P1b – Page 19 – Mrs Oliphant and Primary 1b invite you to share in their learning.

The Scottish Book Awards Are Coming!

This week it is Scottish Book Week. To celebrate we are going to spend 3 weeks working on each of the books that have been short listed for the Scottish Book Awards. This week we are working a boom called ‘Lost for Words’ by Natalie Russell. We found out that Natalie Russell wrote the book and drew the pictures we think she is very clever.

The first thing we did was read the book. Yesterday we did a jumbled sentence task and we thought about what the book was about.

Today we did a little bit of writing. We found out lots of facts about Tapirs. We did this research because the book has a character called Tapir who is a Tapir.

William -I learned that Tapirs eat small branches.

Dionne- I learned that they are good at diving and swimming.

Conor- I learned that Tapirs are brown.

Erin- I learned that Tapirs live in the rainforest.

We are looking forward to doing some artwork just like Tapir in our book.

Children in Need in P1/2

Today is children in need. We raised money by coming to school wearing our own clothes. We all donated £1 this morning.

Pudsey bear helped P1/2 with their maths today. Primary 1 were learning some adding using 2 Pudsey bears. We added counters to make the spots on Pudsey’s eye match. Then we added them together.

primary 2 used Pudsey to practise their doubles. We worked in pairs and we rolled the dice to tell us what number to double. We put spots on Pudsey’s eye patch to practise our doubles facts.

This afternoon we learned about how Pudsey helps children. We made our own story books about to take home.

Primary 2’s Place Value

This week we have been learning about tens and units. We have practised counting in multiples of 10. We learned a new game to help us practise tens and units. We needed to use playing cards with a partner to make the biggest number that we could.

Niamh – Our new game helped me with my maths.

Rhys – It helped me with my tens and units.

Adam – I really liked the game because I could pick different cards and it helped me.

Jason – I liked this game because I kept winning. I won every match.

Primary 1’s Super Counting Games

This week we learned two new number games. The first game helped us to practise our counting up to 10. It was called bead counting. We had to work in a group to choose. A little card with a number on it. We had to read the number and then we had to count the right number of beads. The second game we learned helped us think about our numbers too. We had to pick out a number and find other parts of the jigsaw that matched that number.

Benjamin – I enjoyed it.

Eva – I liked the bead counting.

William – I thought the games were good.

Erin – my favourite game was the beads.

Ayva- I liked playing with the beads.

Klea – I liked the jigsaws the best.

Homework Oct – Nov

Our Artwork for the School Art Show

This week we have painted animals. We created artwork of animals because that is what Angela Davidson likes to paint. Yesterday we painted cows and today we painted tigers. First we painted grass using paint brushes. Next we dipped our hands into the paint to make the body and the legs of our animals. Then we added heads and tails using our fingers. It was important to give our pictures time to dry. Next we used black pens to add in patches, stripes and faces for our animals. The last thing we did was stick on our google eyes. This artwork was a little bit messy but some of us helped to wash the paintbrushes and the paint trays.

Erin- I liked making the hand prints because I dipped my hand in he paint and it got all orange.

Andrew- I liked puting the black pen on the pictures because it was fun.

Niamh- I liked puting the stripes on my tiger because it was fantastic.

We are really looking forward to showing all our family and friends our artwork next Friday at our art show and are also looking forward to the other children in the school seeing it too.

Literacy Across Learning Week in P1/2

This week is our literacy across learning week. P1/2 are focusing on their literacy and using it to help them to find out all about an artist. Yesterday we started to learn about Angela Davidson. We found out that her pictures always have animals in them. She taught herself to paint. We think that her pictures look like real animals. She is a Scottish artist and she lives in Aberdeen. The first picture that she sold was a picture of cows’ noses. She lives with her husband and her son Lawrie. When Lawrie was little, Great Ormond Street Hospital saved his life. Angela Davidson gave £9000 to the hospital from selling a painting of Lawrie riding a horse.

Dionne – I am looking forward to painting animals

Lewis – I am looking forward to painting wild animals the same as Angela Davidson.

Ryan – I am looking forward to trying to colour the animals using paint.

Eva – I am looking forward to seeing more of this artist’s pictures.

We are all looking forward to seeing what the other classes are getting up to this week. We will update our blog later in the week to let you know what we have been learning.

Colour Hunt

To start our colour hunt Mrs Noble put a different coloured splat on each table. We had blue, green, red and yellow. We went all over the classroom to find things that matched each colour and we sorted each item onto the correct table. It was good fun.

The Start of a New Year in P1/2

We have had a few weeks to settle into our new class as Primary 1/2 and have been very busy with lots of new learning. Primary 1 have had a fantastic start to primary school and are enjoying all of the new experiences that they have had.

This term in maths we will be working on our numbers, sorting and matching and also 2D shape. Primary 1 have been learning how to write some of their numbers and have been sorting by colour and type. Primary 2 have been revising their numbers up to 20 and have been practising their adding and take away.

In literacy this term Primary 1 will be learning lots of new letter and sounds. They are already learning how to read and write lots of new common words. Primary 2 have started to learn lots of new phonemes and common words and have started their reading programme. As a class we will also be learning how to write narrative stories about lots of different things. Mrs Noble says we are writing wizards!

To start the year we will be working of lots of different traditional tales. So far we have enjoyed working on the story of The Three Little Pigs and we are now working on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We are enjoying lots of art, drama and music activities that link to our story and are having lots of fun.

We will keep our blog up to date with everything that we are learning this year!