Author: Mrs Dick

Hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend.  As it is a short week homework will be a different format.

I am asking everyone to re-read one of their chapters in their class book or read onto the next chapter (don’t read any further than one extra chapter so the group can stay together).

Tomorrow in class there will be a Summary sheet for you take home as your homework.

Due to the fact you are not being issued this piece until a Wednesday it will not be due in until Tuesday, 31st May.  Feel free to hand it in earlier than this if you would like to.

If you would like extra practise on Maths concepts try out this web page which has links to a wide variety of games, you could blog a comment as to which game you chose and if you thought it helped you.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing-numbers

Well done to all those who have already completed their presentation, the standard has been very high. 🙂

Mrs Currie

Hi there,

As we have not had our homework diaries home this week some children have asked if I could blog the criteria for our presentation homework due on Tuesday 24th.  Please see below.

IDL and Maths – To be prepared for week beginning Tuesday 24^th May

Research a food product or company and create a presentation about it.  Your presentation can include a powerpoint to support it or props etc.  You should aim to speak for 4 minutes.

Some ideas for your presentation,

• What is the logo and/or slogan for the product?
• What is the history of the product (what it looked like years ago)?
• Include sales figures or numerical facts and any relevant graphs or charts.
• What does the future hold for your chosen product.

I will score your presentation out of ten using the following criteria,

3 points – preparation of presentation (notes/props/powerpoint/content)

3 points – confidence of your voice and how clearly you speak

3 points – eye contact with audience

1 point – your talk lasts between 3 and 5 minutes.

Hope this helps.

Mrs Currie

In class on Monday we made fruit faces to encourage us to eat more fruit.  Try to make one at home.  Leave a post and tell me what fruit you used.  Optional challenge – Take a picture or draw a picture and bring it into class to share.

Happy eating!

Mrs Currie

For homework, aim to do the following aerobic workout at home twice in the week.  Challenge an adult to do it with you!  For an extra dojo point you can post how you got on and tell me which exercise you like the most and the least.  Good luck.

Mrs Currie

This week in our Food Glorious Food topic we have been looking at the benefits of fruit and vegetables and why it is so important to establish healthy eating habits in young children.  It astonished us when we learned that 56% of children at Primary schools in Scotland do not eat enough fruit or vegetables in a day and this rises to 80% for Secondary aged pupils.  This led us to write a mock letter to West Lothian Council explaining that we think it would be a good idea for all P1 and 2 children to be given a piece of fruit to eat during their milk time.  In our letter we expressed our opinions and backed it up with some facts that we learned.  The were some excellent examples of fact and persuasion on show, perhaps there are future politicians among us or even a future First Minister!

In maths we have started a new method of developing our mental maths strategies.  It is called “Numbertalks”.  For this we have been focusing on strategies for doubling and halving a 3-digit number as well as X10 and /10.  During these lessons we do not put our hands up instead we hold our closed fist against our chest and raise our thumb if we have worked out the answer.  We can show how many different maths strategies we can use to get the answer by straightening our fingers.

Next week is our school Health Week and everyone has a letter home with them today explaining that they have to come to school dressed in sports wear for the week, be prepared in be indoors and outdoors.  I cannot wait, this is my most favourite week in the school calendar!!  My trainers have been washed and my leg warmers are looked out…

Loads of photos to come next week!

Make sure you are well rested over the weekend ready for our week of activity next week.

Mrs Currie

Work on our new wall display about our “Food Glorious Food” topic is well underway.  We have decided our “Ninian’s Nutritious Num Nums” will cost 50p and we have created our own posters to advertise this product.  We have been creating catchy slogans to help sell this product, some examples are

“The flavours are tropically explosive!” (Krzysztof)

“Have a short break, have a num num!” (Edwin)

“So milky, forget about the UDDERS!” (Reece)

In maths we have been revising our written methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  We had to make sure that we lined up our place values correctly when we were writing our vertical calculations.

We are also listening to the story of “The Magician’s Nephew” which is the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia.  We are at the exciting moment when the characters Polly and Digory are about to visit Narnia for the first time!!!!!

To link with our Health topic we are learning the body parts in spanish, this is the youtube video clip we are currently watching to help us,

Hasta la vista.

Mrs Currie