Our Learning Highlights

Last week, in literacy we were learning that ‘ai’ sound. Here are some activities we took part in to help us learn this new sound:

• We read words with the ‘ai’ sound in them and had to draw a picture to show their meaning e.g. we would read rain then had to draw a picture of a cloud with rain.
• We played snakes and ladders with ‘ai’ words – try this at home. Write out some ‘ai’ words and put these on your snakes and ladders game.
• We were cutting out different sounds and putting them together to spell ‘ai’ words.
• We also used the letter cubes for the first time and used these to spell ‘ai’ words. We were also word building with the magnetic letters and velcro mats too.

We were introduced to the mighty writer board in our classroom and we were learning how it works. We used the board to help us write a story about a robot. This week, we will be using it write about a train – this will help embed our understanding of spelling words with the ‘ai’ sound.

In numeracy we have been continuing with addition. We have been using a rekenrek to support our addition problem solving. We’ve also been speaking about how rekenreks can help us add on if the addition story was 12+14 – we don’t have enough fingers! We could put 14 in our head and use the rekenrek to show 12 and add on.

Pupil Voice

 

Lennox – I liked playing with the bricks.

Sylvia – I was in the house corner making cakes.

Harry – Outside I was playing tig this week.

Ethan – I was playing toilet tig outside. You tig someone and then someone else flushes you so you can play again.

Sophie F – I enjoyed playing in the house corner, I was putting the baby in her pram.

Carly – We were learning about tricky words this week.

Kian – We have been adding on 2.

Joanna – I was writing my letters ‘oo’.

Lucy – We were learning about gymnastics.

Parental Involvement

This game http://ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html was a firm favourite this week. We were focusing on the ai, ee and oo sounds but you could pick lots of different sounds and have a go playing at home.

We have been using numicon to explore how to make 10. How many different ways can you make 10 using something exciting at home? You could use grapes or counters from your maths pack – be creative!

Learning Overview

This week in numeracy we have been focusing on converting fractions, decimals and percentages. We completed fraction walls for our jotters to help with calculating percentages of amounts. We have also started our money topic and looked at calculating hire purchase costs and working out profit or loss.

In literacy we went outside to set up our literacy clans based on our class novel Wolf Brother. We are split in to four clans and we all have a clan name, symbol, call and a tree. We have created posters to display this information in our classroom. We have also started new reading books this week, primary 7 will be reading private peaceful and working towards writing a critical essay. Primary 6 will be starting Wilderness. In writing we have been focusing on explanation. Our first explanation was all about why animals hibernate.

To celebrate Burns’ we looked at the poem Tam O’Shanter. We enjoyed the story, even though it was a bit strange! The primary 6 pupils created comic strips to retell the story and the primary 7 pupils created their own replies to Tam from his poor wive, Kate.

In PE we are working on floor sequences in gymnastics. We will be performing these to the class very soon.

Primary 6 were all part of the Scottish Celebration today. They have been working hard to learn their lines and their songs. The show was fantastic!!

Family learning

Have a go at some Scots poetry this weekend. See if you can find some fun poems to read as a family.

We all enjoyed our outdoor learning this week. Try and spend some time outdoors as a family. Ask your child to name trees, plants or features in the landscape based on the wolf’s descriptions.

 

Pupil Voice

Kasia – I enjoyed PE this week with Mr Cummings. We got to use some of the equipment to do some sequences.

Shannon – I enjoyed writing the poem reply because it was fun to try and write in Scots.

Sean – I enjoyed writing the explanation about hibernation. It was an interesting topic to find out about and write about.

Emma – I enjoyed taking part in the Scottish Showcase today. It was really fun learning all the songs!

 

Reminder

We will be taking part in outdoor learning every Monday. Please remember to come prepared and with appropriate clothing! 

Learning Highlights

This week some of our highlights include our performance of ‘Scotland the Brave’ for the school and for our parents. We really enjoyed the Scottish treats as a reward afterwards.

We have been learning about negative numbers and enjoyed making information posters that we can use as a helpful hint and put on our maths working wall.

We have been learning about the features of an explanation text and are ready to write our own over the next couple of weeks.

 

Pupil Voice

“I liked practising for the show!” – Alishba

“I liked learning about integers and negative numbers!” – Yaroslav

“I liked doing art. We had to do a portrait of Robert Burns!” – Julia C

“I enjoyed making the poster about negative numbers!” – Elenta

“I liked doing the negative numbers posters. I liked finding out what they are and when you might use them in real life!” – Wojtek

“I liked playing ‘Kahoot’ to play a quiz abut negative numbers because it was challenging!” – Abdullah

 

Parental Involvement

We would like parents to play kahoot with us and focus on negative numbers.

 

Have a great weekend, P5 and Miss Diamond.

Overview of Learning

This week our Science topic has moved onto Topical Science.  We focused on litter and recycling.  We used the story called The Messy Magpie as a stimulus and learned all about the different things we can do to reduce, reuse and recycle litter/rubbish.

In our literacy we stayed with our recycling theme and created leaflets about the dangers of litter to our environment and wildlife.  We have displayed these in our classroom.

In numeracy P2 have now completed their block of learning about “equal groups of” and next week we will begin to look at how we can share equally (dividing).  P1 everyone has now learned the number stories all the way up to 10 and our adding skills have made brilliant progress, some of us are even adding up to 20!

For our Health and Wellbeing everyone has now finished setting themselves their goals for this term.  P2 have set a Literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing goal.  P1 have all set a health and wellbeing goal and have then chosen if they wanted to make a numeracy or literacy goal.  Check these out on their profiles.

Home Learning

This week for home learning the children were asked to play Sumdog which is our school’s online maths programme.  You do not have to wait for it to be set for home learning to access and play this programme you can do it any time you like.

Next week P1 will be set up with their username and password too so they can have a go too.

At home try to be a Recycling Hero by carefully throwing our rubbish away correctly/safely!

Pupil Voice

Isla – I liked making the recycling posters.

Regan – I liked colouring the recycling logo.

Lucy – I liked when we were doing the I Spy sheet about the Three Little Pigs.

Lewis – I liked making my Lego cargo ship at Smart Start.

Wojtek – I liked making a tanker out of Lego.

Szymon – I liked the true and false questions we had to answer about the Three Little Pigs,

Oliwier – I liked building houses from the Kapla and bricks.

Shay – I liked trying to get my tower made from the pegs taller than Emileigh- Rose’s.

Emileigh-Rose – I like the Messy Magpie story.

Shakti – I liked making the little leaflet about recycling.

Kevin – I liked making the different houses.

Julian – I like to make cruise ships out of Lego at Smart Start.

Weekly overview

This week in maths we were calculating percentages of an amount, for example find 37% of 529ml. We were also converting fractions, decimals and percentages using the 10-5-1 rule. (Ask primary 7 about this at home). We also used our knowledge of fractions, decimals and percentages to order sets of fractions and to calculate costs of hire purchase.

In writing this week we have been focusing on descriptive writing. We had to use adjectives, adverbs and figurative language. We uses our class novel, Wolf Brother, for inspiration and described the setting, the main character and the demon bear.

We have also started our new science topic this week: Energy. We have learned about different types of energy and about energy transfer. We looked at household appliances and discussed the energy transfer taking place. We also made a paper helicopter to look at the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy.

In PE we have been focusing on floor sequences with Mr Cummings. We were using a range of rolls and balances whilst working in small groups.

 

Pupil Voice

Robbie – I enjoyed learning about fractions in maths.

Ola – I enjoyed practising for our upcoming p5 & 6 showcase.

Ailie – I enjoyed making sequences in PE

Louise – I enjoyed converting fractions, decimals and percentages with Mrs MacDonald.

 

Family Tasks

Have a look out for any discounts using fractions or percentages whilst you are out shopping or any adverts you see on tv or in the paper. Ask your child to show you how they would calculate the new cost.

Pupils have been using a new app called Flipgrid to create videos about their learning. Ask them to sign in online to show you their Spanish conversations and I Have a Dream Speeches.

Our Learning

Literacy

We have been learning the ‘l’ and ‘r’ sounds this week. These sounds can be quite tricky to say but we are working hard to pronounce them properly. We are still using the ‘ee’ and ‘oo’ sounds in our reading and spelling, one of our rainbow learning tasks was to spell words with ee or oo in them using the spelling mats. We were writing silly sentences with ‘ee’ and ‘oo’ words too, one sentence was – The spoon is up the tree. We’ve also had a go at fixing jumbled up sentences this week. The sentences didn’t make sense and we had to put them in the correct order making sure a capital letter was at the beginning and a full stop at the end and making sure the words in the middle were in the correct order and made sense!

Numeracy

We are continuing our addition topic and we have working on putting a number in our head and counting on – sometimes we have counted on beyond 10! We have also been developing our knowledge of different numbers that can add together to make 10, we enjoyed playing a matching game to match up the pairs to 10. We used our fingers to help us with this. We have also started to learn tricky doubles since we are very confident with doubles to 10 e.g. 1+1, 2+2 … 5+5. Now we have started learning the doubles to 20 e.g. 6+6 … 10+10.

 

Pupil Highlights:

Our favourite things this week have been:

Joanna: making a crown to be like a Queen. We made a flag for our castle.

Anaiya: castles have different flags so people know that castles are different.

Riyah: I liked doing number talks we were using 10 frames.

Anna: I liked learning about castles.

Sophie F: I know that castles can have different flags.

Amelie: I liked PE, we are doing gymnastics. I liked rolling down the slice of cake!

Mason: I liked learning the l and r sounds. L is for lick. R is for rack.

 

Home Learning Ideas

• Listen to the l and r jolly phonics jingles on youtube.
• We played this game as part of our rainbow learning. This was reinforcing our learning about shapes and patterns from last week.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

• Use this link for an interactive 10 frame and find as many different ways as you can find to make 5, 6 and 7.

https://apps.mathlearningcenter.org/number-frames/

• In our writing we listened and responded to the story ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’. We then wrote 1 or 2 sentences about what animal we would like to come to our house for tea and what they might eat. You could try to write a different sentence about another animal that might come to your house for tea.

• Here is the doubles song we have been listening to in class.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Davenport and P1

Learning Highlights

We have been rehearsing for our Scottish celebration assembly where we are the telling story of Robert the Bruce, Robert Burns and Saint Andrew.

In PE we have started our gymnastics block. We have been focusing on floor gymnastics and making a sequence with a partner and using balances.

In numeracy, we have been learning about factors, multiples and prime numbers. This was quite tricky to begin with but after lot of practise we have now got the hang of it.

In literacy, we have been learning about explanation texts. In an explanation we have to use sequencing words and use a flow chart at the planning stage to help gather and organise ideas.

In art, we have been making a portrait of Robert Burns. We were using pencils to do this.

In technology, we have been introduced to flipgrid

 

Pupil Voice

“I am enjoying doing the show!” – Madison

“I liked doing PE because I liked trying to make a sequence with different types of balances!” – Alishba

“I enjoyed doing PE because we got to make our own balances using different body parts!” – Maeve

“I enjoyed writing a description of a dragon using adverbs, adjectives and verbs!” – Wojtek

“I like rehearsing for the show because we get to see all the different parts and we get tossing songs!” – Oma

 

Parent Involvement

We would like parents to quiz us using questions about factors, multiples and prime numbers.

We would like to make a video using ‘Flipgrid’ at home to help us become more familiar with the app/website.

Try out some yoga at home to help everyone feel calm and relaxed.

 

Have a great weekend, P5 and Miss Diamond.

 

Teacher Voice

I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!

In class this week we have been learning all about Science through the context of the story about the Three Little Pigs.

We started off by testing four different types of material to see which could withstand the Big Bad Wolf blowing on it; feathers, straws, tissue paper and Kapla (wooden) bricks.  Our wolf was actually just a hairdryer!  We discovered that only the Kapla blocks didn’t blow away.  We then created some tent structures from card and used the material that blew away to decorate these.  After this we used a wide range of construction equipment to create our own designed houses.  Some fabulous imagination was on display and excellent engineering and problem solving skills were developed.

In our Literacy we also used this story in our writing.  P1 had to write about their favourite part and P2 had to remember the beginning, middle and end and write at least three sentences.

In numeracy P1 have continued to develop their addition within 10 and 20 using a wide variety of resources such as pictures, beads, numicon and cubes.  P2 have been developing their repeated addition calculations and now all understand the X sign in a calculation.

Home Learning

At home try to build your own house using different materials.  Include a door, window and roof.  You can take a photograph of it and put it on your wider achievements page in your profile.

Check in with your profile to see some of the photographs from our Science learning.

Pupil Voice

Shay – I enjoyed making the three pigs house.

Shakti – I enjoyed feeling the different materials that we tested.

Isla – I liked making the card houses.

Oliwier – I liked checking the different material to see if it would blow away.

Emileigh-Rose – I liked when then hairdryer blew away the feathers.

Lily – I liked when the Kapla didn’t blow away.

Szymon – I liked building the houses.