Literacy

In literacy we have been learning how to use commas correctly to separate items in a list and how to use a prefix and suffix to change the meaning of a word. As part of our book week celebrations we visited the nursery to share and read our favourite stories with them.

Maths and Numeracy

In numeracy, we have been learning how to identify factors of numbers and prime numbers and have been learning how to manage money, work within a budget and discussing the different ways we can save and pay for goods. In Maths we have been learning how to accurately measure angles using a protractor.

Other

In science, we have continued our “Food Chains” topic by designing and creating our own rainforest creature and labelling their characteristics for survival.  We did this by creating our own set of class Top Triumph cards.

In Health and Well Being we have been learning how to keep ourselves safe online.  We learned about CEOP and they also help keep us safe online

In PE, we have been developing our ball skills for Handball and Tennis.  In Handball we have been learning how to throw and catch the ball correctly and in tennis we have been learning how to do a forehand and back hand stroke.

In IDL we have been continuing our investigations into Scottish Myths and Legends. We have been discussing the difference between a legend and a myth and then investigated familiar Scottish tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and The Kelpies. We will also be researching the Dechmont Alien Landing and the Scottish Witch Trials. We even used art and craft materials to design and make our own mythological creatures.

As part of Languages week we decorated our classroom door to celebrate Chinese culture, linking it to Chinese New Year. We learned how to write our name in Chinese, created a dragon using our handprints and crafted traditional Chinese lanterns.

We have started preparation for our upper school show which is based on the work of the Beatles.  We have been learning songs to sing and some of us have speaking parts to learn.

Mrs Welsh was telling us about how much she enjoyed learning to curl with her family so we have borrowed the cluster indoor curling equipment to learn some of the skills needed.

It has been another very busy few weeks in P6, especially in the lead up to Christmas!

In literacy we have developing our comprehensions skills by reading extracts from Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” and have been learning how to create imagined recounts by writing dairies from the point of view of people living through the war. As part of our STEAM project we created activities to teach to infant classes using Christmas Stories as inspiration – we chose “The Snowman.”  Some of our children visited the Primary One classes to do snowman vegetable prints and snowman inspired Beebot tasks where the children could practise their coordinates, direction and ICT Skills.  We have also been creating Christmas Comic strips and listening and talking, we presented our class talks on famous World War 2 figures.

In numeracy we have been learning how to convert fractions into decimals and investigating percentages and how they link to fraction and decimals.  In Maths we have continued to investigate different ways to measure, specifically learning how to measure area and perimeter of simple and compound shapes.

In art we have been creating “Blitz Art” to display on the walls.  We created an oil pastel background using red, yellow and orange colour and then created a foreground of silhouettes using black card. In health and well-l being we have been thinking about our dreams and goals for the future.

We had our Christmas party where we played games such as Christmas Musical Statues, Christmas Corners and Musical Arms. We also did some of the dances we had been practising in PE including The Slosh, The Macarena and The Cha Cha Slide.

We have been working on developing our STEAM skills through a variety of tasks including creating a moving sleigh for Santa using straws and a balloon, creating melted snowmen biscuits and 3D paper models of gingerbread houses, snowmen, spitfires and Anderson Shelters.We went on our Community Christmas walk wearing the Elf headbands that we had created – we managed to get 76 “toots” from people passing in their cars.