Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

Writing

Max – “We have been learning how to write an explanation”

Jacob – “We had to explain how plants grow”

Jayden – “Plants need lots of soil and water or they will die”

Numeracy

Charli Mae – “We have been learning how to tell the time”

Louie – “We made clocks to help us learn how to tell the time”

Euan – “We have been learning all about o’clock”

Archie M – “The big hand is the minute hand and the small hand is the hour hand”

HWB

Andrew – “We were talking about bad touch and good touch”

Elizabeth – “A hug is good touch”

Connor – “A bad touch is punching”

Have a wonderful long weekend!

It has been another busy week in P4/3. We have been able to spend more time on our Egyptian topic and the children enjoyed learning why the River Nile was so important to the  Ancient Egyptians. We used our note taking skills to record information and discovered facts such as “The Nile would flood every year to help fertilise the soil for crops to grow” Brendan. As a class we enjoy directed drawings lessons. Not only does this improve our drawings skills, we have to listen and follow instructions to help create the best pictures. Here are some examples of our work:

In numeracy, we began to learn about the concept of multiplication. We discovered that multiplying is just “a quicker way of adding numbers together” Ethan. We explored sets of numbers and began to learn or revise the 2x, 5x and 10 x table. Please practise these tables with your child. The children love to add a competitive element to their learning and enjoy testing themselves against the timer in different games.

In literacy, we learned a new genre of writing, explanation writing. It was a little tricky for us to complete, but we will continue to practise over the coming weeks.

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

Mrs Morrison

This has been an exciting week in Primary 1B.

A pleasant Surprise!

On Monday we had a very extraordinary occurrence! After lunch we returned to our classroom to find a very suspicious trail of sparkly green glitter.

We followed the glitter all the way to our library corner, only to find a very burnt and stained rolled up piece of paper. It was such a mystery. We didn’t know what to think. Some of us thought a fairy or a leprechaun had been in our room. Upon reading the letter we found out it was actually from a very sad dragon, who had lost his home ‘Fairy Land’.

We have decided to help this sad dragon and rebuild Fairy Land in our classroom. We wrote some letters to ask Mrs Stewart if that would be ok because it’s going to be quite a big change!!

      

 

One of the problems the dragon had was that nobody was reading any Fairy tales anymore. We thought we would help out by reading the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. We decided that Jack definitely needed a beanstalk so we have started to make one alongside some sparkly magic beans because we all know that is how the beanstalk started! We used all sorts of different materials like, paint, collage and crayons, putting our artistic skills to good use. Some of us even added little beasties to the leaves in black pen. We definitely think the dragon will be impressed.

 

Watch this space for our final result, we think that Jack will be very pleased that he can climb his beanstalk again.

Health and Wellbeing

We were also very lucky this week to have the opportunity to meet Mrs Anderson (who has been delivering online Yoga sessions to us) in person!! Lotus Learn Yoga (her fabulous company) visited our playground on a very sunny Wednesday morning. We took part in a fun, energetic and dramatic yoga session. It was lots of fun and we cannot wait until our next session!

Thank you for reading our blog. This is only a snapshot of our very busy a super packed week in Primary 1B. We are looking forward to a lovely long weekend and hope that the sun shines for us.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

This week we have been busy once again!

In Numeracy we have continued working on our tables, with a focus on the 4x and 9x table. We looked at these in our Number talks before then working on these individually.

 

In Writing this week we started our new genre of Explanation Report Writing. We discussed how this sort of text had to be written in the present tense and also how this was not a text where we mention I or We or talk about our feelings. We worked together on our piece, creating a text about how bees make honey. This created some super discussion between us all. Read some of our pieces below:

 

 

In Reading we have continued to use our summarising skills. We have summarised our own group texts as well as another chapter of our novel. We need to ensure that we remember our punctuation as we write. Some of our pieces are below:

 

In our topic this week we have been looking at the different types of jobs the Egyptians may have done. We are going to use this further next week. We also created some line drawings of the Pharaoh – we had to ensure to include detail and take our time. Here are some of our drawings:

 

We will have a shorter week next week, but we will still have lots to do!

Literacy

We got our new reading books and we were using your clarifying skills to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words. We also introduced echo reading this week. Echo reading is used to help us read with fluency and expression.

“We have been using echo reading this week. My teacher reads a page first and then I would read it back”.

“This made reading easier as it broke up the tricky words”.

 

We have been practicing our tricky words this week. We love to play games with our spelling words like quiz a friend.

“I have to look, say, cover, write, and check each word.”

 

In writing, we finished our information report genre. We researched and discussed Spring and then used this information to support us when writing our report.

 

Maths

In maths, we were continuing to solve times tables equations. We had to identify an effective strategy to help us calculate the answer. We all enjoyed using our skills to play times table snakes and ladders and times table bingo.

“Using pop its help me calculate the answer.”

 

“I used my fingers and counted in twos.”

 

Health and Wellbeing

This week, we started football for P.E. We were working on our dribbling skills, passing skills and keeping control of the ball.

 

“We were dribbling in and out of the cones.”

“We can to pass the ball to out team members.”

Literacy

We got our new reading books and we were using your clarifying skills to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words. We also introduced echo reading this week. Echo reading is used to help us read with fluency and expression.

“We have been using echo reading this week. My teacher reads a page first and then I would read it back”.

“This made reading easier as it broke up the tricky words”.

 

We have been practicing our tricky words this week. We love to play games with our spelling words like quiz a friend.

“I have to look, say, cover, write, and check each word.”

In writing, we finished our information report genre. We researched and discussed Spring and then used this information to support us when writing our report.

 

Maths

 

In maths, we were continuing to solve times tables equations. We had to identify an effective strategy to help us calculate the answer. We all enjoyed using our skills to play times table snakes and ladders and times table bingo.

“Using pop its help me calculate the answer.”

 

“I used my fingers and counted in twos.”

Health and Wellbeing

This week, we started football for P.E. We were working on our dribbling skills, passing skills and keeping control of the ball.

“We were dribbling in and out of the cones.”

“We can to pass the ball to out team members.”

We learnt to find  fraction from an amount.  We also identified the fraction from a shape.

We were looking at a picture while we wrote about what we seen in the picture for writing.  KS

We revisited how to use adverbs and adjectives.  For reading, we summarised a fiction text and we used a variety of comprehension strategies to show our understanding of a non fiction text.

For HWB, we focused on Relationships.  We have been learning about self- esteem, individual characteristics and attributes.