Miss Patterson – Page 2 – Sharing Our Learning @ HOB

P2J – What a busy week!

In maths we have been ordering numbers to 100 and sorting odd/even numbers with Numicon.

We have combined art with science this week. They experimented with diffusion using coffee filter papers, pens and water to create beautiful butterflies.

At the very start of P2, the children decided they needed to do something about the litter in the playground. We still go on regular litter picks and recently introduced ‘Wrapper Free Wednesday’ to help reduce the amount of litter in the first place. Everyone can help us do our bit for our school environment!

We have also had our very first session with our P6 reading buddies this week. This is a great opportunity for the P2s to practice their reading and for the P6s to take on a responsible role – as well as being great fun!

P5M – Climate Change

Following on from our climate change topic, we have been learning about the importance of plants and wildlife. We have all created our own climate change pledges showing what we as individuals can do stop climate change! We have also been working hard to gather resources for our eco-garden to make it more environmentally friendly and of course beautiful. The class efforts have been rewarded by donations from the Raemoir Garden Centre, Greenspace and Woodend Barn. On top of this Drum Garden Centre have promised some plants for us to plant in April. We have been busy planting and preparing the eco-garden!

P5L – Fruity Friday

P5L are proud to have developed Fruity Friday with the support of Number One Charity and thank them as the project comes to a close. We hope to encourage the pupils of HOB to continue with fruit on a Friday next term.

Primary 1S – The Little Red Hen

Primary 1S have been enjoying using the Talk4Writing Approach to explore the story of ‘The Little Red Hen.’

We have enjoyed singing and acting out the story, drawing the Little Red Hen, creating story maps to re-tell the story and writing character descriptions!

We decided that the Little Red Hen is very hard working and determined. We think we are all hard working too and determined to do our best!

Miss Sutherland is very proud of us for all our hard work.

P1L – Kodaly with Mrs Malone

P1L have been enjoying taking part in Kodaly music with Mrs Malone. We have been playing singing games and working out the rhythms. We have also been learning about high and low pitch using so, me and la.

Nursery – Cardboard Box Fun!

The cardboard boxes arrived in school and were put to good use – lots of imaginative play and creativity.

The children were measuring how big a dinosaur would be and then worked out that they could fit one into nursery.

Continuous provision enables the children to choose different materials and resources to create and test out their own obstacles and trails.

P4S – Bear Grylls Adventure

Primary 4S have arrived at their final destination of our Bear Grylls adventure; the Rainforest!

We have been learning all about the different layers of the forest and the numerous plants and animals within it. We have also been learning about how animals and plants have to make adaptations to survive in such tropical conditions. We have really enjoyed creating and designing our very own rainforest animals too.

Next week we will be learning about deforestation and comparing life in the Rainforest to life in Banchory.

Mrs Stephen has been so impressed with how engaged and eager we all are to learn more!

P4L – Talk4Writing

P4L have been using Talk4Writing to develop their Story Writing Skills. They have used Story Maps and Acting It Out to help them learn the story of ‘The Great Kapok Tree’ by Lynne Cherry. We then used the story as inspiration to write our own Great Kapok Tree stories. We used each part of the Story Mountain: Opening, Build-up, Problem, Resolution and Ending. We worked on each section as a whole class before writing our own version of it.

P6R – Curling in PE

P6R have been emulating our winning GB curling team in their PE sessions over the last few weeks.

Each team had roles throughout including coach, captain, equipment manager and social media officer. Every team worked well and were encouraging to each other, some lovely “tweets” were generated from our social media officers.

In class we also had some drawing of the official Olympic mascot, the very cute panda “Bing Dwen Dwen”.

P7R – French

As part of our IDL work we have been looking at ‘La Ville’ in our French work. We created our own fictional town and wrote about what it had and didn’t have. We have explored lots of new vocabulary relating to things you would find in a town, as well as looking at connectives and plurals. In the next few weeks we will be using our town map to learn more about directions and give instructions on how to travel from different locations. Bravo P7R!