We were inspired by watching Jacqueline Wilson on Author’s Live to write our own stories and share them with the class. Actually it was a class from Deans Primary with Mrs Hillan who were in the audience for the Author’s Live show!
P.4 Friday
P5’s Weekly Update
P5 spent a lot of time outside this week!
We have been out for PE this week and have also had outdoor learning.
Lily-Ellen – We looked at the fruit trees we had planted to see how they were getting on.
Sofia – I enjoyed measuring outside in order to work out the volume of different objects.
Topic
We went outside to use chalk and drew different dinosaurs.
Alexis – I was proud of how my dinosaur turned out.
Numeracy
We have been learning how to use the short division method to divide larger numbers – we also call it the bus stop method!
Sara – We use this method for larger numbers.
Today we used the laptops and practised our division facts.
Literacy
We have learnt how to summarise a text and although it was difficult at first we have improved our ability to do this.
We learnt how to write an explanation text this week. This genre is going to be our new focus over the next few weeks.
Science – Floating and Sinking
Bella – It was fun and interesting to see if things float or sink. We learnt that upthrust was the force pushing thing up in water.
Enjoy your week-end everybody!
First week back for P2
Welcome back to our blog! Have a read to see what we have been up to!
Numeracy
We have started our new topic of time. This week, we have been focusing on the months of the year – how to read and spell them, and also the order in which they come.
Jayden – “There are 12 months in a year”
Euan – “2 months after January is March, and April is the fourth month”
Vrishti – “Halloween is in October”
Archie M – “There are different months in different seasons”
IDL
Our new topic for this term is World of Work.
Maddison – “We spoke about different kinds of jobs”
Ethan – “We looked at different job sectors and wrote the jobs that are in that sector”
Writing
We began learning a new writing genre this week – explanation.
Max – “An explanation is when you explain something”
Mark – “First comes the title, then the identifying statement, then the explanation sequence, then the summary statement”
Andrew – “A summary is when you say what has happened”
Fun in the sun
We have been out enjoying the sun this week. We were learning how to make daisy chains and found it quite tricky and fiddly! Some of us got the hang of it after a while!
Some of us were learning to assess risks by climbing a tree.
Jordon – “There were stable branches and unstable branches”
Louie – “We had to make sure we were testing the branches and only standing on the stable branches”
Charli Mae – “We couldn’t go too high up to the top because the branches were unstable”
Sophie – “I was happy but also scared because I had to make sure I didn’t fall off”
Have a lovely weekend in the sun!
A Busy Week in P4/3!
It has been lovely for us all to be back together after the Easter holidays. Everyone (including Mrs Morrison) is feeling refreshed after the break and looking forward to the term ahead.
This week we have been revising spelling sounds from last term and practising the more tricky words. Next week, we will introduce new sounds for the children to work on.
In numeracy, we have been assessing our learning as a way of demonstrating our knowledge, but also as a way of identifying areas we still need to improve. Next week we will explore multiplication and I know some of the children are excited about this!
During home learning our Egyptian topic was put on hold and we focused on exploring our country, Scotland. Mrs Morrison was delighted the efforts the children put into researching facts about Scotland. Now we must use these research skills to find out more about Ancient Egypt. Look out for some facts on the blog in the coming weeks!
Finally, we made the most of the sunshine and took our learning outdoors. It was so nice to be together, have fun and learn as well! Let’s hope the sunshine is here to stay!!
Have a lovely weekend and I will check in next Friday.
Mrs Morrison
Weekly Update From P1A
I hope you enjoyed the Easter holidays and managed to take advantage of the lovely weather. It was great to see all the children back for their last term in Primary 1! Some of the learning that has taken place this week-
Writing – 
This term we have started a new writing genre and shall be writing a number of recounts pieces. Bascially for us in Primary one, that means writing that retells events that have already occured. The first piece was titled “Playing in my Bedroom”. The children had to write sentences saying where they were, what they were doing, what they made and how they felt. I think they did really well and I can see a big improvement in their writing skills. Some writing examples below.
Phonics and Reading
We have been working really hard on our blends – ch, th, sh, wh and ng. The children have been creating words and reading sentences which contain the blends.
Health and Wellbeing – Health Me
For the first part of this term we will be looking at how to keep our bodies and minds healthy. We began by idenifying something that we already do to keep us healthy. Some examples below-
Next, we drew examples of healthy food we would like to have in our lunch boxes-
Numeracy – Subtraction and numbers up to 20
We are continuing to learn how to subtract numbers and make numbers beyond 10 using 10 as a base. Some pictures below-
I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I shall be back next week with more updates from P1A.
Primary 1B Learning Highlights
We have had a wonderful and very busy first week back in Primary 1B. It has been lovely to see so many smiling faces and see so many of the children so eager to resume their learning.
Health and Wellbeing
We have begun to explore a new topic this term focusing on ‘Healthy Me’. We started by discussing what the word Healthy meant to us. We drew some pictures of us making our own healthy choices and wrote about what we do to keep our bodies healthy.
The children all had fantastic ways to suggest how to keep our bodies healthy. We are a healthy bunch in Primary 1B.
Kellan – Brush your teeth twice a day.
Leighton – You should eat bananas.
Reuben – You can eat lots of vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes and cauliflower.
Kaleb – We can keep our bodies clean by washing our faces and hands.
Cooper – We get fresh air and exercise.
We read a wonderful story about a very unhealthy wolf called Wilfred who managed to turn his life around to become fitter and healthier.
This story inspired us to pledge to make our own healthy choices. Here are some of our ideas…..
Writing
This week in writing we had a go at writing a ‘recount’ piece of text. This is where we think of an event which has happened and we retell it in our own words. To begin with we kept it simple and wrote about ‘playing’. We talked about a time we had great fun playing and simply wrote about it. Have a look at some examples below, we are very proud of our hard word.
Numeracy
This week we have been working on our subtraction skills. Seeing the weather has been kind to us, we decided to take our learning outside to practise this skill. We had lots of fun making up our own subtraction number stories.
We hope that the sun continues to shine for us next week too. We hope you enjoyed reading our blog.
Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B
Weekly Update from P4
We have had a busy first week back in Primary 4 and everyone has been working really hard.
In Literacy we have been looking at the skill of summarising. Mrs Hillan read a chapter of the class novel and we summarised what we had heard. We are now starting to get the hang of picking out the key points from what we have heard or read. Here are some of our summaries:
In Numeracy we have continued with multiplication. We have been looking at the 8x table or the 5 and 3x tables. We also enjoyed playing a times table challenge where two of us were asked a question to see who could answer first! We definitely need to keep practising these at home.
In our topic this week, we have finally been able to get back on track with our Egyptians topic! We created a timeline of events from Ancient Egyptian times:
We also looked at information about the River Nile and picked out the key facts which told us why it was so important to the Egyptians. We recorded this on a mind map:
We look forward to more learning next week!!
Weekly Update from P1A
Hello everyone and welcome to this weeks blog. We have had another busy learning week which has included some Easter crafts. We have made Easter cards using finger paints. We hope you like them!
We have also made Easter baskets which have little chicks inside and a few chocolate eggs. Enjoy!
Writing – 
This week the children continued to develop their information writing skills. Our topic was Easter and children had to write sentences explaining when it was, what it was and how it is celebrated. Some excellent examples below-
Some very exciting news, Aaron, Robbie and Liam have been asked by Mrs Stewart to read their information reports to the whole school during our virtual Easter Assembly. Well done boys I am so proud of you!
Literacy – 
During Literacy this week the children have been completing some free writing tasks. It is great to see them challenging themselves to write 4 and 5 sentences independently!
Some more images of the children completing reading skills tasks and making sentences with our new ch sound.
Numeracy and Maths – 
As well as our usual numeracy, this week we attempted to make symmetrical eggs. It was a very challenging task however, the children displayed a growth mindset and didn’t give up!
I hope you all have a wonderful Easter! Eat lots of chocolate eggs and enjoy time with your family.
Final week of term in P2!
Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!
Writing
Maddison – “We wrote an information report all about Spring”
Charli Mae – “Sheep have lambs during Spring”
Archie – “The bees and wasps start to come out when it is hot”
Outdoor Learning
Louie – “We went into the playground and flew our kites”
Andrew – “Flying my kite was so fun”
Kayden – “We made out kite out of paper”
STEM
Euan – “We had to work with a partner to build a parachute for an egg. It was fun dropping them off the stairs”
Elizabeth – “We had to design our egg and we called it Sheldon”
Mark – “Next time, I would put more stuff around the egg so it didn’t crack”
Alfie – “Next time, I would put 7 layers of paper on Steve so he didn’t crack”
Have a safe and restful Easter Break!
Learning in Primary 4 this week.
We have enjoyed another week of learning in Primary 4 this week as we lead up to the Easter holidays.
In Numeracy, we have continued working on our times tables and have assessed our knowledge and understanding at present to see what we need to work on. We have been able to see that we definitely all need to be practising at home.
In Reading we have continued our new class novel of Roald Dahl’s “The Witches”. This has brought about some good discussion so far and we look forward to doing some predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarising around this. Here are some of our thoughts and things we have learned about so far from the story:
“Witches hate children!” – Erin R
“Witches look like normal ladies and that’s how they catch children.” – Ciaran
“Witches can smell kids” – Rihanna
“Witches have no toes” – Daniel
“I feel like it’s a nice novel, but a little scary” – Alyssa
“They wear gloves to not show their claws and they wear wigs because they are bald!” – Summer
“Witches make children vanish.” – Olivia
“The scent of children is stronger to a witch if they have just had a bath.” – Sophie G
“Children smell disgusting to witches” – Chloe
For our Writing this week we chose to either write a letter to the Easter Bunny or a chocolate company telling them about a new design for an Easter egg. We discussed the layout of a letter beforehand and we told Mrs Hillan what we needed to include. Here are some of our letters:
We hope everyone has a good Easter and stays safe!
