracy skills. Well done to those children who have worked hard to become independent learners, Mrs Morrison is proud of you all!!

Literacy

We continue to work on our listening and talking skills, in particular presenting information in front of others. Here are some more pictures:

Numeracy

We have begun to look at fractions and explored what half and a quarter of an object would look like. We have also looked at the written form. Please practise with your child.

Health and Well-Being

We have started our new topic, ‘Changing Me’ and looked at what babies need to survive, from their time in the womb and when they are born. The class contributed to discussions in a mature manner, well done P4/3!

Primary 4 have had another week of working hard and learning new things.

In Numeracy we have completed our Multiplication topic. We were all given a post topic assessment to do, where we were encouraged to try our best and use all the new knowledge we have gained. We will now use these skills to look at Division.

In Writing this week we worked together as a class, looking at all the necessary points that need to be included in a Narrative piece. We looked at our comments from last week so that we all knew where would could improve this week. We wrote our piece together and used our topic as our stimulus. We wrote about a person travelling to Ancient Egypt and mentioned some of the things they may have experienced such as the changing seasons, meeting the Pharaoh, taking on a job as a farmer and trading for goods. As a class we picked names for our characters, decided what the complication was going to be and agreed on a resolution. Here are some of our finished stories. We are very proud of this piece!

In Reading we have discussed the importance of answering fully when it comes to comprehension tasks. When we have been reading aloud, we have had a focus on using expression and being aware of things such as exclamation marks, question marks and italics, and how we should read when they are present.

In Art this week we finished off our scarab beetles and made some wings for them. We also got an opportunity to do some free drawing.

In topic this week we learned all about the mummification process. Here are our thoughts on this:

Sophie C – It was weird but interesting to learn about.

Summer – It was interesting to learn about how mummification works.

Kayleigh – I found it gross when I heard that they mashed the brains up and took them out with a hook.

Derry – It was disgusting when we heard that when a person is dead that they can still do the toilet and it would like down the board they were on!

Erin R – It was interesting that they had to use salt, I didn’t know it helped to soak up water.

Chloe – When the body is wrapped up the liver, lungs, stomach and intestines are put in jars.

Hadiyaah – It was disgusting but interesting to hear why they would mummify people.

Olivia – It was very interesting as I thought they just out the wrapping out but they take out most of the organs first and mash up the brain.

Have a lovely weekend!

Literacy

We continued to develop our skills for narrative writing. We had to write an imaginative story about an accident. We used the narrative story mountain which helps us to develop our story line. We learned about the complication which is the part that makes the reader want to read on.

“We had to write in paragraphs and use the correct structure.”

We have also been learning to use a dictionary to find the meaning of words. During reading, we were sounding out unfamiliar words. We were also developing reading with expression. After we read our stories we had to ask our friends a questions about the text to enhance our questioning skills.

Maths

This week, we were continuing to develop our division skills. We were looking at word problems which can be challenging because you are not given the equations. We have to use our problem solving skills to work out what the question is asking and then solve the equation.

“We have been dividing, this is another way of saying sharing.”

“We have been dividing in 2s, 3s, 4s and 10s.”

“We were working as bakers and we had to divide the cakes equally between the people.”

IDL

In IDL, we were looking a city landscapes. We were looking at the detail and texture of the buildings. Then, we looked some examples of landscapes and we were given the opportunity to choose a landscape of Edinburgh to represent.

For our world of work topic, we were identifying our skills and linking them to jobs we would like. Then, we had to prepare notes to explain the type of job we would like to our peers.

Literacy

In literacy we have been doing presentations with our table groups about video games. We first went into powerpoint and then we researched about different video games and one of us did horses. On Friday most of us presented the video games.

Maths

We are focusing on money and chimney sums and divide or times them. A lot of people find it fun and some find it boring but when they first thought it was boring they did not like it but now most do.

Here is an excerpt of a sci fi narrative written by a group of P7/6 this week.

He angrily charged through the rusty metal floor while screaming and clenching his rigid, rough fists.  Running with his narrowing bloodshot eye. His red eyes matched his jumpsuit as he grew more furious . Looking like he wanted to execute someone.

He started to slowdown  as the electronic doors blew up.  He walked out with a deadly look on his face.  Meanwhile, trees busted out of the ceiling, lifting baby Groot back to Earth.  

BY: FS, TW, AC and KP

Numeracy and Maths

We have been revising on calculating with decimals.  We have also been learning to identify 3D shapes.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

It has been a super busy week in P2!

ELF

Jordon – “We have been practising using punctuation like full stops, question mars and exclamation marks”

Elizabeth – “We use a full stop at the end of a normal sentence”

Vrishti – “We use a question mark when we read or write a question”

Sophie – “We use an exclamation mark when someone is shouting”

Maths

Andrew – “We finished learning about telling the time”

Alfie – “On a clock you get o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past”

Jacob – “I enjoy telling the time”

Outdoor Learning

Mark – “We planted soil and seeds in a plant pot”

Charli-Mae – “We had to get a pot, put compost in, make a wee hole and then put a seed in it then cover it up and water it”

Louie – “We took the plants home to take care of them and grow them”

HWB

Emily – “We were drawing older people that we love”

Oliver – “We were learning about growing old and how it happens to everyone”

Art

Euan – “We went out to the field because we were making a Summer landscape and we had to collect some grass to put on it”

Connor – “My landscape was sunny and I stuck real grass on it”

It’s been a busy week again here in Primary 1B. We have been enjoying the sunshine this week with lots of outdoor learning opportunities. We hope the sun continues to shine for our last few weeks of term.

We have been learning a new sound this week ‘ow’, and have been completing lots of different activities to help us learn how to use this sound to read and spell new words. One of the new skills we learned was how to complete a word search. It was great fun trying to find and read as many ‘ow’ words as possible.

We also have been writing some imaginative stories to go with our dragon pictures. We named our dragons and took him or her on different exciting adventures into magical forests and haunted houses!

Mrs Walker helped us to create a wonderful display outside our classroom to showcase our super work.

Our school value focus for this week has been Challenge! We have used our recognition board to display the children who have been ‘caught’ challenging themselves. A proud moment this week has been during the speed writing of our common words, a task which we do every morning. Some of the children took it upon themselves to not just write the word as we always do but to try to put it into a sentence. I am so proud of them all for always striving to improve!!

We hope you enjoyed a little snapshot of our learning this week.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B