This week in P5b…

I really enjoyed science this week. We were seeing which solids and liquids we could separate by filtering. Kamron

I enjoyed listening to the P7 assembly. Paige

I enjoyed the the SRA because it was a challenge. Harry

I enjoyed the assembly because it was funny and interesting. Casey

I enjoyed the assembly because it teaches us stuff that we need to learn in life. Luca

I enjoyed science because we got separate solids and liquids. Lauryn

I enjoyed the assembly and science. Fiona

I loved the assembly and my brother Cameron spoke about Michael Jordan and Cameron would like to grow up to play for the NBA. Skye

I enjoyed making the William Wallace comic strip. Gabriel

I looked doing the problem solving Mystery Wheel challenge. Noah

I enjoyed the P7 assembly. Jordan

I enjoyed the drumming in P5a.

Good luck to Tobin and Noah who are participating in finals day tomorrow at Kingsfield Golf Club.

We are very excited about Lowport.  Those that aren’t going are going to have fun at school and go on their own adventure!

Writing

This week we have been finding out about William Wallace. We made a comic strip showing the story of him killing the Sheriff of Lanark. We looked at different examples of comic strips and identified the features that we would need to use in our comic strips.

Cole – we had to use text boxes to show what was happening.

Jennie – we used speech bubbles when characters were talking.

Sophie – we had to show the story in the order that it happened.

Maths

In maths we have been learning about the relationship between fractions and decimals…

Tom – 25cm = ¼= 0.25

Sam – I understand bits of a metre better.

Eva – I can turn centimetres into millimetres and millimetres into centimetres.

Scott – 25cm is ¼ of a metre.

P.E

Lucie T – we were playing games where we had to learn to work as part of a team.

Ty – Mr Jeffries makes the games fun and it helps us to learn.

Science

In science this week we were learning about dissolving.

Alanna – we were finding out what will dissolve in water and what won’t.

Noah – when we mixed water and sand the sand didn’t dissolve because it was like a solid.

Abbie – sugar, sugar cubes and coffee all dissolved in water.

That’s all for now folks! Have a great weekend 🙂

We have been reading some lovely stories in Primary 1 about being a good friend and the qualities that you need. This week we were reading the story of “The Rainbow Fish”.

First, we read the story and met a reading character called Charlie Choose. Charlie Choose asks you to think about the things that you like about the story and the things that you didn’t like in the story.

Next, we had to put the story in the right after Steven Story asked us what happened in the beginning, the middle and the end. We all did fantastic at this task!

We also made beautiful pictures of The Rainbow Fish in Art when we used different materials to glue onto it.

Finally, in our writing this week we talked about our favourite part of the story. Here are some of our favourite parts of the story:
Ehan – When he gave his scales to the other fish
Teigan – When he was a really good friend to others
Lily – I liked it when he was talking to the octopus and the starfish
Kyle – I liked it also when he spoke to the octopus

Star Writers this week:
-Ehan
-Isla
-Lois
-Luis
-Rosie

Pupil of the week: Ehan for trying his best to add tricky words into his writing.

*Article 29: We have the right to showcase our talents and abilities*
*Article 28: We have the right to an education*

Valerija thinks it has been a brilliant week this week, and Zoe agrees!  Here is what we have been up to:

Evie – We learned that in the rainforests you never build your shelter on the forest floor because it is mucky and creatures can get you!

Aaron – I enjoyed makig our rainforest display – it taught me about the different layers.

Polina – I enjoyed designing our shelters so that we can build them next week.

David – I enjoyed the vertical learning because I learned about different layers and I got to work with people I have never worked with before.

Zoe – I enjoyed doing the train timetable work in maths. It was hard but you could get the answer if you looked for the clues in the questions.

Jack – I liked when we went outside.

We are looking forward to handling some rainforest creatures next week!  Hope they are not all creepy crawly spiders! We are also excited about building our shelters and making our terranuiums.

Wow! What another amazing week full of excellent learning!

We have started our new topic which is all about Mr Potato Head and his senses. So far we have learned that Mr Potato Head has five senses – just like us! We have investigated how our eyes work and can even name some of the parts of our eye. We now understand that our eyes sent signals to our brains so that we can see and completed lots of experiments to test our eyes more! Our favourites were Spot the Difference and the Observation trays.

In maths we have been learning about ordering numbers and have had fun completing lots of activities to put numbers in order. We revised our learning about numbers that come before and after a number with the help of a number line but found this a little bit tricky. We also learned about 2D shapes and have been on a shape train around the classroom to look for Tommy Triangle, Cynthia Circle, Harriet Hexagon, Peter Pentagon and Robbie Rectangle. We discovered that there are lots of shapes hidden in our class and are on the hunt to find more 2D shapes at home and in the playground!

We also want to say a huge well done to this week’s ‘Star of the Week’, Liam! Liam has been working very hard and is always willing to help others with their learning. Fantastic work Liam…I wonder who next week’s ‘Star of the Week’ will be!

Primary 2b

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – Can I just remind parents/guardians to please put names of all of your child’s clothing, including PE clothes. I have a few items which the children have misplaced throughout the week, if your child is missing anything please check in lost property or with me! Thank you for your support, I look forward to meeting you next Wednesday evening at Meet the Teacher.)

Primary 2b have made a fantastic start to their time in Primary 2 and have been learning about what it means to be a good friend. We have played games, told stories and worked together to get to know one another better and so far are enjoying the new challenges Primary 2 is bringing!

Together we read the story ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ and used this to understand how we are entitled to rights to keep us healthy and happy. We spoke about our actions in order to make sure everyone feels this way and also discussed how Mrs Mansfield could help us even more.

We have had a great week and can’t wait to start our new topic next week!

Primary 2b

P5b have been very busy this week.

This week I have learned……

Big Maths Beat That. Lewis

how to draw a shadow and I also liked doing the bookmark. Noah

how to sketch and crosshatch. Tobin

how to play the Djembe drums. Fiona

how to do a science experiment. Michelle

how to dissolve materials. Gary

how to play the drums. Colin

learned lots of history about William Wallace and Robert Bruce and I learned how to draw a really cool optical illusion called the 3D hand. Jack

how to draw a shaded apple with a shadow. Skye

how to drum. Paige

how to play on the drum. Darja

I enjoyed science and learned how to dissolve things in water. Robyn.

Here are some photos from our LAC  Potions Lab.  We were investigating which materials were soluble and insoluble.

Congratulations to Gary who is our Pupil of the Week this week for always following the class Rights and Actions and always doing his best.

Have a great weekend.

This week we have been very busy in P4b!

Demi and Ava enjoyed RME with Mrs Clark. ” We made a poster about somewhere we feel we belong”.

“We liked learning the months of the year and how to tell the time this week”. Freya,Sophie, Keira, James, Karys, Lucy R and Kai. 

“Learning about synonyms was lots of fun!” Emma, Isla and Grace.

“We liked playing with our friends during Golden Time”. Lucy M, Robbie and Arran. 

“We loved reading this week, it was fun!” Eva, Olivia, Aidan and Rachael

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ART
In art we have been learning about pop art. This is modern art work which is often very bright, colourful and bold. We looked at pop art by Andy Warhol and examples from comic strips before creating our own.
We included inspirational quotes in the middle of our pop art. We looked at a colour wheel to use bright, contrasting colours .Here are examples of some of the quotes we used:
-‘Be yourself because an original is better than a fake.’
-‘don’t let the past affect your future.’

MATHS
In maths we have been learning financial education which is about money and about how you can keep it safe. We also talked about advantages and disadvantages of having a bank card.
Advantages of having a bank card
-You don’t have to carry lots of money with you
-it can encourage you to save
Disadvantages of having a bank card
-people could steal it
-you can go into overdraft

WRITING
In writing this week we did biography about people who inspire us. Some people chose authors , singers, swimmers and more.
Hope you had a great week I know we will!

Written by Anais Peel and Eva Mackechnie

Class dojo winner- Travis McNab

Article 28- Right to an Education

This week we wrote in our Learners Journey jotters about our favourite thing in school so far. Some people would like to share what they wrote:

Kyle – Playing with Scott
Teigan – Playing with Lily
Eva – Playing in the house corner
Orlaith – I like playing in school and with Niamh and Ruby
Jonah – I like playing with my friends
Lois – Playing with Dionne
Scott – Going into the library
Lily – I like playing with Teigan before we go home
Luis – Playing with Denolm and Brandon

We are all working really hard to be good friends in class. We have started adding leaves onto our friendship tree whenever we see someone in our class being good friends.

Have a lovely weekend!
-Primary 1A and Miss Wilson

This week has been jam-packed with learning! We started the week learning how to take notes.

Zoe – I learned to use notes to help with writing, how to organise notes clearly and use abbreviations. It is improtant to highlight the key facts.

James – You have to set out your facts clearly.

We used our notes to write about the Rainforest. – David.

Chris – You can get rubber from the Rainforest trees.

Aaron – You can’t really see the sun in the rainforest because the trees are so tall and packed.

Ryan – The rain creates mositure for the plants.

Callum N – People who live their mainly make their things out of the trees, and they build their houses high up to avoid lots of rain.

Brooke – You can get Cocoa and Vanilla from the trees.

William – They use plants for medicine.

Liam – They have wood fires.

Aidan – It rains 200 days a year.

Is that all? We think they should try living in Scotland!

We can’t wait until we see all the Cool Creatures at our handling session…….