Good afternoon everyone,

4M would like to share our learning with you.

Lucas would like to tell you about Diwali.  We were learning about Diwali because it’s part of our new topic.  We learned about Lakshmi, Rama and Sita. Lewis enjoyed learning about this story.  Lucy knows that Diwali is a festival celebrated in India and around the world and Maxim knows that it is a Hindu festival.  We looked at different Hindu traditions to celebrate Diwali and we designed our own Mehndi patterned hands.  Gracie enjoyed creating these patterns.  Carmen would like to tell you that the class voted and we named our topic, ‘Food and Fun’.

Eden would like to tell you about today’s Jigsaw lesson.  We were discussing how families are the same and how families can be different.

Aiden would like to talk about our spelling.  He has been learning to spell words correctly and he was learning the split i-e vowel diagraph.

Callum R has been learning about 5 minute time intervals in time and counting in 5’s helps you with this! Evan would like to tell you that we have been learning about AM times and PM times.

Ana would like to tell you about Problem Solving.  We have been breaking problems down to make them easier to solve.

Jake would like to tell you about PE with Mrs Howard.  Jake has been passing the ball within his team.  Baili was playing a game with a toy bowling pin where you had to spin it and then tag someone with a ball.

Jessica D would like to tell you about the Scottish Country Dancing.  We have been practising the Dashing White Sergeant and Gay Gordons.

Through our numeracy we have been learning about money.  Alana would like to share that we have been learning about counting coins. Erika had to choose a cupcake case and take some fake money and try to make the total that was written inside the case.

Thank you for reading,

p4M

Here are our reflections on this week and our hopes and what we are looking forward to in term 2:

I have enjoyed reading the hunger games novel and I am looking forward to the Christmas Enterprise. – Mrs Hastings 🙂

I am looking forword to doing more art and express my feelings. -Jay

I enjoyed doing the reaping with the other class. – oliver

I have enjoyed doing art in term 2. I have been showing my teacher all my pictures. Sometimes they take a while and sometimes they are easy. I  motivated myself by keep saying keep going to myself. – Jack B

I enjoyed doing the reaping in the rain because it made a better effect. – Logan

I liked doing the reaping in the classroom because I had a better chance of being picked! I got reaped once and volunteered once for coral. -Beth

I enjoyed doing probibilty in maths and learning the laungauge. -Murray

I enjoyed making pumpkins out of paper and glue with Mrs Smyth.-Ryan

I enjoyed being Haymitch when we done the reaping and I was laughed at when i almost fell off the seat.-JACK C

I loved going to the reaping in the rain it made it quite dramatic. -John

The reaping was fun and the rain made it surreal. – Tyler

I enjoyed doing maths because we learned all about probability. – India

I loved the reaping it was like I was really there! – Ellie

I love doing probability it is amazing to learn for later life. I also loved doing the reaping , Ewan is an amazing Haymitch!    – Josh

I love doing probability it is very interesting to learn and I loved doing the reaping; I was Haymitch! – Ewan

I loved doing the reaping and acting out what it felt like to be in Katniss’s point of view – Jessica

I loved doing the reaping and getting experience of what it would be like in the town all squashed up in one place – Ben

In term 2 I have enjoyed drama and reinacting the scene from Hunger Games and being picked from the reping bowls and I ended up being picked haveing to say “I VOLUNTEER, I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE” and it was funny but it was hard to stay scared. In term one I enjoyed doing my book review at the end of term one and got hot chocolate Friday because it was a really good book review; the best i have done! -Hannah

In term 2 I have enjoyed acting the reaping. -Nimi

I enjoyed in term 2 the reaping that we reinacted from the Hunger Games – Liam

I enjoyed pe – Jackson

We have done more work on the Heartstone which I enojyed. – Michael

I enjoyed maths – Sophie

I enjoyed the reaping and playing Effie Trinket in our drama scene. I am looking forward to reading more of the book. – Coral

I really enjoyed our drama activities where I got to play Effie Trinkets character and I am looking forward to seeing what happens next. – Amy

I have really enjoyed our expressive arts lessons through Heartstone and all of our posters and art faces that we have made. I am looking forward to doing more art in Primary 7. – Eva

P7p Blog 25/10/19

Welcome back! We are all ready for a busy second term and lots of learning ahead. We have continued our class novel The Hunger Games and took part is some great drama taking on characteristics and feelings of the characters involved. We hope this will allow us to build more empathy with the characters as the story unfolds. We also looked at probability and used The Hunger Games “Reaping” to work out the chances of being chosen. This put probability into a context that made sense to us. We will now be looking at numeric ways of showing probability as fractions decimals and percentages. Money Month will be starting in November when we can learn about all things financial by maintaining and balancing our own “earnings”. This will give a great awareness of money, its value and the pitfalls and advantages of carefully managed credit.

Writing and creating our dystopian character was super fun because I thought that my character was really cool. This character is called a protagonist-Harrison.

We are learning about increasing our fitness and stamina and decision making in PE with Mrs Howard. –Leo

We enjoyed making Top Trumps cards for our districts in Hunger Games. We learned how to use search engines efficiently.-Archie.

We created fluid faces in Art for our Heartstone project to demonstrate equalities and how we should have tolerance for differences in people.-Ferida.

I enjoyed acting out the reaping scene in Hunger Games. I got to use my acting skills and it made me think what it would have been like to actually be involved in it.-Charlie.