The Kirkhill Chatter

This week we have been rounding off our learning about measurement. We had to create posters which showcased our learning about area, perimeter, units of measurement and tools for measuring. Mrs Weir is very impressed with our work on this!

We all were very sweaty after P.E. this week where we focused on fitness circuits indoors and trying to improve our fitness. In our outdoor slot we were focusing on athletics and in particular running and throwing the javelin which we found quite challenging because of the wind direction. We are looking forward to trying this again next week.

On Thursday we learned about the Scottish artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh and looked at some of his designs. We had to think about the different shapes and styles which he uses and then had to make our own paintings based on this.

This week we also started our transition novel ‘The Boy in the Dress’ by David Walliams. We are enjoying it so far and have had lots of discussions in class about stereotypes and have been discussing the different themes of the novel so far. We have looked at Bloom’s pyramid and questioning during comprehension activities related to the novel. As part of transition we have also been writing personal statements about ourselves as part of our work on Didbook. We found it really tricky to write about ourselves. We can access and update Didbook at home as we all have our own usernames and passwords.

We have also had rehearsals of our song for the Celebrating Success assembly on Tuesday 16th and are looking forward to finding out the certificate winners. The children are invited to wear summer clothes for this performance.

This week Mrs Weir has had to have some discussions with the class about behaviour and in particular about playground behaviour. It has been re-iterated that fun treats such as Blair Drummond will not happen if we don’t follow the Rights and Right actions of the school. Some of us are looking forward to a fresh start next week.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

This was a short week, but a busy one!

In maths, we continued learning about time, moving on from half hours and quarter hours to looking at five minute intervals.

In writing, we had a go at creating a recipe for our favourite type of sandwich.

In PE, we continued to learn about badminton, using the rackets and aiming for those shuttlecocks!

We also continued with our topic on farming and where food comes from. We looked at what makes a well-balanced diet, and even had a taste test, trying a bit of food from each of the five food groups! Here is a photo of some of the children enjoying their snacks:

The children also got to take home their sunflowers, which we planted last week. The flowers have sprouted and are already getting tall. Remember to put them in a sunny place and water them regularly. When they are a bit bigger, you could even plant them in your garden or put them into a bigger pot. Here is a photo of some of the children with their sunflowers:

Have a lovely weekend!

We have had a lovely short week in Primary 7 this week and everyone seems to have enjoyed their days off enjoying the sun.

The class had a great time telling the non-campers all about their time at Kingswood and sharing their favourite activities from their time at camp. The non-campers told us what they got up to during our time away and it sounded like it was action packed. Thankfully everyone seems to have rested over the holidays ready for some hard work over the next few weeks.

We have been enjoying some athletics during our P.E. sessions. We have been trying to persevere with running activities and trying to pace ourselves. Today we had some heats with P7/6 to decide who would be representing P7 at the Gala Sports.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

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Here’s this week’s learning in P4.

Friday 5^th May 2017

In P.E we learned how to play basketball and football. Also we started a new activity, Gymnastics, and learned how to do a cartwheel. Oscar, Allie, Callie, Grace S and Holly enjoyed showing us how to perform a cartwheel and the rest of the class tried their best and that means success!

In Literacy, we read an interesting fantasy story and showed our understanding through answering comprehension questions and we learned how to write dialogue with speech marks along with other punctuation (!,?…).

In Maths, we finished our Money topic this week and most of us feel confident in counting coins and working out change. Others found it a bit tricky and need a little more practise but tried their best!

Lastly, we continued to learn about Forces in Science and introduced Magnets. We learned that there are 2 types of forces, which are pull and push. We worked with partners and thought of different actions to show a force and then showed the rest of the class, who had to guess. Most were correct!

Apologies for the delay in posting P4 learning. Miss Clark is having difficulty getting onto the system.

Here’s last week’s learning.

What P4 learned this week…

This week we have been learning all about the tragedy of the Titanic. Nico learned that the Titanic sank on the 15^th of April 1912 after hitting a large, freezing iceberg. Oscar enjoyed the task yesterday when we had a mission to make a ginormous picture of the Titanic on our class wall. We used paper, paint and glitter, it was very messy!

Toby also learned about comprehension and the importance of not only knowing but understanding facts about the Titanic. Lewis learned that in 3^rd class the passengers had to share bunk beds. Chantelle felt sad that 1^st class got to get off the Titanic first, just because they had more money! Kiera remembered that there was over 2000 people on board and Maddison was sad that between 702-712 passengers didn’t make it.  Zack was shocked to find out that Captain Smith ignored 7 iceberg warnings!  Steven learned that it took 2 hours and 40 minutes for the Titanic to completely sink to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Jayden and Grace enjoyed learning how to bridge when subtracting amounts of money in maths. Deryn thought bridging was hard but fun. Cristian, Yousef and Tia felt that they got better at counting money! Ryan and Robert learned how to give out change when playing the shop game. Blanka and Grace B really liked learning through play in maths and thought the games were really fun. Holly learned that you need to always check your change when you are buying something.

In Science, we were learning about Forces. Layla learned that when carrying out a ‘fair test’ there must be one thing different, called a Variable. Everything else must stay the same and is called Constants. Callie learned that there are different types of forces, e.g. pull and push. Joshua learned that cold air goes down and hot air goes up! Allie enjoyed learning about different solids, liquids and gases.