Deans Primary School Blog

In Numeracy we have started working on subtraction. We completed an assessment to see where we are all at so that Mrs Hillan knows where we need supported or challenged.

It was fun but a little bit tricky – Erin R

It was quite easy but some of the sums were quite hard – Alyssa

When there was a big number and a small number you had to count in between which took a bit of time – Derry

It was hard work! – Summer

In our assessment we could only use our whiteboards to help us – Chloe

It was tricky but we were allowed to use our whiteboards to work out sums – Ariah

For literacy this week we have continued working hard on our new spelling words and we have these home again to practise. We have our new homework out which requires us to pick two tasks from the grid to help us learn our spelling words. It is really important that we complete these each week.

In writing this week we have looked at Persuasive Writing again and created a one-sided argument. We used Fireworks as our theme this time. We assessed ourselves using our core target grids and our genre target grids for persuasive writing. We spoke about the pros and cons of fireworks to help us decide which side of the argument we wanted to write from. We will look at another persuasive piece next week. Here are some pieces from this week:

We continued our topic of The Egyptians this week. We finished creating our questions on what we would like to find out about the Egyptians, here are some of them:

Who was the King? – Maisy

Where do they sleep? – Jessica

How did they survive? – Ciaran

Where do they get soap? – Shay

What did the Egyptians do for fun? – Holly

Where did they get the sand from? – Lacey

How did they speak? – Joe

What food do they eat? – Gracie

How did they make pyramids? – Caelan

Where do they live? – Daniel

We had great Halloween fun on Friday. We were able to dress up in our favourite costumes and had a Halloween craft session as well. There was a great display of original thinking and some fantastic creations made.

The verdict Halloween craft time was amazing!

There’s been some spooky goings on in P4/3 this week as we have had fun celebrating Halloween!! The children have been creative and designed their own Halloween characters using a range of materials. They will be sent home with your child today.

In Literacy, we have been learning about  Persuasive genre of writing. This involves writing  a one sided argument to try to persuade the reader.

The purple group had some persuasive ideas about  Halloween.
” I think Halloween is fun because  …..
I get to carve pumpkins. (Ashley)
you get to scare people. (Tadas)
you get to dress up in a costume.  (Lennon)
I like dressing as a black cat.  (Nathan)
I like to wear my buzz lightyear costume.  (Nathaniel)
you get to spend time with your family.”  (Elkie)

All the children made a good attempt at this and we look forward to developing our skills in the coming weeks.

Many thanks to all who have completed the homework tasks. It is lovely to see the children motivated and wanting to improve and challenge themselves. Well done P4/3, Mrs Morrison is proud of you all.

Have a lovely weekend, stay safe and I will check in next week.

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

Halloween

Have a look at all of our scary costumes and scary faces!

Vrishti – “I look lovely in my witch costume”

Macy May – “My costume is creepy and I have fake blood”

Spelling

Charli Mae – “We were writing sentences with our words”

Louie – “We wrote Halloween stories with our spelling words in them”

IDL

Euan – “I made a painting of a shark”

Mark – “We had to paint over the animal we chose and then lift it up to see it”

Jordon – “We had to use 3 colours to paint with a sponge”

Numeracy

Max – “We used ten frames”

Connor – “We showed how to add numbers with a ten frame”

Writing

Jayden – “We are learning about persuasive writing and we had to persuade our partner that our favourite food is the best”

Oliver – “You start with a title, then a statement of position, then an argument and then a conclusion”

Peter the Puppet

Emily – “Peter was wearing a mask to protect himself and others”

Sophie – “Peter the Puppet was doing silly things like biting his nails and we had to tell him to stop

Alfie – “Peter came to help us learn about animals under the sea”

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

Literacy

This week in Primary 1 we have been working hard to improve our literacy skills. We have started reading for ourselves! To start with our books feature only pictures, but this means we can use the pictures to tell the story in our own words. This is one of the targets we are focusing on in class. Whilst exploring our new books we have been discussing the setting, this means where the story takes place. We drew pictures to describe this as well as having ago at writing a simple sentence.  We have also been introduced to all the characters we will be reading about. Their names are Kipper, Biff, Chip, Mum, Dad and of course Floppy. You will hear lots and lots about them over the coming months.

We have been learning the new sound t and i, we can identify the sound and we are becoming experts at writing them too. Our new words this week were ‘and’ and ‘it’.

In writing, we have been learning how to give our opinion. This week we wrote about what we felt about Halloween. Here are some of the sentences we wrote.

Saatvik – I think Halloween is great.

Cooper – I think Halloween is exciting.

Alex – I think Halloween is good.

Sophie – I think Halloween is scary.

We have been working really hard to write tricky words on our own and to use the sounds we know to help us with spelling. We have been remembering to use our targets, this week we had a focus on using a capital letter, a full stop and putting finger spaces in between the words. Here are some examples of our work.

Numeracy

As we continue to focus on teen numbers we found a great game to play that not only helps us to recognise teen numbers but helps us to develop that skill of subitising         (seeing the amount without counting) on a ten frame. Here are some pictures of us in action.

Halloween

It is a shame that we can’t properly celebrate Halloween this year. In Primary One we have decided to make our classroom a bit spookier by creating our own bright orange pumpkins. After reading the story ‘Pick a Pumpkin’ by Patrica Toth we discussed all the different Halloween traditions that our families follow. Carving pumpkins was the most common one! Here are our spooky Halloween pumpkins.

Happy Halloween everyone! We hope you have a suitably spooktastic evening even if it is a little bit different this year.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

In Number Talks we have been continuing to look at a two digit addition sum and the pupils have been asked to share how they would work it out and if they could find more than one way to answer it. One of the sums given was 64 + 34  and here were some of the ways of working it out:

For literacy this week we have continued working hard on our new spelling words and we have these home again to practise. We practised our spelling words by writing them in fancy lettering. There are some pictures below to look at. Next week our spelling will look a bit different and we will have some other activities to try at home.

In writing this week we have looked at Persuasive Writing and creating a one-sided argument. We used Halloween as our theme. We assessed ourselves using our core target grids and our genre target grids for persuasive writing. We talked through what each target meant then assessed ourselves after we had read over our work. We will look at another persuasive piece next week.

We were introduced to our new topic this week which is The Egyptians. We began by recording what we already know about them and then thought about what we would like to learn about them and how we will do this.

I am excited to learn about Hieroglyphics – Erin R

I am looking forward to learning about the history or Egypt and about their gods – Alyssa

I am excited to learn new things about Egyptians – Summer

I am excited to learn about the history of the Egyptians – Sophie G

I am looking forward to knowing new things about the Egyptians – Daniel

I am excited to learn what Egyptians do – Lewis

I am excited to learn how they got around – Shay

I am excited to learn about how they mummified people – Emily

I’m excited to learn about how they take their brains out of their noses!!! –  Maison

Primary 6/5 have been learning about Bloom’s Taxonomy in literacy writing. We have also been testing our peers on questions about the book “Wonder” as that is the book we have been reading in class. We have looked at higher and lower order questions,, including knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.