It’s been a very sunny week at St Joseph’s. Our highlights of the week include:

• Izzy bringing in cake for her 8^th Birthday
• We’ve been learning about right angles
• We found some worms by worm charming
• We made posters of the leaves at St Joseph’s
• We wrote descriptions about imaginary animals. Remember to check your shoes for ‘Whatsits’. They mind nibble your toes.
• We have new groups for Terrific Thursday’s
• We’ve been learning about coordinates and playing battleships

Primary 2 have been learning about the importance of lighthouses.  We listened to the story of the ‘Lighthouse Keeper’s Breakfast’ and created our own breakfast.  In maths we have continued to learn about equal groups, repeated addition and arrays.  In French we have been playing colour games. We enjoyed playing basketball with the P.E students.

We’ve only been in school for two and a half days and we talked about our fantastic long May weekend. Our highlights of the week include:

• We had a special assembly led by Linlithgow’s Deacons. They told us about the Marches and a competition to decorate our bikes.
• We did a Maths check up all about subtraction
• We have finished decorating our plant pots
• We had a visit from Kirsty Leonard who volunteers with Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow. She told us about Friends and Foes of the garden.
• We had a May procession and we put our blossom art and flowers on the alter for Mary.
• We went to Mass at church yesterday for Ascension Thursday.
• We have been talking about the value of caring and how babies need to be nurtured.

This week primary 2 has been learning about creatures living in rockpools.  We listened to the story ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Cat’ and did a story map of the events.  In maths we have been learning about equal groups and arrays.  The P.E students took us outside to do mini athletics, it was great fun!

We continue to work hard but we are looking forward to our well deserved long May weekend. Our highlights of the week include:

• Some of our sunflowers have started to grow
• We found out that water cress only needs water to grow but needs sunlight to be healthy
• We went to the loch to find out what creatures live in and out of the water
• We have been making some powerpoints about the animals we found and the trees at our school
• We have been making some blossom art, using a coke bottle!
• We have been working on our subtraction of numbers to 100
• We wrote instructions about how to grow a sunflower
• We gave each other awards for being good neighbours to complete our work on the Good Samaritan
• There is a cake sale today

This week we have been busy continuing our learning about rock stars through different periods of time. Over the past few weeks our focussing on the Beatles and life during the 1950’s – 1960’s.

We have been looking at different album covers and trying to recreate our favourite one which is for the Yellow Submarine. We particularly liked all the colours and the how eye catching it was.

Here are a few of our own album covers.

Our learning took us to discover lots about a well-known author called Dick King Smith, we found out lots about his early life and what influenced him to become such a popular author. We have begun reading one of his books about a water horse which we will be working together to write our own version of this amazing story.

We have been using drama to help us understand how sound travels from a source to our brains which was lots of fun and we now can explain the journey to a friend.

We continue each day to observe the Osprey occasionally catching glimpses of the three eggs they are incubating. We have seen how the male bird is not as good as the female at keeping the eggs warm but is very good at providing food for them both.

Over the past few weeks we have been working in small groups to prepare and deliver a presentation about Ospreys.

We have been using ICT to locate information and have visited various websites to help us understand more about these birds and their habits. We then used power-point to prepare our presentation. We had to use teamwork throughout this task as we sometimes did not all agree on pictures, backgrounds, texts or even the transition between slides.

After our presentation we had to self assess our work and think about what worked well and what needed to be worked on if we were to repeat this type of exercise.

We all learnt lots about the topic and had lots of fun presenting to the class.

We continue to monitor the nest everyday to see how many fish are being brought to the nest as well as seeing how the birds are coping with the eggs that they have.