Primary 1 have been introduced to another new sound ai/ay this week. We have been learning to read and build words and are getting really good at being detectives by identifying the sounds in different texts. We listened to the story ‘Snowball’ and made our own story using playdough and story stones. We used our talking tins to talk through the events of the story in order. In maths we are continuing to develop our confidence in addition using numicon, rekenreks and cubes.
At long last we took delivery of the fish eggs that we have been waiting for since the tank was delivered just over a week ago. The team delivered just shy of 200 eggs which looked a lot less than we had anticipated. We impressed the team with our knowledge about the fish and how constant we had been keeping the water in the tank. We check the temperature every couple of hours and add ice if the temperature is getting above 10C. Occasionally the temperature is about 5C and we are having to remove the ice to raise the temperature.
As the eggs were being delivered we could see clearly that two of the eggs had changed in colour and needed to be removed as they had died, we understand that we are likely to lose quite a few as the weeks go on, this is nature and we know that this happens in the wild as well as in a tank.
Our knowledge of temperature has impressed Mr Reed; he has been testing our reading of thermometers and can now rely on us to do the temperature checks. We have also been learning about negative numbers and how to find the difference between two different temperatures.
As part of our Literacy we mapped out our very own island similar to the one Robinson Crusoe found himself stranded on, we added key features and begun to explain why each of the features was important to the survival of Robinson.
We said goodbye to Doris our class Tattie Bogle, she was a great member of the class but it was felt she needed to go and join other Tattie Bogles. We will not forget the poem we learnt to celebrate Scottish poetry.
The Singin Tattie Bogle.
| 1. Alane upon the field she stood, The tattie-bogle, tall an’ prood. But certie, she wis smairt an’ braw, A bonnie lass, tho’ made o’ straw. 2. Her gowden hair wis made o’ oo.
3. The beasts they cam’ frae a’ the airts.
4. An’ craws an’ sparras by the score,
5. Pair tattie-bogle, she wis wae.
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6. ‘See, lassie, tak ma guid advice. There is nae yiss ye bein’ nice. Can ye nae glower an’ skreich an’ a’ Tae sen’ thae cooardie burds awa’?’ 7. The bogle grat nae mair: instead,
8. It chilled the verra bluid tae hear
9. Sae should ye pass at skreich o’ day
10. A soon like pincils on a sclate,
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Primary 5
Primary 1 have had a great week. We have been celebrating Robert Burn’s day by listening to the ‘Gruffalo in Scots’ and learning some Scottish vocabulary. We then created a poster of the Gruffalo and labelled it. We presented our Scottish song ‘Bananas are the Best’ to the school community, our performance was amazing! Through our topic we created houses using a variety of fabric, made sandcastles and created houses from lego and building blocks.
It is lovely to have the children back after their Christmas break; I have enjoyed listening to their tales about time spent with their families and all the amazing memories that have been made.
We have launched straight into our new topic about sustainability and are studying Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and how he survived through reusing and recycling what was available to him. We have enjoyed the story so far and we have had many great discussions about what items would help us survive on the island.
Our topic introduced us to the ‘Forth Rivers Trust’ and we had some visitors who taught us about the project that they run to raise the number of brown trout in our local rivers. To help the project we are going to have about 200 trout eggs in our classroom. These we hope will hatch and will grow to a size that can be released back into a local river. We have to take responsibility for the fish, ensuring the water is kept at the correct temperature, remove any dead eggs and complete tasks about the life cycle of a trout. The fish are due soon and we will keep everyone up to date with their progress.
We have begun FUTSAL on a Monday afternoon with Scot, he is great fun and is teaching us lots of new skills which will improve all aspects of our ball control not just how to score goals.
On Tuesday, we went to the Academy to take part in a handball tournament, it was great fun and we did very well.
We are currently learning a poem ready to perform on Friday as part of our Robert Burns celebrations.
Primary 5
This week in Primary 7 :
In Topic we have found out about Pearl Harbour we have written a descriptive story using all the elements of VCOP on the attack on Pearl Harbour from a Japanese pilot’s perspective. In Maths we have revised simplifying fractions, finding equivalent fractions and finding fractions of amounts. In Art we continued to used mixed media to complete our Anderson shelters. In RE we found out about and created a picture of St. Oscar Romero.
Primary 1 have had a very busy and fun week. We have been continuing with segmenting and blending consonant digraphs sh, ch and th. We listened to the story of ‘The Wish Tree’ and created a story map of the events and used a paper bag and white tissue paper to create our very own Wish Tree. We have started our new topic ‘Houses and Homes’. We made a picture on our ‘Story Window’ of the Rainbow Fish and then wrote a sentence. We completed a KWL grid to find out what we already know and what we want to find out about our topic. We are continuing to develop our understanding of addition within 10 through a variety of rhymes, stories and active learning opportunities.
Happy New Year! Welcome back to a new term in Primary 7.
This week we have made our ‘ New Year’s Resolutions’. Let’s hope we can stick to them!
In Topic we found out about the Holocaust. In Literacy we wrote a diary recount or biographical recount based on the life of Anne Frank. In ICT we use Word Publisher to produce a government leaflet on Evacuation. In Maths we simplified equations. In Art we found out about ‘Propaganda’ and created our own posters…we also created our own Jewish badge, these badges were worn to identify the Jews during the Holocaust. We thought a lot about ‘Rights’ and the ‘Rights’ that were taken away from the Jews during WW2.
We are starting to get very excited about High School!
Happy New Year! hope you had a lovely Christmas holiday. Primary 1 are excited for the new term ahead. We have been learning new sounds ‘sh’ and ‘ch’. We listened to the story of the Rainbow Fish, made our own collage Rainbow Fish and wrote a story. We have been using cotton buds to create Snowflakes. We designed our own Snowman picture on sticky paper then wrote a sentence about our picture. We have been investigating push and pull forces in the classroom and playground.
Merry Christmas everyone! We have had a fun week at school with lots of Christmas activities. We had our P6/7 Christmas party. We also became authors and illustrators creating our own Christmas books for our Primary 1 buddies. We used our artistic skills to create lots of Christmas Art. We gave presents to our Advent partners. Have a great holiday see you in the New Year!
What a busy and exciting time it’s been in Primary 1. Mrs Taylor was so proud of our performance in the nativity, Primary 1 and 2 did an amazing job! We had our Christmas party on Monday and we had a special visitor from Santa! Primary 5 have been making board games and came to play them with us, they were fantastic! Rookie Rockstars visited our school this morning and we had great fun singing and dancing along to all the songs.
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