Deans Primary School Blog

What a busy and quick week it has been in Primary 1B. We have had our special Christmas lunch and we would like to say a huge thankyou to the dinner ladies for working so hard to ensure we had a delicious meal.

This week in Literacy we have been learning two new words, ‘go’ and ‘into’ alongside the new sounds ‘l’ and ‘g’. We have  also been writing to Father Christmas to share our Christmas lists with him. We explored how to write a letter and what details we needed to include, like Dear and From.

We have been working hard to develop our reading skills. This week we have been introduced to two different types of reading skills tasks. The first task was called a cloze activity. This is when a word is missing from the text and we need to figure out what the missing words are. Here are some examples of our work.

 

The second reading task was a fun one! We were given a jumbled up sentence from our reading book. We had to read the sentence and put the words back into the correct order. We could use the clues in our book to help us and knowing where a capital letter and full go really helped us too.

 

During our yoga session this week we went to the Winter Olympics and were learning to move our bodies around in a safe space. We made different shapes to represent particular winter Olympic events, such as, snow boarding and skiing. I still think that our favourite part of yoga is the sleepy and relaxing savasana at the end! A big thank you goes out to Sonja and Ruth at Lotus Learn Yoga for planning such fun activities for us to complete in the safety of our classroom.

 

We are looking forward to our final week of term when we can take part in lots of Christmas craft activities and maybe even bring home a few Christmas presents for the adults at home.

Have a lovely cosy weekend everyone.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B.

 

In Numeracy we have looked at some more subtraction problems. We have been looking at subtraction facts to 20 this week as well as subtraction problems involving odd and even numbers. Here are some examples of our good work:

 

 

In writing this week we wrote a letter to Santa or a letter about what we would like to do in the holidays. We used the skills we have been learning about, such as an introduction and using paragraphs. Here are some of our letters:

 

In Reading this week we have continued reading in our groups as well as listening to and discussing our class novel which is The Christmasaurus. Here are some of our thoughts on the story so far:

I like William because he is trying his best to stand up for himself.  I don’t like Brenda because she is a big bully! – Emily

Brenda Payne is really mean to William because he is in a wheelchair. – Ryley

I thought Brenda was nice at first, but now I hate her! – Erin R

The book is funny and silly at the same time. – Ariah

The book is very interesting and spooky because we wouldn’t want to be watched by someone in a postbox! – Chloe

It is good to be able to predict what will happen next! – Derry

Brenda is mean and selfish – Hadiyaah

There is a dinosaur in the North Pole who wants to fly like the reindeer. – Lacey

It was funny when the Christmasaurus was born! – Stevi

The dinosaur’s egg was in ice. – Summer

 

 

Literacy

 

This week we have been reading our books. We have been reading in our groups and discussing the text. We have been developing our skim and scanning skills when answering questions about our text.

 

Mia- “We have been asking questions about the book. We answer these questions in sentences”.

 

We have been practicing our spelling words this week. We have continued to use the look, say, write, check strategy. After we have done this, we write the words with our eyes closed to help us visualise them.

 

Belle- “We were doing rainbow writing to practice our spelling words”.

 

Maths

 

In maths this week, we have continued to develop our addition skills. We can use a number of strategies to support us calculate the answer. We can partition numbers, count on with our finger or use a number square or sticks.

 

Sai- “We were adding numbers together. I used a 100 square to help me”.

Aaron- “we were doing dice addition”.

 

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We were learning about the Viking Gods this week. We really enjoyed learning about them and sharing our knowledge of the Viking God’s Thor and Loki.

 

This week we also enjoyed designing and painting our Christmas baubles.

We have been learning to use apostrophes for possession.  We practiced our debating skills (about deforestation).   CW

We learned of the features of a Discussion text.  We now that in the introduction we do not write our opinion we only talk about what the issue.  MG

For Numeracy, we have been revising on all the four operations and we were working out Time intervals. CE and AF

We have also been practicing our Christmas Poem. TN

We learned about tessellation/tiling this week. We worked out that some shapes were better than others for tiling (remember you can’t overlap or leave spaces). Rectangles, squares, triangles and even hexagons were good but circles were not. We created our own tiling patterns and some were fabulous!

It was really good fun but challenging! – Derry

My tessellation turned into a 3D drawing! – Erin R

It was quite challenging because the shapes had to be the same size. – Chloe

It was tricky but we got the hang of it in the end. – Summer

 

Have  read to see the fun things we have been up to this week!

Fun in the snow

Max – “We were making snowmen!”

Charli Mae – “We were working in a team to roll the snow to make a snowman”

Jordon – “Don’t throw snowballs because it might be dangerous”

Elizabeth – “When I was outside in the snow I was happy because I was having fun”

P.E.

Connor – “We went outside to do circuits”

Mark – “We were running on the spot, doing star jumps, lunges, squats and windmills”

Jayden – “It started to rain so we went inside and did some yoga”

Writing

Andrew – “We wrote about why Christmas is important”

Emily – “Christmas is great because you get to put up your Christmas tree”

Vrishti – “Christmas is great because you get to put a star on top of the tree”

Louie – “Christmas is great because you get to eat candy canes”

Stop Frame Animation

Euan – “We went with Mrs Buntin to make a stop frame animation. We moved the little characters and then took lots of little pictures of them”

Sophie – “It was fun. I am looking forward to seeing it finished”