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Primary 7 weekly update
A busy week again in P7. Lots of great learning was happening.
In Maths, we learned how to measure angles using a protractor. We found this a challenge, especially trying to decide which side of scale to use for each angle. Mrs Andison was impressed at our perseverance and how accurate we were.
In Technology, we learned how to make 3d pop-up cards. We designed our own card, make a mockup of it and, once we were happy it would work, we then made our final card.
In IDL, we have finalised our PowerPoint presentations on discrimination. We will be presenting these to our peers . It will be great to see what aspects each of us have researched.
We are looking forward to the week ahead and to our Christmas party.
Have a great week everyone.
From Primary 7 and Mrs Andison
Primary 2/1
This week we have been busy with Christmas crafts. The children have made their own Christmas place mats which they will bring home. We have also been busy practising for The Nativity.
Primary 2
Primary 2 have been working hard with Mrs McConville learning about shapes. This week they have been successful learners by looking at 3 different pieces of artwork by Wassily Kandinsky, who is thought to be the first abstract artist using only colours and shapes in his work. They looked at his painting ‘squares with concencentric circles’ and used this as inspiration for their own artwork. They created christmas trees with concentric baubles and they look fantastic.
In numeracy we have been practising our addition and have been using our rekenreks to help us count. We have worked together as a whole class using a digital rekenrek, and have also worked in pairs to use them at our tables to help us complete our maths workbooks.
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P4 Learning
As part of our Christmas fun week, pupils have been drawing snowmen using oil pastels. They used a smudging technique to show shading and shadows. Here are their super snowmen drawings.
P5 Christmas Crafts
This week we have been busy with Christmas crafts. The children have been creating a Christmas decoration for them to take home. Also the children have been effective contributors because they have been making sheep for the Nativity display.
Primary 4
As part of our focus on writing a narrative, we have been working on adverbs. We have explored how to change adjectives to adverbs, complete sentences using them and then created sentences using adverbs. Here is an example.
Primary 7 Weekly update
Well it’s been another busy week in Primary 7. We continue to learn more about different types of discrimination and the impact it can have on individuals and families. We are currently using our own research, on two different types of discrimination, to create Power Point presentations to share with others in the class. Our research skill are improving every week.
We are looking forward to our Christmas lunch on Wednesday.
Winter Calendar
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Primary 2
This week we have been successful learners when looking at estimating and subitising in numeracy. We have been challenging ourselves to estimate quantities and have had a go at daily esti-mysteries where we have to use the clues to help us make a more accurate estimate.
We have also been working in small groups where one person put out a handful of counters and everyone then had to estimate how many counters were laid out. We then worked together to check our estimates by counting, thinking about how to arrange the counters (in rows of 5 or 10) to then get the total amount by skip counting.
To test our knowledge of climate zones and animal habitats we all worked together to sort animals into their climate zone based on what their habitats are like. We noticed how most of our polar zone animals were white and discussed why we thought they all had this in common.
