The Kirkhill Chatter

This week in Primary 2/1 we have continued to learn new sounds and are blending our sounds to make words. We have begun to look at directions and the vocabulary we can use like left, right, forwards and backwards. We had lots of fun directing each other around the classroom and playground.

After reading the Gruffalo’ Child this week our outdoor learning this week was learning about shadows. We were lucky to get some sunny weather and were able to draw around each other’s shadows. There was also some bug hotel building too. 

We really enjoyed taking part in the MacMillan coffee morning today, well done to the Primary 4s and Miss Thomson, it was great fun!

We’ve been very busy with our learning over the last few weeks in P4/3.  Last week we were very excited to try making one of the recipes from the Secret Seven stories that we’ve been reading!  We created our very own homemade lemonade and it was delicious!  Some of us had never tried real lemonade before so it was very exciting.  This week we worked in writing to learn how to give information by writing the recipe.  Here’s the recipe if you’d like to try it yourself.

Ingredients – 1 cup of sugar
1 cup of boiling water
4 cups of cold water
6 lemons

1. First boil the water on the stove and dissolve the sugar in the water.  Take off the heat and leave to the side.
2. Cut the lemons in half and using a lemon squeezer, squeeze out all the juice.
3. Add the lemon juice to the sugar water and the cold water and give a good mix.
4. Chill in the fridge until cold.
5. Enjoy!

Another busy couple of weeks in Primary 6/5!

In Maths at the moment we have been working on addition and subtraction. Some of us have been looking at chimneys sums and are even trying tricky ones where we have to carry numbers over.

Today we did a problem solving problem exercise where we had to solve all the problems using addition and subtraction to try and turn our class back from robots! We’ve not finished our mission yet but we will continue next week!

This week we had a FUTSAL taster session where we practicing different skills and tricks with the footballs. Some of our class are going to join the weekly lunchtime club.

Some of skills we have been working on in our writing have included using paragraphs, AFORTEST persuasive techniques and including interesting openers for our sentences. We are finishing off our work on persuasive writing and so next week we are going to be hosting a class debate on whether pupils should have to do homework or not. Details on the preparation of this can be found in the children’s home learning jotter.

Highlights of the week…

Joshua – I liked working on my persuasive writing.

Jayden – I like doing my persuasive writing and getting better at using paragraphs

Blanka – I really enjoyed working together as group in our problem solving challenge

Matthew – I liked when we tried to turn our class back from robots and working as a team

Emilie – I enjoyed doing P.E this week because we did different games using team work.

All children have all had a slip with a time for parents evening for next week. If there are any problems, please contact the school and we can make alternative arrangements.

Have a good weekend! 🙂