Numeracy & Maths

This week we have continued learning about number bonds and using them to help us answer addition questions. If we want to work out 46 + 7, we can use number bonds to 7 and 10 to work it out: 7 = 4 + 3 / 46 + 4 = 50 (because 6 + 4 = 10) / then 50 + 3 = 53. This is quicker than counting in 1’s!

Class Comments:

• “We have improved our number bonds”
• “I can do number bonds to 100”
• “Everyone has improved number bonds to 10 and 20”
• “We enjoy playing around the world to help us learn our number bonds”

Things to do at home:

• Keep on practising you skip counting for the numbers you have set as your target (you could do this walking up and down the stairs or down the street)
• Find numbers and add them together (look at price tags, number plates, clocks etc. numbers are all around us)

The Windowless Ladder Cleaning Company were looking for more work, so we took a survey of the school building, counting windows, doors and down pipes. We used our tallying and creating pictograms skills to do this.

Class Comments:

• “It was hard doing the tally outside because it was raining”
• “I liked it because it was fun”
• “My paper got wet”

Literacy

We have been reading Operation Night Monster. We used our prediction skills to work out what Ali would do differently the next night; using our prior knowledge and information from the book to make sensible predictions that are likely to happen. We have been learning how to write a summary. We thought about the main events and the beginning, middle and end of the book to help us write a summary.

Class Comments:

• “I thought he would do the same the next night – doing checks under the bed and his cupboard”
• “We are getting better at predictions”
• “We wrote what would happen the next night”

Things to do at home:

• Try giving a summary of a book you have read / TV show you have just watched in 3 sentences (think: beginning / middle / end)
• Ask questions about books you are reading / shows you are watching (there is a link below for questions you can ask before, during and after reading)

Our handwriting is getting neater because we are practising our cursive handwriting. This week we have added “t, n, h & m” to the letters we are practising.

Class Comments:

• “we have done really well”
• “we are writing words with the letters we have learned”
• “we wrote words including London”

In Art we have been looking at the artist Paul Klee, discussing the quote “A line is a dot that has gone for a walk” talking about his paintings and using one of his techniques “Taking a Line for a Walk”. In music we have been making up songs using one of the songs from the Giraffe the Pelly and Me. We have also been sharing interesting facts the class have found out about giraffes, pelicans and monkeys.

Things to do at home:

• Take a line for a walk and see what you can create!
• Keep looking for interesting facts about giraffes, pelicans and monkeys to share with the class.

Class Comments:

• “We have created animals using lines”
• “We have made some pictures – some looked like the sea”

Today we got to use the loose parts equipment in the woodland area of the playground! It was a lot of fun!!!

Class Comments:

• “It was lots of fun – I got my own base and sang my own songs”
• “Me and my friends made up a song”
• “We tobogganed down the mound”
• “With loose parts you can build loads of cool stuff”
• “We played Pokémon in the tunnel”
• “It was lots of fun because we were playing games”

We had a busy week in P6NM. Here is a summary of our learning.

Literacy

• We read more of our novel Friend or Foe. We made inferences about what characters were thinking and feeling. The tricky bit was finding evidence in the text to support what we were saying.
• We researched and made notes which will help us to write biographies next week.
• Here are our spelling words.

Opportunities for home learning:

• Please check the reading record for pages to be read.
• Read some biographies on the Ducksters website. (https://www.ducksters.com/biography/)

Think about these questions:

What do you notice about the way they are structured/organised?

What do you notice about the language features?

• Write a mini autobiography. Think about your personal family history and important events in your life.

Maths

In maths we identified lines of symmetry and created symmetrical shapes. Here is some jotter work.

Opportunities for home learning:

• Play this symmetry matching game and select ‘patterns’.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching

• Log into Education City and use the Username P6NM and Password P6NM. Click on Homework and there is an activity to complete in the folder called ‘Symmetry’.

EducationCity

Other areas of the curriculum:

• We made food chains with paper chains.
• We enjoyed using drama to understand a key event in Friend or Foe.
• We enjoyed being outdoors and making symmetrical obstacle courses.

Here are some grids and posters from our reflective Friday session this morning.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs McFarlane

Hello and welcome to this week’s blog..It was lovely to “meet” you all at our virtual Parent’s Consultations and share the children’s progress It was a strange first time experience but, despite the technical difficulties, welcomed the opportunity to have this one to one contact.

We have had another busy week developing our learning . As usual the blog is compiled by the children based on their reflections

Spelling

We learnt how to spell words with al they make an aw sound

Super/fantastic talk, stalk,chalk,walk, salt,halt, alter, false, scald

Challenge talkative, stalking, alteration, Malteser, halted,walking, chalk

Tricky words where , were

Home learning . Try and write the words in alphabetical order

We found out the difference between their, there and they’re . It is tricky but we found a good way to remember how to spell them

Home learning Can you tell people how we remember them and use them correctly in sentences

In “The Storm” we looked at the author’s words. We had to up level sentences by finding words in the text. We are going to try and use these in our own writing.

We read “How to Look after a Cat ” together and then answered questions , We had to read the text ourselves to find the answers. We were being detectives again!

We wrote about an invention and had to use adjectives to describe it.

Handwriting Practising cursive handwriting using spelling words. We self assessed with pink / green highlighters

Numeracy

We worked out whether numbers were greater >, less than > or equal = another number and use the correct sign . We used 2,3,4 digit numbers

We were rounding numbers up to the nearest 10. We looked at numbers and said whether they should be rounded up or down. We did it with 3 digit numbers

eg. 34 is rounded to 30 37 is rounded to 40 256 is rounded up to 260 251 is rounded down to 250

In mental maths we had to recall 3 times table and number family facts and Jigsaw numbers to 20 and up to 100 as a challenge.

Information Handling: We recorded the results of surveys with tally marks. We discussed the purpose of surveys and some situations they might be used and used tally marks

Home learning Practice rounding numbers up or down to the nearest 10 Challenge yourself with 3 or 4 digit numbers

Practice number fact families

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

Other Areas

IDL We looked at Scotland on a map and tried to find the 6 cities. We found out information about them .

Home learning Can you find them on a map at home?

In PE we did relay races and worked as a team.. We were trying out new skills . We also tried to improve our skills and realised sport is about improving yourself not comparing to others.

In Outdoor Learning we wrote numbers in digits and words using anything natural we could find.

In Music we explored different rhythms using body percussion. We completed sequences and perform / layer rhythms as a class.

French We revised words and phrases for greetings and practiced “elle s’appelle…’ and ‘il s’appelle…’ in pairs.

HWB In Circle time we discussed friendships and what makes a good friend.Some of us are finding it hard not being able to play with other classes and we talked about ways to get through that!

In Assembly we said Goodbye to Mrs Ritchie. We made a class card! She was on Teams with us.It was good fun!

Half term starts next Friday!

Have a good weekend

P4H ( and Ms Hastie)

Please see below for a summary of our learning this week. Thank you to the pupils who created this.

You will also find a list of spelling words & a couple of useful websites for practising numeracy skills.

Finally, it was an enormous pleasure meeting with you all at the parent consultations.

Wishing you all a great weekend.

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Good afternoon – Happy Friday!

This week has been busy! Have a look at what we have been up to…

Maths

In Numeracy this week we have been focusing on using the chimney sum for written subtraction. We started off working with 2-digit numbers and really pushed ourselves on to 3-digit numbers. We also used our outdoor learning time to play some maths games focusing on problem solving strategies.

Activities to do at home:

Teach someone at home how to do a chimney sum

Literacy

This week P5M have been focusing on developing our reading skills. We used our noting skills to bullet point the main events in our reading books and then using this to write a sort summary. We also spent some time working in pairs answering different questions about a text to develop our comprehension.

Please see the document posted on Monday for the spelling rule and for activities to do at home.

Activities to do at home:

Read to someone

Try to write a summary about something you are reading at home

Other

Health and wellbeing – We started our building resilience programme. We focused on the different strategies we can use to help us build our resilience

Free the Forest – We have been learning more about food chains and food webs this week. We worked in small groups to create our own, starting with a producer followed by a primary consumer, secondary consumer and a decomposer.

Assembly – We worked really hard to present an assembly to Mrs Ritchie for her Retirement. We did a great job at presenting and had such good posters/art work to show – well done everyone!

Have a great weekend!

Another super week in the Golden Treasures class. Here’s what we’ve been learning this week. 

Literacy

• Spelling- Team Jewels: initial sounds
• Team Gold: revision of the igh/-y sound for example: fight, might, tight, night, sight, my, why, shy, by. Tricky words: come, said
• Team Treasure: spelling words with a ea sound– tea, meat, east, steal, cheat, beast, beach, scream, speaking, reaching. Tricky words: little, down
• Reading- continuing to work on our fluency skills when reading aloud; predicting what will happen in our new reading books.
• Reading- enjoying the story of James and the Giant Peach and drawing pictures of the characters Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker.
• Handwriting- continuing to practise our letter formation. We have worked on forming b, B, c and C correctly this week.
• Writing- descriptive words for George’s Marvellous Potions.

Ideas for home learning

• Spelling: draw a spelling flower where each petal has a word written in it from your spelling pattern (as practised in class).
• Choose a character from a book, TV show or film and talk about or write a detailed description of them.
• Practise reading and writing your tricky words. Here are all the tricky words on flashcards for Block 1-4 in case this is a handy guide for you. Try to use the correct letter formation if you’re writing them down!

b

b

Numeracy and Maths

• Sequencing/ordering numbers from smallest to largest.
• Counting from a variety of starting points both backwards and forwards.
• Practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
• Working on number bonds to 10, 20 and 100 and knowing these really confidently.
• Addition skills: using largest number first strategy and counting on using a number line.
• Reading and displaying information in charts: Carroll diagrams.

Ideas for home learning

• Play number bonds to 10, 20 or 100 Bingo!
• Practising counting on and back, especially crossing decade numbers
• Count out loud in 2s, 5s and 10s.
• Find numbers in your local area (for example, door and bus numbers). Can you add 5 to the numbers you find?

Other Areas

• Continuing our learning about sound in science. We listened to lots of different instruments being played, talked about how they make their sounds and completed a sorting activity.
• French- continuing to revise French greetings including bonjour, bon nuit, au revoir, and ca va?
• Outdoor loose parts play- we had so much fun using our imaginations with the loose parts play equipment, we didn’t let the pouring rain spoil our learning!
• Outdoor PE- games to help our teamwork and listening skills- Cats and Dogs and Letters and Numbers.

Ideas for home learning

• Do you have any instruments at home? Can you work out how they make their sounds? Do you blow, strike, bang or pluck them?
• Do you have loose parts around you house or garden? What can you do with them?

It was really nice to chat to you all at parents’ evenings this week. Have a great weekend!

Mrs Graham and Mrs Tweedie

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling words (CVC, CVCC, CCVC)
• Writing: ‘My Feelings’
• Writing Star Steps: use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops
• Sounding out and spelling oa and ow words
• Digraphs (oa and ow)
• oa words – boat, coat, soap, float
• ow words – row, bow, crow, window
• Dictation
• Tricky words (block 1 – 5)
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups
• Reading sent home

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Addition to 10, 20 and beyond
• Introduction to time
• o’clock and half past
• Quarter past and quarter to
• Counting in 5s
• Time Bingo
• Number Bingo
• Number formation

Reading

• Reading groups
• Reading out loud to the teacher
• reading to our ‘Learning Partner’
• Recalling information

P.E:

• Fitness – exercise video in class
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Monday – weekend whiteboard
• Tuesday – music
• Wednesday – word building
• Thursday – cursive letters
• Friday – partner game

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Lego/construction
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games 
• Bingo – led by the children
• Listening and talking activities

French

• Greetings
• Numbers/counting
• Colours  

Something I have enjoyed learning this week:

I enjoyed writing about our feelings – Lily

I enjoyed handwriting – Mahdis

I enjoyed Tens and Units and reading groups – Louise

I enjoyed doing Maths – Scarlett

I’ve enjoyed doing the sound oa/ow – Eesha

I enjoyed doing digital clocks and analogue clocks – Eliza

I like P.E – Jack

I enjoyed reading – Megan

I like doing adding, reading and tens and units – Roman

Extra Information 

• If anyone has any unused/unloved Lego at home we would love to have it in class to add to our Learning Through Play activities – please don’t buy any new Lego!

Have a lovely weekend – have fun and stay safe!

Miss McGhee

Hello Wonderful Wolves and Happy Friday! 😊

It’s been another busy week in P2. Thank you to everyone for joining me at parent’s evening this week.

  In literacy we have covered:

• Writing super sentences, using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces
• Independent writing: ‘Super Me’.
• Writing Challenge Star Step: use a WOW word (adjective)
• Reading sentences independently and drawing pictures to match
• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling CVC words
•  Digraphs (oo and ew)
•  Example oo words – food, hook, book, cool
•   Example ew words – new, dew, chew, few
•  Tricky Words (Block 1 – 8 PowerPoints are attached to this post, if you would like to practise at home)
•  Letter Formation
• Word searches and Boggle (word building)
•  Reading Groups – in class
•   Reading sent home

Reading:

•  Reading groups
• Reading out loud to the teacher
•  Designing a new front cover
• Identifying the setting of a story
• Predicating and recalling information

A reminder that reading groups have been set up and are based on in-class assessments – these groups are fluid. Please don’t be alarmed or worried if your child moves groups – changes are only made in order to support your child’s individual development and engagement

Here is a link the PowerPoints of our Block 1 -8  tricky words:

Tricky Word Block 1 PP

Tricky Word Block 2 PP

Tricky Word Block 3 PP

Tricky Word Block 4 PP

Tricky Word Block 5 PP

Tricky Word Block 6 PP

Tricky Word Block 7 PP

Tricky Word Block 8 PP

In Numeracy we have covered:

•  Numbers bonds to 10, 20 and 100
• Exploring hundreds, tens and units
• Partitioning Numbers
• Addition to 10, 20, 50 and beyond
• Addition with missing numbers (eg 3 + ? = 8)
• Identifying 2D shapes and their properties
• Creating 2D shape posters
• Doubles
• Chilli Challenge addition

P.E:

Our P.E days are a Monday and Wednesday.

This week for P.E we focused on:

• Fitness – circuits/ exercise video in class
• Cosmic Yoga
• What skills we are developing during P.E

Morning Starters:

•  Monday – Weekend Whiteboard
• Tuesday – 2D Shape/Fine Motor Control Activity
• Wednesday – Literacy Activity
• Thursday – Numeracy Activity
• Friday – Handwriting Activity/Fine Motor Control

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Role Play – Home Corner
• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Construction
• Arts and Crafts table
•  iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• 2D shape games/mindfulness colouring
• Funky Fingers (fine motor control)

I hope you have a lovely, fun weekend!

Mrs Williamson x 😊

 

Reflective Friday – Katie, Korey,Aysu,Ariana, Fergus and Charlie    9/10/20 

Literacy 

This week in spelling we looked at the pattern ‘le’ at the end of words. Some examples of these words would be disentangled, tentacle, axle & wrinkle. We then each completed a spelling game to practice them.  

We looked characterisation on our class novel Kensukes Kingdon. We came up with 6 times in a chapter where we thought Michael or Kensuke were felling different emotions. We then wrote a sentence about why we thought they were felling that way. 

Numeracy/ Maths 

In maths this week we have been learning about using our times tables to help us with larger sums like 46 times 500. First we would do 46 times 5 and then we would move the number that we got up 2 place value, here is a prove it sheet made by Ariana and Aysu. 

For numeracy ninjas there was 2 new champions that got 30 on their score and the champions were Iggy and Belle (Darcey got 30 last week and this week.) 

IDL/other 

This week we worked more on our volcano PowerPoints we also shared them with our table and discussed the pros and cons of our research. Instead of doing more natural disasters we looked into a painting called “the great wave of Kanagawa” first we sketched the outline of the painting secondly, we painted the background with different colours and contrasts thirdly, we painted the wave, the boats then mount fuji. We also did leaf art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy earlier in the week. It is making a pattern round a tree make each line different colours like red then orange then yellow. We didn’t manage to finish them as it was too windy and all the leaves blew away. We are planning to do it next week (if it is not windy). 

What we enjoyed 

We enjoyed doing ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ artwork. 

 We liked doing the leaf artwork and it was very enjoyable and fun.  

We enjoyed RME and learning about the 5 main religions in the world. 

Next steps/home learning 

You could make some leaf artwork outside using the autumn colours. 

Try and work on your times tables if your struggling in maths, we are going to be using these lots over the next few months!!! 

You could practise your spelling, look up words in the dictionary to challenge yourself. 

Hello! Please find our Reflective Friday below along with some images from our week. Have a wonderful weekend!