Monthly Archives: November 2019

Primary 2/1

P2/1 Weekly Learning Reflection week ending 29/11/19

Another week over already. In Literacy P1 have learned the sounds ‘ng’ and ‘nk’ and the tricky word your. We practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words with ng and nk sounds and played roll and read. P2 learned the ‘ear’ and ‘ure’ sounds. They searched for these words in a story, played roll and read, made a poster of ‘ure’ words and made words on the magnetic boards. In Maths this week we have continued to explore information handling. We have explored tally charts, pictograms and block graphs for favourite colours, pets etc. In Science we have been learning about the moon. In P.E we played a game of prisoner dodgeball and started practising our dance for our Christmas party. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Hiba is our star of the week. Practise for our nativity is continuing and it is coming along great. On Thursday we had a special assembly with a visit from Michael Kear. He is partially sighted and a skier. On Friday it was Primary 5’s assembly. It was all about reading.  Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Ayden: “I enjoyed P5’s assembly. I liked the song Gotta keep reading.”

Hamish: “I enjoyed the video of people dancing with the books during P5’s assembly.”

Connie: “I learned the nk sound.”

Teria: “I enjoyed our learning about pictograms.”

Solomia: “I enjoyed P5’s assembly. I enjoyed the songs.”

Alister: “I enjoyed learning about pictograms. I also enjoyed hearing Michael Kear’s story.”

Charlotte: “I found it tricky learning the ng sound.”

Sam: “I enjoyed all of the songs at P5’s assembly.”

H: “I really enjoyed learning the nk sound.”

Primary 6

P6 This week

This week in P6  we have been learning about angles, triangles and circles. On Wednesday we did power points in science about renewable and non-renewable energy. In P.E., we done Strip The Willow in Social Dance with Mrs Smith. On Thursday Mrs Fraser’s friend, Michael Kear, came to visit the classes around the school to tell us about skiing with disability snowsport. He let us wear glasses that would make our eyesight small like his. Two lucky people in our class got to where a skiing helmet that had Bluetooth connected to it so the two people that were wearing the helmets could communicate to each other from a distance. The two people that got to wear the helmet was Amaya and Georgie.

Written by Oliver and Noel.

Primary 2/1

P2/1 Weekly Learning Reflection week ending 22nd November 2019

Another busy week in P2/1. In Literacy P1 have practiced the qu sound and learned the x sound and the tricky word put. We practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words that began with qu and coloured pictures that had x in them. P2 learned the ‘ew’ and ‘ire’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and read and made words on the magnetic boards. In Maths this week P1 explored tally charts and tally marks. We surveyed the class on their favourite song from nativity and created a tally chart. P2 have been exploring pictograms and bar charts. We created a pictogram of our favourite hair colour and created a bar chart on our favourite book from book week. In Science we have been learning about day time and night time animals. In music with Dave we started to put music to a Christmas story. In P.E we practiced dribbling the ball with our hands and played a game of prisoner dodgeball. As part of book week Scotland we have explored the story Monkey Puzzle. We created a door display, wrote a letter to mummy monkey asking her not to leave again, created missing monkey posters and re-enacted the story through drama.  We had our Star of the Week circle time. Ayden is our star of the week. We continued to practise for our nativity and had our first go in the hall. We are starting to practice our lines and acting. On Friday we went to the JRSO’s assembly. It was all about the Green Cross code and road safety. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Gabriel: “I enjoyed making a missing monkey poster.”

Olly: “I enjoyed learning the sound qu and x.”

Murdo: “I learned from the assembly how to stop look listen and think.”

Christian: “I enjoyed assembly. I learned how to keep safe by the road. I enjoyed seeing everyone’s Anti-bullying pictures.”

Hiba: “I enjoyed creating my missing monkey poster.”

Lucas: “I enjoyed learning about road safety at assembly.”

Ch: “I enjoyed creating a missing monkey poster.”

Lucia: “I liked learning qu.”

Primary 3/2

P2 Learning Reflection for W/E 22.11.19

Our phonics focus this week has been ‘ew’ and ‘ire’. So far the children have discovered eight different spellings for the ‘ew’ sound! In numeracy P2 have been partitioning a 2 digit number into tens and ones. To help celebrate Scottish Book Week the children have  enjoyed sharing their favourite books. On Thursday we tuned into #AuthorsLive to hear The Gruffalo being read aloud in Scots, we thought it was braw! If you want to watch it again or hear any of the other stories you can access them at: https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning-and-resources/authors-live. P2 were delighted to receive their Read Write Count book bags today. Happy reading everyone!

My favourite book is…

Charley – ‘The King Cat’ is my favourite book because cats are my favourite animals!

Austin – ‘Steve, Terror of the Sea’ is a good book because every page is funny!

Sushanth – I like the shark story because every page is funny and the giant shark is so huge.

Poppy – ‘Wonky Donkey’ is my favourite story because it is very funny and silly. It’s a rhyming book the words rhyme.

Nicholas – I like ‘Hare and Tortoise’. The rabbit runs then falls asleep and the turtle wins the race.

Lois – ‘The King Cat’ from our Read Write Count bag is good. It really funny because the cat decides its too peaceful when the dog goes away.

Leighton – My favourite book is ‘Spook and Skull.’ They go into a house and there is a person that sees the ghost and skeleton he jumps up and bangs himself on the wall.

Ziva – My favourite book is ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’ It is funny when he eats all day, it feels like I want to eat as well!

James – I like ‘The King Cat’. The dog came and the cat is upset because that’s his house and he thinks he is the king of the house. The dog and cat become friends at the end of the story.

Euan – I like ‘Station Mouse’ because the mouse got up to mischief and went around the station.

Subhan – I like the ‘Ninjabread Man.’ When he comes out the oven he jumps out and runs out the door. I read it all the time.

Lewis – I like ‘The Snail and the Whale’. The snail and the whale are friends and they swim around the world. The other snails get to swim on his back and they take turns!

Rory – ‘Steve, Terror of the Seas’ is my favourite book. It’s really funny because everyone runs away from the small fish but we find out it’s really the shark everyone is scared of!

Emma – I like ‘Steve, Terror of the Seas.’ It’s funny it says he is scary but the truth is it’s a shark everyone is scared of.

Coben –’Steve, Terror of the Seas’ is good.  It’s because there are scary parts and there is also a scary fish!

Isaac – ‘Steve, Terror of the Seas’ is funny. Steve is a funny fish because he thinks he is the scariest fish but it’s really George the shark that everyone is scared of. They go everywhere with each other!

 

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 4

Busy Book Week Scotland

P4 celebrated Book Week Scotland with lots of activities about The Legend of Spud Murphy. We also watched 2 Authors Live programmes – one with Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin who are the authors of Flying Fergus stories, and the other with David Walliams who as always, made us laugh with his funny stories.

Angus – I liked doing the Spud Murphy things like the Wanted! posters and the speech bubbles.

Lakshya – I liked when Anna, Darcy , Emma F and me were doing the Spud Murphy picture for the class door.

Kayden – I liked the maths today because it was challenging. We were adding thousands in our head.

Freya – I liked the JRSO assembly today when the P7s were talking about crossing the roads.

Jarrad – I liked Futsal because we got to play matches. I am sad because it was our last week.

Finn – I liked the after school football because there were 4 goals set up and we played it like there were 2 leagues so if you won you could go up to Premier League and if you didn’t win you went to the Championship pitch.

Luke N – I liked the after school ocarina club because we are getting on to lots of songs now. It is getting easier to know where my fingers go.

Darcy – I like the choir because I like Santa You’re too Fat and Mary’s Song.

Finally, I hope you have put Friday 6th December at 9:15am into your diary because that is the day of our class assembly. You are all welcome to come and find out a bit about what we have been learning.

Primary 2/1

P2/1 Learning Reflection week ending 15th November 2019

Oops! Silly Miss Maclachlan posted our learning reflection on P2s page. Here it is

In Literacy P1 have learned the ‘z’, ‘ch’ and ‘qu’ sounds and the tricky word all. We stuck stripes on a zebra, practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words that began with qu. P2 revised the ‘ai’ and ‘oa’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and searched for ai words in story. In numeracy P1 have continued to explore adding. We have played games, used counters and screens to make friends of 5 and 10 and used Numicon to make friends of 10. P2 have been comparing number sentences using the greater than, less than and equals signs. We also wrote out the 8 fact families for a pair of numbers such as 7 and 3.  In Science we have been learning about the sun. We completed a true and false task and we coloured in a picture of the sun. In music with Dave we finished putting music to a story about Josh and his granny. In P.E we practiced dribbling the ball with our hands and played games. For IDL this week we were creating our own weather forecasts. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Solomia is our star of the week. We continued to practise our songs for nativity and we put actions to our songs. On Friday we went to P6’s assembly. It was all about WW2. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Hamish: “I found it tricky learning the sounds ch and qu.”

Teria: “I enjoyed Primary 6’s assembly on WW2.”

Lucia:  “I liked learning the qu sound.”

Sam: “I enjoyed the Primary 6 assembly.”

Alister: “I liked going to Primary 6’s assembly.”

Ayden: “I enjoyed the Primary 6’s assembly. I liked the songs they sung.”

H: “I enjoyed learning our new sound qu.”

Charlotte: “I enjoyed learning about the sounds z and qu.”

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 4

Late update from last week – sorry!

Well, last week was as busy as ever in Primary 4. I am always amazed by the different opinions of what we have learned and enjoyed in class.

Leo – I am enjoying the Futsal. It is fun because we were doing games this week.

Jarrad – I enjoyed learning about function machines in maths. It was quite cool.

Emma – I loved the Bookworms Club in the library at break.

Teme – I liked maths when we got to have a go straight away without any teaching first.

William – I liked the P6 assembly about the World War 2. It had good drama.

Kaitlyn – I thought it was good to discuss anti-bullying week and do a poster with school values.

Sebastian – I like the drawings of the butterflies. It was hard but good.

Joe – The songs we are singing in choir are fun. Like Santa You’re too Fat.

Rohan – I like Mary’s Boy Child that we are singing in choir.

Freya – I loved the PATPALS because my mum managed to come along It was a surprise.

Darcy – I enjoyed the spelling activities and Futsal games.

Primary 3/2

P2/1 Weekly Learning Reflection W/E 15th Novemeber 2019

In Literacy P1 have learned the ‘z’, ‘ch’ and ‘qu’ sounds and the tricky word all. We stuck stripes on a zebra, practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words that began with qu. P2 revised the ‘ai’ and ‘oa’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and searched for ai words in story. In numeracy P1 have continued to explore adding. We have played games, used counters and screens to make friends of 5 and 10 and used Numicon to make friends of 10. P2 have been comparing number sentences using the greater than, less than and equals signs. We also wrote out the 8 fact families for a pair of numbers such as 7 and 3.  In Science we have been learning about the sun. We completed a true and false task and we coloured in a picture of the sun. In music with Dave we finished putting music to a story about Josh and his granny. In P.E we practiced dribbling the ball with our hands and played games. For IDL this week we were creating our own weather forecasts. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Solomia is our star of the week. We continued to practise our songs for nativity and we put actions to our songs. On Friday we went to P6’s assembly. It was all about WW2. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Hamish: “I found it tricky learning the sounds ch and qu.”

Teria: “I enjoyed Primary 6’s assembly on WW2.”

Lucia:  “I liked learning the qu sound.”

Sam: “I enjoyed the Primary 6 assembly.”

Alister: “I liked going to Primary 6’s assembly.”

Ayden: “I enjoyed the Primary 6’s assembly. I liked the songs they sung.”

H: “I enjoyed learning our new sound qu.”

Charlotte: “I enjoyed learning about the sounds z and qu.”