This week has been a jumbled up week – and we have had lots of fun with Miss Holwill while Mrs Mansfield was off ill.

These have been the best bits of the week:

Poppy – “My best bit of the week is maths”

Cameron – “I liked doing the pointillism bears for Katie Morag”

Rory – “I liked the bears too”

Keegan – “I liked learning about Katie Morag.  I learned the story of Tiresome Ted”

Max – “The best bit has been learning more about Katie Morag”

Liam – “I liked maths.  I did a good job”

Ellie  – “I liked learning about Katie Morag.  I liked the learning about where she lives”

Teigan – “I like Katie Morag, she is funny”

Leila – “My best bit of the week was when we got to go to different activities”

Emily – “I liked reading the story about Katie Morag”

Leah – “I liked learning about maths this week”

Rio – “I liked doing the bears”

Marley – “I liked doing the bears.  I did lots of dots”

Jonah – “The teddy bears were very cute”

Breaghannon – “I liked picking Pokemon pictures for Golden time”

Millie – “I liked the bit when we did the bears”

Regan – “I liked giving Tiresome Ted a make over”

Griffin – “I liked doing my writing, I got moved up the rocket”

From Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – Thank you for your understanding with homework being a day late this week.  I am now feeling a lot better and have had a fab few days with your children this week.  There were quite a lot of homework bags missing when I was sticking in the homework grids – can these please be returned on a Monday.  Homework this week includes preparing a 1 minute talk about family, all children should prepare this!  It could include family names, jobs, special memories, where you live etc.  We will hear these in class next week as part of a listening and talking progression.  I can’t wait to hear them!)

Pins from our learning in writing this week:

Tweets about our learning in multiplying in maths, character study in writing and Scottish Politics in LAC:

Snaps of our favourite piece of work:

Pupil of the week: Holly

Special person: Kate

Language

This week we have been learning about different types of sentences.

Sophia- there are four different types of sentences

Suvi – the four types are command, question, exclamation and statement

Liam – Suvi went to the shops (statement)

Euan – “Pick the litter up,” said Tim (command)

Teighan – “What is that?” said Suvi (question)

Megan – “I love this ride!” said mum (exclamation)

Maths

This week we have been building on our previous learning about coordinates. We all had the opportunity to make a grid and position objects on it and ask our elbow partners to identify the coordinates.

Denholm – I really liked it when Alfie had to try and solve my grid questions

Connor – it was fun swapping sheets and trying to find what the coordinates were

We also had a fun time using games to consolidate our learning of the four operations. This was also a good time to evaluate how well we work as part of a team and how well we can follow instructions. Some of the games we played were shut the box, nine snap, what number am I and speed tables. Here are some pictures –

HWB

We are all learning a lot about how to react appropriately to different situations.

Suvi – This week we were doing drama. We got a card either saying aggressive, weak or cool and we had to act out what it said on the card with our partners.

LATC

We have started our Viking fact files. We had great fun using the books in class to research where the Vikings came from and what places they raided. We discussed the difference between fact and opinion before beginning our task. Here is a picture of us using the books –

Science

We were looking at different materials and predicting if they were magnetic or non-magnetic. We discussed our predictions with our elbow partner and recording them. We were then able to test our predictions using different magnets.

P.E.

We have been learning about good teamwork and what the qualities of a good team member are. Our challenge was to cross the playground ‘swamp’ using 3 hula hoops per team.

Have a great weekend!

We have been very busy this week in class making our potions to help us with our potion writing. We made super invisibility potions, potions to make us jump to the moon and potions to turn us into dogs! We then wrote our instructions.

We learned about Robert Burns on Burns’ Day, where he was born, what he did and we had a Scottish quiz to help us remember.  We learned how to dance to the Dashing White Sergeant in class which we found a little bit tricky but fun!

In our maths work we have been learning time challenges and our time to beat the clock is now 31 seconds…a new record.

Achievements

Pupil of week-Rowan

Starwriters this week-Maddison, Sarah, Elena and Lexi

Kyle has got a red and blue stripe for Kicking Kids

We think we had a very good week!

Sophie and Eva loved doing our collage of a chimney sweep as part of our Art in our Victorians topic. Demi liked doing Maths and has mastered long division! Grace and Freya  had a great time at outdoor P.E. And Rachael loved getting dressed up as a Victorian child.

Lucy and Keira are pleased we can now say hello, how are you and answer in Spanish. We think we need a class trip to Spain to practise though………..

Isla and Ava enjoyed our ribbon work in Drama, while Oliver and Alfie  liked the assembly.

And Brodie, Rachael and Karys enjoyed watching their siblings in the P7 Panto.

Have a great weekend everyone!

This has been another great week in Primary 2/1.

We have been learning about Robert Burns – here are some of the facts we have learned:

Marley – “He died when he was 37.  He worked as a farmer”

Max – “He was famous for writing poems and songs”

Brandon – “We celebrate Burns day to remember him.  We eat haggis, neeps and tatties”

Rory – “He wrote a famous song.  We sang Auld Lang Syne in class”

Emily – “He used to write famous poems, he wrote some about a mouse and one about haggis”

We started our learning about Katie Morag, continued to use our imagination in writing, completed some tricky maths problems using money and had a lot of fun with our new phonics jobs.  Here are our favourite bits from this week:

Leila – “Making the trees for our Katie Morag display”

Max – “Doing my own Pokemon card in Pokemon writing”

Poppy – “I liked when me and Millie got to look at Katie Morag and paint her”

Liam – “I liked learning about money”

Rio – “I liked doing money games too, I was counting on to find an answer”

Emily – “I liked doing Katie Morag’s school because it was really fun making the climbing frame”

Cameron – “I liked making the jetty and helping Leila with the trees”

Regan – “I liked counting with Pete, it was funny when we did the backwards counting song”

Leah – “I liked making the school with Emily”

Brandon – “I liked making the shop, it was a bit tricky”

Breaghannon – “I liked watching the video and making Grannie Island’s house”

Rory – “I liked watching my brother’s pantomime, he did a good job”

Millie – “I liked watching my sister in the pantomime.  The best bit was when they did gymnastics”

Keegan – “I liked when we did the challenges in maths.  I am getting better at money”

Marley – “I liked doing everything for Katie Morag”

Teigan – “I liked phonics.  I like singing the ‘a song'”

As you can see, the children really enjoyed their learning this week.  They worked really hard to pick out and then make the important places on the Isle of Struay – how do you think they got on?

We have three new members in P4b!

Their names are Mild, Spicy and Hot. They live near our Maths Wall but can visit all curricular areas. They remind us that everyone can achieve when working at their level. They also encourage us to challenge ourselves by trying a trickier level, perhaps with the support of a friend.

This week we have been problem solving using our knowledge of multiplication. Which level would you try?

Mild

Jasper had 4 plates. Each plate had 3 cakes on it. How many cakes does Jasper have?

Spicy

Toby bought 5 doughnuts which cost 10p each. He bought 7 cupcakes that were 5p each. How much change would he get from £1?

Hot

The choir has 6 boys for every 4 girls. There are 12 girls in the choir. How many children are there?

Pupil of the Week: Luke – for persevering with tricky maths. Well done you have mastered multiplying multiples of 100.