P1a have had another busy week of learning. In literacy, we learned two new diagraphs ea and oi. Our tricky word this week was is. We wrote ea and oi words, rolled dice to make real and non-sense words, made words on our magnetic boards and played roll and read. For writing we wrote about why our granny’s are special. In numeracy this week we continued to explore odd and even numbers through sorting and playing games. We also learned how to solve a problem using the look for a pattern and make a list strategy. In number talks we were looking at making adding and subtracting sentences using the numbers 2, 5, 7 and 9. We have continued to learn about Katie Morag. We listened to the story of Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted and we had to make predictions about what was going to happen. We designed a new tartan skirt for Katie Morag. Sevinc is our new star of the week. We each had to pay Sevinc a compliment. With Mrs Fraser we went outside and collected some things to make a plant collage. We took a white board and a pen and looked in the garden to find things and had to create tally chart. We enjoyed the ELC’s assembly about Mother’s Day. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Emma: “I found it tricky writing about my gran.”

Leo: “I found it tricky writing my sentences about my gran.”

Isaac: “I enjoyed learning the oi sound. I also enjoyed the ELC’s assembly on Mother’s Day.”

Sevinc: “I enjoyed making my mum a surprise for Mother’s day. I enjoyed drawing myself on a star.”

Ziva: “I enjoyed writing about my Grandma.”

Leighton: “I enjoyed Lochlann’s assembly.”

Sam: “I enjoyed learning the ea sound.”

Murdo: “I found it tricky writing and drawing my granny.”

P1a have been working very hard this week. In numeracy we have been exploring odd and even numbers. We know that the odd numbers have a 1,3,5,7, or 9 in them and that the even numbers have a 0, 2, 4,6 or 8 in them. Even numbers all have a mate. We explored the odd and even pattern by sorting using numicon, feeding Mr Todd and Mr Steven , colouring odd cupcakes blue and even cupcakes red. In number talks this week Miss Maclachlan set us a challenge. She gave us the numbers 2, 4, 6 and 8 and we then had to try and think of as many number sentences as we could using these numbers e.g. 2+4=6. Can you think of anymore? In literacy this week we having been revising the diagraphs learned in set 2. We made words with these diagrams, taught ted how to spell words and did word searches with the ay, ee, igh, ow, oo, ar, or, ir, air, ou and oy diagraphs. For writing this week we worked in partners and wrote an acrostic poem about Spring. Before we wrote our poems we had a discussion about the season spring and how we know when it is spring. We enjoyed listening to the story about Katie Morag and the Wedding this week. We had a big discussion about things that happen during a wedding and the people involved. We also watched a wee clip of a Muslim wedding to look for similarities and differences in weddings. In P.E we are continuing to work on our team building skills and in particular co-operation. In Science with Mrs Fraser we were learning about what flowers need to grow. They need time, water, soil, light and air. We coloured in a flower and glued on the different bits of the flower.

Our jotters are coming home today for us to share our learning with you. Please could our jotters be brought back to school with us on Monday. Thank you.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Euan: “I enjoyed revising oy words.”

Ayden: “ I am the same as Euan. I enjoyed practising oy words.”

Ziva: “ I found it tricky writing the word are.”

Leighton: “ I found it easy exploring odd and even numbers.”

Lois: “ I enjoyed working with Mrs Aitken. We were making ai and oa words.”

Sam: “ I enjoyed Science.”

Leo: “ The same as Sam. I drew my favourite flower.”

Isaac: “I enjoyed P4’s assembly on leadership.”

P1 have had a busy week. We listened to the story of Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers. We looked at and discussed the types of transport we saw. We drew pictures of the different types of transport. In literacy we learned two new sounds ou and oy. We told ted, completed a worksheet, played a roll and read game and used our magnetic boards to make ou or oy words. In writing, we created our own heroes and villains. We then wrote a description about them. In numeracy, we have been adding and subtracting to make 20. We played games with our number spinners and wrote number sentences. On Wednesday we had our star of the week circle time. Our new star of the week is Isaac. On Friday we went to P5 assembly where we were learning about Fairtrade. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Leighton: “I enjoyed the songs during the Fairtrade assembly.”

Ch: “I really enjoyed the whole of P5’s assembly.”

Ziva: “I enjoyed playing the alphabet shopping game.”

Lois: “I am the same as Ziva. I enjoyed the alphabet shopping game.”

Isaac: “I enjoyed doing number bonds to 20.”

Euan: “I enjoyed learning the sound oy.”

Rory: “I enjoyed Primary 5’s assembly.”

Ayden: “I found it easy making ou words.”