Deans Primary School Blog

Literacy

In reading this week, we have been developing our skim reading skills. We were given a passage about winter sports and then we had to answer questions about the text. We were highlighting the key words in the question and skimming through the passage until we read those words. We would then read around the key words to find and highlight the information to help us answer the question.

During our narrative writing this week, we created a roll and write Valentine Story. We had to roll a dice and the number would tell us who our characters were, where our setting was and what the problem was. Then we had to use our imagination to develop a storyline to entertain the reader. We were focusing on using adjectives and connecting words to add in extra details to our stories.

Maths

This week, we were looking at addition and subtraction word problems. We had to use our critical thinking skills to help us work out what the question was asking us to do. Some of us underlined the key details in the question and then wrote the equation we were asked to solve.

We have also been continuing to develop our skills when telling the time. We have been stopping throughout the day to read the time on the clock. We have also been converting analogue time to 12 hour digital time.

IDL

As a class, we have voted for sports to be our IDL topic. We have made a plan about things we would like to learn throughout this topic.

In RME, we were learning about the Christian Bible story of Noah’s Art. We watched a video of the story and then had a class discussion about this story. We also had to write a summary of this Bible story and include all the key details.

Monday:

Holiday!

Tuesday:

Ditto!

Wednesday:

Reading activity: new reading books out to all. Worked on summarising the previous book.

Maths: work on giving directions

Science: classification of living things. We learned that fish are cold blooded.

Thursday:

Maths: gone back to looking at the relationship between fractions, percentages and decimals. We will continue to work on this.

Language today was working on predicting the new reading books.

Mark worked with the class on a health activity on individuals perceived themselves and were perceived by others.

Science was again looking at classification of animals, and we will continue to look at some of the characteristics that help to classify.

Mrs D continued the work on the BP net zero challenge

Friday:

Maths: one small group continued their work on place value while the majority of the class worked on the addition of mixed whole number and fractions.

Spelling, as usual.

Music: listened to a piece of music and discussed what it sounded like. It was “The Storm” from Britten’s opera “Peter Grimes”. The class thought it reminded them of lots of very relevant things, such as Disney’s “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

PE: tennis activities, during which SU, SJR, SD and MM were able to lead the learning with one of the activities. Also refining the rules of our class game: “Ball Tig”

Maths

The children have continued to work on time with Mrs Lockhart. They are working hard to identify o’clock and half past on a clock.

IDL

We have started our new IDL Topic of ‘The Body’. We have a hospital set up in the classroom and the children have enjoyed fixing broken bones and waiting to see the doctor in the waiting room!

Health and Wellbeing

We have been looking at differences and similarities we have with different people in class. We understand that it is good to be different.

Monday:

Extended writing on writers craft, continuing the narrative theme. The class created a story about “Sumo Joe”. The focus was on adverbs, similes and metaphors. EY was proud of their written work.

Maths was spent working on factors. JH excelled in this.

PE was spent working on hockey skills.

We also did a reading comprehension activity on the start of “Macbeth”.

Tuesday:

In Maths we continued work on factors and some of the class worked on prime numbers.

Literacy was spent bumping up narrative from the previous day as well as activities that will relate to world book day.

Today is internet safety day, and so we spent some time looking at how to keep ourselves safe online.

The class also really enjoyed coding with Mrs B

Wednesday:

Maths was spent working on angles. EY and MxD excelled.

Ms T worked with the class on some mental health activities.

The class were finishing their pocket garden designs  with Mrs D.

Thursday:

Amazing lesson on angles and directions.

More health activities on celebrating differences and getting to know more personal details about their class mates which generated great discussion. And in the afternoon even more mental health activities with Mark

Friday: Spelling, as usual.

PE: hand/eye coordination activities, also encouraging team work. Also creating our own class game: “Ball Tig”

Ice-cream van!

SU and KH birthdays

Scotland

This week we learned all about Edinburgh Castle. We drew some great pictures and wrote some facts about the Castle.

We also created a character for our Narrative writing who visited Edinburgh Castle.

Today is the end of our Scottish topic. We looked at some different Scottish food and drink and the children enjoyed some Irn-Bru and Shortbread.

Yoga

Our interactive Yoga wall is now set up in the classroom. The children are using different strategies when they feel they need to calm down or take a minute to themselves. The children can use these strategies at home.

Hand – the children use a finger to go up and down the fingers on the other hand to breathe in as they go up and breathe out as they go down.

Here is a link as an example – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQVZgpyVQ78

Spider – breathe in for four counts and out for four counts.

Cup – three part breath – 1, 2, 3 breathing in each time.

Have a lovely long weekend!

We’ve had an amazing week!

For Numeracy, we have been learning to read and tell the time.  For Maths, we have been learning to find factors and multiples of a number.

For PE, we practiced our aim and attacking skills during Dodgeball.  We also started performing Ceilidh dance.

We have been exploring ways to keep safe online and we have been leaning about gender equality.  We wrote a story about the Loch Ness and monster and read the myth of Ghillie Dhu.  We researched facts about Scottish clans and then we made our own personal crests.

Our stationery station enterprise is a hit!  Thank you all for your support.  Have fantastic long weekend!

This week in P5 we have continued our coding activities in Digital Learning. Here are some quotes from the children explaining what they were doing:

Summer – We were coding things to make them race.

Sophie C – We got to play this game called ‘Up in the air’ and we got to code the planes to go up in the sky and go around in circles.

Ariah – We were using the keys on the keyboard instead of tapping the screen.

In Numeracy we had a focus on Multiples, Factors and Primes. We learned that:

-Multiples are really just extended times tables.

-Factors are numbers that divide exactly into another number.

-Prime numbers are special numbers, greater than 1, that have exactly two factors, themselves and 1.

We used online videos and games to learn about these, including BBC Bitesize and Topmarks – both of which we can access at home too!

In Spelling this week we wrote out our spelling words and then circled the vowels in each word in one colour and then the consonants in each word in another colour.

In Reading we discussed our predictions from last week, looked at the comments Mrs Hillan made, and created new predictions for the next part of our stories, trying to see if we could improve on last week’s. If we can show we have made improvements, our pieces may go up on our Bump It Up wall.

In Writing this week, we used pictures for inspiration. We discussed the pictures and possible adventures/stories that could come from this. We noted down some good ideas and vocabulary that we could possibly use. After this, we each created our own plans for our stories and thought about a title for our piece. We will write our stories next time.

Here are the pictures we looked at and then some of our ideas:

Erin R – A girl will find a dying alien in a UFO. She will get a magic bike that will take her into space.

Kayleigh – A little girl will go for a walk and she will see a tiger who will put her into a house which is on fire.

Chloe – A little girl goes into the woods and finds a shape-shifter that can turn into lots of things, including a tiger.

Ariah – A girl goes a walk in the woods and finds someone who is trapped in a house. She tries to save the person, but can’t because there is a tiger guarding it.

This week is Internet Safety Week, so we have been discussing staying safe online, creating posters to encourage this, looking at potential dangers online and discussing scenarios we might come across.

Remember we are off on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th February and we will be back on Wednesday 16th. Have a lovely long weekend!!