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What a week in Primary 1…

Literacy

This week in literacy we learned about the capital letter ‘W’, recapped some sounds we learned earlier and wrote about what we did on the weekend. The friendly Dragon received some nice letters from us, explaining what the fairy-tale “The three little pigs” is about – we are sure he loved them. Throughout the whole week, we have been covering our topic of fairy tales! Our teachers were very impressed with our book reports about our favourite fairy tale.

Numeracy

We have spent the week practising counting up and down from any number from 100, counting in 2’s,3’s, 5’s and 10’s and recognising numbers above 100. As well as that, we revised telling the time using an analogue and a digital clock and a little bit about sharing things equally.

Health and Wellbeing

This week is Health and Wellbeing week, and on Thursday it was outdoor classroom day. We spent the whole day learning outside – it was great fun! Also, on Tuesday, we had a Judo session in school! As well as that, we did some mindfulness and drawing.

Topic

As we mentioned above, our topic is Fairyland. Together, we discussed our ideas on how we think the castle in fairyland would look like and drew a picture along with it. We listened to the story “The three little pigs” and talked about how each character could have felt.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

P1 Teachers

Another busy week in P1- please read what we have learnt recently.

Literacy

Just like every Monday, we wrote our weekend news, beginning it with: At the weekend I… We tried to remember what we were doing over the weekend and we remembered about all the success criteria: capital letters when needed, finger spaces, full stops and of course a connective ‘and’ – easy peasy :-). We also recapped our knowledge about the sound ‘igh’ by writing some words with it: e.g. right, light, night etc. We have made more posters persuading about the dangerous litter in the sea and practised writing sentences that our teachers dictated to us.

Numeracy

 We were counting forwards and backwards from a given number. We were practising to work out the number before/after/between and we were counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s and recalled double facts up to 20. We were learning about big, small, bigger, smaller, biggest, smallest. It was good fun! We learnt how to use non-standard units to measure objects.

Topic – Under the Sea

 More sea creatures- a ‘Star Fish’ this week. We know many facts about starfish and how to draw this beautiful animal.

RERC

We learnt about the Last Supper – which was the day before Jesus Christ died on the cross. We know now that the Last Supper was a feast that Jesus had with his disciples and one of them (called Judas Iscariot) betrayed Jesus. Yesterday, we learnt about St Patrick who is a very famous and great saint as well as the patron saint of Ireland.

Have a great weekend everyone!

P1 Teachers.

 

Primary 1’s Week of Learning-10.02.22

We have had a super week!

In Literacy, we have been revising our sounds and balloon words and using them to write short sentences. Our teachers are very impressed that we can do this, as well as remembering to use finger spaces and full stops. Wow! We have been reading our new books at home and in school, and we are noticing our sight words in the stories. We were learning about capital letters, so we know now when to use them correctly. We also wrote an imaginative story about: ‘A visit to the vet’. We were happy to write a few sentences, using our success criteria and tried to use the connective ‘and’ – it was not very tricky for us at all!

In Numeracy, we have been learning to count forwards and backwards to 30 in 2s and up to 100 in 5s and 10s. We were practising number bonds for 10 and 20. We also continued to practise addition and subtraction using Rekenreks and Numicon, 10 frames, number tracks and, also number lines. Some of us can now do this independently. We are successful and confident learners! We started to learn about data using pictograms, which we found a ‘piece of cake’ (get it?).

We have also enjoyed some STEM as we became inventors! We were learning about Scottish inventors e.g. Alexander Graham Bell ( who invented the telephone), Charles Macintosh( who invented the raincoat) or John Logie Baird ( who invented the television). We designed our own rockets, flying cars, shelters, phones and teddies. We had lots of fun doing this all out of recycled materials!

HWB- In PE we were practising our gymnastic skills! We found it very fun and sometimes tricky! This week is called Children’s Mental Health Week, so today we had a chance to ‘dress to express’ – and we loved it! This could happen every Friday! We were learning how to be a good friend and what we need to do to improve our ‘ good friendship skills’. We now know what to do.

In RE we were learning about Jesus and his 12 disciples, we know that most of them were very good friends to Jesus!

 

Have a good long weekend everyone!

 

We had a great week!

We had a great week! Our new topic is fantastic! ‘Scotland’. Read on to find out what else we have been up to.

Literacy

As well as revising lots of sounds previously taught, we learnt two new sounds this week: ‘oy’ e.g.(boy, toy, enjoy) and ‘ow’ e.g.(bow, row, show). Both of these sounds appear in lots of words, (as we found out)! Now that we have a bank of sounds in our heads, we are writing more and more each day and using our knowledge of these sounds to help us to sound out words when we are reading too. We are becoming more confident at writing independently and giving writing a go. Our teachers are VERY proud of us all ( like always)!

Numeracy

We have been practising how to tell the time using o’clock and half past, which we are becoming really good at. We also learn about digital clocks, we know that half-past finishes with -:30) and o clock finishes with-:00).  We have also been practising subtraction using the number line and the Rekenrek.

Health and Wellbeing

We continue to learn how to skip in P.E. and again, it was easier for some of us than others. Skipping is really good as it helps with balance, jumping and coordination and it is fun!

Topic

Scotland- Woohoo!!! ‘Rabbie’ Burn’s day was on the 25th of January of course; so on this day, we had a great time tasting Scottish foods (Shortbread, oatcakes, Irn-Bru). We learned some dance steps, sang songs, and designed our own tartan kilts and Scottish flags.

RE

We were learning that God invites us to show love to others. We know that God loves everybody and He wants us to love others. We know that we can show love by being kind and showing respect to our families and friends. It is good also to share our toys, help out at home, take care of other people’s property and have good manners.

Thank you for reading our blog, have a nice weekend.

Primary 1.

 

Learning in Primary 1 (week beginning 15th November 2021)

 

Literacy

This week we learned about the letter ‘W’ as well as practised the sounds that, we have learned beforehand through colouring, craft activities, and reading. We wrote our own books about Floppy and Kipper. In addition, as it is World Nursery Rhyme week, we learned about rhyming words and even made our own rhymes! Our teachers were so impressed!

 

Numeracy

We focused on using different concrete materials (Rekenrek, Numicons, Flashcards, 100 square, etc.) and explored different ways of making the number 10. Additionally, we were using the number line in our learning how to add two numbers together. We kept practising counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.

 

Learning across the Curriculum

As it is Catholic Education Week, we were learning about our Parish in Broxburn and all of us now know that Father Jeremy is our Parish Priest. We were surprised to find out that the church is called St John Cantius and St Nicholas – that is how our school is named! In addition, our teachers showed us pictures of our church and we coloured in a stained glass window templates. We also learned about St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, as her feast was on the 16th of November. We found out that she was a very good person.

Have a lovely weekend,

P1 Teachers

 

Learning in Primary 1 (Week Beginning 8th November)

Literacy

This week, as well as recapping our previous sounds, we also learned some new ones. Our new sounds this week were: ‘ee’, ‘l’ and ‘r’ – and we had lots of fun learning these sounds through colouring, writing on whiteboards and arts and crafts! We also did big writing this week on Thursday – our teachers were very impressed with our sentence and describing skills. Also, we read our reading books everyday – we love reading!

 

Numeracy

We know that numbers are everywhere in the world – that is why we understand how important it is to know and recognise them. This week we learned (and revised!) about number sequences up to 20 as well as recognising all the numbers from 0 to 20. Our teachers were very proud of our progress – and we were very proud too:) Furthermore, we practised our addition skills using Rekenreks and recognising the number of objects.

 

Learning Across the Curriculum

On Thursday 11th of November, it was Remembrance Day. To honour everyone who died at war, we held a 2 – minute silence. We are very thankful to all those soldiers that had lost their lives to fight for us, so we made our own Poppies and Crosses.

Also, as Christmas is getting closer and closer, we have started preparing for our Nativity! We love such fun practising all the songs.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Kind Regards,

P1 teachers.

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We had a great week in P2, see what we did below :)

 

We were doing some handwriting and later to see if our handwriting has improved, we wrote about our weekends and practised our spelling words. We wrote about our dream holiday and the one we liked best from the past as well as learning how to write info reports – it was really interesting! We also learned an important part of writing – similes and metaphors. We now know their meanings and how to use them (e.g. She is a star (metaphor) He is as tall as a tree (simile)).

We revised our division and taking away, tall things and smaller things. Shorter things and longer things etc.

In RE we were learning about Mary and the Holy Spirit as well as having a class discussion on the importance of prayers.

We were outside a lot since the weather was beautiful! Sports day was amazing too, we danced in class. We also did some posters about moving to P3 and we discovered that it is a great way of finding out how we feel about things.

 

Have a lovely weekend – one more week to go!

Kind regards,

Mrs Koziel

Great week in P2!

In maths, we have been reviewing some of the knowledge gained in P2 e.g. adding using a 100 square, multiplying, dividing, subtracting, positive and negative numbers on the number line and much more…

In literacy, we have been drawing and writing cards for Father’s day, and we know now a new sound ‘e-e’, for example : these, here, eve, Steve, complete, even. Like every week, we were practising our handwriting too! This time we were focusing on the letters Ee and Ff.

In Spanish, we were learning how to say and write the days of the week and months of the year, it was a little tricky but we did great.

During our HWB lesson and our topic ‘Healthy body- healthy mind,’ we were learning about how important it is to regularly exercise. We also had a dance competition – it was good fun!

In PE we had a wonderful time playing dodge ball, also we did our ‘mile a day’ almost every day as the weather was beautiful!

In science we were learning about some small creatures, we know that insects have 6 legs, female mosquitoes bite people as well as other animals, and we know that our world could not exist without bees!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

 

Mrs Koziel

Lots of work in P2!

In maths, we were revising our knowledge about kilograms and grams and taking away whilst using a 100 square to help us. We were also doing number talks where we used 10 frames to help us and we practised the partitioning strategy.

In literacy, we did our spelling test! We were all a little bit nervous but we think that it went well 🙂         We also wrote our weekend news and we presented our stories with Scottish words.

We continued our mini-beast hunt! It was really fun! We also know that a food chain consists of producers, prey, predators and consumers.

In RE we were learning about Corpus Christi as you know, this Sunday is the feast of Corpus Christi.

Lastly, we took part in some races for sports day – we love to exercise!

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

 

Mrs Koziel

Yet another busy week in P2!

In maths, we were revising our knowledge about acute, obtuse and right angles. We also learned about greater than >, less than < and equal to =, signs and we used these to help us compare the sizes of different angles. As well as that, we were learning about kilograms and grams. We were using a scale to check how heavy various objects are. We were counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s and to help us with number talks, we used ten frames.

In literacy, we were writing our senses poem about spring and because we were learning about onomatopoeia (words that describe different sounds e.g. woof, bang, ping etc.), we included that in our poem too. Of course, we practised our handwriting too and practised the second hundred’s fry’s words. Some of our pupils presented the stories they wrote at home, those stories were special as they had to contain Scottish words.

In R.E., we were learning about the miracles performed by Jesus and we watched bible stories about that.

There are many living things around us, and not all of them are humans. For science, we went on a minibeast hunt! It was so fun! We used a magnifying glass to get a closer look at the little creatures and marked them off on our worksheets. We’ll continue the work next week. 🙂

For health and wellbeing, we were talking about good friendships, what they are made up of and what skills we need to possess to be a good friend.

We all know how important it is to have lots of exercises. For P.E. Mr Muldoon took us outside and we were throwing bean bags!

 

Kind Regards,

 

Mrs Koziel

Busy week in P2 :-)

 

This week in literacy, we wrote our weekend news, learned about different rhymes and practised our spelling with the well–known strategy, ‘Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check’. Also, we did our personal statements (What I am best at, what I am proud of and what I have improved on.)

This week, we were taught about angles. We know now that an acute angle is under 90 degrees, a right angle is exactly 90 degrees and an obtuse angle is over 90 degrees, but below 180. Additionally, we practised some division and we were making 26 with the most efficient strategy possible.

Our continuous topic is Health and Wellbeing, Resilience. We know that a resilient person is one, who never gives up, always tries best, knows that after a ‘down’ in life, there is always an ‘up’. We were VERY resilient too – when we were doing the ‘mile a day ’. Although it was quite hot and doing 6 whole laps around the field is quite tiresome, we managed it in the end 🙂

As you may know, Pope Francis has asked everyone to pray to the Virgin Mary to end the coronavirus pandemic, therefore, we were praying to Mary, too.

It’s fun learning another language! This week we were still revising our knowledge of how to say numbers, colours and simple greetings in Spanish.

Lastly, we painted our very own pictures of the Eiffel Tower painting by George Seurat using paint and cotton swabs. Our paintings were very good, not as good as his!

 

Have a lovely weekend – and remember; we have Monday off! 🙂

Kind Regards,

Anna Koziel

Busy week in P2….

This week we were learning about division – we used concrete materials, games and Number Talk strategies to help us consolidate knowledge better – we also revised our previous maths knowledge.

In literacy, we wrote special friendship recipes (e.g. add a pinch of compliments, a big dollop of smiles, one cup of understanding and 2 tablespoons of care and support. Mix them all together in your heart) and on Monday we wrote our weekend news. We loved learning some Scottish words! Here are some that we learned; auld – old, bonnie – beautiful, braw – good and wheesht – quiet – that’s Mrs Koziel’s favourite word because she uses it a lot.

To prepare for the challenges of P3, we have been working extra – hard on our handwriting.

Since yesterday was Ascension Day, we have learned all about it. Pope Francis has asked for all of us to pray for the end of the pandemic, so we were praying to our Lady using the prayer ‘Hail Mary’.

To help us improve our Spanish, we have learned to say ‘a Home–packed lunch, please’ it’s: ‘La tartera, por favor’, when we order our lunches at school. Of course, we still practise the days of the week and colours in Spanish, also.

Our Sunflower is growing beautifully too! Their growth was recorded in our ‘Sunflower diary’.

 

Have a great weekend everyone.

Mrs Koziel

 

 

 

 

What a week in P2… have a read.

We have been learning about capacity, volume and about a litre and half of a litre. We know that 1L is 1000ml so half of a litre is 500mg. The capacity is the total amount of space in the container. Volume is the amount of something in the container.

We were learning about a new sound this week o-e, like home, alone, stone, broke etc. We also were learning about ‘Narrative Writing’. First, we create a narrative planer, then we wrote our narrative writing using: A title, an orientation, a complication and a resolution. We also practised our handwriting, paying special attention to keeping our writing neat.

In RE we were learning about the parable of the Good Samaritan. We were so happy that there was finally one person who helped this poor man.

In our topic, we are going to learn this term about Healthy Body- Healthy Mind. We will be learning more in-depth about SHANARRI. S-safe, H- health, A-active, N-nurtured, A-achievement,  R-respected,  R-responsible, I-included

In science, we planted our Sunflower seeds, and now we look after them, by watering them every day. We started to observe their growth by using our Sunflower Dairy. It was such an interesting experience.

Outdoor learning was fun too, Mr Muldoon showed us some great games and even the weather was not too bad this week.

In Spanish we were learning about Los colores, we were playing the ‘Corner Game’ using Spanish the language.

 

Have a great long weekend everyone!

 

Kind Regards,

 

Mrs Koziel

 

What a week in Primary 2….

 

In Maths we were learning about non-standard unit measurements. We checked how many feet our classroom is. We also checked objects in the playground using natural materials e.g. sticks or stones.

We learnt about a new artist called Jackson Pollock, we tried to express ourselves using his method of painting. It was such good fun!

In literacy, we were writing about our holidays and, we’re proud to say, remembered all the SC. We were learning about speech bubbles and speech marks then we made our own comics using all the knowledge we gained. We were learning about a new sound i-e, we know now how to read words bike, like, white etc. It was not very tricky.

Outdoor learning and doing a mile a day were great – especially in this lovely weather we have been having, recently.

In digital learning we were learning how to use the Paint app – we loved it!

Also, Yesterday was national EARTH day so to celebrate this, we wrote acrostic poems about our planet, it was so interesting, later we learned how we can save our planet by learning about Global Goal no. 12, Responsible Consumption and Production, so we made some posters about this and agreed on some next steps. We decided to bring our water bottles as much as we can but if we forget, we are going to use just one plastic cup per day. The cups will have our names written on them so we will know who has which cup. We also decided to not moan when we have to wear clothes after siblings and that it is a good idea to give the clothes that are too small for us to charity. It will help our Earth definitely.

Lastly, as part of R.E., we carried on our discussion about Easter and what happened then.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone!!!

 

 

 

 

Busy time in P2….

It’s hard to believe that it’s almost the end of term! It flew by so fast. In Maths we were recently learning about…

-Calculating area in cm2 and m2.

– ‘The splitting strategy’ by adding and subtracting.

– We also learned about fractions

E.g., ½ ¼ ¾ etc…

-and we revised our other maths skills we learned before.

In Literacy, we learned about Narrative writing. We now know that we need;

-A title

– Orientation

-complication

– a resolution

-And Pictures!

We then planned out our writing and later wrote our stories about ‘The Little Duck’.

For our Sustainable Development Goals, we had an amazing idea to create a robot that gathers used plastic and makes them into toys!

Also, recently everyone saw our assembly about St Patrick, and we’re proud to say that it was a huge success!

For digital learning, we learned how to use Chatterbox by making funny talking pictures! 🙂

 We are finishing our topic about schools in the past – and after what we learned, we can say that we prefer to present schools much more!

Lastly, in science, we were learning about Living and Non-living things.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

 

Mrs Koziel

 

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Last blog in 2020!!!

 

Hi everyone, this week we had lots of fun. We were learning by doing Christmas Maths and Literacy activities. We were watching Christmas movies and learning about different Christmas traditions from all over the world! It was very interesting! We also had a Christmas Party with snacks – yummy!

I wish you all a lovely Christmas and peaceful, relaxing time with your families!

God bless you all and see you Next Year!!!

 

Kind Regards,

 

Mrs Koziel

 

This week we were learning about:

 

  • In literacy we were upskilling our description story, we tried to use different openers for each sentence. We also remembered about our capital letters, fingers spaces, full stops and adjectives. We were also practising our handwriting.
  • We were learning how to write a proper letter, on this occasion we wrote a letter to Santa. We hope he appreciated our letters. We tried our best!
  • We were practising our common words: live, back, give, things, our etc.
  • In Maths we did the maths test and our teacher was very pleased with our scores. Also, we were learning how to figure our missing addends and we were still improving our knowledge about reading the time (quarter past and a quarter to).
  • We had fun whilst doing Christmas Art which was very nice. We loved it!
  • In RE we were learning about Mary as 8.12 is the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
  • We had also lots of fun in outdoor learning. We were practising our common words and we expressed ourselves by making art using the resources which we found outside.
  • We have learnt how to say Merry Christmas everyone in Spanish. Feliz Navidad Adornos!

 

Just one week to go!

 

Have a nice weekend,

 

Mrs Koziel

Another week in P2…

 

  • We have been learning about St Barbara, St Nicholas, St Andrew and how Advent started in the Catholic Church. We know that the purple candles on the Advent Wreath are for Hope, Love, Peace and the Pink one is for Joy
  • We have been learning about descriptions and question marks, we were practising the formation of the question mark and we know now when we need to use ‘?’ or ‘.’
  • We wrote a description about Goldilocks from the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’.
  • We were learning how to tell the time using half past and o’clock, quarter to and quarter past. We know that a quarter of an hour is 15 minutes. We were practising this using the smartboard, laptops and worksheets.
  • We were practising common words e.g. over, little, know, sound etc. some of us were using bubble writing and some of us were using rainbow writing.
  • On Monday, a special guest appeared in our class! We have chosen the name Chippy for the Elf and he has recently done some very funny thing in our classroom. We love to have him in our class.
  • We also had good fun using the Rekenrek, we were learning about the most effective strategy (which this time was the doubling strategy) and how to use it.

 

 

 

Have a lovely weekend,

 

Mrs Koziel

What is going on in P2

 

  • We read the Big Book, the story about Anna. We were learning how to write a description
  • We were practising our handwriting with letters ‘Oo’ and ‘Pp’
  • We were learning about symmetry and patterns
  • We were practising counting in 2s, 5s, 10s, also we were making numbers in the most effective way using a Rekenrek
  • We were learning about God and Heaven. We shared our vision of how Heaven could look like. We also were learning about Jesus as the Way, The Truth and The Life
  • We were upskilling our Spanish, and we were learning how to say bread/pan, eggs/huevos etc.
  • In Science we were learning about our fifth sense, the sense of touch, we also were learning about parts of our hands
  • We started to learn Jingle Bells in BSL, as we cannot sing right now. That was good fun
  • We had our outdoor learning and we created clocks
  • In PE we had lots of fun with Mr Muldoon

 

 

Have a lovely weekend,

 

Mrs Koziel

 

 

This week we have been…

 

  • Learning about the new sound ‘ea’ e.g. leaf, read, dream etc.
  • Learning about verbs, we know that all action words are verbs e.g. painting, singing, dancing etc.
  • Practising our handwriting with the letter ‘M’ ‘m’ and ‘N’ ’n’, we know how important is to have good handwriting.
  • Learning about giving change from 20p. We were using the smartboard, toy shop and worksheets to familiarise it more.
  • Learning about maths through a story where we were talking about a shopping basket and the items we could buy. We were thinking about how many items we could have all together.
  • We also have been learning about Queen Margaret of Scotland who was a great Saint.
  • Learning about our next sense which was taste.
  • In big writing, we wrote a recount story about the book; ‘Never bite a tiger’.
  • We also have been learning about emotions. We were talking about behaviour, then we analysed why sometimes our body is red, or why we cry sometimes.
  • To learn about anti – bulling, we had the discussion about situations which are not very nice and about what to do if something like that happens around us.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Koziel

 

 

Another lovely week in P2…

 

  • We have been learning about nouns. We know that a name of a person, place or thing are nouns. We were writing sentences and we pointed out how many nouns we can see.
  • We were writing about our weekend using extended sentences with connectives (and, so, but, because). We still practised capital letters, finger spaces full stops and adjectives. We were also practising the sound ‘ay’ and ‘ai’, we know that the sound ‘ay’ goes usually at the end of the word ( day, pray, say) and ‘ai’ in the middle (rain, main, paint).
  • In Maths we were learning about money. We were playing in our toy shop, but also we were using ITC games and traditional worksheets. We were adding using the Rekenrek. The most effective way this time was the near double strategy.
  • We prayed for people who died in our families and for the brave soldiers who died for our freedom as well.
  • In science, we still continued to expand our knowledge about our senses. We were learning about the sense of smell. We were talking about the most beautiful and the most disgusting smell for us.
  • We also had lots of fun during PE and outdoor learning. This week we made 3D shapes from outdoor resources (sticks, stones etc.)
  • We were learning about Road Safety. We know how important it is and we know that we need to: Stop – Think – Use our senses to make sure we are safe when we are going to cross the road.
  • We also had some time to learn about emotions. The topic for this week was about behaviour. We were discussing why sometimes our behaviour is not appropriate and what we can do to change it.

 

 

Have a nice weekend,

 

Mrs Koziel

Have a look at what we have done.

  • This week we were practising our sentences and we remembered about capital letters, finger spaces, adjectives, and full stops. Also, we were learning about the sound ‘ee’, ‘oo’ and ‘ck’ as well as reviewing the previous sounds which we have learnt before. In our Big Writing, we wrote a ‘Friendship Recipe’ and that was a very interesting experience. We were learning about past tense (eg. adding ‘ed’ at the end of a word or changing  ‘go to went, see to saw, buy to bought’ etc.)
  • We also were learning about differences between a fact and opinion. We know that a fact must be proven and opinion is only our point of view.
  • At Maths we practised counting in 2s forward and backwards and we were looking for the most effective way to make a number using the Rekenrek.
  • We were working hard to learn how to analyse data using pictures and Bar Graphs and also Tally Charts.
  • In RE we were learning about All Saints and All Souls Day. We were praying for the people who died in our families.
  • In Science, we were learning about senses. The next sense which we were learning about was sight. We know how important all the senses are.
  • In Art, we were making our Remembrance Pebbles. We painted them white and then we drew lovely poppies on them. We also made firework art when we were learning about staying safe during Bonfire Night.

 

I hope you will have an amazing weekend.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Anna Koziel

We had a lovely week!

  • At literacy, we were learning about recount stories using First, Then, Next, Lastly. We tried to include all our success criteria: capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and wow words. We were practising our handwriting and now we know a new sound: ‘ph’ e.g. pharmacy, elephant, Sophie or photograph.
  • At maths, we have been learning about 3D shapes properties: faces, vertices and edges.
  • For RE, we have been learning about St Ruth and St Jude Thaddeus, we know how good these people were and that they listened to God.
  • In Spanish, we were reviewing our knowledge and we were learning how to say: ‘Can I go to the toilet, please?’ ‘Puedo ir al bano?’
  • In Science we were learning about senses, the first sense which we were learning about was hearing.
  • We also had a chance to do some experiments this week. We know that hand gel with alcohol is flammable so after using it we should not go too close to a fire. Next, we have drawn spiders on a tin foil, poured a little bit of water over it and our spiders became alive. J The most interesting was the experiment where we created a vacuum inside the upside-down glass with the help of a little candle.
  • We also did lots of activities with Mr Muldoon. PE was great!
  • We were learning about emotions. We know that we have lots of different emotions and that our bodies can react differently when we feel in a certain way.
  • Today we came dressed up in Halloween costumes – it was good fun. We decorated pumpkins and talked about how we celebrated Halloween last year as well as how it is going to look like tomorrow.

Have a good weekend everyone.

 

Mrs Koziel

 

Last week of the term…

 

  • We have been practising our spelling with the sounds ‘oy’ and ‘oi’ with words like: toy, boy, avoid coin. We know now that the most ‘oy’ sounds are at the end of words and the most ‘oi’ sounds are in the middle of words
  • We were designing our houses as part of our topic, we were writing descriptions about the materials we need to build the house. We know that we need cement, bricks, sand, metal, glass etc.
  • We had outdoor learning where we made houses from natural materials we found or brought to school from parks. It was good fun.
  • In Science, we were learning about sliding and friction, which we found very interesting.
  • In maths, we were practising ‘double’ and ‘near double’ strategies and also ‘double add one’.
  • We were talking about Autumn – the current season – and we were writing Autumn poems.
  • In RE we were praying to Mary on the Rosary.
  • In Art, we were expressing ourselves painting the Monet’s Sunset. Well, we tried to.
  • We also practiced Spanish, we know now basic words such as; asi asi – so so, mal – bad, por favour – please, gracias – thank you, sentaos – sit down, silencio- silence and more.

Have a lovely holiday everyone,

Mrs Koziel

We had a lovely week in P2. Here is the overview of our work…

  • We have been practicing handwriting with proper letter formation.
  • We have been learning about different openers. We know that to make our stories more interesting we should use different openers in every sentence. We were writing about our weekends, remembering about all the success criteria.
  • We had good fun with the new artist. This week we were learning about Claude Monet. We were painting the ‘Bridge over the water’.
  • In RE we were learning about the 3 Archangels – Michael, Raphael and Gabriel as 29.09 is their feast day. Also we were learning about Padre Pio who is a Saint in the Catholic Church.
  • In Maths we have been practicing Rekenrek skills, finding the most effective way to make a number with one or more pushes. We were learning about ‘double’ and ‘near double’ strategies.
  • In Spanish we were learning about how parts of the face are called. We know that ears are ‘las orejas’ or eyes are ‘ojos’, the mouth is ‘boca’ and hair ‘pelo’
  • We had lots of fun in PE with Mr Muldoon who had the lesson out in the fresh air
  • We were praying on the Rosary as October is the month of Mary

 

Have a nice weekend everyone,

 

Mrs Koziel

Busy week in P2..

Another busy week in P2

  • In literacy we were practicing our handwriting. We want to get really good at letter formation.
  • We were learning about sound ‘ch’ e.g. chop, chip, church etc. We tried to hide those words in the picture.
  • We were developing our reading skills, trying to read our books with expressions.
  • We were also trying to focus on summarising the Gruffalo story. We know that summarising means telling what happened in the story in few sentences only.
  • In Maths we were learning using Rekenrek, trying to focus on how many pushes we need to do to make no 15. We know it can be 5+5+5 or 10+5 or 7+3+5 etc. We know now which way is the most effective.
  • We were also practising ‘Place Value’ using ‘Partitioning Strategy’ e.g. 583 = 500 + 80 + 3
  • In RE we were talking about Triumph of the Cross and also about Mass and Bible. We know that God speaks to us through the Bible. We also know that Bible is divided in two parts: Old and  New Testament.
  • In Spanish we were learning about body parts singing the song: ‘Cabeza y hombros pierna y pies‘ which means: ‘head, shoulders, knees and toes’.
  • We had also fantastic time making faces with shapes as Picasso did in the past.
  • In PE we had lots of fun activities and also we spend time in outdoor learning practicing maths and literacy in the fresh air.
  • We were learning about homes and houses, we now know different types of houses e.g. bungalow, detached, semi-detached etc.
  • In science we continued to learn about forces. This time we were focusing on spinning. That was a good fun.

 

Have a lovely September weekend break and see you all on Wednesday 23.09.20

 

Mrs Koziel

 

Have a look at P2’s hard work.

  • In Maths we were practicing place value again and also odd and even numbers
  • We were estimating who is taller and who is smaller and we were checking the exact height of a few of us using a meter tape. We know that 1m = 100cm
  • We were upskilling our maths knowledge by using the Rekenrek and it was good fun.
  • We did some coding using exact instructions. We are able to reach the destination e. g. 5 steps forward, turn left etc.
  • In literacy we were practising handwriting with the letters Aa and Bb also we were reviewing our knowledge about Vowels and Consonants.
  • Our new sound for this week was ‘sh’ now we know how to write words like: shop, shed, shut, dish etc.
  • We were making ‘Staying Safe’ posters, where we told everyone what to do to avoid Covid 19 as best as we can.
  • Picasso was an artist who inspired us to draw irregular funny faces. We also know that Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga in Spain.
  • We spent lots of time doing outdoor learning, especially when the weather was really nice. We were practicing maths, literacy, coding and science outside.
  • In science we were learning about forces. We were developing our knowledge about pushing and pulling.
  • On Tuesday we were celebrating Mary’s Birthday so we were praying to Mary more than usual as well as being nicer to each other.
  • We were also learning about our Solar System (we will be learning more about this in P3), we know now that we have 8 planets and that the Sun is a star.

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Mrs Koziel

 

P2’s busy week.

Such a lovely week in P2

  • In Maths, we were learning about Place and Value. We know now about hundreds, tens and ones. We were learning how many ones are in a ten and how many tens are in a hundred. We were recapping counting in 2’s 5’s and 10’s forward and backwards. In our Maths Journals, we had some fun finding many ways to show the number 10 e.g. 5 people have 10 legs all together.
  • In Spanish we were practicing basic greetings such as: Buenos Dias, Buenas Tardes, Buenas Noches, also Como estas ?, Bien – good or Mal – bad.
  • In literacy, we were learning about proper sentences with capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, whilst neatly writing on the line from left to right. We know now that sentences need adjectives so that they are more interesting. We were also learning about predictions, which means that we were guessing what is going to happen in the story.
  • In Art we continued Wassily Kandinsky’s expressions. We made lovely pictures using circles, triangles and squares. During our art expressions, we were listening to classical music.
  • In Health and Wellbeing, as part of our SHANARRI topic we were learning about being Safe, we were talking if we feel safe at home and in school and what to do to feel safer in various situations.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday,

 

Mrs Koziel

 

P2’s Great Work!

P2’s Great Work!

  • We have been learning this week about SHANARRI. The subject we have chosen is Respect. We know that our teacher respects us because she always listens to what we have to say.
  • We know how to describe things, especially Gruffalo the Monster.
  • We had a math test this week and we did great! We need tests to understand what we know and what we need to practice a little more.
  • We were practising our handwriting with our first and second name.
  • We were praying to God with the ‘Our Father’. We know that Jesus Christ taught His disciples this prayer.
  • We have learnt about the abstract artist Kandinsky, and we know that he was from Russia.
  • We have been practising math using Rekenrek with just one push.
  • We had lots of fun learning outdoors.
  • We learnt about the difference between ‘I need’ and ‘I want’. We know now that we need water, shelter, clothes, food, fresh air and what we want are sweeties, cinema, popcorn etc.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow! What a week for Primary 2! Take a look at what we have been up to…

Wow! What a week for Primary 2! Take a look at what we have been up to…

 

We have been talking about our trusted adults and we have chosen 2 from home and 3 from school.

Our teacher read us a book called ‘The Gruffalo’ (which was amazing!). Next, we played ‘Gruffalo Corners’ and ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’. We revised common words and played fun outdoor word games too!

We have designed our class charter and we now know all our rights, also we have been drawing self-portraits to decorate our classroom doors.

We have been practising math sums with a missing number along with adding and later we had a bit of R.E., where we learned about Noah’s Ark and prayed to God for our families, friends and ourselves!

Our Health and Wellbeing is a very important part of us that is why we spent the time to learn about all the different emotions and SHANARRI. We know all the indicators: S- Safe, H- Healthy, A-Active, N- Nurtured, A-Achieving, R- Respected, R-Responsible, I- Included

Of course, we are still practising our handwashing skills since we all know, how important it is especially at this time.

Have a lovely weekend and see you on Monday, everyone!

Mrs Koziel

 

Short but very busy week for P2…

We have completed our first week in our school and already working hard to get our classroom set up for the year ahead. We had a lesson about hygiene practice, how to wash our hands properly and how to avoid Coronavirus as best as we can. We know that we need to wash our hands before entering the classroom, after changing shoes, before and after every meal, before and after playtime and of course after using the toilet. It means that we need to wash our hands as many times as we can.

On the first day, we had lovely time learning outside. The weather  was beautiful that day. We were learning some maths and practicing letter formation using chalks whilst having fun.

We had a chance to watch ‘The Story of Moses’ in the Bible for Beginners and we tried to draw a picture to reflect on what we have noticed in the story.

Today we had a wonderful time practising our number bonds up to 10 and we recapped some of the sounds. Later we had some free-choice time where we played outside.

We are excitedly looking forward to the next week of learning. There will be lots of hard work ahead but also lots of fun, we can’t wait!

 

Mrs Koziel

 

 

22nd- Fitness Fortnight Week2

22nd- Fitness Fortnight Week2
Please find the Fitness Fortnight Week 2 grid below. Enjoy your next fitness week.

Remember to send us some pictures of your home learning to wlstnicholas-ps@westlothian.org.uk

This is our last week of school, we cannot belive how quick this term was.
We hope you all will have lovely summer holidays but please remember to stay safe. See you again in Agust 🙂

Mrs Alexander and Mrs Koziel

Fitness Fortnight Week 2

P2’s Fitness Fortnight busy week…

  Fitness fortnight in P2

As you may know, fitness fortnight has started and now we have already gone through half of it! Have a look below and see how P2 got on…

When you think of sport you usually think of physical exercise and nothing more but, with the help of some pens and markers, we included literacy in our week by making incredible sports day banners! As well as that, we made an acrostic poem to the word HEALTHY and created mind-blowing posters about the importance of healthy eating.

Along with literacy comes maths and yes, you guessed it- we did an outstanding job with that too by doing activities like,  throwing bean bag (and other safe, soft objects) and estimating how far we threw them. Next -with a hand from an adult – we measured them exactly and checked how close we were with our estimation! Also, we set a timer and saw how long it takes us to do 20 squats then rounding the seconds from the timer to the nearest whole number (if we could). We made a circuit and timed how long it took us to get through it along with all the members of our family, later trying to beat our time!

What’s fitness fortnight without some plain old sport? With the help of YouTube, we have done a workout with ‘Jumpstart Jonny’ or ‘Joe Wick’s’ and ‘Just Dance’ too! Later we had a lesson to learn some martial arts! As well as spelling out our name by doing different types of exercises and taking a time to step back by taking part in the ‘Cosmic Zen Den’ video.

On top of all this, we did an exciting taste quiz to explore different foods and made activities or games to share with all the other boys and girls.

Phew! What a busy week!

 

P2 Learning Grid 10

Hi everyone,

We have attached the learning grid for this week (w.c 8.06.20). Please send pictures of your child’s work letting us know what they are enjoying to the school’s email (wlstnicholas-ps@westlothian.org.uk). Thank you to those of you who have sent pictures so far, it’s great for us to hear how children are getting on and it lets us plan for future learning.

Enjoy the tasks 😉

Mrs Alexander and Mrs Koziel

 

P2 Home Learning- Week 10 (3)

Another busy week in P2…

Primary 2 had a very busy week. Have a look at what we have done at home…

  • We were learning about the meaning of ‘non-fiction’, we wrote interesting facts in our jotters.
  • Rainbow writing is a fun strategy that we used to make us more confident in our spelling. We used the website ‘Doorway speller’ to practice our common words.
  • Learning to describe things in writing as well as speaking is very important. That is why we practised using adjectives to describe our favourite book characters.
  • Imagine you were asked to split a pizza in half for your other friend. You would have to know how to split things in half. Luckily we know how to do this because we were practising splitting things in half all week.
  • As well as that, we made sure that we will not forget all the things that we have learnt throughout the week by playing the ‘Sumdog’ challenge and filling out a worksheet about halves and quarters that our teachers have set for us.
  • ‘Lunes, Martes, Miercoles…’ these are some days of the week in Spanish. P2 already know what they mean since we practised this by listening to a video on YouTube.
  • An international language is a language that lots of people around the world can understand at least a bit. Through expressive arts, we can talk about our feelings in a way that is easy to understand. This is why we watched a video about ‘Jack and the beanstalk’ and joined in along with our families.
  • Staying fit is key to leading a healthy life. To help us, we did a Go Noodle activity which was found on YouTube.
  • We all have most likely seen an ant before, but – how much do we know about them? Lots now! This is because we have learned about Minibeasts for science and then watched a video to learn some facts about ants! Later, we also learned about what plants need to survive.
  • For RERC, we looked at Psalm 65: 9-13 and contemplated it, praying with our family. Also, we watched a video on YouTube about how God spoke to Moses and later talked about it with our family. Next, we drew a picture of what happened. Some of us even wrote a few sentences to go along with it!

 

P2 Weekly Update.

We are finishing our seventh week of home learning. We did a fantastic job as usual. Have a look at what we have done.

To broaden our knowledge of literacy we used Oxford Owl and read a book of our choice aloud with the excellent expression. Then we answered blooms questions.

We were practising our spelling words in pyramid writing. Then we logged into Sumdog and completed the spelling challenge set.

Also, we created poems about Spring, using our senses.

In addition, we were practising our handwriting by writing our addresses.

Knowing how to add numbers is a very important life skill. So for maths, we revised addition by playing games, filling worksheets and completing the Sumdog challenges the teachers had set for us.

Que clima hace hoy? What is the weather today? In Spanish, we were learning about weather vocabulary. It is good to know other languages.

We did research online about living creatures that live in our local Union Canal.

Capturing spring on a piece of paper may not be easy for everyone but for our young artistic minds it was ‘easy peasy lemon squeezy’.

May is the month of Mary so we discussed with members of our families why we honour Mary so much. As well as that we watched videos from the Bible Beginners channel on YouTube.

‘Who we are and what we are good at is not fixed.’ All of us are unique and we all have different talents but that does not mean that we cannot get better at things. We looked back at all the skills we have learnt since the time we were born.

Here is what some of our pupils said:

‘I did my missing numbers within 50 without a chart!!’

‘Still loving my sum’s more than writing but love learning different subjects’

‘Working hard in my writing, I think you will be impressed with the amount I have written and how many WOW words I’ve used during home school’

Primary 2 have been working very hard at home. Have a look at our blog to see what we have been learning in this short week…

In literacy, we have revised our common words to help us consistently spell them correctly.

We used the  Oxford Owl website to explore a variety of books and write a summary about what happened in the book we read.

We have also written about our feelings in our jotters. We wrote about how we feel spending so much time at home.

In maths, we have been learning about estimation. We have had some worksheets where we had to guess what number should fill the blank space on the number line. We also played some math games using the new skill of estimating.

One of the subjects in school is to learn another language. Since we are learning at home, we asked our parents for permission to have an account on Duolingo to help us uphold the knowledge of Spanish and take it to the next level.

Creativity is in everyone. It is also in all the children of P2! To use our talents and imagination, we gathered different materials and created a unique picture of what WE think spring looks like.

As May begins, we are going to try to have a better relationship with Mary the Mother of God and God himself- Our Father, by praying to them every day in our own words.

Making the right choices in our day – to – day eating can sometimes be difficult. Luckily, we know exactly what to do because we have been cutting out food and putting it on a paper plate to make a healthy meal for ourselves. This will help us to know exactly how to eat healthy in the future.

 

 

Thank you for the lovely pictures we have received so far. Remember to keep sending us pictures of your amazing work.

Take care everyone and have a nice and safe weekend

Mrs Alexander and Mrs Koziel

 

Home learning in P2…

This week we had lots of exciting activities to do… Here are some of them…

In maths, we were learning about symmetry, we had a chance to explore symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes in our houses.

In literacy, we were revising our knowledge about question marks.

We have been reading books and then checked our understanding by completing comprehension worksheets.

We also practiced our handwriting in our jotters, writing our names and surnames.

This week we challenged ourselves by using different openers for our sentences to make our writing more interesting.

To develop our Spanish we used a video from YouTube to remind us how to say the days of the week in Spanish. Later we revised them with an adult.

For science, we were learning about Forces. We were exploring everything that you can push and pull.

Also to help relax and reduce stress, we watched a mindfulness video on YouTube and completed a mindfulness colouring sheet.

Helping our parents is just as important as learning. That is why we helped to prepare a meal with our parents by washing, peeling and cutting the food.

Thank you to all who sent photographs of their fantastic work. We are so proud of you all. Well done!!!

 

Next busy week in P2…

In maths we have been learning about movements. We know what is half turn, full turn, quarter turn in clockwise and anticlockwise- Derren

We have been practising our handwriting with letters Ww, Vv, Xx, Yy-Jannat and Ehtan

We have learnt about Litre and mililitre. We know that 1L is 1000 ml. We can estimate if the container holds more then 1L or less then 1L.- Matty

We know now that volume is how much liquid is in the bottle and capacity is how much water the bottle can hold.- Orla

We have been learning about Chinese New Year and we designed our own dragon masks- Thomas , Connor

In art, we learned how to draw a person and make a shadow.-Steffi

On Thursday it was a National Book Day and our P6 buddies came to read books for us and they helped to write a book review with us.- Niall

We made a prayer for Christian Unity Week. We wrote our prayers on a paper flowers and we made a bouquet.- Lauren

We have been doing gymnastics in PE. We have been doing to do pencil rolls, handstands, splits, cartwheels and forward rolls. – Caitlyn

We learned about the importance of a compass. It helps us to work out where North, South, East and West is- Inaaya.

We have been learning about Robert Burns. He was born on the 25th January 1759.- Jack and Zofia

We celebrate Burns night on the 25th January every year. At a Burns Supper they eat haggis, neeps and tatties- Penny

We looked at lots of different tartans and then designed our very own tartan- Murron

We decided that our new topic is going to be about Houses and Homes. We discussed what we would like to learn about Houses and Homes – Caiden and Orla

In this week in P2 we…

We have been learning about 1 meter and half meter. We checked what is longer and what is shorter then 1 meter and half meter in our classes-Niall

We wrote our Learners` Statements about our  learning, Personal achievements and awards and certificates- Zofia

We have been learning how to spell tricky words like because, igloo,your etc.-Harvey L.

We have been practicing our handwriting with letters: Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr- Harvey L.

We went on the senses walk around the school  to see what we can see, taste, feel, hear- Penny

We talk and wrote about New Year Resolution, about made our own goals for this year- Caiden

In PE we played team games. We all worked well together – Leonie

Primary 2 this week….

We have been practicing our handwriting-Caiden, Zofia

We have been practicing adding and subtracting. The picture was Santa- Thomas

We wrote letters to Santa- Caithlyn, Jannat

We painted Robin pictures- Jack

We performed our Nativity to our mums and dads- Ellis

We sang songs, Christmas Carol Concert- Inaaya, Oliwia G.

We made Christmas cards- Murron

We designed Christmas Jumpers for our elf called Coco and Pompom- Arriana, Niall

In this week Primary 2 have learned about….

We have been learning how to write the School`s Senses Poems. I can see a lovely classroom, I can feel a door, I can smell Mrs Koziel`s perfume, I can hear the playground`s noises,  I can taste my lovely lunch- Zofia

We have been practicing really hard for the Nativity Show- Steffi

At maths we have been making the Numicon robots- Freya

We have been making decorations for the Christmas Fair- Naill

In Spanish, we have been learning about the colours- Jack

In music, we have been singing Christmas Songs- Jannat

In literacy, we have been learning about question marks. – Alyssa

We have been learning about St Andrews Day- Olivia L.

We are celebrating St Andrews Day on 30.11 every year-Joseph

 

 

What we have been doing this week….?

We have been practising our handwriting, Gg and Hh-Caitlyn, Zofia

We have been learn about money- Lauren

We have been learning practising making the exact amount 26p, 20p, 5p, 1p- Arriana

We have been pretending to be shop keepers during maths- Steffi

We have been practising our Nativity Songs- Caiden

In PE we have been working on our fitness. It is important to keep fit and healthy- Inaaya

We were learning to keep safe around fireworks and created some fireworks art.- Thomas

We were learning greetings in Spanish Good night- Buenas Noches-Karel

We were learning that some people cannot use all there senses. Some people are blind or deaf-Macie

We were writing Invitation to invite our parents to our Read, Write, Count Launch- Leonie

Some of us went to Multi Sports and we did lots of different activities e.g. football, basketball, running- Harvey L.

We have been reading interesting books- Aiden

We had a Golden Time on Friday- Niall

 

 

 

Busy week in P2…

We wrote prayers thanking God for looking after us and our family-Caiden

We have been learning about Place Value. We were showing how many tens and ones are in a number-Jack

We were writing Autumn Senses Poem. I can see leaves falling from the trees- Matty

We have started learning songs for the Nativity- Orla

In Science we are learning about our senses. Our senses are taste, sight, smell, touch and hear- Alyssa

Zero is very important in place value. 40 would not be 40 if you did not put the 0 it would just be 4- Lauren

We have been practising our tricky words by writing them in shaving foam and playing Twister. We had to read the word when you stepped on the coloured circle- Ethan

We had really busy time this week. Here what we have been learning…

We have been learning about patterns-Zofia

We know how number patterns looks like e.g.2,4,6,8,10-Caitlyn

We were learning how to count in 5`s e.g.: 5,10,15,25- Lily

We have been learning about making predictions. We know to use the title and front cover to help us predict the story.-Lauren

We made the Recipe for Friendship e.g. 1 pinch of love, 1 handful of hope, 1 litre of kindness-Inaaya

We have been learning how God made people and also we know that God created us-Alyssa

At PE we have been learning how to play `line tig and disco tig games`. This was lots of fun.-Lauren, Harvey, Arriana
We have been learning about our feelings and emotions e.g. sadness and happiness etc. We know now that we all have emotions and this is normal- Murron and Arriana

In this week P2….

We have been learning about the number sequences on number lines-Lauren

We have been learning about Mary as October is the month of Mary-Oscar

We have been learning about gifts and talents that God has given us . We all have different gifts and talents- Emily

We have been learning how to write the letters ( handwriting lesson) Yy and Zz- Zofia

We went to the library to get some interesting books which we can read at school-Joseph

On Wednesday we had a hymn practice and learned new hymns. – Inaaya

In  literacy we had a  tricky words spelling test on Wednesday and on Thursday we had a Big Writing about our favourite toys- Harvey L.

We have been learning about being responsible and respectful. We know  that we need to keep our hand to ourselves, this shows respect. – Jack

 

Busy week for Primary 2

Primary 2 have been very busy this week. This is what we did…

 

We were learning about our our handwriting-Niall

We were learning about our punctuation-Joseph

We have tasted some healthy foods, my favorite was mango-Ben

We also made posters about keeping healthy- Inaaya

We made literacy and numeracy targets to help us with our learning- Macie

We learned that God called Abraham to leave home and go to another country- Inaaya

We had a football taster. We practised dribbling the ball.-Harvey D.