P5 Get Drumming

Literacy

Reading   

In group reading we practised answering questions about texts.

Bailey – My reading is improving – I can read more challenging texts.

Kyle – I enjoyed my dinosaur book this week.

Writing                                                                                                                                                                                                         During our persuasive writing work we had a debate. Some children thought children should help at home, such as Bailey, and some children thought they shouldn’t, such as Anna.   Each of them came up with a list of arguments which were written on the board by Miss Taylor.

This scaffolding then helped us set out our own piece of writing.

                                Bailey – I liked having an argument!

Alexis – I am getting better at using full stops.

Numeracy

We continued to practise subtraction strategies this week and we continue to gain in confidence.

Anna – I am better at subtraction!

Music

This week we continued to practise our drumming skills and keeping in time to the beat using objects like pencils to make a sound.

                                                                Jaxson – I enjoy everything about the music.

Art

Bailey – I liked painting the baubles!

Topic – Europe

We learnt about some of the Christmas traditions in Spain. They eat turkey but stuff it with mushrooms!

Health 

Cameron – I liked running like a speeding train during our run this week!

Colin – I am getting better at football. I scored a goal past Miss Stanway.

Miss Stanway – I was devastated!

Weekly Update From P1A

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in P1A! The children are so excited.

   

Digital Learning

This week the children were given the opportunity to take part in the creation of a festive Stop Frame Animation. It is animation that is captured one frame at time, with physical objects (in this case Mary, Joseph etc.) that are moved between frames. When you play back the sequence of images rapidly, it creates the illusion of movement.  Each class is contributing to the retelling of the Christmas story (when complied it will be available for you to view), Some pictures of the children demonstrating their skills.

The children are also learning a Christmas poem “Peppermint Sticks” which will be recorded and available to view during the last week of term. We have also began making Christmas decorations (a sneak peak below!)

         

Literacy – Writing

We have started our Christmas writing and this week they were asked to write “what they like about Christmas”. As you would expect all enjoyed getting presents, some said they liked putting up decorations and all wanted to play in the snow (at least one wish has been granted!). Some examples below

 

Our sounds this week have been “d” and “u”. We now have all the vowel sounds and the children have been working hard to blend the sound to make words and write short sentences. We have also been working extremely hard on reading and writing common words. Any help you could give them would really support the development of their reading and writing skills.

We are continuing to focus daily on teen numbers however, it important to consolidate numbers and number bonds within 10 so I created a fun challenge for them.  I split them into 3 teams and  gave them mats with dot patterns and cups with the answer on top. They had to quickly count and place the correct cup on top of the dot pattern. This went well so I changed it slightly. The children were then given mats with addition sums on it and cups with answers on top. They found this challenging but great fun. They can be very competitive!

Health and Wellbeing

This week we looked at friendship. How to make new friends and something they could offer a new friend. The children came up with a number of suggestions –

Robbie – “I would ask them to join a game”

Katie – “treat them nicely and if they got hurt I would help them”

Emily – “play games with them”

They made some lovely friendship tokens.

   

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more news from P1A.

 

Primary 1B Learning Highlights

Health and Wellbeing

This week in health and wellbeing we have moved slightly away from our focus on bullying onto the qualities that make a good friend. We discussed all of the friends we have and why we are friends with them. We shared what quality made us a good friend. Here are some of our examples.

Leighton – I cheer my friends up if they are sad.

Kellan – I like to do kind things for my friends.

Lucy – I always play nicely with my friends.

Reuben – I like to draw pictures for my friends

Finlay – I like to include all my friends in the things I do.

We designed and made friendship tokens which showed us being a good friend. Jack and Finlay even began writing some kind notes for their friends, well done boys on showing kindness – I think we all agree that is the most important quality in a friend!

We watched the story ‘Frog and Toad are friends’. We loved seeing all the different ways that Frog and Toad helped and cared for each other. They were such great friends.

Literacy

This week in our writing session we thought we would get into the Christmas spirit and share why we like Christmas. There were lots of fantastic reasons given by everyone . I think we all agreed that Reuben’s idea was the most heart warming. He shared that he loved Christmas so much because he got to have a huge family dinner with everyone.  We continue to focus on our core targets, and we have having a BIG push on trying to remember finger spaces in our work.  Here are some of our fantastic end results.

This week our new common words are ‘he’ and ‘my‘. We are working hard reading and writing all of these words everyday. Keep practising at home everybody!

The new sounds focus for this week are d and u. Now we know all of the vowel sounds we are able to build lots of new words, this will be a big focus for us right up to Christmas. We have been building words using the magnetic letters, paddle boards and we have been playing lots of new games to help us develop these skills.

Maths

We have been continuing to focus on 2D shapes and started to get to grips with the names of some familiar 3D shapes.

Christmas Preparations

This week saw us start our Christmas preparations with the beginning of advent. Our Classroom Christmas trees are up and Frosty the snowman is on our classroom door to welcome the children in the morning.

We have started to learn a special Christmas Poem for a very special project. Here is copy for you to help you child to practise at home (you will also find a paper copy in the red home work folders)

Xmas poem

On Monday, Mrs Buntin demonstrated how to use a piece of exciting new technology called Stop Frame Animation. We all got a turn to have a go at developing our class scene for the whole school nativity. It was great fun and the end result will be amazing, we are so exited to see it!

We have also decorated our own special Christmas Bauble with Christmas design. Miss Borsby’s dad has very kindly offered to engrave children’s names onto each decoration. We can’t wait to see what they look like!

Have a fantastic weekend everybody. Stay cosy!

Another little reminder for children not to bring in toys from home at the moment due to all the current restrictions in place to keep everyone safe.

Many Thanks!

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

Primary 4’s Week

In Numeracy we continue to work on Subtraction. We all had the opportunity of being “the teacher” and spoke through a ‘borrowing’ sum with the rest of the class. Here are some photos of us doing this:

 

In writing this week we have completed one more Persuasive Writing and created a one-sided argument about why a Movie Day is a good idea. We enjoyed doing this and thinking about how a movie can help us learn new vocabulary etc as well as being relaxing and a lovely treat.

“It’s the perfect way to get ready for the Christmas holidays” – Rihanna

“Having a movie day helps us learn hard words” – Hadiyaah

“It gives us a treat for all our hard work” – Joe

“A movie day gives us the chance to learn something new” – Gracie

 

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. We are excited to see what happens next. We will continue to use this text to help us in our Word Wizard roles.

 

We have been busy learning our Christmas poem this week. As a class we split up the poem a line at a time in small groups. This has worked really well! We are looking forward to filming this next.

 

 

 

This Week in P3/2

Read, Write, Count

 

We loved coming to school in our jammies on Tuesday. All our lessons were about the book ‘ROCKETMOLE’. We created a fact file about ourselves during writing this week. Armstrong the Rocketmole wrote a letter to us asking for our help with addition. We were all every excited to receive our Read, Write, Count Bags.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literacy

In writing, we were persuading the reader that reading was important. We had a class discussion before we started and we identified all the different ways that we use reading in our everyday life. When included powerful persuasive language and connecting words within our writing.

In P3/2 we worked very hard sounding out our spelling words. We continued with rainbow writing and using our words in sentences. This week, we also found making a chant a useful strategy to help us remember how to spell our words.

 

Maths

This week, we were learning about addition. When adding our numbers together we found number squares and sticks useful to help us calculate the answer. We were also working on addition word problems.

IDL

In our Vikings topic, we were learning about what food th

e Vikings ate. The Vikings did not have supermarkets like we have today and they could not import food from other countries. Therefore, the Vikings could only get food that they could grow and catch. To keep their meat and fish fresher for longer, the Vikings would salt or smoke them.

A fun filled week in Primary 2

Wow what an exciting week we have had! Have a read to see what we have been up to!

Read Write Count

Max – “We wore out pyjamas to school on Tuesday”

Jacob – “Read write count gave us a bag with books and other things in it”

Ethan – “Peter the Puppet came to visit us and was helping us make our rockets”

Alfie – “We read Rocketmole and had a whole day about the book!”

Andrew – “We were so nice and cosy all day in our jammies”

Numeracy

Euan – “Mrs Rodden came to our classroom to deliver a special letter from Rocketmole!”

Vrishti – “Rocketmole needed help add numbers to make his ship launch to the North Pole!”

Jayden – “We were having fun adding numbers to help make the ship launch”

Writing

Macy May – “We wrote about why reading is important”

Archie M – “Reading is important because you need to be able to read signs when you are driving”

Jordon – “Reading is important because you need to be able to read books”

Connor – “Reading is important because you need to read things at the shop”

Mark – “Reading is important because if you don’t read then you won’t know your words”

Word Boost

This week, we read “Cold Paws, Warm Heart”. Here are some of our boost words:

Mark – “Huge means really really big”

Archie P – “Confused means you don’t know what’s going on”

Oliver – “Crouch means you bend down low”

Vrishti – “Gulp means you take a big swallow”

Elizabeth – “Miserable means you are really really sad”

P5 Have Fun!

P5 have had a fun week this week.

Christmas Card Competition

Mrs Stewart set the class a task of designing a Christmas card. Miss Stanway had a difficult job of picking a winning one because the standard was so high! This card will be sent out to a community group.

Summer – My card was a Christmas tree with a snowy window!

Health

Bella – Football is fun.

We love seeing Bella buzzing around enthusiastically like a rocket on the football pitch in her bobble hat although Oscar being successfully tackled by a large plant pot this week was a sight to behold!

Topic – Europe

This week we learnt about the Seville Fair that usually happens every year in Spain.

Colin – we designed a persuasive poster to encourage people to go to the fair.

Our success criteria for designing a good poster included detailed pictures of an appropriate size, colourful font and a persuasive slogan. Cameron knew it was important to make sure important information such as when and where it took place was included.

We listened to some flamenco music and many of the children were keen to have a go at being flamenco dancers.

Bailey enjoyed being a bull and Leo volunteered to be a matador with a swirling cape. This led to an interesting conversation about animal cruelty.

Music

We started our music sessions with ‘Limelight’ and have been practising using our body as a percussion instrument!

Numeracy

This week we have learnt different strategies for mental subtraction such as counting up to and we have used number lines to support our thinking.

Look out for our numeracy video coming soon!

Literacy

After reading this week, we practised writing a summary of what we have read. It is important to only include key information and make sure the facts are in the correct order. As we found this tricky, we agreed that it is a skill we need to practise.

Look out for our spelling strategy video coming out soon!

Compliment box

Jaxson was chosen this week and the class had several compliments to give him because he is so supportive and kind.

Homework

Some people brought in homework to share with the class, which was a very high standard. Well done everybody!

Sharing the learning with P4/3

What a busy week in P4/3 as we have been working collaboratively (a skill for life) to discuss, organise, present and film our learning for parents/carers to view. Look out for the link being sent to your e-mail, so you can watch our amazing presenting skills and learn more about what takes place in class!!

Outdoor Learning

All of the class enjoy outdoor learning with Mrs Dobbie on a Friday morning. Here are some pictures which showcase the learning that takes place in our outdoor environment.

We continue to develop our literacy skills and participate in spelling activities on a daily basis. This consistent approach is certainly helping as some children are scoring 100% in their dictation assessments at the end of the week. Well done P4/3, keep up the good work.

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

Weekly Update From P1A

The children have had another busy learning week. We have been doing lots of filming of our Sharing the Learning. The children hope you enjoy seeing them working hard in and around the school. Some of this weeks learning the children would like to share with you.

Literacy

Writing –

Our skills in persausive writing are developing really well (you can hear the children talking about them in our Sharing the Learning video). All the children are aware of what an opinion is and how to share it through their writing. This weeks topic was reading and why it is imoprtant. The children came up with lots of reasons such as -Sahel -“I will be able to read more books when I get older”, Conlon “I will have fun finding out new and interesting facts”etc.  Some examples below-

“b” and “h” sounds

This week the children have been introduced to “b” and “h”. They have been blending these sounds with others that they already know to create words. Some children are now reading short sentences. I am very proud of them!

Within our Sharing the Learning video there is a short number talk where the children are encourged to share their counting strategies. The aim is to find the most efficent way. I hope you find it interesting. We have been counting collections to 20 as well as consolidating knowlege of number bonds within 10.

 

Health and Wellbeing

Last week the children discussed the important issue of bullying and what it means to be bullied. This week we focused on what to do if a friend was being bullied. Some responses

Sahel said “I would ask the bully why are you bullying my friend?” and he though his friend would be very sad.

Robbie said “I would make the bully say sorry”

Conlon said “I would tell an adult” and thought his friend would be angry.

Indie thought her friend would feel terrified.

We all agreed that you should tell the bully to stop and speak to a trusted adult.

Have a lovely weekend, and I will be back next week with more news from Primary One.

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