What a quiet week it has been towards the end of this week…lots of nasty bugs and snow going round.  We really hope to have everyone back, fighting fit, next week!

This week has been lots of fun.  Here are our best bits from this week:

Cameron – “I have liked the twister mat at the writing table because I like to stretch out”

Teigan – “I liked painting the animal for Katie Morag”

Rio – “I liked twister too –  I practised s, b, p and oo on the mat”

Jonah – “I liked doing the painting. I learned about backgrounds and using paint”

Leila – “The best bit was when I was pupil of the week”

Rory – “I liked doing twister, it was fun to learn sounds”

Max – “I liked learning about a red squirrel and making a fact file”

Emily – “I liked doing my otter information.  The video was good”

Brandon – “I liked learning about Scottish wildlife. I challenged myself by writing information about an otter”

Marley – “I liked making my seal”

Regan – “The construction challenges were fun this week”

Leah – “Construction has been the best station this week”

Keegan – “I like doing my seal and adding detail”

Breaghannon – “I liked the fact file with information”

From

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – a note just to remind parents/carers that trip letters and money are due asap.  If there are any problems with this please let me, or the office staff, know)

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!

We have had a short week but we have been learning a lot. We have been revising our tables and practising our spelling. We have also been busy in art- drawing Scottish landscapes.

Special person: Scott

We have started our new Context for Learning…. dinosaurs!  We are very excited about becoming palentologists.  We’ve already hatched our own dinosaurs!  We got ice eggs and hatched our dinosaurs using lots of different strategies….

• we used tools to smash them open
• our hands to warm the eggs
• hot water
• we dropped them from a height
• we kicked them off the wall

Here are some photos..

Here is some of our learning this week………………………

We were learning about dinosaurs. James

I was learning the sound p. Mac

We have been smashing dinosaur eggs. River

We learned the words eight and always. Oliver

We learned p in phonics.   Ellis

We wrote dinosaur stories. Max

We did dinosaur dot to dot in numeracy. Holly

We played dinosaur roll a dice. Jude

We used hot water to get our eggs to melt. Aaron

We learned the sound or. Ada

We used tools to crack the eggs open. Jack

We warmed the eggs up in our hands. Mac

We learned taking away to get a smaller number. Amber

We learned ‘counting on’ in numeracy. Olivia

We’ve been adding numbers to make a bigger number. Alex

We’ve been learning to tell the time. River

A short week this week which saw us getting to grips with equivalent fractions.

Millie – it was good i liked it

Grace – once you get the hang of them they are easy!

We also learned greetings in French so that we can make a powerpoint to present to the class.  And then we got on our plane and flew to Spain to learn greetings in Spanish.  We had great fun walking around the class and greeting each other in our different languages.

Our Victorian inventions are looking good and some pupils have brought in their models already – remember they have to be for next Wednesday!

Please also remember to return the EE2 for our trip along with payment.

This week Miss Taylor started our new topic of Dungeons and Dragons. Dan the Dragon wrote a letter to the class as he accidently breathed fire on the King’s castle and it made the King really cross and very sad.  P2A have a job to make the King happy again by learning all about life in a castle and completing their challenges.

In writing this week we wrote a letter to King Thistle to help him make his castle better again.

In maths this week we have been learning about symmetry and halves and quarters for our fraction work.

In drama this week we have been continuing to practise our Caterpillar Boogie show.  We look forward to seeing you on March 23rd at 9.30 am…tickets and letters will be handed out soon 🙂

Achievements this week

Eva is nearly on level 4 in swimming

Akasha has been practising her swimming skills

Luke and Hollie have achieved their backstroke level, now on level 5

Emily has been practising her gymnastics

Artjom and Rowan  have been practising their swimming skills

Daniel has achieved his Space stripe and a green stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Elena is getting better at roller skating

Teigan has been practising her cartwheels and is getting better at them

Lexi is getting better at playing the guitar

Short week!

Writing

Our writing this week was a recount of our trip to the museum. We used our writing planners to help us. We are getting much better at taking notes and using them to help with our writing. Here is an example –

Maths

This week we were learning about centimetres squared and found it quite tricky! Mrs Little put a task in our home learning to see if we can remember how to work out the are of a shape in cm squared.

LATC

Last Thursday we went on our class trip to the National Museum of Scotland to learn some more about Vikings. We all had a great day. Here are some pictures and some comments –

 Mia – I really liked it when we went to the theatre to learn about Viking life from two actors

Teighan- I really liked seeing the Viking grave

Sophia – I learned that a Viking pot was found in Bathgate 

Megan- I learned that there are three alphabets

Jason – I learned about how the Viking paid for things using ring money

Kiara- I really liked going to the room where we got to hold Viking artefacts and had to guess what they were

Have a good weekend!!