This week we have been learning about the value of numbers. We used the 100 square on the smart board and had to click on the correct number. If the number had 5 tens and 3 ones we would click on 53. Once we were confident in this we moved onto numbers to 1000. For this we used the place value flip chart. If the number had 3 hundreds, 4 tens and 3 ones we had to make the chart read 348. We are going to keep working on this next week.
We had another informative visit from Alan Hamilton. We looked at what it was like for children during WWII, covering: jobs, accommodation, evacuees, toys, rationing and sweets! It was useful to link our findings with the UNCRC and our rights today.
The pupils felt inspired by Alan’s information on WWII games, so we decided to go outside and try some of them out, we even came up with some of our own.
We have been learning about money and have had a great time playing in our class shop. We are beginning to recognise different coins and starting to add coins together. We also love to play the ‘topmarks toy shop’ game in the iPads.
We have been extending our vocabulary during our learning about the weather. We learned the words ‘condensation’, ‘evaporation’ and ‘precipitation’. We played one of our favourite games in class (corners) to help us remember the different words.
This week Primary 1 have been very busy learning about measure. We used a balance scale and have been using the words heavier and lighter to describe the objects we weighed. We then estimated what we thought some classroom items might weigh then recorded how many cubes it took to make the scale balance. We used measuring cups to make reindeer food to sell tomorrow at the Christmas Fayre.
In Literacy we have been learning the new sound ‘j’. Some of us have been identifying and writing beginning sounds and others have been writing small words; stretching out the words to write the beginning, ending and middle sound.
We have started going onto the stage to practise our nativity and were very excited when the tickets went home!
We have always been discussing how to stay safe near roads and have learnt Super Cat’s rules; Stop! Look both ways. Listen. Think!
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.
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.
During book week we took part in lots of great activities. We received visits from several secret readers. We went to the library and got our Read, Write, Count bags and a book from the Queen. We also listened to stories and read with each other. We took part in the Book Week bookmark competition by drawing our favourite animals character from a book. It has been a brilliant week.
