Deans Primary School Blog

Literacy

In writing this week, we started learning about descriptive writing. We were learning about the correct structure of this genre. As a class, we identified that we read descriptive writing when we are buying products online. Then we wrote about the special place we imagine during yoga.

Maths

This week, we started our multiplation topic. We were learning to use arrays and repeated addition to help us calculate the answer.

IDL

This week, we were learning about the history of the paralymics. The sports originally started to help soldiers recover from their injuries. As a class, we used our clarifying skills to help us understand the meaning of equality and inequality.

For PE, we were continuing to develop our hockey techniques. We have been using our blocking, shooting and Indian dribbling skills.

PE

The children are still working hard to improve their basketball skills. We are working on dribbling, passing and getting into a space to receive the ball during games. We also had a student helper in this week and the children loved trying to beat him!

IDL

To finish our organs part of IDL, the children worked in pairs to complete their lung model. Each child who had not completed one worked with a child who has to share learning and knowledge. We will be moving on to the skeleton next week.

Writing

We have moved onto descriptive writing this week. The children had to listen to a description of a well-known character and draw that character! This helped the children to understand why details are so important. They then had to pick someone in the class to describe and then, as a class, we guessed each one!

Have a great weekend!

Monday:

No Green Gym, so we took advantage of the lovely weather and went outside and looked at the trees and classified them (deciduous, evergreen, conifer, pine etc). In the afternoon we did a flow chart to help us look at classification

Maths – continued work on fractions, with most of the class looking at mixed numbers.

In language new spelling words went out.

In PE we extended our learning on hockey, focusing on passing and shooting.

Tuesday:

In language today we created scripts for Macbeth and his good and evil consciences. We were able to use drama to help bring this to life, and LM excelled in this. We did this for extended writing, with some of the class working in small groups.

For maths we continued to look at fractions, with most of the class now having a much better understanding of equivalent fractions.

Coding with Mrs B was great fun, as always.

Wednesday:

Maths: one group continued their work on fractions. The rest of the class consolidated their recent maths work by creating loop games.

Language today was extra spelling activity. We also finished writing our “Macbeth’s Consciences”.

Mrs D continued the work on planting trees and posted on Twitter for people to stop walking their dogs in the field.

For IDL we quickly went back over facts and myths in Scotland.

Thursday:

Maths: continued looking at equivalent fractions, drawing pizzas to help us.

Language today was working on questions about the new reading books to help with our comprehension. We also did an extra spelling activity, again.

For IDL we made “fortune tellers” about Henry VIII.

Some of the children helped support the P1s and 2s with their ICT.

We even managed to squeeze in a quick music lesson!

Friday:

Maths: worked on more pizza!

PE: football activities with Mrs M. Also our class game: “Ball Tig”

 

 

 

 

This week in Primary 5 we have had some more time on Digital Learning:

We were doing some more coding and we discussed what we wanted to be when we are older – Ariah

With coding we did stuff with a snail and a spider. The spider could pick up the snail and go back to where its’ web was – Gracie

We did something called Stepping through Space, where you had to guide a rocket to Planet Earth whilst avoiding asteroids and other planets – Erin R

 

In spelling this week we had the choice of creating a story using our spelling words or picking one of the spelling tasks we have. Some of us used pyramid writing, some rainbow writing and some of us practised with a partner using noughts and crosses or writing our words on our partner’s back etc.

In Numeracy we have been looking at money. Mrs Hillan wanted to see what we were able to do so far and what we already knew. We did some activities where we had to make amounts of money using various coins and counting up amounts of money. This required us to use our coin recognition skills as well as our addition skills.

In Writing we began our Descriptive writing block. This links in with our Narrative writing so we had a good place to start. We began this week by looking at the big book example which was all about the moon. We discussed each section and then wrote our own versions of the description, using our own words and phrases.

 

In topic this week we had a go at creating some Celtic designs and thought about incorporating these into a piece of jewellery.

We also started creating our Celtic Roundhouses. We chose the materials we wanted to use and how best to tackle the task. In each group we had a facilitator to oversee the whole task, a time keeper to watch the time that we had to complete the task, a materials manager who collected all the materials we needed, and a quality checker who checked how our roundhouse was looking as we went along. We will finish these next week!

We look forward to some more fun learning next week!

Literacy

 

This week was the last week of our narrative writing. We had to read over our feedback and try and up-level our writing. We were writing about a spring adventure. We watched a short video about the things we may see in spring and added in this detail to our story. We had use our imagination to think of a complication which would make the reader want to read on. After we had finished writing, we swapped jotters with our elbow partner and we peer assessed our work using the success criteria.

 

In reading this week, we were reading a passage to find information. We read a passage about Pancake Day and we learnt lots of fun facts. Pancake Day is also known as Shrove Tuesday and is the day before lent begins. We had to use our decoding skills to help us sound out unfamiliar words. Then, we were using our skimming and scanning skills to help us answer questions about the text.

 

Maths

In our time topic, we continued to learn about converting analogue and digital times. We were also learning about writing the correct time in words. In addition to this, we started to introduce 5 minute intervals on the analogue clock.

 

IDL

For our sports topic, we continued to study the heart. This week, we carried out an experiment to see what happened to our heartbeat as we exercised. For the majority of us, we observed that our heartbeat increased as we exercised. Therefore, we investigated why our heart beats faster during exercise. We found out that this happens because our heart is pumping oxygen all around our body.

Monday:

Green Gym – we started this excellent activity today, with a problem solving task.

Maths – started looking at  scale, as this will help our understanding of the timelines we are working on

In language new spelling words went out. The class also wrote their narrative pieces “If I were a ….. “. The inspiration for this came from “Strawberry”, my pet snake which I had brought in and fascinated the class.

In PE we extended our learning on hockey, focusing keeping the ball close to the stick for accuracy on push passes. AS, SU, SD, EY  and SJR excelled.

For IDL today we carried on work on the timelines.

Tuesday:

In language today we looked at the original script of “Macbeth” and some of the old fashioned words.

For maths we continued to look at scale.

For IDL today we continued work on the Tudors, with partners researching famous people from the time, and continued writing biographies about them. We also continued work on the timelines, adding baby photos and “Not to scale”

 

Wednesday:

Maths: work on fractions including whole number.

Language today was another reading comprehension about the Tudors. The whole class found this very interesting.

The class was delighted to be able to at last support the P1s in ICT

Thursday:

With Ms T the class did activities relating to world book day.

We also did drama today based around “Macbeth”.

Mark worked with the class on a health activity on what will happen to the children in the future and they wrote letters to their future selves.

For IDL today we were finishing off work on biographies and timelines.

 

Friday:

Maths: worked on times tables practise.

PE: tennis activities. Also our class game: “Ball Tig”