P1m have received a very exciting parcel.  It was a special delivery of a giant envelope.  Inside the envelope we found a letter and a shoe from the dragon!  He is looking for some help with finding out more about the girl who has lost her shoe.  We read his letter together and realised that it belongs to Cinderella.  We’ve been very busy finding all about her story, so that we can report back to him!

We’ve watched and read her story and re-told the story to each other.  We have learned some of the key words from the story, sequenced her story with picture cards, and written her story on fancy paper.  We’ve made character masks and acted out the story.  We’ve practised our counting skills on her snakes and ladder game and lots and lots more.  Phew, we’ve been soooo busy, I wonder if he’ll come back to visit us again next week?

🙂

On Wednesday Miss Henderson told us that she was working in her office when she heard a flapping sound coming from outside.  Next, she saw a dragon fly past her window! To her surprise a black bag dropped down the chimney.  The label was addressed to all the children in P1.  We knew that the dragon was Dennis from Fairyland who had bumped into Goldolocks the week before!  When we opened the bag, we found lots of magic beans! We were excited to take our beans home and plant our very own bean stalks! In class, we have explored the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.  We also worked with our buddies to complete lovely beanstalk crafts!

Happy Planting!

We have been discussing what makes a good friend.  These are some of the things we thought made a good friend:

• help me when I am hurt.
• help me with my work, when I am stuck.
• play with me.
• help me if I am worried.
• help me sort problems.
• include me in games.
• make me feel happy.
• make me feel part of a team.
• make me laugh.

We are all going to try and be the best friend we can be!

Primary 5d have had a great fortnight! Last week

we went to Lowport in Linlithgow for our school camp.

We had a great time sailing, swimming and exploring the forest at Beecraigs Country Park.

Ray – I liked the woodland walk and pretending

to be an animal. I camouflaged myself using ferns

and branches.

This week we have had our Onsie Walk . Some of us wore our onsie’s to school.

Catherine – It was really fun and everyone looked so colourful.

This week in P6a we have been very creative! We have worked on a collage task with our P1b buddies. We have also created some beautiful pieces of art work based on stars and constellations. Click here for a sneak peek of our work.
It is our assembly in a few weeks and we have decided which songs we are going to include and everyone has part of the script to write. Next week we will start to write the scripts and learn the songs. Lots of us are excited about our assembly.

In Maths the Blue group and the Green group have been learning more about fractions. Lauren K liked completing 2 pages of maths and is happy that she can now find tenths and fifths of numbers. Adam liked maths this week because he didn’t understand fractions until Thursday but now feels confident when finding tenths. Chloe likes maths because she quite likes a challenge. The Red group were revisiting the 2, 5 and 10 times tables and then worked on the 4 and 8 times tables. Taylor found her work fun because we learned in different ways. William found his maths quite east.

The Underdogs won in a Dodgeball Competition in P.E. with Mr Jeffries. Well done to The Underdogs.

Isla is our Class Dojo Champion with 21 positive points (and no negatives!). Well Done Isla!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,
Miss Anderson and P6a 😉

Although it has only been a short week at school we have all been working very hard. We have been learning about 3D shapes and patterns. We have been making shapes out of playdough. 

   Also, each family in the class won a competition to build their own dream house. We designed our own dream house and in writing we were learning to use wow words to describe our houses.

We have been talking about things we find difficult in school and have recorded this in our review jotters.

We all really enjoyed the onsie walk and are feeling fit and healthy. We think everyone in school looked fantastic in their onesies, especially the teachers!

What have we been up to?

Abbie: I enjoyed using the DS’s in spelling because it helped us to learn our spelling words for the week.

Sophie M: I enjoyed writing my autobiography. I liked being able to make up what I’m going to do when I’m older.

Rabeea: Maths was good this week because it was interesting and it helped revise my adding skills.

Louise: I enjoyed the Onesie walk because it was nice to get some fresh air and to chat with our buddies.

Alistair: I liked doing P.E. because we were playing team dodgeball. We were focusing on our teamwork skills.

Callum: I really enjoyed the feeling of winning at dodgeball with my team.

Who has impressed?

Luke: My p1 buddy Jason impressed me during the Onesie walk because he was being sensible and friendly.

Emma: I’m proud of my little sister Amber for going to school even though she was a wee bit upset.

Sam: Callum has impressed me by being the first person to reach step 3.

Rebecca: My p1 buddy impressed me with her road safety skills.

Taylor: My buddy impressed me during the Onesie walk by being brave and choosing not to walk with her mum.

This week in maths the Hexagons have been learning about addition and subtraction of 3 and 4 digit numbers.  The Pyramids group have been using our new i-pad minis to practise our mental maths skills 🙂 The Spheres have been learning about time and have been using smartboard games to help.  We learned about what constellations are and we learned that they are like dot-dot pictures in the sky.  The stars are not connected but appear to be so in the sky.  Some constellation names are Leo the lion, Hercules, Pegasus and Andromeda.  We also found out what our astrological signs are!  We made our own telescopes and we chose a constellation to view through it.  We wrote constellation stories where we chose our heroes and villians.  In French this week we learned about flags from different countries and we helped to make them for our Day of European languages.

Achievements this week-

Melissa and Rachel are starting Orchestra!

Findlay has moved up a level in golf!

Millie is going to hold back the tears….she is starting at a new school 🙂

Jamie is joining a pipe band!

Katelyn has nearly completed level 2 in baking!

Have a great weekend!

Last week was a brilliant week because the Lowport activities were amazing. I also loved spending time with my friends.                    Emma C

Last week was a great week because we played on the Wii.                    Liam

Last week was an awesome week because we went to Lowport. Jungle bashing was good – the tunnel was the best.                      Ali

Last week was an amazing week because I loved the sailing and the teacher said I was good at it.                        Lily

Last week was a great week because I got to feed the squirrels in Princes Square Gardens. There were lots of acorns.                       Robbie

Last week was an awesome week. I loved Lowport and doing the Jungle Bashing, putting mud on our faces, crawling through an old pipe and making tree faces. AWESOME!              Sophie

Last week was a fantastic week. I loved being at Lowport, sailing, going in the woods and sleeping!                        Abigale