This week’s spelling patterns are below if you’d like to work on these at home. We do a dictation activity using these words/patterns each Friday. Please feel free to add words of your own; it isn’t just about learning a “list” of words but understanding how words are built up and spelt.
Team Jewel: continue the ea sound
For example: eat, meat, seat, each, peach, cheat, mean
Team Gold and Team Treasure are both working on adding ed endings (where it sounds like ed). This may be new learning for Team Gold and revision for Team Treasure.
Team Gold examples: belted, headed, ended, melted, landed, shouted, wanted
Continue to work on all tricky words, with a focus on Block 7- reading, recognising and spelling.
We set the next chapter to read. We invented and alternative ending to the story using our imagination and remembering the story line. We also picked out interesting words and looked up their definition in the dictionary,
Grammar
We learnt how to use paragraphs in story writing and that it helps when we write out information. It will help us write stories and separates topics by time and place. Organising information makes it easier to read. They help with layout and makes it easier to understand. .
Class Novel Study
We continued being reading detectives with Ottoline , We looked at Mr Munroe’s feelings and how they changed in different places at various times. We noticed there was a difference.
Numeracy
We used our tables and division skills to help us work with fractions. We started with a half and saw the links between 2x table. Shapes have to be divided into 2 equal parts to be a half. Numbers of objects have to be shared in 2 equal piles when they are halved.
We continued to count sums of money. We also learned about the decimal point and why it is important to write amounts correctly and when we do calculations.
We also added and subtracted. We found the carrying and borrowing ones tricky and had to remind ourselves what to do. We will be practising more of these next week
We continued to research the Titanic by using laptops and reading articles which we downloaded. Each group has almost enough information to make our information posters.
We have almost finished our own Titanic ship.and put information labels on it.
We read more of the Titanic Detective Agency . Bertha is still very suspicious of some of the passengers and has begun to make a list of clues. Johan was sea sick but still wants to find out what is map means. It is getting very exciting.
Outdoor Leaning
We used our magnifiers to look at living things on the ground in the woods. It was mainly flies and d bugs we found but they looked huge when magnified! Some of them looked really weird!
Art
We had fun after a heavy down pour of rain. We looked at the effects of water on chalks . The colours are much brighter . We discovered they disintegrate and becomes very mushy. This is because they partly dissolves in water. It became very messy!
Message from Mrs Imrie, Head Teacher and NHS Lothian
As you may already know, we are aware of a person in the school who has tested positive for COVID-19. We have been working closelywith NHS Lothian Health Protection Team and following all national guidance.
Persons have now been contacted because they have been in close and sustained contact with the case and the tracking process is now complete.
These contacts will need to self-isolate and have been asked to book a COVID-19 test. Appropriate guidance and advice have been given.
If there are any further cases of COVID-19 in the school, we will ensure these individuals, and any of their close contacts, are advised to self-isolate promptly.
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Enhanced cleaning and infection control measures are in place in line with national guidance. The school is safe and remains open.
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Please note that a test should only ever be booked if you or your child has these specifics symptoms.
Remember to stay at home if anyone in the household has symptoms of COVID-19.
We have had a busy week in P6NM. Here is a summary of our learning:
Literacy
Reading
We held our Literature Circle meetings on Tuesday. The next meeting is on Monday 31st May.
Writing/Links to IDL
We read more of our class novel Wilderness Wars. In it, one of the main characters discovered bats roosting in a cave. We used this opportunity to read for information, using leaflets from The Bat Conservation Trust. We then worked in trios to construct a mind map sharing our new-found knowledge. Finally, we used these mind maps as plans for our writing. We wrote non-chronological reports on bats.
Opportunities for home learning
Here is a video explaining more. Once you have watched it you could try to write your own report around an area of your interest.
Literacy – this week we have been learning the spelling rule ‘dge’ for our soft g sound. This week we were also working on our listening and talking skills, collecting facts from our reading books and presenting them to the class.
Numeracy and Maths – this week we continued our learning on place value and we were practicing making numbers from tens and units. We also got to play fast fractions to cement our fraction knowledge.
Health and wellbeing- we have been adding to our tree of kindness with the kind deeds we have been doing.
Other learning:
This week we were developing our fine motor skills in outdoor learning, making spelling words using outdoor tweezers. We also got to prepare an assembly for the whole school, telling them what we have been learning in P2.
Well done Primary 4WL for an exciting week of learning opportunities and experiences! 😊 Please enjoy reading the summary about our main learning this week (and scroll to the bottom to see some pictures):
Please ensure any remaining Learning Stories are returned to school on Monday as we will be gathering some evidence of our learning this term in these. Literacy
We have been learning to:
Spell unfamiliar words using our spelling rule – words with a silent ‘k’ saying ‘kn’.
Use accurate spelling of our new spelling rule words within passages and story contexts.
Identify the correct spelling of tricky words within sentences and paragraphs.
Up-level a letter, using a range of adjectives, and self-checking for the non-negotiables.
Use information to write a fact-file.
Listen, enjoy and engage with different stories and texts.
Find evidence in our reading texts to answer a variety of questions.
Use evidence from our reading to help us make (and justify) predictions.
Read for information and use our knowledge of the context of a sentence to help us identify missing words.
Find out information from a range of sources and technologies to help us share facts with others.
Self- and peer-assess our learning.
Spelling for next week:
L.I We are learning to spell unfamiliar words using our spelling rule.
In words whose first syllable contains a short vowel sound, 2 consonants are required before adding ‘le’ (e.g. purple).
Where only one consonant sound is heard (e.g. puzzle) double that consonant before adding ‘le’
Daily Spelling Activity Task: choose a different spelling activity from the pack that you have at home and remember to Look, Cover, Write, Check.
Spicy – simple purple circle puzzle handle apple giggle bubble puddle cuddle
Continue to build on your Times Tables by choosing or creating a fun game or speed challenge for yourself or using Sumdog. https://www.timestables.co.uk/speed-test/
Practise finding 10ths of amounts or shapes by creating a game of your own.
Across the Curriculum
We have been learning to:
Find out about the structure of the Titanic boat
Identify and find out about passengers on the Titanic
Find out about what a ticket is and design our own Titanic tickets.
Discover the different classes of passengers and what the different parts were like
Research information, using a range of sources like websites and books.
Play team games in PE, developing our knowledge of different sports positions and activities.
Develop skills to work well together.
Find out about learning across other classes during our Assembly.
In reading this week, we have been practising summarising and using Bloom’s questions. We focused on ‘Chloe the Creator’. We used a video to help us with this skill and we enjoyed creating our own missions for Agent Fox to go on. We also had the opportunity to create our own gadgets for Agent Fox and his new mission.
We have been practising writing persuasive letters again this week. We began with looking at where paragraphs should be, focusing on when there is a change in topic, time or place. We had a go at deciding where paragraphs should be in pairs.
P5M then went on to discuss the pros and cons of school uniform and then decided if you were for or against it. We used all of the persuasive writing techniques that we have been learning (emotive language, direct address, exaggeration, etc.) and our new knowledge of paragraphs to write our own persuasive letters for or against school uniforms.
Things to do at home –
See the progress record for this week’s reading pages. Practise the different reading skills that we have focused on in class such as: creating and answering your own questions, pick an important part of the book and illustrate it, write a short paragraph about why it is an important part of the book or use a dictionary to find the meaning of any unknown words.
Spelling words will be posted on Monday – practise writing them in sentences and use ‘look, write, check’ to test yourself.
Have a go at writing your own persuasive letter to someone at home. You could ask for a pet, a bigger room or holiday.
Maths and Numeracy
This week in numeracy we have concluded our topic of time. We continued to calculate the duration of time using an empty number line and looking at different timetables. We also went over all of the different skills we have learned during our topic, including; telling the time on digital and analogue clocks, writing the time in words and converting between 12 and 24-hour time. Some of us challenged ourselves this week by using our problem-solving skills and made up our own school timetables
Look at any timetables you come across (bus, train, etc.) and try to calculate how long it takes to get to where you are going.
Other curricular areas
We continued with our Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood topic this week, discussing the names and functions of parts of our bodies as well as the changes that we go through.
We began looking at our new topic based on Scottish historical figures. We watched 2 videos about the Terrible Tudors and Mardy Mary to give us an idea of what we will be learning, in preparation of deciding what we would like to learn and coming up with our topic name next week.
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