This week we have been learning:

Fiona – I have been learning how to blend colours in painting. This week were painting our version of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’
Luca – I learned about Vincent Van Gogh. He uses lots of dashes and dots. He cut off his ear. He ended up shooting himself.
Gabriel – We learned that he lived in France and had a yellow house.

Kamron – I have been learning about rounding numbers in maths. When you are rounding if the next number is 4 or less you round down and if it is more than 5 you round up.

Jack – In netball we were learning to pivot with the ball so that you can pass to people to the side of you and behind you.

Callum – I learned in maths the value of numbers.

Noah – At Golden Time I learned how to make Banoffee Pie. You break up digestive biscuits, then a spoonful of carmel, then you chop up banana and then top with cream. Then you eat it!
Skye – In drama we were the President Body Guard and Ground Control to Major Tom in our dance drama. We were learning to talk to each other and control our movements.

In P.E this week we played ‘Castles’.  To play this game, we split into two teams and each team has two ‘castles’ made from hula hoops.  The aim of the game is to use a ball to knock down the opposing teams castles.  There is a two minute time limit and the team who knocks down the most castles wins.

For writing this week we wrote an imaginative crime story.  We had to choose from a selection of characters, settings and crimes and create a story with a beginning, middle and end.  We also had to begin our story with an interesting opener.  E.g. in the middle of action, a flashback, with a question or speech.  This helped to grab the reader’s attention straight away.  Miss Bollen was very impressed with our stories.

This week we also learned about the ‘crime’ that took place at Balbardie.  It turns out that MrsDunbar’s laptop has been stolen.  The suspects are; Mrs Meek, Mrs Hay, Mrs Madden, Jim the Janny, Mrs Haddifon and Mr Cunningham.  We explored the crime scene and found fingerprints, footprints, a scrunched up note, fabric and hair samples.  We will complete investigations over the coming weeks to find the guilty suspect.

Enjoy the long weekend,

P7b

RRS- Article 28- Right to an Education

Pupil of the week- David

Class dojo winner- Viggo

Table of week- Mysterious 6

This week we learned all about William Wallace and the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Did you know that all his army wore yellow tunics not tartan ones? They rubbed plants on the their tunics to dye them. Also the Scots outwitted the English bu using great tactics, they won even although the English had many more cavalrymen than the Scots.

We also wrote newspaper reports on the battle during writing, and learned about the features of a newspaper.

In H&W we learned about having a growth mindset – feel free to ask us about it!

Have a great holiday weekend everyone!

As part of our Senses topic, we have had fun looking at optical illusions.  We had fun making our eyes go a bit funny and some of of us were a bit dizzy! We paired up in our penny experiment where we closed one of our eyes and tried to judge where the penny would drop…Lots of us were really good at this task, Miss McDougall was very impressed.

We are continuing to get faster and faster at our mental maths and are enjoying our new maths games.

In writing this week we worked on Who, What, Where and When and we found out that Mrs Potato Head had a cold…we had to help her get better.

We are continuing to use our expressive voices in our reading groups and turbo boost our volume, well done P2!

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week-Lexi

Elena is really happy to be on step 2

Emily is on level 4 swimming and can ride her bike with no stabilisers

Daniel is moving to a yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do

Luke is learning to practise balancing and do bridges

We have had a really busy and fun week in P1a.  We took advantage of the lovely weather and went outside with Mrs Laidlaw for number work and used chalk to write the numbers 1-10 in the playground.

We read some stories about Elmer the Elephant and wrote about what makes us special.

This week we have learned….

The sound c.  Aileigh and Justin

The sound t.  Amber

The sound s.  Emily

The tricky word ‘me’.  Shannon

The sound m. Ada and James

The sound a.  Jude and Holly

The tricky word ‘we’.  Amber

The sound p.  Jack and River

In writing we wrote about, what makes me special. Carley

I enjoyed running around outside with my buddy.  Oliver

I enjoy Golden Time.  Ada

I enjoyed playing with my buddy outside. Mac

I enjoyed playing with my buddy. Holly

I enjoyed playing with Meadow.  Olivia

Pupil of the week: Aileigh for working hard to write the sound t and write her numbers.

Enjoy the long weekend.

This week in class we have been learning about friendship.

In circle time we were thinking about kind words and nasty words and did an apple experiment to see how our words effect how someone feels. Both the apples looked the same on the outside but when we cut them open, the apple we had been nice to had a star in the middle.  The apple we had said unkind things to was bruised and yucky on the inside.

From this we learned that not everyone shows when they are upset, we need to try our best to be kind to everyone.

Here are some of the nice, kind things we have done this week:

Keegan – “I shared my snack with a friend”

Brandon – “I helped people in the playground if there was a problem”

Poppy – “I’ve helped my friends get their things ready to go home at the end of the day”

Marley – “I gave a big hug and kiss to my mum”

Rocco – “I helped my sister cook”

Regan – “I helped my friends and played with them”

Leah – “I played with Poppy”

Millie – “I helped Poppy in the playground when she had fell and hurt her leg”

Romeo – “I got help when someone chased my friend when we were playing at home”

Rory – “I helped my mum to load the car for when we go on holiday”

Ellie – “I’ve helped my friend when they fell and hurt themselves”

Teigan – “I made a cake for my mummy”

Liam – “I was really nice to my friends”

Leila – “I helped Emily when she fell yesterday”

Cameron – “I helped my mum make lunch”

Rio – “I helped my mum to clean the car”

Max – “I helped my mum to clean the car, it doesn’t have a single crumb on the floor now!”

Emily – “I helped Millie when she fell after an accident in the playground”

Jonah – “I helped clean mummy’s car out”

We hope you have a lovely holiday weekend!

From

Primary 2/1

Jack – This week I have been learning to get better at rounding numbers. Before I found it difficult but now I have mastered it! So you round up if the number is more than 5. If it was 7 it would be 10, if it was 3 it would 0.

Fiona – I learned to round to the nearest 10,000, 100,000 and 1 million. We did examples with the teacher before we did our written task.

Gary – This I have been learning how to write a newspaper report. In a newspaper you should have a title called a headline, a photo, information, date, adverts and sometimes crosswords and puzzles. Next week we are writing our own newspaper report about the landing on the moon.

Casey – I learned this week not to give up. We have been learning about Growth Mindset.

Stacey – I have been learning it is ok to make mistakes if you keep moving forward.