Primary 1B Learning Highlights.

Health and Wellbeing

This week in health and wellbeing we have been continuing to focus on the topic of bullying. We have been discussing strategies to help us should we ever be a victim of bullying or should we see it happening in our playground. Here are some of our very sensible suggestions.

Jack – I would find out who the bully is and tell a teacher.

Saatvik – I would stick up for my friend and tell the bully to stop.

Cooper – I would help my friend to stop crying and play with them to keep them safe.

Kaleb – I would tell one of my trusted adults.

This week in our yoga session we were learning how to  perform some yoga animal poses. We visited old Macdonald’s farm and had great fun being flapping chickens, galloping horses and dogs searching for bones! We are really enjoying our yoga sessions. Here are some examples of how it makes us feel.

Jack – Yoga makes me feel so calm and relaxed.

Mikah – Yoga makes me sit quietly.

Cooper – Yoga makes me patient.

Kaleb – Yoga makes me so happy.

Literacy

This week we reach our final week for focusing on the Persuasive writing genre. We have worked hard on this particular writing area and are feeling confident showcasing our learning with you all on our special videos (watch this space!) This week we have been writing about why reading is so important. Here are some examples of our work.

We were able to share verbally and through our sentences some of the reasons we believe reading is so important.

Arianna – I like reading because it is fun.

Alfie – I like reading because it is good for you.

Reuben- I like reading because it can make your brain smart.

Saatvik – I like reading because if you know how to read you can do anything.

We have also been learning two new common words, me and we. Our new sounds this week have been h and d.

Our word boost story this week has been ‘The Frightened Little Owl’, by Mark Ezra. We have enjoyed listening to the story and completing all the different activities. We are excellent at using and recognising all of the word boost words we have learned so far we are even beginning to understand the colours of the words and what they mean. (yellow – describing words- adjectives and red are doing words -verbs) This week’s Boost words are – familiar, tremble, tumble and vanish.

Maths

This week we have had a new focus for our maths work. We have been learning to recognise and name 2D shapes. We have been discussing their properties, how they look and how they feel. We have been using mathematical language such as edges, sides and corners as well as all the correct names for a number of 2D shape. It has been a bit of a challenge remembering the properties of a pentagon, hexagon and an octagon. Throughout the week we have been spotting all of these shapes within our classroom. Here are some of the activities we have been investigating to help us develop this skill.

We hope you have enjoyed our blog update for this week.

Have an amazing weekend.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

This Week in Primary 4

In Numeracy we have been working on decomposition (borrowing). Some of us have found this quite a challenge, but we have stuck with it. This would be a good thing for the children to practise at home when they can!

We continue to work on Subtraction. We have enjoyed using our Heinemann textbooks to challenge ourselves this week. In Number Talks we have looked at how we can use the answer to one sum to help us quickly and easily solve the answer to another. Here is an example below:

 

 

In writing this week we have continued to look at Persuasive Writing and created a one-sided argument about why reading is important. We thought about how reading impacts our lives at school, at home and how it will prepare us for the World of Work. We know that it is without a doubt, a very important skill to have!

 

Here are some of our finished pieces:

 

In Reading this week we have looked at the role of a Word Wizard. This is where we find a word we are unsure of, we make a guess at its meaning, then we find out what it means and then finally show our understanding of this by using it in a sentence. Here are our words from this week:

‘Trampled’

‘Consumed’

‘Disbelief’

 

We have been busy filming our Sharing the Learning this week! We have lots of good things to tell you about that P4 do in Literacy and Numeracy. We look forward to you seeing our videos.

 

 

 

P6/5 Week

Maths-

In Maths we have been doing a little bit of the 4X table and division. We have been doing some recording for ”Share The Learning” for parents so far we have done the comutitive law of multiplcation with cubes.

Literacy- 

Going back to the recording in literacy during the recording we asked questions about our reading books Charlottes Web, Tom Gates, Fantastic Funny Frightening books.

Chinese-

Every Monday at 10:00 We do Chinese with real Chinese in China and learn their launguge

This Week in P3/2

Literacy

 

We read through our reading book and then answered comprehension questions about the text. We were improving our skim and scanning skills when reading to find information.

 

Darby- “In reading we were answering questions about the book. We had to write our answers in sentences”.

 

During ELF thus week we were focusing on varying our sentences lengths. We were trying to use connective words to extend our sentences.

 

Robyn- “In writing we were making our sentences bigger by using works like ‘because’ and ‘and’ “.

 

During Word Boost we were improving our vocabulary. We are introduced to the meaning of 6 boost words and we then use these to up-level our talking and listening and writing.

 

Maths

This week we continued to learn about number sequences. We were learning about number sequences where the rule was minus.

 

Aayan- “We were learning about number sequences that were take away. I used a 100 number square to help me work out the answer”.

 

We also were introduced to the game SumDog. There is a selection of different games that involve you using your maths skills. This is something we will be using in class to support our numeracy and maths skills.

 

Health and Wellbeing

This week we enjoyed staying active and healthy during P.E. After warming up, we focused on balances.

 

Sarah-Louise- “We have been exercising and this makes me feel healthy”.

Mrs Lockhart’s Days

We have been enjoying a poetry session every Friday. Each Friday we hear a new poem and also listen to some of our favourites from the previous weeks.

James James Morrison Morrison is my favourite – Stevi

I really like the version where they sing James James Morrison Morrison – Roman.

The King’s Breakfast is my favourite -Ryley

Me too -Sophie G

I really enjoyed our new poem Macavity the Mystery Cat – Emily

P5 Have a Blether

Literacy

Book Week

This week it was Book Week Scotland so we had a ‘blether’ about what are favourite books were.

Lily-Elen – I like Jaqueline Wilson.

Writing

We wrote some terrific stories this week using the main character in our reading book. Colin and his partner wrote a great opener that we agreed would make us want to read on.

Reading

This week we practised our visualisation skills and drew scenes from stories in our reading books.

Numeracy

This week we practised adding multiples of 10 and discussed different strategies.

Maths

This week we walked around the school on a shape hunt and discussed why certain shapes such as cuboids were used to make things.

Art

As part of our work on shape we used clay to sculpt imaginary creatures using tools to create various effects.  Alexis – I made a Unibug.          Sophie P – I made a dog that had a turtle shell and a unicorn.

Health

During P.E. we have been practising running without stopping for four minutes. We are much fitter now!

We have also discussed what makes us happy. Most of us said it was our family and surprisingly when given a list of different things most of us said tablets/IPads are the least important when it comes to happiness. We learnt about how some children living in different circumstances would be happier if they were able to go to school more and have larger houses with running water.

Hello everyone! Here is an update on what we have been learning this week.

IDL- We have been learning about they types of animals living in the Amazon Rainforest.  We then creates a Diorama to show all the things we learnt so far.  We had to include the following information;

  • Food chain
  • Labels of animals and the layers.
  • Habitats each animal lives in
  • Individual animal’s diet
  • Information sheet/ Poster.

We have been learning different strategies to subtract three digit numbers.

In Literacy, we have been uplevelling our persuasive text by using various vocabulary (we have not used before).  We also used higher level connectives.

P4/3 Update

It has been another busy week in P4/3 as we continue to build on our learning, challenge ourselves and trying our very best with every task. We have been exploring different texts, with a focus on identifying the differences between fiction and non- fiction books. This is a key skill to develop as the majority of texts children will explore in high school will be non- fiction. We have also been looking at the different types of questions, specifically open and closed questions. Ask your child what is different about each type of question.

 

Next week, we are looking forward to preparing videos that show case the learning in P4/3 and will be sent home for you to view. This may test Mrs Morrison’s IT skills, however I’m up for the challenge!!!!

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

Primary 2 Update

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week in P2.

Writing

Vrishti – “We have been learning about persuasive writing”

Archie M – “We had to persuade people about why school is important”

Andrew – “School is important so you can learn for when you grow up”

Numeracy

Jayden – “We have been finding efficient ways to bridge 10 in number talks”

Euan – “We have been trying to find the missing number in an adding sum”

IDL

Charli Mae – “We had to sort the sea animals into the right layer of the ocean. The dolphin went at the top in the sunlight zone.”

Macy May – “The sea animals all went in different layers.”

Sharing the Learning

In the next few weeks, we will be sending out a video all about our learning in P2 so far. This week, we became movie stars and began filming our sharing the learning.

Have a great weekend! Remember to wear your pyjamas on Tuesday the 24th November for our Read Write Count day!

Weekly Update From P1A

We have had another very busy week in Primary 1A and the children would like to share some of their learning with you.

‘We now have our very own classroom shop called “Dean’s Store”

We have used as many real items of food (with price labels) as we can and even have a full sized working till! The children have been so excited and had such a brillant time  playing in the shop. Although it is fun, there are a number of additional benefits such as, writing a shopping list, turn taking, discussion, counting money giving change. Some fun pictures below-

Literacy

Writing  –

The children are continuing to develop their persuasive writing skills and this week they have been giving their opinions on pets. They all agreed that pets are great to have and came up with super words to describe them, such as” cute, playful, friendly, fluffy and the best!” Some examples below-

Our sounds this week have been “e” and “f”. Some pictures below of the activities the children have taken part in.

Although we are working on numbers beyond 10, the children are consolidating their knowledge of number bonds to 10. They have been doing this through games from Educationcity and team challenges.

Health and Wellbeing

We are continuing to celebrate difference and this week we focused on bullying. The children finished their gingerbread men by creating an anti-bullying slogan for his cap. Conlon came up with a excellent message “No Bullies Here!”

I hope you have a great week and I will post more news from P1A next week.

 

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