We have been enjoying a poetry session every Friday. Each Friday we hear a new poem and also listen to some of our favourites from the previous weeks.
James James Morrison Morrison is my favourite – Stevi
I really like the version where they sing James James Morrison Morrison – Roman.
The King’s Breakfast is my favourite -Ryley
Me too -Sophie G
I really enjoyed our new poem Macavity the Mystery Cat – Emily
Literacy
Book Week
This week it was Book Week Scotland so we had a ‘blether’ about what are favourite books were.
Lily-Elen – I like Jaqueline Wilson.
Writing
We wrote some terrific stories this week using the main character in our reading book. Colin and his partner wrote a great opener that we agreed would make us want to read on.
Reading
This week we practised our visualisation skills and drew scenes from stories in our reading books.
Numeracy
This week we practised adding multiples of 10 and discussed different strategies.
Maths
This week we walked around the school on a shape hunt and discussed why certain shapes such as cuboids were used to make things.
Art
As part of our work on shape we used clay to sculpt imaginary creatures using tools to create various effects. 
Alexis – I made a Unibug. 
Sophie P – I made a dog that had a turtle shell and a unicorn.
Health
During P.E. we have been practising running without stopping for four minutes. We are much fitter now!
We have also discussed what makes us happy. Most of us said it was our family and surprisingly when given a list of different things most of us said tablets/IPads are the least important when it comes to happiness. We learnt about how some children living in different circumstances would be happier if they were able to go to school more and have larger houses with running water.
Hello everyone! Here is an update on what we have been learning this week.
IDL- We have been learning about they types of animals living in the Amazon Rainforest. We then creates a Diorama to show all the things we learnt so far. We had to include the following information;
We have been learning different strategies to subtract three digit numbers.
In Literacy, we have been uplevelling our persuasive text by using various vocabulary (we have not used before). We also used higher level connectives.
It has been another busy week in P4/3 as we continue to build on our learning, challenge ourselves and trying our very best with every task. We have been exploring different texts, with a focus on identifying the differences between fiction and non- fiction books. This is a key skill to develop as the majority of texts children will explore in high school will be non- fiction. We have also been looking at the different types of questions, specifically open and closed questions. Ask your child what is different about each type of question.
Next week, we are looking forward to preparing videos that show case the learning in P4/3 and will be sent home for you to view. This may test Mrs Morrison’s IT skills, however I’m up for the challenge!!!!
Have a lovely weekend and I will check in with you next Friday.
Have a read to see what we have been up to this week in P2.
Writing
Vrishti – “We have been learning about persuasive writing”
Archie M – “We had to persuade people about why school is important”
Andrew – “School is important so you can learn for when you grow up”
Numeracy
Jayden – “We have been finding efficient ways to bridge 10 in number talks”
Euan – “We have been trying to find the missing number in an adding sum”
IDL
Charli Mae – “We had to sort the sea animals into the right layer of the ocean. The dolphin went at the top in the sunlight zone.”
Macy May – “The sea animals all went in different layers.”
Sharing the Learning
In the next few weeks, we will be sending out a video all about our learning in P2 so far. This week, we became movie stars and began filming our sharing the learning.
Have a great weekend! Remember to wear your pyjamas on Tuesday the 24th November for our Read Write Count day!
We have had another very busy week in Primary 1A and the children would like to share some of their learning with you.
‘We now have our very own classroom shop called “Dean’s Store”
We have used as many real items of food (with price labels) as we can and even have a full sized working till! The children have been so excited and had such a brillant time playing in the shop. Although it is fun, there are a number of additional benefits such as, writing a shopping list, turn taking, discussion, counting money giving change. Some fun pictures below-
Literacy
Writing – 
The children are continuing to develop their persuasive writing skills and this week they have been giving their opinions on pets. They all agreed that pets are great to have and came up with super words to describe them, such as” cute, playful, friendly, fluffy and the best!” Some examples below-
Our sounds this week have been “e” and “f”. Some pictures below of the activities the children have taken part in.
Although we are working on numbers beyond 10, the children are consolidating their knowledge of number bonds to 10. They have been doing this through games from Educationcity and team challenges.
Health and Wellbeing
We are continuing to celebrate difference and this week we focused on bullying. The children finished their gingerbread men by creating an anti-bullying slogan for his cap. Conlon came up with a excellent message “No Bullies Here!”
I hope you have a great week and I will post more news from P1A next week.
Health and Wellbeing
This week in health and wellbeing we have been focusing on the word bullying, what it means, what it looks like and what we should do if we ever encounter it ourselves. We discussed that bullying is something which, happens over and over again, is deliberate and can happen when more than one person is doing the bullying. We decided that we would definitely not tolerate any bullies in Primary One and we made up slogans to prevent this from happening. Our class slogan is ‘No Bullies Here’.
We have also continued to focus on recognising our emotions and how we deal with different emotions. We have been drawing portraits of ourselves and how we look when we are feeling a certain way. We discussed strategies to help us and shared ideas of different things we can do when we feel sad or scared. We had some wonderful suggestions, such as, find a friend to talk to or play some music.
Literacy
In literacy this week we have been working hard using the magnetic boards to blend and segment words like, cat, fat, mat. We have learned about word rhyming families and how we can use them to help us to spell these new words. Our new sounds this week have been e and f. On Thursday we made some fantastic e ‘Elmos’ to decorate our class and to help us recall the shape of the letter as it can be a tricky one to get right!
As we continue to work on developing our persuasive writing skills this week we were giving our opinion on whether we like pets. We wrote 2 sentences, I like pets. Pets are… and we had to fill in the last part of the sentence with our opinion.
Here are some of our opinions.
Finlay – I like pets. Pets are friendly and are cute.
Jake – I like pets. Pets are cute and cuddly.
Arianna – I like pets. Pets are nice.
Jack – I like pets. Pets are cute.
We continue to enjoy reading our word boost stories. This week’s words are from Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers. These words have definitely been the trickiest so far but we have made a great attempt at remembering their definitions and trying to use them everyday when we are talking. These are the words we have focused on.
Preparations
event
furious
fascinated
Numeracy
We have been exploring different ways to represent teen numbers this week. We have used Numicon, ten frames and made cube towers. We continue to develop our addition skills through making and counting out collections of numbers.
It has been a very busy week in Primary 1B and we are ready for a break at the weekend. Please remember to bring in reading books everyday and a gentle reminder that as a health promoting school children will only be allowed to drink water in class.
Have a fabulous weekend.
Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B
In Numeracy we have been working on decomposition (borrowing). Some of us have found this quite a challenge, but we have stuck with it. This would be a good thing for the children to practise at home when they can!
At first I thought it would be hard, but when I got the hang of it, it was really easy – Emily
When I started it was quite tricky and now it’s got really easy – Caelan
When I’ve started using my head to work them out it has gotten easier – Sophie C
It was tricky but when we got our mind to it, we could do it – Summer
I found it extremely hard, but when I thought about it, it was easy – Shay
In writing this week we have looked at Persuasive Writing again and creating a one-sided argument about why having a school uniform is important. We began by coming up with good reasons for this before completing our pieces. Here are some of our thoughts:
We should have school uniform for if we get lost on a trip – Maisy
When I thought about having a school uniform, I thought of hundreds of ideas! – Erin R
It was tiring, but it was a good job and worth it! – Alyssa
When I was writing I used my persuasive writing mat to help me – Kayleigh
Here are some of our finished pieces:
We have been busy preparing our Sharing the Learning ready to film next week! We have lots of good things to tell you about that P4 do in Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing.
In PE this week we have been playing some games to help increase our fitness levels. We were in the hall this week due to rainy weather. We really enjoyed the Video Game where we had to ‘fast forward’ – run, ‘rewind’ – go backwards, ‘pause’ – stop, ‘record’ – pull a silly face and ‘slow motion’ – walk at half speed! Here are some photos of us enjoying the games this week:
Well done on another productive week Primary 4!!
This week, we enjoyed a Health and Well-being focus linked to Children in Need. We explored the 5 to thrive approach to improving physical and emotional well- being.
First Thrive to Five- Connect
Here we explored different ways of connecting with one another to improve well-being. Suggestions included: give someone a smile, sharing is caring , be kind and gentle and include others. We also discussed goals and targets and ways of achieving them.
Second Thrive- Take Note
Here we looked at ways of identifying traits of when people are not feeling themselves and actions we could take to help others.
Third Thrive- Get Active
Moving your body in different ways can help your physical and mental well-being. As part of our P.E. lesson, we took part in a range of physical activities such as speed, dribbling and balance. We discussed the positive impacts exercise can have on the body and then we completed a fitness diary, self-assessing our ability to complete the task.
Fourth Thrive- Be Curious
As a class we discussed the importance of taking part in learning, the different ways to challenge ourselves and why it is beneficial to try something new.
Fifth Thrive- Give
Thank you to all who donated to the sharing shed, it is nice to think of others during these difficult times.
We had lots of fun dressing up for Children in Need but then we got on with some serious writing!
