Today Primary 2/1 enjoyed a literacy morning.

P1

LI: We are learning about the sound /t/.

SC: I understand where and how I make the sound.

SC: I can recognise the letter shape for /t/.

SC: I can identify words with the initial sound /t/.

SC: I can form the letter shape for /t/ correctly.

The P1s learned all about a new sound, ‘t’. After being introduced to ‘t’ using interactive resources, we enjoyed lots of different activities to help us learn about the new sound and revisit others.

We played a game of popcorn, where the children pop up if they hear a word beginning with ‘t’.

We used a variety of multi-sensory resources to make the letter shape.

“We used the slime to make it” Erin

“We made a twinkling ‘t’.” Charlie

“We were also writing on the mini boards.” Cayla

“With the wee beads we made a ‘t’.” Amber

They also demonstrated their understanding of which sounds are long and stretchy, and which are short and bouncy.

“We were stretching for the long and stretchy sounds like ‘m’. Jake.

“We were doing short and bouncy. We jumped.” Imogen

Grace’s favourite thing this morning was making ‘t’ with putty.

P2

LI: We are learning to self-assess our writing using ‘Tickled Pink and Green for Growth.

SC: I can read my writing carefully.

SC: I can identify things in my writing which achieve the success criteria and highlight them pink.

SC: I can identify things in my writing which do not achieve the success criteria and highlight them green.

SC: I can talk about what I have done well and what I could try harder to achieve next time.

The Primary 2s are learning to self-assess their writing using ‘Tickled Pink and Green for Growth’. First they read their writing very carefully. As they read, they identified things in their writing which match the success criteria and highlighted them pink. Anything which didn’t quite meet the success criteria they highlighted green. We were very pleased with all of the pink in our writing jotters! 😀

The highlighting lets us consider what we have done really well, and create targets for the next time we write. For example, after self-assessing her writing this morning, Isla M said “I put all of my full stops in the right place, and I’m going to work on doing some openers next time.” Finlay said “I put two connectives in, which you asked for. Next time I’ll remember to put capital letters at the start of every sentence.”

Once we are confident using ‘Tickled Pink and Green for Growth’, we will start to peer assess each other’s writing. We can’t wait to see how much this technique improves the quality of our writing!

Primary 7 have been using our IDL context to learn and research about what a biography is, it’s features and what differing types there are.  We began the week by researching about our groups’ political leader from WW2 – Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Josef Stalin.  We used a variety of texts in our reading lessons to look at some examples of current famous people’s biographies to gain a good understanding as to what a biography should look like and include.  We then used our research to plan our War leader biography, completing the write up and self assessment.  As part of our IDL context and research, we were also challenged to create life size art creations of the leaders, using measurement skills and their real life heights.  We focused in on attention to detail, from fashion, to iconic objects which the leaders were known to carry or use – the final results are fantastic.  We have proudly displayed our leaders around our classroom. Pictures to follow!

Learning Intention:

We are learning to write a biography using accurate information, sequenced in chronological order.

Success criteria:

I can include date and place of birth.

I can write about family/childhood information and education.

I can detail what this political leader was famous for.

I can include detail about their involvement in World War 2.

I can include information about place, date and circumstances of their death.

My information has been written in full sentences and follows chronological order.