Category: Our Learning Stories

Our new topic is about Our Woodland and we have been looking at images of natural and man-made woodlands to identify how we can tell if a woodland is naturally growing.  We also made clay hedgehogs.

In Maths we have been learning to use symbols for more than and less than to solve simple equations.

In Drama we have been using play scripts to learn and present plays to the rest of our class.  This also links with our literacy as we are learning to tell the difference between a story and a play script.

Well done to Murron who completed her Rainbow promise and shared it with the rest of her class.

Primary 7 made the decision about their prom theme just before the holidays.  It was a difficult decision with so many great ideas on the board.

We finally got it down to 4 choices and had a class vote.

The theme we have chosen is ‘The Oscars’. 

We would be really grateful if anyone who has any decorations that match this theme could let us know.   We are going to have a busy term making things and  planning for our special evening.

This morning Primary 6 enjoyed taking part in celebrating the solar eclipse. Because it wasn’t safe to look at the sun we decided to make a sound recording. When we listened back it was definitely quieter, with fewer birds chirping. We also set up a stop motion recording to see how the light changed from start to end of the eclipse. We hope to upload this video soon.

We spent quite a bit of time learning more about solar eclipses. We worked with a partner to create a poster or leaflet with more information. These are on display on our classroom window so please take a look next time you are passing by.

Next  week we are going to start learning about staying safe and we will complete the Keeping Myself Safe programme. The following week we are going to learn more about babies and growing up.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Anderson & P6

The children had a fabulous Red Nose Day on Friday and enjoyed the activities.  Miss Miller tested the children on spelling their common words and Miss Brennan and Miss Vermeulen worked together to teach the children how to make Red Nose Day bookmarks.

This week the children have been keen to spell out their common words so that they can improve on their previous score to move their arrow on our class target board.  In Maths they have been working on doubles and have played domino and playing card games to help them to remember their doubles facts.  They have also been exploring the similarities and differences between adult and baby animals and talked about how we can tell which family a baby animal is from.  Some of the baby animals were quite tricky to identify but children made links to books they had looked at in our class library and used this to identify the adult animal. The children were also very keen to talk about who they thought they looked most like in their family and why.  In Literacy this week the children wrote acrostic poems about Spring.  They discussed what an acrostic poem is and gave lots of ideas for words associated with Spring for use in their poems.