This week P2b have been reviewing the sound ‘oy’, practicing number bonds to 10, working on sequencing stories and writing about our homes.

This week’s Big Star was Daisy; well done Daisy!

Here are P2b’s favourite bits of this week.

Oliver – Pick up a pair,. You had to add up to ten and get the numbers partner.

Kai – Learning about growth mind set

Daisy – Being big star because I got to choose a little star.

Anna – Doing Jack and the Beanstalk. I liked that story. I liked that when the Giant was going down the Beanstalk, Jack cut down the beanstalk and he’ll never see the giant again.

Ethan – Growth mind set and fixed mind set. When you’ve got a growth mind set you always try your best.

Isla – Pick up a pair. We had to find the numbers that made 10.

Jack – Growth mind set because we got to know about if you give up you’ll have a fixed mind set.

Sophie – My favourite thing was when I helped people and held the door.

Sofia – Being little star on Wednesday because we got the beanbags.

Hollie – Writing about our houses with Mrs Laidlaw.

Hannah – My favourite part was doing the Jack and the Beanstalk cut and stick, I liked that one.

Lois – Doing Jack and the Beanstalk trying to put them together.

Thomas – Playing the cards game.

Murray – Jack and the Beanstalk cutting out the story and putting it in the right order.

Ben – Jack and the Beanstalk cutting and sticking in the right order.

Mikolaj – Jack and the Beanstalk

*Next Wednesday we have European Day of Languages in which children can dress up wearing the colours of a European country’s flag!*

Miss Cowan

P2B have had a very busy week! It was Maths Week throughout Scotland this week and so the class completed a variety of fun activities and had a visit from Money Sense.

This week’s Big Star was Oliver!

Thank you to all the parents who came to Meet the Teacher, it was lovely to get a chance to meet you all.

Kai and Daisy also recieved certificates at assembly this week. Kai was awarded his for excellent work during Maths Week. Daisy was awarded her certificate for fulfilling the school value of “Believe” by challenging herself when given a choice of different work. Well done to both of you!

Here are the children’s top bits from this week:

Kai – Making our hand-print crabs, I liked it because we got to paint our hands.

Hope – Making jellyfish. We painted a paper bowl and put strips of tissue paper under the bowl.

Sophie – I liked making turtles with our hands because we got to paint onto our hands and it tickled.

Lois – Doing dot-to-dot to practice the order the numbers come in.

Murray – I liked dot-to-dot today because I got to practice the numbers.

Hannah – My favourite part was doing dot-to-dot. I did a bunny one.

Isla – I liked pushing the toy cars down the ramp.

Oliver  – Maths. I liked doing rainbows adding up to 10.

Ethan – I liked being the little star yesterday.

Jack – When we were doing the fish. We coloured in paper plates with 10 on them and coloured little fish with numbers adding up to 10.

Thomas – Being little star today.

Hollie – Making necklaces. I made mine for my Mum and my Dad. I used orange, yellow, purple, red, blue and green.

Daisy – My favourite part of the week was doing our necklaces.

Anna – My favourite part was necklaces. I used red, yellow and orange.

Ben – The handprints when we painted on our hands because it was tickly and I got to make a turtle and when we were doing our work it was quiet. And I liked it when we got goody bags with the pens and the wallets. That’s me done.

Miss Cowan

This week in P2B we have been learning to work-out the missing number in a sum, have learned the sounds ‘ew’ and ‘ow’ in spelling and and have been learning about different animal families.

This week’s big star was Isla and we also had a birthday girl too. Hannah and Anna were chosen to show their great work to the deputy heads this week – well done girls, keep it up!

Another good week for P2B, see you all on Monday.

Here are the children’s favourite parts of this week.:

Jack – when we were doing the sums on the whiteboards.

Kai – Writing yesterday about our favourite toys, mine is Stretch Armstrong.

Daisy – Learning about all the different animals. We learned about fish, birds and mammals.

Lois – My favourite part of the week was all playing together in the playground.

Hope – Doing the under the sea. Learning about the animals.

Oliver – I liked maths, I liked doing the missing number in the sums.

Anna – My birthday!! I was six. I liked going to the head to show my work too. I showed my doll head story.

Ethan – I liked doing the missing number squares. It was difficult a wee bit difficult but I kept going.

Isla – My favourite bit was doing under the sea.

Sophie – My favourite bit was circle time and maths too.

Sofia – I liked the missing number in maths.

Murray – I liked the missing numbers.

Hannah – Going to the head teacher to show my good work.

Mikolaj – My spelling

Hollie – Writing about my LOL doll.

Thomas – Gym doing hula hoop games.

From Miss Cowan

This week P2B have been learning adding in numeracy, the sound ‘igh’ in spelling and have discovered lots about under the sea. Our Big Star this week was Mikolaj!

Here are everyone’s favourite parts from throughout the week.

Hannah – my favourite thing has been painting the animals in the different zones of under the sea. My favourite one is a whale shark.

Hollie – my favourite thing has been reading Monty and the Ghost train. I like that book; I like the end bit when Titch sees a monster.

Kai – My favourite thing has been doing maths. We have been learning adding numbers.

Oliver – I’ve liked learning about not throwing rubbish into the sea because it can hurt the animals. The turtles and the whales and the seahorses can get hurt.

Daisy – Learning about all the different ocean zones; the sunlight zone, the twilight zone and the midnight zone.

Hope – I’ve liked learning the under the sea zones.

Sophie – I’ve liked learning about sea animals. We were learning about not putting rubbish in the sea or the sea animals will get hurt.

Anna – My favourite thing was when we learned about where the sea animals live. The turtle lives in the sunlight zone. The angler fish and the blob fish live in the midnight zone.

Lois – I’ve liked learning this week and doing maths.

Sofia – My favourite thing was painting. We learned about and painted the different zones of the ocean. My picture had a starfish on it.

Isla – My favourite thing this week has been learning to not drop rubbish in the sea so that the animals don’t get hurt and the turtles don’t eat the rubbish.

Ethan – my favourite thing was the teacher picking out names in the jar for the talking partners and being the little star with Mikolaj.

Mikolaj –My  favourite thing this week has been maths.

Murray – My favourite thing has been maths and learning adding the numbers.

Jack – I liked maths when we were using the whiteboards to do our sums.

Thomas – My favourite thing was painting the different parts of the sea and the animals.

Ben – I’ve liked drawing the midnight zone and sticking animals on.

Now that the weather is getting warmer we went out to the playground to play some Maths and Numeracy games.  As a warm up activity, we had to organise ourselves in to a line from 1-20 by looking at our classmates tunics.  We also created addition and subtraction sums using the numbers on our tunics.  That took a bit more thinking and organising.  Being able to find the person with the number before or after the one on our tunic was good fun and we managed to do it quickly and accurately.

Using numbered cones, we practised ordering numbers to 20 and for adding and taking away within 20.

We used fancy shape bean bags to practise throwing into the number net.  Carley got a high score of 21!

Aaron was able to read the number on the tile without counting the dots, which is fabulous!

We continued to learn through play in the classroom as 15-20 minutes outside with a little wind was long enough for Mrs Laidlaw!

P1C had lots of fun at a Tae-Kwon-Do taster session.

Please find below a few photos:

Dojo winner – Nina.  Well done!

P1 were set a home learning task, to create and design their own garden. They did a tremendous job! They were all unique, with lots of effort and hard work put in to them.

A huge thanks to the adults who helped out.

Below are a few photos of the children with their masterpieces.  Well done boys and girls!

On Wednesday, Primary One went to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Lots of fun was had by everyone and lots of interesting information was given.

Here are some of the things we enjoyed about the trip:

“We liked seeing the baby ducks, they were cute” (Jamie, Alistair and Brandon).

“We learned about SWAF – Shelter, Water, Air and Food” (Charlotte).

“I liked the monkey puzzle tree, it felt soft and spiky. The monkeys can’t climb up it so they have to wait for the fruit to fall off it” (Cameron).

“I liked playing all the games; ‘teddy bear tig’ was fun” (Ammie-Leigh).

“We saw a really big tree with massive leaves” (Zara).

“We liked being on the bus” (Lucas and Liam).

On Wednesday P1 spent the day in their new P2 classroom. Below are some comments about what they enjoyed.

“I enjoyed making a picture” (Cameron).

“I liked making a robot, giving him a name and hearing a story about a robot” (Keilija).

“I made a rainbow fish” (Liam).

“I enjoyed drawing fish with my fingers and paint. Also making my own tiara” (Brooke).

“I enjoyed writing” (Charlotte from the nursery).

“I enjoyed making a rainbow fish” (Brandon).

“I liked meeting Miss McDougall” (Mia, Brooke and Shelbi).

“I liked lunchtime and playtime, writing and rainbow fish” (Charlotte).

“I liked seeing Miss Boyle and playing with the toys” (Jackie).

This week one of the things we were learning to do in Maths was to divide.  The children were fabulous at sharing out pretend sweets and compare bears or counters equally.  Below are a few photos from one of our activities.

Enjoy the long weekend.

Firstly a huge well done to Callum for winning the Park Smart competition.  We are all super proud of him.

Here are some of our comments about this week’s learning:

“We learned how to play tunnel tig with Mr Jeffries” (Callum, Charlie, Owen and Liam).

“We learned how to say names of colours in French” (Keilija).

“I can write instructions – How to make a cheese sandwich” (Rory).

“We were learning about role-play with Mrs Innes” (Zara).

“I love learning with Mr Jeffries – jogging” (Brandon).

“I learned how to tell the time” (Shelbi).

“I know how to count up to 30” (Annie).

We’ve been bees in P1l!  Below are some comments from the children about what they have enjoyed about school this week or about school in gerneral.

I like doing Maths, we’ve been learning to take away (Rory).

I like doing Maths too, continuing a shape and colour pattern is fun (Ammie-Leigh).

I like phonics, we were learning the ‘sk’ sound in my group this week (Brandon).

I like the activities we do in phonics, like jumping into the hoops and saying the sound (Mia).

I like practising the letter shapes in phonics (Charlie).

I like working in school (Zara).

I enjoy P.E. with Mr Jeffries, I like playing tig (Liam).

I enjoy Drama with Mrs Innes (Keilija).

I like phonics and Maths (Jamie).

I like P.E the most (Ruby).

I like going outside for P.E. with Mrs Laidlaw (Cameron, Shelbi, Callum and Alistair).

I like my teachers (Ruby-Anne, Annie and Owen).

I like lunch time and play times the most (Charlotte).

Golden Time is my favourite (Kyle).

Doing aerobics in the classroom on a rainy day is fun (Brooke).

I like lunch time the most (Jackie).

I like home time (Lucas).

In teams, P1L had to create their own pirate ship using the resources given. The children were very creative, using either wooden blocks, lego and collage materials. They did well working together and had fun whilst they were learning!

Please find some photos below: