Primary 1B Learning Highlights

This week in Primary 1B we have been focusing on the fact that it is now officially Autumn, our favourite season. We have discussed all the different and exciting events which happen during Autumn such as, Halloween and Bonfire Night. These are the things we are most excited about……

Finlay – seeing all the branches on the trees.

Arianna – maybe seeing some snow!

Saatvik – Seeing the colourful leaves.

Leighton – seeing the branches on the trees as the leaves fall.

Alfie – carving a pumpkin at Halloween.

As part of our learning we read the story of Leaf Man.

This is a beautifully illustrated story book about the adventures of a ‘Leaf Man’ and where the wind takes him. We had great fun identifying all the different animals in the story and were amazed at how they were all made out of different types of leaves. Once we had finished the story we had a go at creating our own Leaf Man, using some of the leaves we had collected on our Autumn walk.  Here are some of our creations.

We had lots of left over leaves so we practised our fine motor scissor skills by cutting the leaves up and gluing them onto a leaf template to create a colourful Autumn leaf collage.

As one of our writing tasks we have been drawing, describing and labelling Autumn trees. We discussed all the possible details which we could include, such as, Autumn animals which live in trees! We were able to share some amazing ideas. We also all had a go at writing the title on our work and some of us even tried to add some of our own labels onto our pictures. Check out some of our fabulous efforts.

We have also been busy this week working on learning all about our new sound ‘p’. This is soft, short and bouncy sound made with our lips, it is much quieter than the red lip sound ‘m’ that is why it is pink. We have been fantastic at recognising words which begin with the p sound and practising how to form this letter correctly. We made some Popcorn p’s to help us remember the shape of the letter.

It’s been a busy but fun week yet again. We have worked our socks off this week and we are looking forward to next week already! Have an amazing weekend everybody.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

Mrs Lockhart’s Days

We are adding lots of information into our Health & Well Being Big Book. The focus this term is on feeling safe.

We had a great time at the park on Friday. This was a reward for getting all the marbles in our jar. We earn marbles mostly by completing class challenges but sometimes individuals get marbles too. P.4 are particularly good at this! Well done everyone.

This Week in P3/2

Literacy

 

Erica- “We were describing ourselves in writing this week”.

Calvin- “We had a class discussion about our writing”.

Emma- “We got new reading books this week and then we answered questions about the story”.

Levente- “We were learning to spell new words”.

 

 

Maths

Sophie-Leigh and Sophia- “We were learning about ones, tens and hundreds”.

Alexia- “We counting to see how many ones, tens and hundreds”.

Mia- “You can only put one digit in the ones, tens and hundreds column”.

 

IDL

Sarah-Louise- “We were drawing pictures of characters in Julia Donaldson books”.

Darby- “We were using pencils and different techniques to make the picture look more realistic”.

P4/3 Update

It has been another busy and enjoyable week in P4/3. We continue to work together to improve our learning environment and develop our abilities to become independent learners, well done P4/3!!

In Literacy we have been learning to spell common words. These are words that will be found in most books, texts etc that will read and don’t necessarily have a pattern to them, but still have to be learned. I was so impressed that some of the children will transferring their knowledge from their spelling and identifying common words in their reading books, well done!!

We continue to work on number patterns and sequences up to 1000 and in some cases beyond. Ask your child to demonstrate their learning.

Finally, a big well done to the children who have been working hard at home with their numeracy, spelling, note- taking and directed drawing. Mrs Morrison is proud of you all.

Enjoy the long weekend and I will check in with you next Friday.

P7/6

This week we have learnt to:

  • MG- I learnt to use compensation strategy for addition and subtraction.
  • KS- I can now round numbers to the nearest 1000.
  • LR- I learnt to round 3 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.
  • CC- To round numbers, you must find your indicator number first.
  • CE- this week we edited our descriptive text.
  • AF- We learnt to use connectives in our writing.
  • MN- I really enjoyed learning to draw a Toucan and use colour.

Have lovely long weekend from all of us in P7/6

P5 Get Descriptive !

Literacy

Reading

This week we learnt about how to write a quality descriptive character profile. After reading some of our class novel, ‘George’s Secret Key to the Universe’, we chose one of the characters and created our own character profile.

Writing

This week we had a visit from Miss Taylor and practised writing descriptive pieces about animals.

We also discussed our baseline writing assessments at the start of the year and have decided that our 3 class targets are:

  1. use paragraphs to separate my ideas, events or facts
  2. use capital letters, full stops, question marks and an exclamation mark in sentences
  3. spell most common and tricky words correctly

Talking and Listening

Mrs Wallace treated us to a philosophy session this week!

Numeracy

As part of our learning about the place value of numbers, we practised adding numbers to number lines.

In our problem solving session this week, we learnt how to complete a logic puzzle using various strategies to succeed.

Maths

We extended our knowledge of 2D shapes and their properties.

Hope – I learnt the phrase ‘ quadrilateral.’

Lily-Elen – I learnt about 2D shapes that I did not know before.

Using string and our teamwork skills we created different 2D shapes.

 

Health

We enjoyed playing on the trim track this week and getting some much-needed fresh air during P.E.

In order to improve our health and wellbeing we have continued to practise mindfulness techniques and yoga.

Art and Design – Rainbow Time

Having coloured in a separate part of a large rainbow we then used our teamwork skills to put it together.

Art

In addition we examined Van Gogh’s starry night painting and discussed his use of line.

Anna – I learnt how to colour in using line when drawing my own landscape.

Outdoor Learning

We walked around down Deans South and learnt about leaves.

Bella – I found an acorn!

 

Update from Primary 2

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

Writing

Louie – “We did Mrs Stewart’s spelling challenge”

Connor – “We were ordering words to make a sentence”

Vrishti – “We were describing crayons”

Maths

Max – “We have been practising writing and ordering numbers”

Kayden – “Mrs Wallace brought Archie the puppet to help us do maths and he was picking his nose!”

P.E

Macy May – “We have been running relay races”

Mark – “We warmed up with duck duck goose”

Outdoor Learning

Jayden – “We were finding nature”

Andrew – “We went to the field”

 

We have had another great week and are super excited for our long weekend!

Weekly update from P1A

We have had another busy learning week in Primary 1A. The children wanted to share some of their learning with you.

Literacy -Writing

This week the children have continued to develop their descriptive writing skills. The children were asked to describe a car. They started by looking at a picture with labels (labels were attached to the main parts of the toy car) they then focused on listening to simple sentences which described the car, how it was built etc. (label words are used in the sentences). Below some pictures of the big book we used and some of the children’s descriptive writing.

Phonics – Spelling

New sound this week is “s”. The children have been making it, sorting pictures by initial sounds and writing it. Some of their work below.

Numeracy

This week we have started a daily Number Talk. At this stage children are presented with a dot pattern. They are  asked “how many dots do you see and how do you see them?” I record their answers and we discuss  which was the most efficent strategy. The aim is to recognise groups of dots for example, in a pattern of 5 random dots a child may see a 3 and a 2 or a 4 and a 1. In time, (some are already doing this really well!!) it is hoped that this will increase their speed and accuracy and they won’t drop back to counting in 1’s when presented with larger groups.

We have also been focusing on the story of 6. The children have been writing the number 6 with different materials, they have also been gathering collections of 6 objects and making 6 in different ways. As a challenge some of the children ordered a huge 0 to 30 number line. Fantastic to see the children challenging themselves.

Health and Wellbeing

As part of our covid recovery programme we have been sharing stories of how we helped friends and family during lockdown. Some comments from the children

Katie – “I helped  mummy put away my clothes in the drawer”

Scott – “I helped  mum when she wan’t feeling well”

Emily- “I helped  mum make a cake”

Samuel – “I helped mum make dinner”

The children have drawn some pictures of the people they helped.

I hope you all have a fantastic  holiday weekend and I look forward to seeing the children on Wednesday (23rd).

This week so far in P4!

Outdoor Learning

Primary 4 started the week off with outdoor learning with Mr Turner. The children continued learning about fables and the morals that are a feature of these tales. P4 were given the task of using natural resources in the surrounding area to help them to create a detailed setting for their fables to take place. Using their clay animal that they had made last week the pupils planned their stories and came up with a moral to their story. After the children then confidently performed, their fables and the audience were set the task of trying to guess the moral of the stories.

 

Literacy

Primary 4 have also been sharing their knowledge and understanding of nouns, adjectives and verbs this week. The children were showing confidence while sharing what they already knoe or now know about these and how they could and will now use them in their writing.

“I know that I am a noun” (Derry)

“I enjoyed learning about these and I can now challenge myself to use these in my writing” (Lewis)

Also in literacy this week the children were challenged to show their knowledge of spelling patterns and sounds as there has been a strong focus towards spelling this week at Deans. The children all worked super hard during these sessions and showed great enthusiasm towards the discussion of unfamiliar words and sounds.

Numeracy

We continued to explore addition using chimney sums with 2,3 and 4 digit numbers with carrying. The children found this a challenge and were able to express this during group and individual discussions. They are now beginning to understand the process of carrying over and that it may be tricky at times but to keep going with it.

“I found it a challenge as I got mixed up with where to place the numbers I was carrying over” (Derry)

“It was fun” (Kayleigh)

“It was hard because I had to remember to add in the numbers I had carried over to the next column” (Shay)

Novel Study/ IDL

P4 used their activing skills this week to work as part of a group to act out a scene from what we have read so far in our class novel ‘Billionaire Boy’. The audience had to try and guess which scene it was.

“It was fun because I like performing to the group” (Summer)

The children also used their learning from this week to write a detailed character description of one of the main characters from our novel. P4 were confident in their knowledge of adjectives and could discuss how they could use these to describe Joe Spud in detail.

To round this off the class were to imagine that they were all tour guides and asked to describe Joe’s house. They shared all of the wonderful things he had in his house. After our class discussion P4 then drew detailed maps of Joe’s house ‘Bumfresh Towers’ with all the different rooms, materials and wacky decorations that they were able to imagine from the story.

P.E

For P.E this week, we participated in a series of races. This enabled the children to work together showing great teamwork and support to their peers when racing. They were also able to display their stamina and work on controlling their speed and body movement for each of the different kinds of races.

Primary 1B Learning Highlights

It’s been another busy week in Primary 1B.

This week we have had a focus on the mathematical concept of ‘pattern’. We have been exploring patterns in our environment and noticed that if we look carefully patterns are everywhere! In particular, we have explored some simple repeating patterns, using colours and shape. Here are some of the activities we have been completing in class to help further our learning.

               

We have been practising simple repeating patterns and after reading the story of the Hungry Caterpillar we decided to make our own pattern caterpillars.

               

We have enjoyed using the game Complete the Pattern on the Smart Board.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns. This is the link to the game in case you want to have a practise at home

As we quickly approach the new season of Autumn, a lot of our learning opportunities have came from the children bringing in objects of interest, more specifically leaves! We love it when something sparks our interest and have had lots of opportunities to explore how the seasons change and what we notice. We have been investigating our 5 senses and what they are. We are now able to name each of the senses and in class we have been relating them to Autumn. We drew pictures and labelled them with things we can…. feel, taste, see, smell and hear during the Autumn months of September, October and November.

   

 

We have also been learning all about the sound ssssssss.

We created a ‘Spotty Snake’ to help us remember the shape of the letter. We had lots of fun with this activity and the end results look fabulous. We practised writing the sound, S is blue letter sound because we use the tips of our tongue to make the sound. It is a long, soft and stretchy sound. We have been practising lots of different ways of forming the letter correctly. It is a tricky one to get around the right way!

                         

 

 

 

 

What a busy and quick week it has been. Just a reminder that Monday and Tuesday next week will be a (well deserved) holiday for everyone and we will welcome the children back to school on Wednesday.

I have been hearing lots of stories how the boys and girls have already started to get to work on their spelling challenge. This is fantastic to hear and I look forward to hearing all about the inventive methods everyone has developed to help them learn the new words! I may even ‘borrow’ some ideas to use in class!

Have a lovely long weekend,

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

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