Monthly Archives: September 2019

Primary 2/1

P2/1 Weekly Learning Reflection W/E 27th September 2019

P2/1 have been very busy. This week P1 have learned o and c. We made a caterpillar, an octopus and told ted how to form these two sounds. P2 have been revising the o-e, ow, u-e and oo sounds. We became sound spotters, played roll and read and completed word searches. In writing, we wrote about a haunted house. On Thursday it was European languages day. We greeted each other in French by saying bonjour and played games in French during P.E. In numeracy, P1 explored the numbers before and after. We looked at the number line and pointed to numbers one more or one less than. We also used the number spinners to give ourselves a start number and then wrote the number before and after. P2 have been focussing on adding together and comparing numbers bonds to 10. We have explored Google earth this week as we used it to find the country we live in and then Livingston. We looked at the houses and discussed what they were made of.  In Science with Miss Whigham we were exploring the sense of hearing. We played a bingo hearing game and used the instruments. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Ayden: “I enjoyed learning the o-e, ow, u-e and oo sounds again.”

Olly: “I enjoyed learning about curly c, o and n.”

H: “I liked learning everything.”

Gabriel: “I enjoyed speaking in French. Bonjour!”

Alister: “I enjoyed playing games in French.”

Teria: “I liked learning the split diagraph vowel sounds and the other ow sound. I enjoyed learning everything.”

Solomia: “I liked learning French and playing French games.”

Connie: “I liked learning the letters g, o and c.”

Primary 3

P3 Learning – W.C. 23.9.19

Good afternoon parents and pupils.

Fantastic week P3!

This week in our literacy, we watched a animated short film called ‘The present’. We worked in pairs to think of the different emotions that the boy from the film, dog and how the children felt throughout the film and discussed how emotions can change. The pupils were given the task to write a short story titled ‘The present’. They were able to write about what they thought the story should be about.

In numeracy this week, we have been building our knowledge of addition and subtraction within 100. We were also looking at the relationship between them and how to turn and addition question into a subtraction question.

In our IDL learning, we went outdoors to the trees near the field and collected leaves, fir cones, seeds and sticks. We looked at the differences in the trees and leaves and used a checklist to identify the leaves. We also did bark rubbings in our pairs. On Thursday, we used our collection to create artwork. We used the leaves and fir cones for printing using paint, wax crayon rubbings, chalk rubbings and pencil rubbings.

I asked the pupils today – What have you enjoyed learning about this week?

Pola – I enjoyed writing about ‘The present’ this week.

Arya – I enjoyed using leaves and fir cones and sticks in paint to print.

Lewis – I enjoyed art this week because I loved doing the leaf rubbings.

Nathan – I enjoyed building a new tower with Lewis in our soft start in the mornings.

Alanice – I enjoyed going outside to look at the leaves and picking them up. We looked at the seeds and different leaves.

Poppy – I liked doing the subtraction questions this week and understanding that subtraction and addition are related.

Safia – I liked looking at the different colours of leaves and understanding that the colour changes with the seasons.

Holly – I enjoyed looking at the different trees outside and doing the rubbing on the tree with paper and crayon.

Andrew – I enjoyed writing about my weekend on Monday.

Thank you to the families of P3 for coming in to our curriculum cafe event. So many of the class had someone come into school, I thought it was very successful. I really hope you all enjoyed finding out about your children’s learning so far.

I look forward to meeting you properly at the parents evenings next week.

 

Mrs Love.

Class Posts, Primary 3/2

P2 Learning Reflection for WE 27.09.19

P2 enjoy some French language PE games with P7

 

 

 

 

 

Sound Stories with Dave Trouton

 

 

 

 

 

Learning Reflection 

Austin – I liked going to the curriculum café and showing my mum my work. I am most proud of my Willy Wonka story my mum said ‘Wow’ and she took photo of some of it.

Coben –  My mum and dad liked my work.

Euan – so my mum took a picture of my work and she is going to send the pictures to my dad. My mum said ‘I was very good at writing’.

Emma – I enjoyed tasting the food we had, croissant, brioche and pain au chocolat. Pain au chocolat was my favourite we said Bon Appetit!

Isaac – I enjoyed showing Dave my picture of an owl and a monkey and a polar bear.

James – I liked the café, cause you show your work to your mum and dad and we get a drink and a cookie and my mummy was proud of my writing.

Kaelan – I liked singing with Dave, we tried to wake ourselves up by shaking.

Lewis – I liked the European Day of Languages because we were speaking different languages. I can say merci it means thank you and bonjour means hello!

Lois – I enjoyed the language day yesterday because we got to try different French foods like:  croissant,  pain au chocolat and brioche. My favourite is the croissant!

Leighton – I enjoyed making flags for European Day of Languages.

Leo – I got to eat some croissant!

Nicholas – I gave Dave a picture of an elephant and a tiger!

Poppy – I liked yesterday when we were trying all the foods. We made flags and we know how to say hello in seven different languages: guten tag is German, Hello is English, Namaste is Telugu, it is not in Europe but it is Sushanth’s family language. I know hola, it’s Spanish,  bonjour is French.  I have forgotten the other two so that’s only five!

Rory – I enjoyed colouring in my flag of the UK!

Subhan – I liked giving the pictures to Dave. I drew a cheetah a tiger and a snake!

Sushanth – I liked eating the French food my favourite is pan au chocolate. I know how to say hello different ways: Namaste, bonjour,  hola, hello, guten tag and merhaba!

Sevinc – I liked when we were at the curriculum café my mum loved my work!

Ziva – I liked doing the shopping music with Dave the words were rhyming.  Ham and jam, cheese and peas, banana, sultana and bread, spread!

 

 

Primary 1

P1 Weekly Reflection

What a busy week!  We have been learning the sounds o and c and talking a lot about rhyming words.  Dave from Wee Story, Big Sound project brought in his shopping and we talked about the rhyming items he had bought; grape/tape, jam/ham, bananas/sultanas, cheese/peas and bread/chocolate spread.  We also listened to Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae and played at being word detectives as we tried to find the rhyming words.

In numeracy we have been counting forwards and backwards to 10 and 20 and trying to order these numbers correctly.  We also talked about the patterns we spotted when we look at writing 1 and 11, 2 and 12, 3 and 13 and so on.  We have begun to talk about the number before and number after.

In our Health work we have begun to develop our understanding of the Wellbeing Web and talk about the wellbeing indicators; Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included.  We talked about ways we can keep ourselves and others safe within the classroom, perhaps you could talk about ways you stay safe at home?

This morning we held our very first Curriculum Cafe and it was great to have so many parents come along and chat to the children about their learning.  The children also commented on how they like this experience.

Isla “I Liked showing my mum and dad my work!”

Georgie “I liked to see my mum, dad and little brother.  I telled them about some of my learning.”

Sophie “I liked the cafe with my mum.”

Zac “It was good showing my mum my picture of my lego.”

Albert “I liked showing mummy my letters.”

Sophie “I think it is good to show mummy my work.”

Elloise “I liked talking about my learning with my mummy.”

Have a lovely weekend.

General Information

P4 have had a great week!

Luke C – I liked the assembly from yesterday because I liked the video about Josh opening doors and opening hearts.

Kayden – I liked the Curriculum cafe today because I got to talk to my parents  and show them my work. I like the idea of it.

Kalista – I liked when we did the maths sheet with the symbols > < and =. I liked getting to show parents what we have accomplished and done in our work.

Olly – Today I liked when Mrs Smith was talking about the inner chimp. It is really interesting and makes us learn what is going on in our brains.

Teme – I liked it when we did the French game in PE.

Jarrad – I liked the challenge questions in maths when we had to work out the number Mrs Sansom was thinking of.

Alexander –  I liked the French game in PE and I liked the maths game we did in Mrs Marron’s group.

Darcy – I liked doing the throwing and catching in PE. Also I liked the French game.

Rhys – I liked when we did the number lines in maths because it was a bit easy and a bit challenging.

William – I like the word game when you have to make words with the different letters. I also like the Rescuing Nelson story.

 

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 7

This week in P7…

This week some people went to netball training after school and we all played netball in PE.

“I really enjoyed the netball training because we got to play matches and it was really fun.”- Ellie

“I enjoyed netball because I am getting better at it.”- Lewis

“I liked playing netball because I got to play my favourite position of goal shoot!” – Callan

 

This week in P.E. we also played some French games.

“The French games were fun.”- Cade

“I liked doing the French games because we helped to teach the other classes.  I taught P2 with Calum.”- Cameron

“I enjoyed it because we had to remember new French phrases and do the correct action.”- Ainslie

“I enjoyed helping P2/1 to play the French games because they were really good at remembering the commands!” – Callum

 

On Thursday we celebrated European Day of Languages.

“Miss Marnie let us do some food tasting from other countries and the food was good.”- Hayley D

“I  enjoyed tasting the food and I found out that I liked some of the new things I tried.” – Katy

“I loved the food it was very yummy.”- Charlie

“I made a poster to encourage people to learn a new language and I made it really colourful!” – Murray

“I liked the food and it was a fun day doing all of the activities.”- Sri

“The food was very yummy and I enjoyed doing activities with my friends.”- Hayley B

“The food was good and I liked the quiz game.”- Logan Y

“The food tasting was yummy.”- Matthew

“The sausages and the salami were delicious.”- Aiden

“I really enjoyed European Languages Day and thank you Miss Marnie.”- Rowan

“I enjoyed trying the food.”- Zoe

“I liked the food it was very epic.”- Kyle

“I enjoyed the food it was yummy.”- Calum W

“The food was really tasty and I especially loved the pain au chocolat.” – Luke

 

This week in maths we learned how to calculate percentages using a calculator.

“The maths was really easy when you picked it up.”- Silvester

“I enjoyed learning something new.” – Charlie

“I enjoyed it because it became really easy!” – Logan Y

 

 

 

Primary 2/1

P2/1 P2 Homework Grid September/October 2019

Please find below a copy of the P2 home learning task sheet. Each child has a paper copy in their reading bag. Please support your child to complete the task ‘All about Me’ and two more of their choosing. The children should be prepared to share their learning on Thursday the 24th October. The class talks will be heard on the 24 and 25th October. Continue to hear your child read daily. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

P2 HL

Primary 2/1, Primary 3/2

P2 Home Learning

  • Please find below a copy of the P2 home learning task sheet. Each child has a paper copy in their reading bag.
  • Please support your child to complete the task ‘All about Me’ and two more of their choosing.
  • Children should be prepared to share their learning on Thursday the 24th October.
  • Class talks will be heard on the 24 and 25th October.
  • Continue to hear your child read daily.
  • Please get in touch if you have any questions.
  • P2 HL
Class Posts, Primary 3/2

P2 Learning Reflection W/E 20.09.19

P2 have enjoyed a short but busy week. In literacy we have been revising our sounds: ea,ee, oi, oy, a-e, ay, i-e, igh, y. We have been learning about the text structure of a Narrative story and are able to talk about the title, orientation, complication and resolution. The children also sorted the nouns and pronouns they found in the story ‘ The Duck with the Broken Wing’. In numeracy we have been exploring ordinal numbers and have explored addition through the whole part model. The children are really enjoying the Wednesday music workshop with Dave, their comments are below:

Poppy – I liked it when we were going on the train with Dave, we had to put our seat belts on and blow the whistle.

Nicholas – We had to shake the shakers to make loud and small sounds.

Lois – I enjoyed how we were doing the big loud sounds and the quite sounds. You have to shake your shaker fast or slow.

Austin – I liked when he put the music on and we were pretending to be different animals.

James – I liked it when he sang la la la la la and we stood up.

Kaelan – I liked being a big animal.

Sushanth – I liked the rocket song.

Leighton – I liked when we were singing Baby Shark.

Savinc – I liked it when we were pretending to be animals in the jungle.

Subhan – I like it when Dave sings la la la la la to get us to stand up, his voice goes higher.

Roshan – I liked the assembly about being kind.

Lewis – I liked it when we played musical statues.

Ziva – I liked being the different animals in the jungle. The elephant music was slow

Emma – I liked it when he sings up or down to get us to stand up or sit down.

Leo – I liked being a cheetah with a bean bag on my head.

Isaac – I enjoyed it when there was music on and we needed to remember what the animals move like.

Coben – I enjoyed pinching our sounds in the sentence.

Rory – I enjoyed the music that we made on the train, some of it was fast and some of it was slow.

Euan – we played instruments we used the shaker ones.

Primary 3

Welcome Primary 3!

Welcome to Primary 3!

A warm welcome to the parents and children of Primary 3. Apologies that this is my first post and we are a few weeks into the first term. I hope the children are enjoying Primary 3 so far and are excited for the year ahead.

I think the children are off to a fantastic start and I am loving getting to know all of the pupils.

If you missed the ‘Meet the teacher’ presentation and would like to know more about what we will be doing this year, I have the attached the slides for you along with our window into learning for term 1.

If you would like to follow our class twitter page to follow our learning journey and look at what we have been doing in class in the last few weeks, click on the link below.

https://twitter.com/MrsLoveP3

Mrs Love

Window-into-Learning, term 1 Meet the teacher presentation