Category: Primary 2

Today was our last Families Connect get-together and we celebrated in style!

We went to Innoflate together and had a great time bouncing around, we’re not sure who had more fun, the children or the adults!

Can you spot Sarah hiding in the ball pit?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back at school we had a special visitor waiting for us – Gary Locke, the Hearts coach and ex-professional footballer! This was very exciting! Gary spent some time with us and then visited a few of the classes, he gave some great advice about becoming a professional footballer – his top tip was to listen to teachers and stick in at school.

Today at Families Connect we were discussing Number Talk. We learned some numbers in Welsh – this showed us how confusing learning numbers can be for our children. We tried out some games related to numbers – we had to sort buses into ‘teen’ and ‘ty’ garages and then we were given a busy street scene where we had to find lots of hidden numbers; similar to ‘Where’s Wally?’

When the children joined us, we enjoyed snack together and then played the games. Some of us challenged ourselves by timing how long it took us to put all the buses in the garages and find all the numbers in the scene. We were all careful to pronounce the number names clearly, as sometimes children can confuse ‘teen’ and ‘ty’ numbers.

Next week is our last week of Families Connect. We will be sad for Families Connect to end but we are really looking forward to a group trip to Innoflate to celebrate the completion of our programme!

Today we were working on the importance of counting. After their cup of tea (and chocolate biscuits!) the adults tried out counting using the alphabet – we had to pretend we lived in a place called ‘Letter Land’ where numbers were replaced by letters. This was VERY confusing, but it helped us see how tricky it must be for our children to learn the value of numbers.

When the children joined us, we enjoyed snack together before playing a game called ‘Ten Nice Things’. We each had a box of 10 party bag items, we took turns rolling a dice and we were then able to steal that number of items from our partner’s box. We kept playing until one person had lost all of the items in their box. Throughout this game the adults asked their children a variety of questions, such as:

• If I spin a two, will I win?
• If you have six things, how many have I got?
• If I have five things and I win three more, how many will I have altogether?
• If I have six and give you three, how many will I have? How many will you have?
• Who has the most/the fewest things?

We are positive everyone is going to have a lot of fun at home playing this game!

Next week our focus is on ‘Number Talk’

It has been another quick week in P1 and P2/1. We are super excited by the arrival of some new friends including a new teacher called Mrs Anderson who is going to be working with us all on Wednesday afternoons. We are very happy to welcome her to our school. We had a little taster of some yoga as Mrs Anderson has special skills in yoga.

Lexie – I loved yoga even though it was my first time doing it!

Lennon – I really enjoyed the monkey poses.

Kyle – I enjoyed the lion pose.

We have been learning to ‘take away’ . Mia enjoyed using the numicon to support her learning. Kayleigh has been practising independently using a dice to make up her own take away calculations. She was able to remember to always put the big number first. Brendan thought that crossing out was a good strategy and helped him find the answer.

Writing this week.

We have been learning 2 new tricky words – want and went. We decided to write about what we wanted to be when we grew up. The children did a fantastic job and we hope they achieve their dream careers.

Lennon and Charlie explained that when you grow up up need a job to earn money. Here are some of our career dreams…..

Brendan – I want to be a police officer or a firefighter.

Chloe – I want to be a teacher to help my friends.

Scarlet- I want to be teacher.

Charlie-  I want to be fisherman so I can make fish fingers, I love fish fingers.

LLLLLLL ladybugs.

This week our new sound was the letter ‘l’. We made ladybugs to remind of the sound and shape of the letter.

Isla – I liked the task. I put 3 and 4 dots on and I knew that made 7 altogether.

Chloe – I liked the red shell on mine.

Destination Judo.

Today we were lucky enough to have Jake from Destination Judo come into school and give us a half hour judo taster session. We had to wear cool judo jackets and take off our gym shoes. It was great fun, we played lots of games with a partner and had to be really good listeners to play the games safely.

Mia – I liked playing the ‘get the bean bag’ game, it was fun being a starfish.

Sophie – I liked trying to push someone over onto their back, it was a turtle game and you had to protect the bean bag.

Lexie – I enjoyed getting to be the referee.

If you would like any further information about Destination Judo or to book a free introductory session call – 0131 467 9054. Classes are held on a Monday at Elim Church, Deans.

Reminder!

Monday and Tuesday are holidays for the children. Enjoy the short break and we will see you all back on Wednesday.

 

 

Welcome back to our final term in Primary 1 and Primary 1/2. What a busy and quick year it has been!

We have been learning about different signs of Spring.

A big thank you to Mrs Walker for displaying all our Spring time art. They look fantastic!

We explored different elements of line to create funky bunnies. We had to concentrate really hard and use our careful pencil skills to create a fantastic effect. We even designed some very cool sunglasses.

Lexie- We made Spring bunnies. I had fun putting on the glasses.

Aayan – I liked the way we made them, especially when we had to colour in and make the lines. It was tricky to cut out though!

Brendan – I like everyone’s bunny and I think they did a super job.

 

We went on a walk to look for different signs of Spring…….it really didn’t feel like Spring. The sky was grey and it was freezing cold!!

We found lots of plants and trees that have started to show buds. Some have pretty flowers already!

  

We used our senses to explore the different plants. Some smelled beautiful but some did not!!

We thought we had spotted baby sunflowers across the field, but then we realised that they were dandelions.  Even though they are weeds we still think they are a beautiful Spring colour.

Kayleigh- I saw lots of dandelions in the grass. They have another name but I’m not going to say it.

Roman- We found some acorns in the grass and took them for our loose parts.

We helped Mrs Dobbie and our Primary 7 buddies to plant trees. They are going to be the boundary for our community garden. It was fantastic fun and a great way to help the environment…….thank goodness the sun came out!

Sophie- I liked planting the mini trees.

Brendan- I liked digging the holes for the trees.

Ethan – We found lots of wiggly worms. GROSS!!

     

Charlie- I enjoyed planting the saplings, just like in Minecraft.

What a fantastic word, well done Charlie!!

What a great start to our new term!

This week we have been busy learning all about shape. We have been sorting shapes in lots of different ways.

Finlay- It was cool. You had to match the shapes together.

We even used the shapes we knew and our amazing folding skills to create the most fantastic shape monsters!!!!

Charlie- It was really fun making the shape monsters. I added lots of sharp teeth , they were triangles and one big circle eye.

Lucy- Mine only has two teeth…….it is a baby monster.

Aayan- I got a fright the first time I saw them after Mrs Walker put them up. I think they look great though.

This week we have been focusing on the sound ‘z’. We really enjoyed making our zig-zag zebras.

Lexie- I really enjoyed making them and learning the sound ‘z’ because it is my favourite sound and starts my favourite place… the Zoo!!!!

Charlie- I am really proud of mine, I tried really hard.

Fatoumata- I like zebras……alot!

Arthur- I liked writing z with chalk in the playground. I liked how messy it was!

Lexie- I wrote ‘was’. I was really happy because  I remembered it wasn’t an o in the middle but a.

Sophie- I wrote ‘my’. It is a tricky trickster word. It sounds like it has an i ….but it doesn’t.

We really enjoyed drama this week. We used puppets to retell the story of the Rainbow fish. We had to be really careful to get it in the right order or it didn’t make sense.

Darby- I loved being the Rainbow fish. I really liked giving my scales away to all the other fish.

Levente- It was fun. It was like being in a movie!

We have had fun with our new dressing up materials. From super heroes to ballgowns. We have amazing imaginations.

Sophie- I love it… we pretended we were in Frozen.

Finlay- I liked being the Queen’s guard.

Lucy- They were a bit too long so we asked Mrs Cochrane to cut them up. That meant that more friends could play!

Lennon brought his fantastic truck in for ‘Show and Tell’ on Friday.  He showed us the recycle symbol on the side to remind us to reduce, reuse and recycle.  Lennon- I just love trucks!

We have been learning how to use tally marks in our data handling.

We tallied our favourite pets and discovered that the pet we liked the most was dogs. The least favourite was snakes. We had great fun interviewing our friends and counting up the tally marks.

We have VIP friends in primary 1 and 1/2. These are friends that are displaying our school values. Their friends share compliments about their friend and these are recorded on a special VIP certificate.

Finlay- I felt special. I got to go in the front of the line, make lots of class decisions. My chair was very cool!

Daniel- I loved hearing all the compliments…they made me happy.

Homework Stars-

Lexie has been working really hard on her numbers and created a fantastic Spring poem that she shared with the class. Well done Lexie!

Calvin and Harrison also made a spring acrostic poem and were super confident when reciting their poem to the class. Well done!

Georgia created these fantastic owls using recycled materials. We think they are very cute. Well done Georgia!

Well done to Joshua Duncan-Coat from P3/4 for creating the winning Fairtrade poster. Joshua’s poster will be displayed throughout the school to promote Fairtrade products and encourage us all to buy Fairtrade.