In our Literacy lessons we are looking at the features and layout of a Procedure. We discussed the 4 parts to a set of Instructions
Title
Goal
Materials
Steps
We also looked at adding a Top Tip and diagrams to help our reader!
Using these skills in an everyday context we had a fantastic melted snowman sugar cookie made by a member of our class.She told us how she carefully followed a procedure,a recipe in this case to make this yummy creation. Well done! It looked amazing.
In Numeracy, we have been using our new geo boards to help us learn multiplication. We always use a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach and we talk about the groups we make to show a calculation.
We have been using the geo boards to make arrays. Last week, we worked hard to make groups of 10 and we could talk confidently about the arrays we made. The photo at the bottom shows Finlay’s creativity with the geo boards. He used the elastic bands to show a calculation in a different way and he enjoyed sharing his strategy. This started a new trend in class as his peers started using the boards in the same way. Well done everyone!
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
“10 x 3 = 30.”
We have been working hard to develop ball control skills in P.E. We enjoyed taking our P.E outside on Wednesday for the first time in a while. We used the basketballs to bounce to a partner and the aim of the game was to try and make sure the ball only bounced in the hoop once.
We had a discussion about the skills we were using and we all agreed that teamwork was one of the most important skills. We also identified “adapting” as a skill we used as we had to use a growth mind-set, especially if our partner won more points than us. We are excited to use our skills to play team games.
Article 24: We have the right to be healthy.
Every Friday we work on our handwriting. We practice our letters lots of different ways – white boards, smart board, jotters and wipe clean boards. We work on our letter formation so that we do it correctly in all of our work. Later on this year we will start to join letters so really need to be writing them the correct way.
Congratulations to a member of our class who earned this ribbon for a fancy Dress Halloween Competition in Peebles. Not only was she dressed as a Spider in a web but her horse,Harley also came dressed up in tiny webs too. Sounds Amazing! Well done. Pictures please!!!!
We know how important it is to use our Numeracy skills in an everyday context and with our current topic of Money we have had plenty of opportunity to link our learning to the real world. The class have brought in a whole range of shopping receipts and we have used this to not only devise our own set of questions,so also linking to our literacy outcomes but also answering our peers questions using all 4 operations. We also had the opportunity to demonstrate our skills further as P6 both collected and counted the Children In Need Donations. We had a group of bankers that did an amazing job! I think we can all see how important Numeracy is in our everday life and just how many times we use Maths perhaps without even realising it!
Primary 7 celebrated book week through various activities. We looked at comprehension and how this is important to understanding the text. We were very grateful to accept a book about the Queens Jubilee and we made book covers for the school competition. We were surprised by a secret reader who read a very interesting chapter from the book she brought – we tried to predict what would happen next…
We finished the week by reading to our buddies and ended up reading in some unusual places…
Happy Book Week!
Primary 5 have had a busy week celebrating Book Week Scotland this week. We began by writing reviews of our favourite books and sharing these with the rest of the class. We joined an Authors Live event where we took part in a draw-along session with author and illustrator Emily Mackenzie to recreate her character Granville, who features in ‘There’s Broccoli in my Ice Cream’- great fun! On Thursday we joined a live Giglets session where we heard the story of Tommy Foghorn and had an opportunity to hear from the illustrator and ask him questions. We also enjoyed creating animal-themed book covers for our school competition and received our Queen’s Jubilee commemorative books from Mrs Robertson. We enjoyed stories from two Secret Readers and made bookmarks with our P3 Reading buddies. A fantastic celebration of books and reading!
A very big thank you to all our visitors who have joined us this week to celebrate Book Week Scotland 2022.
It was wonderful to have you all in our library to share the books in the Book bags with Primary 1, 2 and 3 learners.
All pupils also received their copy of the book ‘Queen Elizabeth’ which celebrates the 70 year reign of the late Queen.
And not forgetting a huge thank you to those parents and carers who volunteered to be secret readers. Classes really enjoy having visitors. It is much appreciated.
We hope you have all enjoyed sharing a story together this week.. remember if you have been reading in some really unusual places we would love to see a photo!
Happy Reading everyone!
Article 31 You have the right to relax and play.
What a busy Book Week Primary 1 have had! It was great to meet so many parents in the library on Monday and receive Book Bags. In class we have read each story and made bats, our own sea creature book and chosen clothes to dress for different weathers.
We were also surprised 3 times with secret readers and loved the stories. We had a bookmark competition in class and are waiting to hear who our winners are.
Please remember to return reading books on Thursdays to ensure everyone can take one home the following week.
