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P2/1 Remote Learning week 8th-12th February

Well done on a fantastic week of learning!

Primary 1s, in Literacy/Phonics we learned a new sound ‘ee’ and practised sounding out cvc words with the sound ‘n’ such as nap, neck, nut and net. In Maths we learned more about telling the ‘half-past’ time and we also learned about using Tally Marks correctly in Data Handling. In Numeracy we had fun learning about working out the missing Addend which is a number that is added to another number. In Health and Wellbeing we completed some activities learning more about the meaning of Respect and what makes a Kind Friend and in Science we learned about Forces and Push and Pull.

Primary 2s, in Literacy – Phonics and Spelling – we learned about words with magic e and an ‘o’ and also soft ‘c’ words. In Reading Comprehension we worked hard on our Inference skills and in Writing we completed the ending to our imaginative story. In Numeracy we learned about missing Subtrahends (a number to be subtracted from another number) and we also learned about halves and quarters in Fractions. We also learned more about division and how to make equal groups of 4. In Health and Wellbeing we learned about what makes a Good Friend.

I’m really proud of all of your hard work. Well done.

Mrs Meikle

Another Great Week of Home Learning in P2A

Dear parents/carers,

What a fantastic week this has been! We have had lots of snow but there has still been so much effort with our home learning. In Literacy, we have been learning magic e words with an o and we have been learning to find information in a text in Reading Comprehension. I have been so impressed with your thoughtful answers to the inference questions too. You worked super hard in Writing this week and you wrote the ending to your imaginative stories. Well done for working hard to use capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and connectives.

In Numeracy, we learned more about fractions and making equal groups to divide by 4. There have been some amazing photos of your equal groups uploaded to Seesaw to show how hard you are working. There has been so much creativity and well done to everyone who has been working on the remote learning grid tasks too. Jaysiel deserves a mention for her very expressive performance of “Chokey Chant” from Matilda the Musical which was one of your Drama tasks on the grid.

Harris has been doing some fantastic word building to practise spelling magic e with an o. Well done for working so hard to read and write your words Harris:)

Isabelle has been working hard to describe arrays in Number Talks this week. Well done for your hard work Isabelle:)

Look at Frankie’s amazing efforts with this week’s STEM challenge from Mrs Beattie. This is so impressive, Frankie! Well done for working so hard and you have shown great teamwork with mum and Danny to create this heart structure. Fantastic work:)

This is Evie’s super division task. She worked hard to describe the equal groups and write down how many objects were in each group. Brilliant Numeracy work Evie:)

This really impressed me this week! Isla’s wrote a fantastic ending to her imaginative story with capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. She even used some connectives too. Well done for writing such a creative story and for really working hard to develop your confidence in Writing:)

Well done to everyone for all your hard work this week. I am so proud of you all. Thank you also to parents and carers for your continued support. Have a lovely holiday everyone:)

Miss Marra

This week in P4

This week in P4 we have looked at writing discussion texts, summarising a text and worked on our spelling in literacy. We have continued to look at column addition and multiplication in Numeracy. In our health activities, we focused on family and friendship and in our topic of The Celts, we looked at a range of research questions. These included finding out about the religion they followed, looking at the types of warriors they had and then drawing and designing Celtic shields.

Here are just a few great examples:

Celts Shield

Have a lovely holiday weekend everyone, you have worked so hard.

Miss Cameron

P2/1 Remote Learning

Dear Primary 2/1,

You’ve had a fantastic week of learning! Well done on all of your incredible hard work.

Primary 1s, in Literacy we have been learning to build cvc words using our sounds and also learning a new sound ‘oo’. We also did some work on learning our tricky/sight words. In Numeracy we have been learning more about o’clock times and also more on adding within ten. We have also enjoyed the stories The Very Busy Spider and Chrysanthemum to help with our Listening skills. In Health and Wellbeing we learned about brushing our teeth and also about calm and relaxing breathing.

Primary 2s, in Literacy we have been learning to read and write magic e words with an ‘i’. We also completed our exciting middle part to our imaginative story. In Numeracy we started to learning about fractions and where these are in the real world. We also did more work on missing addends and number sequences. In Health and Wellbeing we were learning about how what a good friend is. In STEM we enjoyed learning about different types of bridges and how to make one out of recycled materials.

Remote and Class Learning P7/6 and P7

Another busy week both in the classroom and at home. Linking to our Scottish Tourism context both classes have been using their research skills to learn about Scotland. They have been looking at its culture, landmarks and Geography. Using their knowledge of different genres they created a poster demonstrating how Loch Lomond was formed. We were impressed with the variety of media used to display their findings.

In Literacy we have made curricular links with our RME context of Carnival. We looked at using Higher Order Thinking skills to create 6 different question types from a piece of text on Festivals from around the world. We also looked at how to create an effective summary, identifying what the key ideas of a text are. Using these skills, the classes then went on to complete a reading comprehension effectively extracting the main points of the text.

In Maths we continued with our concept of area looking at both the area of compound shapes and of right angled triangles. Well done to all of those of you who went on to attempt the challenge activities; very impressive!

Keep up the hard work everybody, you are doing a great job!

Amazing Learning in Primary 2A

Wow! What an amazing week of learning we have had. Well done for all your hard work this week as always. I am so proud of all your efforts and your positive attitude towards your learning. This week, we have been learning to read and write magic e words with an i and we have also been working hard on Reading Comprehension. In Writing, we have been learning to write the midde of a story, following on from our introductions from last wek. Your stories are looking fantastic so far! I can’t wait to read your endings. In Numeracy, we have been working hard in number talks and we have been learning about fractions this week. You found some great examples of halves and quarters at home.

Here are a few examples of your wonderful work.

Jaysiel wrote a fantastic middle to her imaginative story with capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. She also used connectives and wrote great descriptions. Well done Jaysiel:)

Max worked hard to calculate the missing addends in Numeracy this week. He did a great job counting on to work out the answers. Well done for working hard on this Max and for creating some of your own missing addend problems.

Ollie worked hard on this magic e roll, write and read task. You worked hard Ollie and you managed to write and read some new magic e words too. Well done!

This is Evie’s creative approach to this week’s STEM challenge. It has been amazing seeing everyone working so hard to be creative with these challenges every week. This week, we had to build a bridge using construction or any other materials at home. Well done for thinking outside the box Evie! It looks like your bridge was definitely strong enough for Nala to stand on. Fantastic work!

Keep up your hard work everyone. Have a lovely weekend and I will see you all on Monday:)

Super work P3!

You have treated us to some super work this week P3!

Thank you so much for your photos, videos, recordings and responses on Seesaw. We would also like to thank all of the adults at home who are doing a fantastic job supporting you in your learning.

This week we have –

- continued to learn about multiplication and used Thinkboards to help us work out word problems…and completed a Check-up to see how we are progressing with our learning.
- Started to learn how to write an information report.
- Learned about adding ing and ed to words and practised spelling them
- Read and used information from a text to label a drawing of a polar bear.
- Looked at Steven Brown’s art work and designed our own Highland cows… and other animals.
- Enjoyed lots of stories and books in National Storytelling week.. even recorded ourselves telling stories.
- Found out about the different kinds of teeth we have.
- Been active and participated in Mr Millar’s Fitness Week 4

Another fantastic week Primary 3. Keep it up. We are very proud of you all!

Have great weekend!

Miss Reid P3A Mrs Robertson P3B

Learning in Primary 1

Well done P1, you have worked really well this week. It’s great to see you in school and on SeeSaw, even in our assembly this week. Thank you for your photos, videos, recordings and hard work.

This week we have continued to learn to tell the time on analogue and digital clocks. We were practising our number bonds to 10 and have been counting and ordering numbers to 20.

Our literacy work included a new sound ‘oo’, learning to recognise tricky/common words and using our sounds and blending to build and write words.

It was national storytelling week and we listened to lots of stories and drew or wrote a response.

After all that it was great to learn some relaxation and calm breathing exercises.

Have a great weekend!

This week in P4

Hi everyone,

This week in P4 we have been learning how to write a discussion text and looking at the skills involved in this. We have worked on clarifying in our reading roles and looked at questions we would ask characters. We were able to retell stories through our reading task. In Maths this week we have focused on column addition and using written methods to solve number calculations.

We have continued to look at different foods and customs from around the world in our health lessons and it was great to see so many interesting menus that were made.

We are working on our current topic of The Celts and have been researching all about their houses, clothing and jewellery this week amongst other things.

Here are some examples of our wonderful jewellery:

P2/1 Remote and Classroom Learning

Well done to all of Primary 2/1 for such hard work this week. I enjoy seeing the one or two of you in class each week and all the rest of you on Seesaw. Thank you for all of your photos and videos as well as your hard work – these give me so much joy to see.

Primary 1 have been working hard in learning to tell the time. We started with ordering days of the week then months of the year before learning about the analogue clock and the o’clock hours. We had fun making our own clocks with paper plates in class and digitally on Seesaw. We have also been learning a new sound ‘wh’ and been doing lots of activities to consolidate our learning in this. We enjoyed our Listening and Talking activities around different stories; Grumpy Cat and The Listening Walk.

Primary 2 have been working very hard in reading, writing and Numeracy. We have been learning the magic e sound and been using our spelling words and activities to learn this more. There have been some fantastic photos of spelling work where no pencils or papers were used at all! In writing we learned about how to write a story and that there is a beginning, middle and end. This week we started our beginning and we introduced our characters and set the scene. In numeracy we challenged ourselves and started to learn the three times tables and we used objects from home to show how we can separate them into three equal groups.

Keep up the great work, Primary 2/1.

Mrs Meikle

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