Today we continued on with our Persuasive writing. We were thinking about the key features of a speech today and we watched an informative speech from Greta Thunberg. Lots of great work was written today thinking about how we start off a powerful speech and what points we want to address.
Today we were working on our note taking skills ready to write our first persuasive letter tomorrow. We used safer internet day as our starting point as this assembly generated lots of super discussion. We talked about the online benefits as well as the negative points too and linked this lesson to our UNCRC weekly rights. Last week we used a key word notes page to research so this week we tried a mind map diagram to collect all of our ideas and evidence.
Last week we finally revealed our new school vision, to our parents and community at Woodmuir PS. All children had the opportunity to say a little piece about what our new school vision means to us and we celebrated the winning design. The children sang beautifully and the last song added a magical touch to the end of our assembly and really captured the sense of togetherness in our school community.
It was lovely to see proud smiles on the faces of all our parents as they watched the enthusiasm in all children as they sang and danced happily! It was a heartwarming afternoon and events like these create cherished memories for the children. A big thank you to all the parents who came along to this event and provided feedback on the children’s work in their Golden Vision Books. We look forward to more of these open events in the new year where we can showcase our learning and celebrate success.
Today we started our writing lesson having a blether about a few unique characters! We were practising using adjectives, similes, metaphors and alliteration to describe appearance and personality traits.
Today we enjoyed a fabulous day outdoor learning at Aberdour beach, exploring the landscape safely and having fun in the sand. We had plenty of exercise, made sandcastles in the sand, collected shells, pebbles and paddled in the sea. Tomorrow we will use this experience in our writing lesson to describe the beach.
This week in Woodmuir literacy hour we have been very busy working together on our new class novel Turtle Moon. Children were predicting what the book is about, reading character descriptions and designing their own book cover!
This week we were very lucky to have the chance to go to the book festival with our all of our friends in school. We started the day off attending the Eco – adventurer workshop with Hannah Gold! Hannah Gold is the best selling author of the last bear. Hannah told us all about her life as an author and how she gets inspiration for her stories! We all received a free book, Turtle Moon, from Hannah and even had the chance to meet her and have our books all signed. We had a fabulous day.
This afternoon we joined the University of Edinburgh online to participate in the Internet project involving the sensors. We had a chance to read lots of data and then to investigate 4 different readings and where they might have come from! Lots of great discussion, thinking skills, creativity and collaboration. This was exciting and we are looking forward to the secret sensor challenge next!
The investigation analysis
Reading data
Secret Sensor Challenge
This week as part of our Outdoor learning, we had fun decorating our journey sticks. We used a variety of collections from outdoors, arts and crafts and memorabilia from home. We worked together to share ideas and collaborate before getting creative! The next step is to share our journey sticks with the class reflecting on achievements, memories, challenges and growth experiences they have had this academic year.
