This week in P4, we have been learning how to subtract on a blank number line. We do this by taking away the hundreds first, then the tens and finally the units.
On Tuesday, we had lots of fun watching the Panto – Cinderella!
“I liked it when Cinderella and Prince Charming kissed’ – Daniel T
“I liked it when they got the teachers up dancing” – Nicole
We also wrote a scary Halloween story during Big Writing time. On Thursday, we made Halloween pictures by making different shades of colours e.g. light red all the way to dark red. Then when that dried we used the black paint to create a silhouette effect!
Most importantly P4 loved the Halloween party !
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!
Monthly Archives: October 2017
P5/6 – A SNEAK PEEK AT OUR WEEK!
On Tuesday the first day back from the holiday we had a pantomime of ‘Cinderella’. We really enjoyed it. After that we were doing the Harvest alphabet for the harvest assembly on Thursday. Some people came up with really good ideas. The last thing we did on Tuesday was music with Mrs Drummond. In music we learnt a song for the harvest assembly. We also talked about what are favourite thing was from the pantomime.
On Wednesday the first thing we did was some writing. We were doing personal writing. Some people were writing about our class novel character called Peter from ‘Because of Mr.Terupt’. Others decided to write about themselves. We were writing about our emotions. In our class novel we are at the top of the ‘story mountain’ which means it the most exciting part! After lunch we were doing maths. We were revising our times tables. We were playing a game for our warm up. We got given four numbers and we had to find the calculation. For our real maths we were doing a mild challenge and we had to do a calculation crossword. The last thing of the day was philosophy with Mrs Hocknull. We watched a video called ‘The girl and the fox’.
On Thursday in the morning we were doing some drawing for the harvest assembly the P5’s were going to. We had to draw fruit and veg that we harvest. Then the P5s had a practise. Then we had maths. We had a times table challenge. That afternoon p5 went to their cluster Harvest assembly at the Lanthorn centre and shared their Harvest alphabet with the pupils from the other schools.
P5-6 Bloggers this week – Brooke Lockhart and Lachlan Drennan
P3
We made up our own stories about Cinderella. We all made a few changes to the story to make it our own. Some of the changes were: Cinderella was bad, the pumpkin turned into a bull, the pumpkin broke down on the way to the ball and the Prince fell in love with one of the stepsisters. the stories were very imaginative and well written. We have also started learning about our topic Livingston now and then. We also looked at some skills for work. We are going to focus on working independently and time management skills. The school also had a Halloween party last night.
P1b Ready for Term 2!
Before the holidays P1b learned some more new sounds. We learned d,v and g. We made dinosaurs and designed our own vests and glasses.
We’ve also been working hard to blend our sounds together to begin to read and spell some simple words. We are getting really good at it!
Look how good we look in our designer glasses!
In maths, we practised our number formation and have been working on writing our numbers correctly and on counting how many altogether.
In structured play we enjoyed making our own shows using the puppet theatre, we read books to each other and enjoyed playing with the money and pretending we were out shopping.
We loved having all our special visitors in the class during our PATPAL event and enjoyed teaching them what we have been learning about money. It was great fun and was fantastic to see so many of you coming along to join us. Thank You.
It’s hard to believe that’s term 1 over – keep up the good work in term 2 P1b!
German Day at JYHS
P7A and P7B made fantastic first impressions at their first transition event at James Young High School on Wednesday. In their teams the pupils had to complete 19 German activities in 60 minutes. Here is some pupil feedback of the day:
“It was fun learning how to speak German.” Sophie.
“I learnt how to say ‘guten Morgen’ which means ‘good morning’ in German.” Dylan.
“ I enjoyed the food tasting activity because it was decent German food.” Abi S.
“ I liked the blind car game. You had to say German words for directions to get to the finish line.” Abbie M.
“I enjoyed the photo booth activity because it was fun to dress up in the costume. I liked walking around and looking at different parts of the school.” Katie
“It was good to see the school so when we move up we know where to go and it was good to work with the S1 pupils because they already know the school.” Chloe B.
“ It was fun trying to find different parts of the school.” Gabriel
Well done to Joshua Davidson and Katie Ford who were both in the winning team that completed the most activities in the time set.
We have the right!
The whole school watched a super performance all about the rights that children have!
We loved singing along with the songs!!!
P3/4
We were also lucky to have a visit from Sarah’s day to talk about electricity. We enjoyed looking at and touching all of the props that he brought in. We also loved the mini windmills that he gave us.
Star of the Week
Paul (photo) to follow
Class Dojo Champion
Ryan (photo to follow)
Fantastic Fun in P1b!
In literacy this week we learned the sounds b, h and u. We have been trying hard to form our sounds correctly and have been blending some sounds together to read and make some simple words. We’ve also made some things that begin with each of our sounds – bats, hats and umbrellas!
In maths, we have been counting groups of objects and combining them to count how many altogether. We are getting really good at this and have been using lots of different resources to help us.
In art, we have been using a variety of media to create super seasons pictures. We are very proud of our fantastic work.
Amazing Electricity
Primary Four have been lucky enough to have a visit from Sarah’s dad to talk about electricity! Sarah’s dad talked about what electricity is, how electricity is made and different types of electricity! We really enjoyed the talk about learnt lots! We loved all the demos!!
Primary 4 also won the Goblet of Good Manners this week as a bonus!
P2/3 Blog reveal *Brooklyn’s title*
Olivia: I wrote a book review about Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs in my reading passport.
Here is Caleb’s book report:
Ollie: we’ve been learning about food chains. Food chains are all the different animals that eat other things. In a food chain the arrow means ‘is eaten by’.
Conor: We’ve been sorting out animals into habitats. We put the polar bears in the Arctic, the elephants in the African Plain and the whale into the Sea.
Brooklyn: We played a game on the board and it was a quiz. We had to hold up our fingers for answer 1, 2 or 3 to vote for the right answer. The quiz was about the habitats that humans and animals live in. Humans can’t live in the Rainforest because there are poisonous animals and trees there. Humans can live on farmlands because they can get food they need from the farm animals.
Brandon: We’ve been learning some sounds: ‘ee’ and ‘oo’. We are very good at it now.
Peter Pan have been working hard to spell CVC words!
Mason: We used playdough and buttons to make sums like 5+5=10 (doubles).
Sarah and Ruaridh: We are matching the car numbers to the right word.
Caleb: We had numicon and we were adding from numbers that end in 0. We rolled one dice that went up to 90 and matched it with a normal dice that went up to 6 and added them together.
