Author: Miss Langridge

Today we finally got to go on our school trip and had a fab time learning more facts about kelpies. All the boys and girls were on their best behaviour and i would like to thank our two helpers. here are some of the things we wanted to share with you. If you didn’t get to share your best part about the trip leave us a comment and we can read it in class next week.

Matthew – The kelpies were made in Yorkshire.

Reece – Lots of lorries were carrying the pieces of stainless steel from Yorkshire to Falkirk.

William – We went inside the Kelpies, we saw some benches and some water.

Rory – The Kelpies are called Duke and Barron.

Evie –  They were named after two horses.

Riley – Years ago the horses had to drag the boats along the canal.

Ellie – A canal is like a river that is deep and people made it 221 years ago.

Lewis – They pulled it over because if they didn’t have the horses the boat might not go the right way.

Fyfe – We went to the park near the Kelpies but we had a long walk.

Archie – I liked going on the trampoline.

Emily- My favourite part of the Kelpies was going the rope.

Maxwel – When we had our playtime we got to sit on big high people chairs.

William – I liked when we went to the lego Kelpies.

Rory – (Our guide) Andy played a game of true and false with us and asked us lots of tricky questions to check we had been listening.

I  would like to say a big thank you to all the adults who came to watch us share our learning last week. because of the snow days we only had 3 days to practice the assembly but the children were all superstars! If you didn’t manage to come along then here are some pictures of our morning and some of our favourite parts about the assembly and our bowling in PE this week.

A big well done boys and girls, I am so proud of all your hard work and learning! Miss Langridge x

Reece – I was happy because I liked reading my words at the class assembly.

Ellie – I liked learning about Scottish Myths and Legends. my favourite one was Nessie.

Matthew – I loved learning lots of interesting facts about Scottish myths and legend and my favourite one was the Ghillie dhu.

Maxwel –  I liked when we played bowling because I had one skittle left to knock down.

Josh – I liked bowling because I got a strike.

Max – I liked saying my words in front of my mum.

Charlotte – I liked the Ghillie Dhu because it’s nice to children but not nice to adults.

Summer – I liked the Kelpie because we made the Kelpie art work and for the p1/2 assembly we got to share the picture that we made in class.

Kade – I got a strike then I missed a few then I knocked some of them down.

Ruth – I liked our topic because I like the interesting facts and my favorite was the Selkie because it could take off it’s skin and that was quite was interesting and my least favourite was the Ghillie dhu because it crushed adults and took them to Fairyland.

Rory – I liked showing my adults how to play stop the clocks to show my learning with telling the time.

Andrew – I liked eating my shortbread.

Lewis – I liked teaching my gran and my mum how to play crocodile chomp. To show them how we add and subtract chimney sums.

Evie – I liked showing my mum how to play stop the clock.

Archie – How to show how to do work on words on my magnetic boards.

In Maths and Numeracy the squares and circles have been working on ordering the days of the week, months of the year and seasons. We will be learning about telling o’clock times after the February break. We have also been learning to add objects together and creating a set of addition facts that belong to the number 1 and 2.

The triangles have been working on subtraction of 2D – 2D numbers and are now challenging themselves to work out word problems. We have started looking at telling half past times on an analogue clock.

We have been enjoying learning about our first creature in our Scottish Myths and Legends topic. We have listened to different Nessie stories and have created pictures, postcards and stories about the famous Loch Ness Monster.

In the mornings we have been busy with some new tasks when we have done all our morning jobs. We are having fun with the adding monster, superstar spellers and P2 have been thinking critically about what they see, what they think and what they wonder. Take a look at some of our  morning work.

Charlotte – We’ve been doing see, think, wonder tasks in the morning.

Emily – We like doing see, think,wonder because they are funny sentences.

Mason – We have been doing our common words  in the morning.

Reece – We have been learning to play croquet. We made our targets We practiced hitting through the targets.

Maxwel – When we were playing croquet it was kinda hard but some of us got it through the target sometimes. We can like make one at home and practice at home.

Fyfe – We new common words are, dad and not. We have been doing a spelling assessment on Fridays. maybe we can make one at home to practice.

Evie – We have been making Nessie pictures and Nessie postcards for our Scottish Myths and Legends.

Andrew – We have written a story about Nessie and a hairy haggis. You will see them at parents night. I liked my story.

We were so busy on the lead up to Christmas with the Nativity, Book Bug and Christmas Parties but don’t worry we took some pictures and are finally getting round to sharing them.

The Primary 2’s learned 3 new Scottish Country Dances….The Canadian Barn Dance, St Bernards Waltz and the Virginia Reel. The P1’s also learned some new games and dances for their first Christmas Party, such as the Macarena, The Cha Cha slide and the Grand Ole Duke of York. They were all superstars and remembered the steps for their parties.

Look how smart we look in our Nativity outfits. We want to say a massive thank you for coming to watch us because we worked really hard to learn our lines, actions, songs and how to play our instruments. We hope you enjoyed it?

 

This week for part of the Book Bug prize 2017 Primary 1/2 have been working on a story called ‘The Fourth Bonniest Baby in Dundee’ written by Michelle Sloan & Illustrated by Kasia Matyjaszek.

We have had lots of fun  in Literacy with the story, we turned our role play area into a bus going to Dundee and even had our own contest to find the Bonniest Teddy in Chryston Primary. We invited Mrs Burke to be our special Judge, take a look at our pictures… don’t you think she had a hard job judging? She said it was even harder than interviewing for new Teachers!!!

Ellie – We did a contest to see what was the bonniest teddy in Chryston primary. Mrs Burke was the judge.

Maxwel – We were having a contest with our teddies.

Summer – Mrs Burke judged our teddies and we all got first place.

Mason – We did some p2 work.

Ruth – We have been reading a story and it is called the fourth bonniest baby in  Dundee and we took a picture of us all holding it up.

Kade – The role area was a bus and we got to play with a baby.

Fyfe – We have been reading the fourth bonniest baby in Dundee.

Andrew – In the story the fourth bonniest bay blew a raspberry at the judge.

Matthew – Our favourite parts were when the bus broke down.

Archie – I liked when the bus broke down.

Lewis – I liked when the baby blew a raspberry at the judge.

Ellie – My teddy at blew a raspberry at the judge.

Lillian – Mine blew a raspberry too.

Charlotte – It was fun today.

Emily – I put some necklaces on my teddy unicorn and I brushed my unicorns’ hair.

William – My teddy was peeking.

Ruth – My teddy tried to blow a raspberry at me and Mrs Burke the judge.

Summer – I brushed my teddies fluff.

Josh – I put a lolly in my teddy.

Well done Children you all did a fabulous job preparing your teddies, keep being superstars!!

 

 

 

 

Maxwel – We were learning about different types of clouds today.

Matthew – Cumulus means it is a sunny day. It looks like a big bumpy ball.

Emily – A Cirrus cloud can tell us if the weather is going to change into a storm. It looks like a pony tail with a little circle at the start.

Rory – The straight blanket one is called Stratus. We see them when it is raining or about to rain in a storm.

Lewis- We made a wee sheet with the different clouds.

Evie – We went outside to look for some of the different clouds.

We also learned that clouds are made up of rain drops. We found out that clouds are white because all the colours that shine from the sun turn them white. We know that when clouds are grey the sun isn’t getting through because they are too thick with rain drops.

Can you spot any of the clouds in our pictures? We found lots of Cumulus clouds and a sneaky Stratus cloud in between two houses, can you see it?

 

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This week the Elmers and the Gruffalos have been learning 2 sounds ‘m’ and ‘r’. Look at our super writing on our phoneme boards.

In maths, P2 have continued to learn about place value by partitioning 2d  ( 2digit numbers).
We also got to watch an Author called Kes Gray read some of his stories. Some of us had great fun at the Halloween disco!

Lewis- We were playing shape bingo and it was fun.

Mason – I liked making pumpkins.

Maxwel – We were trying to draw the shape like an octagon, hexagon and a diamond.

Summer – Some of us went to the Halloween disco. It was fun.!

William – I liked the Halloween disco. it was my first school Halloween disco.

Archie – I liked making the hedgehogs.

Ruth – The Primary 2’s are counting in 10s and units and we learned a fancy word called partition.

Rory – It means taking apart numbers and adding the tens and the units.

Evie – We have been learning about Norma Noun. Norma noun helps us to find our nouns.

Andrew – It is a place, a thing and a person. I liked changing jobs. I am he librarian this week.

 

P1/2 have been very busy recently, they wanted to share some of their learning over the past few weeks. They all deserve a little rest over the holidays since they have been working their socks off!

Summer – We planted our peas and we have taken them home to look after.

Ruth – The primary 2’s have been learning to count in tens and units.

Andrew – We played football manager and flower shop manager to help us with our tens and units.

Rory McInness – We have been learning to write the number 8.

Lewis – We done stations with Lego and hedgehogs, autumn leaves matching games.

Maxwel – We were playing a game about tens and units and it was a shark game.

William – We have been sorting our numbers with the ipads.

Emily – We were learning about Norma Noun. She helps us to find nouns in our sentences.

Rory M – Nouns can be people, things and places.

Lillian – We went over to the library because there was magic show going on.

Ellie – Meg (Mrs Mclaren’s daughter) read us two stories called ‘Life is Magic’ and ‘Pigeon Pi’.

James Thomas – I bought pigeon Pi.

Evie – We went to the hall to do gymnastics with P3 and turned into different animals. My favourite animal was the Giraffe.

Have A lovely October Break everyone!

We have been busy participating in pattern for maths week. We have had great fun linking pattern across the curriculum and not just in maths. We have been writing some rhyming stories for taught writing, matching words that rhyme, making colour and shape patterns, movement patterns, and sound patterns.

The P2’s challenged their brains to make trickier patterns with different resources and looking at harder rhymes. We were counting in 10’s and 5’s number patterns. They played a game to find real and made up rhyming words and had great fun trying to work these out. Have a look at some of our work from maths week…

Emily – We were counting in tens.

Lillian – The ice cream cones we fun and I used a number line to help me.

Ruth – We went to stations and we used transport and animals to make our own patterns.

Lewis – We made patterns and we painted and we did loom bands.

Maxwell – We used peg board to make our patterns.

Evie – We made made our patterns harder by using 3 or 4 colours to challenge us.

Rory Moore – We were doing flags and rying to do patterns like blue yellow blue and we could also use some loom bands and painting to do some patterns.

William – We were sliding then running, sliding then running.

Rory – We went down to work with the other p1 class

Lyle – We made shape patterns

Andrew – We wrote a rhyming story