We are still looking for two adult helpers for a visit to the library on Tuesday 6th at 11.15-12.00. Please write a note in your child’s diary to let me know if you can help. Thank you in advance.
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Christmas is coming
We started our Advent calendar yesterday. Every day we will play games in our interactive advent calendar. We listened to Christmas stories on north pole.com.
For our toys topic, we made balancing robots.
You can watch the video here.
P6P – Finished Phone Cases!
P6P have finished their felt phone cases at long last! It has been a long process but I’m sure you’ll agree it has been worth the effort.
The design and creating process was as follows:
- evaluating existing products
- identify areas for improvement
- create individual design criteria
- take accurate measurements of their phone
- create annotated designs
- create a paper template
- use the paper template to cut felt
- use running and/or back stitch to decorate the felt
- use pom-poms/felt shapes/pen/sequins/beads/buttons to decorate the felt
- make a closing latch with fixings (like Velcro) to close the case
- use the overlocker to sew the sides of the case together
After completing any last minute touches today, the class evaluated their finished product. They thought about WWW (What Went Well) and EBI (Even Better If).
Some of the project has been quite tricky, however, I have been very impressed with how hard you have worked and the effort put in.
Here are some photos of P6P modelling their funky felt phone cases.
P3/2
Tomorrow is the school house art day. Pupils can wear their house colours but please don’t wear expensive clothing as we will be using lots of art materials!!
Primary 3/2 have made snowman mosaic coasters for the Christmas fayre on Saturday. They will be priced at £1. If you can’t make the fayre and would still like to buy your child’s coaster I can put it aside for you for the same price of £1.
Thanks as always for all of your support.
Mrs Fulton
P5S – Christmas Fair
The children have been working very hard on their craft for the Christmas Fair which is being held in the school on Saturday (1-3pm). They have turned out very well and the children are very proud of them. Please come along and support this great event and help raise some money for our school. The children have decided to sell their craft for £1.50.
P4M – Puppet Pals and Internet Safety
This week P4M used their storyboards to create a Puppet Pals animation all about internet safety.
We will review the movies and give our feedback next week.
Here are some photos of the class hard at work using technology to support their learning.
P5S – Book Detectives Homework due 8.12.16
As discussed in class, you will read a set amount of pages per week. Please see below for the pages to be read by each group this week.
Green: Carnival King – Please complete the book.
Yellow: Hostage – Please complete the book.
Red: Over the Rainbow – Please complete the book.
Blue: Kid Wonder and the Sticky Skyscraper – Please complete the book.
Once you have completed the reading this week you should then complete two segments using the information from the chapters read: Question Master and Illustrator. A short section from the book should also be chosen to read aloud to your group members.
We have gone over the types of questions you should be coming up with this week: literal and evaluative. Please remember that answers for literal questions are found in the text. Evaluative questions are your thoughts and opinions on what you have read, eg. Why do you think Sonia’s dad did not want to be entered into the cake competition? You should use what you have read to justify your answer, eg. use evidence from the text to make judgements on what you have read.
Please come up with 5 questions (3 of one style and 2 of the other) which can be shared with your group members during our next session. You must also have detailed answers for each of your questions. Please remember your answers should be written in full sentences.
You should also completed a detailed illustration of an interesting part of the story so far. A short, written explanation should also be included. This task should be completed in your Book Detectives jotter. This task should be completed and returned to school for Thursday 8th December.
Please remember that you will be unable to participate in our class lesson if you do not complete this task.
Renfrewshire Sumdog Contest
The contest finishes today at 8pm so you still have time to help your class and the school climb the leaderboard. Here are the current results:
Renfrewshire Sumdog Contest
Happy St Andrew’s Day! I hope you all have a great day. Well done those of you who have taken part in the Sumdog contest. The classes below have qualified (at least 10 people from each class have played) and you can see their position on the Leaderboard below. Keep playing and trying your best to help your class and our school to do our very best!
P1H -the rest of this week!
Enjoy the holiday tomorrow!
Please could children bring their library books to school on Thursday for Read and Munch and so that I can return them to the library?
Friday is House Art Day. This is a very exciting day where children work in their houses for the full day to create a wall display. Children should come to school wearing something in their house colour -nothing too new or expensive as it might get messy!!!! They will also make a craft to take home.
Saturday is the school Christmas Fair. All of the children in the class have made decorations which will be on sale on the day priced at £1 each. They are clearly labelled with your child’s name to avoid confusion! I hope you can support us in this great fundraiser.
See you all on Thursday!
Mrs Hunter
Happy St Andrew’s Day
Enjoy your St Andrew’s Day holiday tomorrow.
Here are the games we played today.
See you on Thursday
P5S – Library Visit
This morning we had our second visit to the library where you returned your books and chose some new ones. Some of you chose quite a few to take away which is just wonderful to see. We still have 3 weeks of our Personal Reading Challenge left so you have plenty of time to read them.
Here are a few photographs from today’s visit.
P5H book Detectives – due 6.12.16
Good evening everyone as promised here is your Book Detectives homework for this week.
Your homework pages are:
Blue – Call 999 – P3 – 20
Yellow – Scrap Man and Scrapcat P3 – 26
Red – The Case of the Smiling Shark Chpt1 – 3
Green – Sing for your Supper Chpt 1-2
Once you have completed your reading you should complete your two segments using the information from the pages/chapters you have read.
Question Master:
Please write out 3 literal and 2 evaluative questions which can be shared with your group members during our next session on Tuesday.
Please remember to provide sentence answers for each of your questions. A number of you are forgetting this part of your homework.
Illustrator:
Please complete a detailed illustration of an interesting part of the story so far. A short, written explanation of what you have drawn and why should also be included. If possible please colour your illustration with pencil.
Remember to choose a short section/paragraph from the book to read aloud to your group members. You should briefly explain your choice.
This task should be completed in your Book Detectives jotter for Tuesday 6th December.
Please remember if you do not complete this task fully you will find it hard to participate in our class lesson and it will be recorded as incomplete homework.
Enjoy your holiday for St Andrew’s Day tomorrow.
I will see you all on Thursday.
Mrs Hughes
P5H Painting Shirts
Good evening everyone. As you (and your parents by now!) know we were painting today in preparation for the Christmas Fair on Saturday. Quite a few of you managed to get quite a lot of paint on yourselves. To try and prevent this the next time we do arts and crafts could you ask someone at home if you can bring in an old shirt or tee-shirt that is big enough to cover your uniform. Please remember to label it with your name so we know which one is yours.
It would also be very helpful if you could bring in any old newspapers from home to cover the desks.
Thank you, see you tomorrow.
Mrs Hughes.
P5 – Brazil – Travel Guide
We are reaching the final weeks of our Brazil topic and to date you have learned an incredible amount of information. You are going to use some of this knowledge for our next task.
For today’s task you are going to create a travel guide for Brazil. Brazil is visited by millions of tourists every year. It has many attractions and hosts many events that tourists find appealing.
Below are a number of links which you should access to research the information you will include in your travel guide. Notes should be taken in your topic jotter. You should have clear heading to separate your information. Please remember you will already have some of the relevant information in your jotters from previous tasks. DO NOT give yourself extra work by rewriting the same information in your jotter.
Please read your task sheet carefully so you are aware of the areas to be included in your guide.
10 Best Places to Visit in Brazil
10 Top Tourist Attractions in Brazil
Art Day
Could you please bring empty milk cartons for house art day.
Thanks
Reading homework for P1M
As the children don’t have any reading books this week we decided to send them home each night with their own story written and illustrated by themselves. (Basically it’s a sentence using some of the common words from their word wall). Please encourage them to attempt to read their sentence (story) using fingers under the words approach.
Please return the booklet tomorrow so we can write another story.
Toys Talks
Well done to all of the children who presented their talk today in class. Due to absences and some of the children forgetting their toys for today, a number of the children from the Tuesday group chose to present their talks today. Therefore, the following children will present their talks tomorrow:
Callum C
Kieran
Jessica D
Noor
Emma
Jay
Ella
Freya
Frazer
Lauren
Libby
Jamie
Eilidh
Have a lovely evening!
Miss Hamilton
Homework 28.11.16
Homework this week:
- one non-fiction reading book
-practising lines for the Nativity poem
P4M Homework w/b 28.11.16
Hi everyone, here is your homework for the week.
Reading –
The Muggle Wump Monkeys – pages vary
The Chocolate Factories – 17-32
The Mini Wonka Bars – p16-32
Fantastic Mr Fox – p1-12
Spelling –
Red – ei to say ai
weighted
eighteen
reindeer
neighbour
freight
abseil
because
best
Green – ei to say ai
eight
weigh
sleigh
beige
veil
reign
off
cold
Blue group – ay
tray
stray
play
yesterday
today
delay
from
any
Maths – Please complete the times table sheet provided this week.
Please do not hesitate to ask if you are unsure of anything.
Enjoy the St Andrew’s Day holiday. Remember it is our House Art Day on Friday and you should wear house colours.
Mrs McKay
P4a Homework 28.11.16
Hello everyone, here is your homework for this week. Please remember Wednesday this week is a holiday 🙂 and Friday is house art day, please wear old clothes!
Reading
Twirls – Will be issued to each group on Tuesday.
Crunchies – P20-end for Thursday. (Reading will be heard in class on these days)
Buttons – P17-23 Tuesday, P24-end for Friday. (Reading will be heard in class on these days)
Spelling
Blue group ‘ie’
relief, chief, shield, mischief, achieve, believe, thought and round.
Red group ‘ie’
field, piece, chief, thief, shield, belief, home and didn’t .
Green group ‘ue’
due, argue, rescue, sue, statue, issue, now and came.
Remember to rewrite the words using Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check. Choose 3 words to write a sentence for or challenge yourself and use the VCOP helper to write a short story, underlining or using a different colour for your spelling words. Try to include ambitious vocabulary and connectives in these. Then choose a Spell Well activity to help consolidate your words.
This week in maths we will continue with calendar work, I have a game below to help, try to challenge yourselves!
http://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/261
http://www.abcya.com/calendar_word_problems.htm – Calendar Games
P7S – Week beginning 28/11/16
Good Morning,
Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.
Language
- Spelling – Complete Unit/List 6 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Thursday 1st December.
- Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.
- Reading – All new books should be completed for Friday 16/12/16. New books will be selected at some point this week.
Remember there is no book detective’s homework, all you need to do is read. Enjoy!
Maths – Sumdog Renfrewshire Challenge. See previous post for more details but please try to play for at least 10 minutes each night.
Other
- Return any letters A.S.A.P.
- P.E Tuesday and Thursday
- Wednesday 30th – St Andrew’s Day Holiday
- Friday 2nd – Christmas Art Day: Wear your House colours but it might get messy!
P2/1 w/b 28.11.16
Hi P2/1
I hope you had a lovely weekend.
As this is a short week due to St Andrew’s Day on Wednesday, and because we have House Art day on Friday, homework will be different to normal.
P1 Homework
Maths challenge booklet
Wordwall
No new sounds ( please keep revising all sounds and using them to make short words.)
No reading books
All P1 pupils are asked to bring their favourite toy into class on Thursday to share with their friends.
P2 Homework
Reading
Continue to practise poem parts.
All P2 class talks will take place this week. All pupils should be ready to present on Monday but could be asked to present on Tuesday or Thursday depending on time.
No formal spelling
No formal maths
House Art Day
All pupils should wear their house colours on this day in clothes that they don’t mind getting messy.
Pupil Profiles
All pupil profiles were emailed out to parents on Friday evening. If you have not successfully received this email, please put a note in your child’s diary, along with a current email address. Thank you.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions. Door is always open!
I hope you have a lovely week!
Miss Cruickshank
Week beginning 28/11/16
I hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed some of the winter sunshine.
News and homework for this week…
P2 Homework
This week due to the short week and talks there will be no formal spelling homework. This will resume next week.
Reading books will be back to fiction and pupils will have one book this week.
No Maths this week although pupils can practise some of the games noted already in the blog. e.g. Topmarks money games and ICT games.
Pupils should continue to practise their poem parts and for their class talk.
P3 Homework
Spelling sound this week is silent w as in wrist and write.
Reading books will be fiction this week and pupils will be given one book this week.
No formal maths this week but pupils can practise ICT maths games and Topmarks money games.
Pupils should continue to practise their poem parts and prepare for their class talks.
This week we are off on Wednesday for St Andrews day and have our school house art day on Friday. On Friday pupils can wear their house colours.
We will also be hearing our class talks. Your child has been given a day – Monday, Tuesday or Thursday. Your child will receive feedback on the day in the form of 2 stars and a wish. I am looking forward to hearing these talks.
For our class topic we will be completing a robot challenge. Pupils will be working in their groups to create a robot out of junk modelling materials and fabrics. As such I would be grateful if pupils could bring in some junk. For example kitchen roll tubes or small cardboard cereal boxes etc. Thank you in advance.
Have a great week.#
Mrs Fulton
Toys Talks
Good evening!
The children will be presenting their favourite toys this week and discussing them with the class. I am aware that many of the children have been practising their talks at home and I look forward to hearing each and every one of them. I have divided the class into two groups over Monday and Tuesday in the following way:
Monday
Elena
Callum C
Orla
Ellouise
Kieran
Zara
Jessica D
Noor
Mairi
Cameron
Ailsa
Jessica L
Emma
Tuesday
Callum M
Jay
Ella
Freya
Isla
Frazer
Lauren
Aaron
Libby
Jamie
Eilidh
Louise
If children who are presenting on Tuesday wish to bring their toy tomorrow and keep it in class, that is no problem.
Lastly, I would like to thank you all for your feedback and lovely comments in response to the children’s Learning Journey Profiles, and your support with preparing for our topic talks.
Best Wishes
Miss Hamilton
