Deans Primary School Blog

It has been another busy week in P4/3. We  made the most of the sunshine and took our learning outside. Some children presented their class talks out on the field, here are some pictures;

More photos to follow next week.

Numeracy

We continued to develop our understanding of division and looked more at solving division word problems. Some children challenged themselves to look at division sums with remainders. Well done P4/3! Next week we will look at fractions.

Literacy

We explored the  new writing genre of Narrative writing. We discussed what kind of writing this would entail and discovered that if we wanted to become the next JK Rowling or Roald Dahl, then we would need to be familiar with and practise this type of writing. We will work on improving our imaginative writing over the next few weeks.

Health and Well-Being

We continue to explore friendships and the different ways to be a good friend. Next week we will introduce a new topic, ‘Changing Me’ where will explore the changes in our body.

I will update the blog next week, have a great weekend when it comes!

This week in Primary 4 we have been working hard as usual. We have moved onto a different genre for Writing, one which we are already familiar with – Narrative. This is where we can use our imaginations more and create our own stories. We started off by discussing the layout of this type of text – we need to include who, when and where when we first start. Then we need to include a complication in our story (something that goes wrong), and we finish it with a resolution – how the problem is solved and the outcome of this. We are needing to ensure that we remember the basics – reading over our work to check that it makes sense and that we have included correct punctuation as well as used paragraphs and a variety of sentence starters and connectives. We will give this more focus next week. Some of our pieces are below for you to read:

In Reading this week we have become illustrators and created a new front cover for our group novels. We have also been looking at making predictions again, and this time we used Mr Bean to help with this. Mrs Hillan paused at a variety of points during the programme and we recorded/ verbally gave our predictions. It was interesting to see if our predictions would be right or not. Here are our thoughts:

Gracie – It was fun but tricky and you might have got it wrong, but that’s alright.

Shay – It was hard at the start but it started to get easier.

Rihanna – It was fun when we got to see if our answer was right or not.

Ciaran – It was really fun hearing other people’s answers on what they thought.

Maisy – It was funny and some of the guesses were true and some were wrong but that was okay.

Stevi – It was fun to watch it and make your prediction.

Roman – It was fun but it was a bit hard, but we all had a laugh.

Olivia – It was funny and it was also fun to hear other people’s answers, some of which were funny!

Derry – The first video was funny and quite easy, but the second got a bit harder to guess.

In Numeracy we are coming to the end of our multiplication topic and we are about to do our assessment again. It would be good if all pupils could practise their tables this week ready for the assessment next week.

We are very lucky in Primary 4 and are getting some Art lessons with Mr Bennett over the next few weeks. The pupils shared what they did and their thoughts:

Summer – One of the tasks was to take little pieces of blu tak and stick them onto the table to make them next to each other.

Chloe – It was hard, when we stuck the blu tak down it started to look like a beetle.

Sophie C – When you put the blu tak down we got a picture of a beetle and a plain piece of paper and we had to mark out the parts of the beetle to then draw it and shade it in at the end.

Ariah – For me it was fun and a bit tricky as you had to measure and mark.

Alyssa – It was very fun and the lesson was relaxing.

Emily – It was very fun and everybody’s picture turned out very good. You could creative when colouring in.

We look forward to more learning next week!

Literacy

We were learning to improve our vocabulary during Word Boost. We were introduced to 6 boost words and their meaning. When we hear a boost word, we have to put our finger on our nose and explain the meaning of the word. We also played the miming game, this is where one person has to mime out the boost word and the class have identify what the boost word is.

We were also developing our skimming and scanning skills during our reading comprehension. This is where we have to identify the key words within the question and skim read the text to find the answer.

For writing this week, we started learning about narrative writing. We were introduced to the structure we have to use for this genre and we created a narrative piece in small groups. Afterwards, we peer assessed each groups work and identified the areas of success and areas that they could improve on.

Maths

This week, we continued to develop our division skills. We were using our jotters to solve equations from the textbook. During number talks, we looked at division word problems. This is challenging as you have to initially work out what the question is asking you to do. We then discussed the different strategies we could use to calculate the answer.

IDL

For art this week, we were creating various landscapes. We were using pencils and we had to use different techniques to create different textures.

Numreacy- We have been finding discount.  We are getting good at it.

Literacy- We have been reading our class novel and we also wrote similarities and differences between 2 texts.

Writing- we wrote a comparison between two different stories.  We shared our writing to the class.

HWB- We discussed what afiirmation and self image means.

Writing

We began a new genre of writing this week – Narrative.

Vrishti – “We start with a title, then an orientation, then a complication, then a resolution”

Andrew – “We planned with a story mountain”

Charli – “We wrote a narrative story about minions losing their banana”

HWB

Elizabeth – “We were learning about life cycles”

Jayden – “A butterfly starts caterpillar, then a cocoon, then a butterfly”

Connor – “A human starts in a tummy, then a baby, then  toddler, then a teenager, then an adult”

Maths

Euan – “We had to estimate how many exercises we could do in the time”

Louie – “It was easy to estimate – I was close to some”

P.E.

Alfie – “We did some yoga with Mrs Anderson”

Oliver – “We did different poses like downward dog”

Emily – “We went outside to do football”

Maddison – “We were practising different passes”

P4/3 have enjoyed another successful week of learning and Mrs Morrison is proud of her class. We were lucky to have Mrs Stewart visit our class this week, where we demonstrated our knowledge of explanation writing. We explained the purpose of the writing and presented our information in paragraphs. Great job, P4/3!

Numeracy

We began our new topic of division and learned that dividing means to share groups equally. Some children used concrete materials to demonstrate their understanding, whilst others began to work out division problems. We also looked at the connection between division and multiplication. Please practise dividing by 2,5 and 10. Homework sheets will be sent home on Monday.

Literacy- Class Talks

Presenting information in front of others can be a nerve-wracking experience and as a class we discussed how some people are more confident than others at delivering this skill. However, we are all willing to give this a go and support and encourage each other. Well done to Isla and Ethan who presented their talks and answered questions from their friends. I look forward to listening to other children next week.

Have a lovely weekend and I will check in with you again next Friday.

This week we have done…

Maths

On math we have been looking on this online app called trip adviser. On trip adviser we have being booking our teacher a holiday and adding up how much it would be. And then we look up hotels see how much that is then get a flight and work out how much it cost.

Literacy

On literacy we have been doing Free writing were we can right what ever we want. We have also been getting  spelling words that we can practice and we wrote a story with they words.

P.E

In P.E we have been doing football and gymnastics. In football we pick teams and then we play. In gymnastics we get mats out and then do what we want like handstands and cartwheels and more.