P3a are looking forward to learning lots of new things this term. Here are some of the things we are looking forward to:

Luke – I am looking forward to learning about new strategies in Maths. I am also looking forward to writing more stories.
Archie – I am looking forward to learning about hurricanes.
Artjom – I like using charcoal in Art with Mrs Thompson. I liked writing about “Lost in the maze” and I can’t wait to write more.
Elena – I am looking forward to seeing what we will be doing in PE next week. I am also looking forward to the Halloween Dress Down Day on Halloween.
Sarah – I am looking forward to learning more about the storms because it’s really interesting.
Daniel – I am really looking forward to learning about how hurricanes are made.
Teigan – I am looking forward to learning about more Maths.
Kyle – I am looking forward to Writing.
Hollie – I am looking forward to more stories in Writing and our hurricane projects.
Rheagan – I am looking forward to learning about new stories in Writing.
Akasha – I am looking forward to making my sheep in Art. It is going to be so cute.
Charlotte – I am excited to learn about all the different types of weathers in different places.
Rowan – I am excited to make a weather satellite.
Eva – I am excited to make our cakes for the Children in Need day on Monday and see who wins.

Another great week!

Literacy

In our VCOP lesson this week we have been learning about different types of sentences. We learned about questions and statements and the difference between them. We have been discussing why we use VCOP and we all understand that it gives us the skills necessary to do our writing.

Tamsyn- V stands for vocabulary

Luke- C stands for connectives

Brooke- O is for openers

Cameron- P is for punctuation

Maths

This week we continue to develop our mental agility. We have been learning about the link between addition and subtraction. Here is an example 5+4=9 and this is the same as 9-4=5. We can add this to the strategies that we have for doing calculations.

We have been having lots of fun using money. We used coins – 1p 2p 5p 10p 20p 50p and £1. We had to make a given amount using a certain amount of coins. It was quite tricky at first but was good fun when we got the hang of it! Here are some pictures…

HWB

This week with Mrs McKenzie we were learning about medicines. We learned about storing medicines safely at home, how they can help us and how they can be dangerous.

P.E

In P.E. this week we were learning about the different ways we can ‘travel’ when doing different sports. It’s important that we learn to travel safely especially when playing fast games that involve running or playing with a ball.

Have a great weekend!

Wow! What a quick and terrific term.  We have learned lots about the rainforest and taken on additional responsibilities throughout the school.  Here are some of our highlights from term 1:

‘I learned about rounding in numeracy.’- Steven

‘Meeting our P1 buddies.’ – Emma

‘I enjoyed going to care class in the mornings and during wet breaks and lunches.’ – Luca

‘I really enjoyed making the silhouette of Hogwarts to display in our new library.’ – Fiona

‘I enjoyed the storyteller (Daniel Alison).  He was awesome.’ – Archie

‘Getting a buddy and spending time with them.’ – Tobin

‘Meeting Callum from Cool Creatures.’ – Noah

‘Making a bird with Mrs Thompson with chalk pastels.’ – Harry

‘I enjoyed holding an armadillo.’ – Skye

‘I enjoyed petting the palm civet called Mango.’ – Stacey

‘I liked the chameleon in Cool Creatures.’ – Casey

‘I liked playing with my friends at Golden Time.’ – Gabriel

‘I enjoyed Mrs Knowle’s party.’ – Robyn

‘I enjoyed speaking at Church.’ – Gary

‘I liked going out at break time with buddies.’- Katie

‘I enjoyed inspirational maths week.’- Fiona

‘I enjoyed the coffee morning.’ –Aidan

‘In maths I enjoyed the counting on strategy to solve subtraction sums.’ – Harry

‘I enjoyed Mrs Little’s assembly. I liked the drums.’- Jack

Have a lovely October break everyone!

Miss Bollen and P7b

This has been our final week in Term 1. It has gone by super fast and we have had lots of fun learning tasks!

Our favourite moments of this week are:
Daniel – I liked when we wrote about a fire and I also liked when we were at Church today.
Kyle – My favourite moment was in P.E when we got the mats out and the cones to try and get across to the “Disneyland”.
Maddison – In P.E we had mats out and if you went onto the floor you had to start all over. We were trying to get to imaginary “Disneyland”.
Archie – I really liked when we did our harvest healthy snack packets. I also really liked when did the story about the fire and I liked going to the church.
Artjom – I liked how we made the houses with the Art teacher.
Elena – I liked when we went to the church and I saw my dad. I also really liked the songs that we did.
Sarah – I like P.E. We were playing “chaos tig” when everyone is it and whoever gets tigged, they have to sit and watch the person who tigged them. Once they sit down they are free.
Rowan – If you tig each other at the same time in “chaos tig” you have to play rock, paper, scissors to see who will sit down.
Luke – I liked P.E this week because we played a lot of teamwork games and I was partners with Akasha, Sam, Teigan and Rowan.
Akasha – I liked when I wrote my story and I also like Golden Time.
Hollie – I liked the story called “Fire!” and I am really glad today is Friday because it is a good day!

Our favourite moments in P3 so far are:
Elena – Everything!
Charlotte – I liked when we made clean water out of dirty water.
Daniel – I liked when we learned about what dissolves and what doesn’t dissolve.
Luke – I liked learning different strategies in Maths and all of our Maths. I also liked the Xcite workshop with Marie and Robyn.
Archie – I liked when do our spelling words.
Kyle – I liked when we did our spelling tests.
Artjom – I liked when we made our landscape pictures of our community. I also liked when we drew pictures with crayons and painted over it in black paint. Then we scratched the paint off to make new pictures.
Akasha – I liked when we did our houses in Art with the Art teacher. I also liked when we made our names when we were learning about our right to a name.
Lexi – I liked making the houses with Mrs Thomson.
Rosie – I liked when we our Harvest pictures.

We have had a busy first term and are looking forward to a well-deserved rest.

I have had an amazing first term in P5 – Teighan 

I really enjoyed all of the fun work we’ve done – Kiara 

I have really enjoyed Maths this term – William 

I really liked working on the Scottish Wars of Inpependence project – Alex 

I have enjoyed drama this term – Suvi 

I had fun in Art with Mrs Thomson – Ranna

I have really enjoyed P.E so far – James 

Thank you to everyone who worked so hard on the Freedom projects. They were all fantastic.

Enjoy the holiday!

What a busy first term we’ve had! Here are some of our comments we’d like to share.

I enjoy doing stations in class. – Willow, Jess, Luke B.

Making Snuggly Snerds. – Daisy

The MacMillan Coffee Morning. – Georgia and Devyn

I like playing Shark Attack with Mr Jeffries and my friends in the gym. – Michaela, Luke M, Logan, Ruaridh, Ethan, William, Hollie, Michelle and Anna

Meeting my P7 buddy. – Bailey

Reading about Mr. Big with my group.  – Hannah

Making new friends in school. – Lois

I can say the months of the year. – Robyn

Playing tig at snack time. – Sofia

Happy holidays when they come and we look forward to more fun next term!

This morning we were lucky enough to enjoy two amazing stories from a Scottish storyteller, Daniel Allison.
The first story was called ‘A close tongue keeps a safe head’. It was a story from the island of Orkney about a strange visitor who had a blue cow. He met a ferryman called Tam and asked Tam to take him to an island out east, ‘east of Stronsay’. Tam took the man and when they got there, they found the fin folk. But the man wouldn’t let the mermaids take Tam and they turned on Tam, hissing at him. He was magicked back to the island of Sandy, near to Orkney where he told many people about the fin folk that he had met but noone believed him. The second time he met the man, the man realised that Tam could see him through the magic of the fin folk and blinded him so that he would never see again! He then took Tam down to the Fin world, under the sea, where he was able to see all the fin folk and enjoy living in their land.

We really enjoyed meeting Daniel and listening to his stories.

Table of the week – announced on Friday!

How? Well, we are always learning in active, fun ways. We have been active in learning our sounds, jumping hoops to sound out and spell some words, like pat, pan, pack. We have been active in our maths, building and making patterns. We are learning how patterns can use shape, colour or both together to challenge us. We’ve kept our bodies active too with PE in the gym hall with Mr Jeffries. The bubble game and tunnel tig are favourites with many of us. Did you know we have also been active in trying Cosmic Yoga meeting Popcorn and some pirates! Do you know what kind of animal Popcorn is?

We’d like to say thank you to all the family members who managed to come along and visit us in class last week during our Shared Start session. It was lovely to be tour guides in our classroom and we look forward to welcoming you along again soon.