This afternoon Robbie brought in his puppies for his friends to have a play with. Buster, Spike, Rocco and Dora enjoyed exploring around the nursery and saying Hello to the children.
In maths this week we have been working hard to work out all the stories of 5 using lots of different concrete materials including cubes and magnets. We made our own number stories of 5 craft and used paper fish to help us! We have also measured using non-standard units such as lollisticks, cubes, paperclips and match sticks.
In literacy we have been spelling words, generating rhyming words and working hard to slide our sounds together to help us to read simple words.
Well done to everyone for working hard to learn and recite their Scottish poems. Francesca was selected to recite her poem at our Scottish assembly and represented P1b really well.
Finally, great fun was had in the structured play area. We had construction which we used to build beanstalks, we had dressing up, we practised our turn taking skills when playing snakes and ladders and enjoyed getting very creative at the art table.
On Monday, we did some spelling. For spelling we wrote our spelling words in our literacy jotters and some groups watched their videos for this week’s spelling zone. Next we did maths. First we did our multiplication square. Then we did some revision on 2D shapes. We had to name the shape that was on the smartboard and how many corners and sides it had. We learnt some new shapes and what a group of shapes were called if they have 4 sides and corners. The group is called quadrilateral. After break we had PE with Mr. Muldon. We did gymnastics. It was fun. We read our fantasy class novel “Magyk” which is about a boy who finds a baby on the street and takes it home with him. We are enjoying it so far!
On Tuesday, for maths we did some more revision on 2D shapes. After that we got given a shape sheet each to cut out and stick in our jotter, then we had to name it and write the properties of it. We read some more of our class novel ‘Magyk’ . Some people went to choir practise with Mrs Drummond and others stayed with Ms Kennedy to do handwriting. For handwriting we focused on the letters ‘or’, ’ar’ and ‘re’. After that the choir came back and we were designing a vehicle to travel to the centre of the Earth in our sketch books for art. It was too wet to go outside for daily mile so we read some more of ‘Magyk’ instead before music with Mrs Drummond. In music we were practising some songs for our upper school show.
On Wednesday, first thing we listened to some poems. Then we started writing a fantasy scene for writing. Using SEWT (Special Effects Writing Techniques) After break we did some more writing. After lunch we heard a few more poems before some people went to choir. Everyone had to vote on one person to say there poem in front of the whole school. Brooke, Alex, Cole, Carlos and Tiana all got 3 votes but Ms Kennedy still had to do her vote and she voted for Alex because she had the best expression so she said her poem ‘A Dug, A Dug’ in front of the whole school. The choir also sang some songs at our Burns Day. After our Burns Day Assembly we had a quick philosophy session with Mrs Hocknull.
On Thursday, first thing we did vocabulary building where we had to look at a picture and describe it using some adjectives. Next we did a new number talk called ‘Where’s poly?’. Then we did a reminder on 3D shapes. After break we did some reading comprehension and then class novel before lunch. After lunch we went to the library and people picked some new library books to read at home. Then we came back to class and did our spelling. We did partner work in spelling.
On Friday, first thing we were finishing off our writing. Then we had assembly, after assembly we started to finish off our properties of 2D shapes and finished it off after break. Lastly, we had our reward time.
“My favourite part of this week was practising for the school show” By Darcy
“My favourite part of this week was cutting out shapes and writing the properties of shapes in maths” By Caiden
“My favourite part of this week was listening to the Burns poems” By Morgan
“My favourite part of this week was designing a vehicle to go to the centre of the Earth” By Kai Hamilton
Bloggers this week are Brooke Lockhart and Lewis Fraser
This week, we have been busy learning all about Egyptians and we used this knowledge to write super stories about a tomb discovery. In Art, we started to make paper mache death masks. We have also been researching Pharaohs such as Tutankhamun.
We have also been learning the Robert Burns poems and well done to Sarah for standing up in assembly to recite ‘The Red Red Rose’.
In maths, we have been learning about time such as quarter past, quarter to. We have also been putting this knowledge into every day situations.
Well done Josh for getting ‘Star of the Week’ for your super story about the ‘Tomb Discovery’
Well done P4
Our new ‘Right of the Fortnight’ is
Article 2
All children have these rights, no matter who they are, where they live, what their parents do, what language they speak, what their religion is, whether they are a boy or girl, what their culture is, whether they have a disability, whether they are rich or poor. No child should be treated unfairly on any basis.
Have a think about how you are respecting everyone’s rights over the next two weeks!
Are you listening to others?
Are you being kind?
The reason we learn to respect every one’s rights because its helps us to become responsible citizens!
Try to remember this saying …..
Rights + Respect = Responsible Citizens
What an exciting week we have had in P1b. It all started on Monday when we arrived in school to find glittery footprints and a letter which was left by a friendly dragon. He was asking if we could rebuild Fairyland in our classroom as it is disappearing and as lots of people are not reading Fairytales anymore no-one is believing in Fairyland. We were so shocked that a dragon had been in our class but are excited to read lots of fairytales and rebuild Fairyland to help him.
In maths this week we practised our number stories of 4 and learned about measuring. We spoke about all the different things that you can measure and had a go at measuring using cubes. We learned that you have to use all the same size of cubes when measuring and have to make sure that the cubes are touching with no gaps. We worked with a partner to draw around each others feet and measured the length of these using cubes.
We worked together in groups during reading routes and looked at different types of text. We learned about bold and italic text and are looking out for these in our books.
In structured play we enjoyed dressing up in the fairyland castle, used construction materials to build beanstalks, practised spelling words and our names using the letters and made some stars to practise our ‘ar’ sound.
Finally, we got a lovely surprise when Badger the Mystical Mutt visited us on Thursday afternoon and delivered replies to the letters we wrote to him before Christmas. We were very excited to see him and some of us enjoyed having pizza and listening to some of his stories after school with our grown-ups!
The nursery children had lots of fun playing in the snow. They enjoyed playing on the sledge down the small hill and even managed to make a small snowman. Some even went in to the Primary 1 playground to go through the Willow Tunnel.
Happy New Year!
P1a have settled back in to school well after the holidays and have worked hard this week.
We have enjoyed starting using the reading books this week and are looking forward to developing our skills this term.
In maths we have been looking at the stories of 2 and 3 and really impressed Mrs Thomson with how well we worked on these.
We also created days of the week boards that we will bring home next week.
The highlight of the week was getting to use the Beebots and watch them follow our direction instructions! We look forward to using them again soon!
Can ‘t wait to see what adventures we will have next week!!
P1b have settled back into things really well and have had a very busy week. In maths we have been learning all about the number stories of 2 and 3 and have enjoyed using concrete materials to try to find all the number stories. We have also been learning about the months of the year and have been busy sequencing the days of the week.
In literacy, we have enjoyed learning about the characters in our reading books and are loving taking them home to share with our families.
We have enjoyed learning about directions this week and had to use our listening skills in the hall to follow directions like 4 steps forward, 1 step backwards, 2 steps left and face the opposite direction. We were so good at these that we used our direction skills to programme the Bee-bots to move in different directions. It was so much fun!
In structured play on Thursday we enjoyed designing our days of the week boards, playing with the construction and the animals, programming Bee-bots, making and serving food in the restaurant and making pictures with the shape and peg boards.
Looking forward to next week already!
