Primary 1/2 have had a busy week.  We have been continuing with our castles topic and had a go at working in groups to build a castle using the different construction materials we had (Lego, cubes, wooden blocks etc.).  Once we had finished them we had to test how strong they were.  We decided we would throw a ball at them to see how strong they were, Mrs Thomson managed to knock down quite a few!!!  Our next step is to decide which materials were strongest and see if we can build some that will stand up to Mrs Thomson’s attack!

P2 have been busy doing lots of learning this week. We have been working hard on our handwriting!!

We also started to talk about our new technology project which is to build a vehicle.

We have been busy sorting different types of transport in different ways …

“We ordered ours into transport that could fly, go on land and that go on the water” said Lucy’s group

P2 also get the chance to be the STAR OF THE WEEK and they get to go to see Mrs Ferguson and receive a special certificate !!!!

P2 have a new friend who helps us with French!! Meet Jacques, he helps us to say lots of French words.

We have been learning all about the colours and how to say them in french!

Have a look at our pictures ….

In Maths we have all been busy learning and practising working with numbers.  Some of us have been continuing with our 2, 5 and 10 times tables, whilst some others have developed this onto dividing too.  Still others were practising subtraction numbers stories for numbers to 20.

In Literacy, we have had some people learning all about verbs and how to make these past tense (like they have already happened).  Some verbs just need you to add –ed, for example whisper +ed = whispered.  Others which have an ‘e’ at the end need you to take off the ‘e’ before adding –ed, for example like becomes liked. There is still another way to make past tense verbs – this is more complicated, as you need to look at the letter before the last consonant.  If this letter is a vowel, which makes a short vowel sound then you need to double the end consonant and then add –ed.  Here are some of our examples –

Katie – hop becomes hopped, Darcy – bat becomes batted, Alex – jog becomes jogged, Kai – pat becomes patted.

Meanwhile other children were learning about words to show possession, for example –

Erin – their dance,  Zoe – her car, Brooke – my pencil, Keigan – his toy.

For our community topic we took a walk around some areas of Dedridge and we thought about what there is in the community to provide for our needs and wants.  Our needs are provided by – the health centre, the chemist, park for exercise, shops for food, houses for shelter.

Of course we needed to try out the park for providing for our need for exercise and our want for fun!

In maths, some of us have been working on our addition and subtraction – including learning some other words which mean the same as add or subtract.  Meanwhile, some others have been learning times tables –  trying to learn to say our 2, 5, and 10 times tables.

Erin enjoyed the textbook exercise using her 10 times tables, while Carlos enjoyed learning more about his addition and subtraction, particularly the vocabulary used for add and subtract.

In Literacy, the Primary 3s were looking more at adjectives and trying to use them to create good descriptions.   Some of us have written stories about an alien.  We have also been thinking about our needs, what do we need to survive.

We also spent some time thinking about Miss Barr and we enjoyed making cards to send to her at this time, because we miss her so much and are hoping she makes it back to Bankton soon!

Learning Fact for Mrs Stewart:-

• ‘subtract’ and ‘find the difference’ are both ways to say take away,
• ‘total’ and ‘altogether’ are words used to tell you to add

Sorry its taken so long, but we have had technical issues accessing the blog to post about what we have been up to – so now it’s all fixed we’ll make up for it.

For our first feww weeks we have looked at winter and Scots Language.  We designed Winter Woolies, we evaluated some Winter Art then produced our own art using pastels.  We’ve learned and performed Scots poerty, including The Wee Rid Motor and Mince and Tatties.  We’ve listened to some modern classics in Scots, The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom.

Winter Woolies

Brooke says ‘I enjoyed this activity’

The Gruffalo in Scots

Zoe and Keigan enjoyed listening to the story, The Gruffalo in Scots, while Erin enjoyed listening to Room on the Broom in Scots.  Alex and Cole enjoyed painting Tartan.  Kai and Kai enjoyed drawing the Gruffalo following the Scots descriptions and trying to write in Scots.

Winter Art

Iain and Darcy enjoyed looking at winter art then making his own winter picture with pastels.

This week we have been filling in more of our vowel house sounds when we were learning about the sounds ‘oi’ and ‘igh’ and have been sounding out lots of words with these sounds in them.

We have been using our take away skills to answer questions that were written in words instead of just numbers.

Niamh enjoyed doing some Scottish activities with Mrs Ferguson.  James enjoyed his language work this week.  Ryan had great fun at our first tennis taster session.

Next week we look forward to learning some new sounds and we are going to learn more about castles after getting a letter from Sir Helpalot last week.

The highlight of our week has to have been our Christmas party where we had a very special visitor!  We had great fun playing games and dancing with our friends.

We have been completing lots of different Christmas activities and are looking forward to taking home all of our surprises on Monday (maybe don’t look too closely in their bags that day!)

Now that our nativity is over we have been rehearsing for the carol service next week when some of us will be reprising our nativity roles to help the whole school celebrate Christmas.  We have been working hard to remember the new songs and all of the different places we have to sit.  Mrs Ferguson, Mrs Lloyd and Mrs Thomson are very proud of how well we are doing.

We are enjoying making lots of surprises to take home for Christmas this year.  Watch out for all of our different crafts over the next week!!