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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

A Smelly and Tasty week in Primary 3

   

We have been very busy using our senses this week.  We had a smelly quiz where we were trying to guess what things were, just from their smell.  We also had a tasting session, and we were focusing on whether the tastes were sweet, sour, salty or bitter.  We found it quite hard.

We were also trying our hand at writing sensory poems.  It was quite difficult as we were trying to include each of the 5 senses.  It looks like, it smells like, it sounds like, it tastes like, it feels like.

We are continuing to work in maths on rounding to the nearest ten.  This week we also had a visit from the Transport Police, reminding us to stay away from the railway.

A Busy Start to 2019 for Primary 3

We are all happy to see everyone back in class after the holiday.  We have been very busy this week.

We have been learning about place value and we use thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.  We had fun making different number using the year 2019.  The biggest number we made was 9210 and the smallest number we made was 129.  We have been practising working with big numbers and sorting them into order.

We have been reading new books, writing thank you letters to Santa and we have been learning to take notes.  We have also been exploring our sense of touch and we have had fun using a feely bag.

P3 Try Coding in ICT

This week we have started to learn about coding in ICT.  We were programming simple instructions to get the angry bird to go and get the pig.  “It was amazing.”   “It was awesome”.  Everyone was able to work at their own pace and we all had fun.

Maths
We have been learning about friendly numbers, such as 10 or 5 and we have been using them in our number talks to help us to  add 2 digit numbers.  We also learned to play a new game.

Road Safety Week
It is Road Safety Week this week, and we have been looking at the Green Cross Code and writing about how to cross the road safely.  We were sequencing instructions in the correct order.

As part of our senses topic, we have been focusing on the sense of hearing this week.  We have been on outdoor and indoor sound walks and we even managed to play sound bingo.

Our Senses – P3

We are learning about our senses, and this week we have been focusing on the sense of sight.  In writing we tried closing our eyes and used our imaginations to think about what we might see out of the window.  It was actually dull and raining out of our classroom window at the time, but we managed to think about seeing lovely views out of our pretend windows.

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