Author: Miss Fleming

For reading last week, primary 6 were focusing on questioning.

Miss Fleming introduced a new book to the class called The Weather Weaver by Tamsin Mori. The book was wrapped up in Christmas paper – once we opened it up, we predicted what the story was going to be about by looking at the front cover and reading the blurb. We then looked at a chart to create questions. Whilst I read the story, children came up with questions on their whiteboards – these questions came from the first 2 pages of the book! Primary 6 cannot wait to find out how these questions will be answered.

Anti Bullying Week 2022 – we have been learning about how we can reach out to others if we are being bullied or if we see someone being bullied. We have learned that we can speak to a trusted adult, include everyone and be kind to others. For Anti-Bullying week, we also had discussions about texting and what is appropriate. We looked at scenarios if someone was receiving hurtful text messages and how we could respond to this.

Art – We have been learning how to create a silhouette by creating a background where we blend colours from dark to light with white paint. We looked at the contrast this made when painting the silhouette of a tree over the background.

Topic – for our news topic, we have been learning about Fake News. The children have identified what makes a news story fake, by thinking about the source, the date, who has written it and if the article has been shared anywhere else. We have also explored different news outlets through a scavenger hunt to find different articles and what makes it newsworthy.

Book Week 2022 – For book week, the children watched an Author’s Live with the author Anthony Horowitz, the writer of the Alex Rider books. Here is what the children had to say about it

P6 Term 2 TLO

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Primary six have been working hard since returning for term 2.

Literacy: In writing, we have been looking at narrative writing. We will be writing a piece about a haunted house in the coming weeks. For reading, we have started working in our reading groups and exploring different texts. We have been focusing on clarifying words this week.

Reading for pleasure has been a key focus this term. To encourage this, we have been reading audiobooks by scanning QR codes around the classroom. Some children have also been looking at non-fiction texts.

For writing, we have been writing All About Me using descriptive writing.

In reading, we have been reading about the Talisman, book number 3 focusing on the “oe” phoneme.

We have been continuing to read The Boy at the Back of the Class – we read chapters 13 and 14 this week and did some comprehension and prediction tasks.

In numeracy, some of us have been learning about decimal place value. Other groups have been rounding up whole numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. We went outside for some number games and consolidated our learning by using playing cards.

For PE we have been playing basketball and doing circuits.

In topic we drew posters based on what we have already learned.

We made sculptures in art.

 

This week in topic, we have been learning about the difference between refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants and internally displaced  people.

In maths, we have been learning about angles with Mrs. Harrison. We learned about acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles.

In numeracy with Miss. Fleming, we have been doing place value, exploring 4, 5, 6 and 7 digit numbers and their values.

In literacy, we are learning how to write descriptively, by using PM writing. We are reading the boy at the back of the class and working on comprehension and predicting skills.

P6 Term 1 TLO

P6 Home Learning Choice Board