Monthly Archives: November 2019

Class Posts, Primary 3/2

P2 Learning Highlights for W/E 1.11.19

P2 have been learning about Diwali this week. They enjoyed making ladoo which is a traditional Diwali sweet. Our phonics focus this week has been ‘ur’ as in purple, and ‘ir’ as in twirl and our tricky word was her.  In numeracy we have been exploring 2D shape. The children have made shape pictures and have been describing the properties of 2D shapes. P2 enjoyed another music session with Dave, this week they were playing lots of different percussion instruments to accompany his story. We have made a start on our enterprise crafts for the school Christmas fair. The children wanted to sew again and they have all picked the decorations they want to make. Some are building on skills they learned last year and some are learning new skills, they have made a great start! Today we had a farewell party for Roshan. We will all miss you Roshan, best wishes to you and your family in your new home and school!

Roshan – I enjoyed making ladoo yesterday, it taste like coconut it tastes nice. We made ladoo to celebrate Diwali.

James – I liked making ladoo because we put sprinkles on it and it tasted nice and it is shaped like a sphere.

Nicholas – We learned the ur and ir sound. Bird and girl have the ir sound, hurt has the ur sound.

Emma – I enjoyed making the ladoo. It was really nice and tasty. We made it to celebrate Diwali.

Lewis – We learned about 2D shapes. A hexagon has six sides and an octagon has eight sides, a pentagon has 5 sides.

Lois- I enjoyed learning about the ur and ir sounds. Bird and girl have the ir sound and burp and burger have the ur sound.

Rory – I enjoyed PE, I was dribbling the ball.

Poppy – Yesterday I liked making the ladoo. We made it because it was the last day of Diwali. It was the last day of October too.

Euan – I enjoyed music with Dave. He played sad and happy music.

Austin – I liked learning the ur and ir sound. Purple and burp they have the ur sound. Twirl and swirl have the ir sound.

Leo – I enjoyed going to the Halloween disco. I was a werewolf.

Coben – I enjoyed the assembly. It had fireworks as the background. Don’t touch the fire or go close to it!

Sushanth – I like to make ladoo it is a Diwali sweet. It tastes of coconut and we made one with sprinkles on it.

Leighton – I enjoyed when we were doing 2D shapes. We sorted them and made 2D shape pictures. My picture had a circle, rectangle, triangle, hexagon and an octagon in it.

Kaelan – I liked making the ladoo. It has sprinkles and coconut. It tasted like sweeties.

Subhan – I enjoyed making ladoo. When people were making ladoo I helped them by putting their ladoo on the plate. We were celebrating Diwali.

Isaac – I enjoyed the 2D shapes, we made pictures. I had a hexagon, rectangle, circle and octagon in my picture.

Primary 1

P1 Weekly Reflection

Despite all the excitement of Halloween, we’ve had a really busy week learning lots of new things following a Halloween theme.

In numeracy, we have been counting objects you might find at Halloween, putting groups in size order from smallest to biggest and biggest to smallest.  We also talked about positional language to develop our understanding of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th and learned about lines of symmetry.  Mrs Anderson and Mrs Clyne were amazed at how well we were able to draw the other half of given shapes!

In literacy we have learned the sounds r  and ck.  We did lots of activities to learn these sounds but our favourite was watching Alphablocks.  If you get a chance at home perhaps you could watch some Alphablocks too.  We have also been talking about sequencing and learning to put words in the right order to make sentences and put sentences in the right order to make instructions.  To help us think about sequencing we made jam sandwiches one step at a time.  The best bit was when we got to eat them.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been discussing What is a friend? and How can I be a good friend?  The children worked beautifully in pairs to sort out cards which showed friendly and unfriendly behaviours and we’ve have some great discussions this week.

In Science we talked about seasons and the different weather that each season brings.

This week I asked the children to answer the question What is one new thing you have learned this week?, here are some of their responses:-

Isla “We learned the sound r. R makes the words rose, racket and Ruby.”

Georgie “How to be a good friend.”

Elise “How to be nice and respect my friends.”

Cole “To be respectful.”

Lochlann “I learned how to be compassionate to my friends.”

Felicity “How to be kind and share.”

Sophie “Keeping safe.”

Zac “Being nice and sharing.”

Ruby “Sharing is caring.”

Nieve “We used cotton buds to make a skeleton.”

Have a lovely weekend and stay safe if you are attending a Bonfire and Fireworks Display.

Primary 2/1

P2/1 Learning Reflection week ending 1st November 2019

Another busy week in P2/1. In Literacy P1 have learned the ‘r’, ‘j’ and ‘v’ sounds and the tricky word no. We made a rainbow, a jelly fish, practised our letter formation, taught ted and coloured pictures beginning with ‘v’. P2 revised the ‘ir’ and ‘ur’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and read, looked for the ur sound in a story and coloured in real and non-sense words.  In Maths we continued to explore 2D and 3D shapes. We went on a shape walk, sorted 2D and 3D shapes, made shape biscuits and made 3D shapes with toothpicks and playdough.  In Science we were looking at seasons. P1 matched pictures to the correct season and P2 matched the seasons with pictures and sorted the months into the correct season. In P.E we did a Halloween yoga and team games. We spoke about what we would like to learn about for our interdisciplinary topic. We also started Star of the Week circle time. Lucas is our star of the week. On Friday we went to Primary 7’s assembly which was all about Guy Fawkes. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Olly: “I found it tricky trying to write without my fish grip for my pencil.”

H: “I enjoyed Primary 7’s assembly on Guy Fawkes.”

Gabriel: “I enjoyed Primary 7’s assembly when they were acting out their drama.”

Teria: “I enjoyed everything.”

Ayden: “I enjoyed listening to Primary 7 speak about Guy Fawkes.”

Christian: “I enjoyed assembly. I enjoyed singing the song.”

Murdo: “I enjoyed the whole of Primary 7’s assembly.”

Lucas: “I loved learning the letter v and j.”

Primary 6

P6 This week 1.11.19

This week in P6 we did WW2 in our drama we had to make air raid shelters with our body’s.

We painted our Diwali pots with lots of bright colours,and then coated them in a shiny PVA glue and water together to make it glossy.

We did some spooky writing for Halloween and peer assessed it,we had lots of inspiration with some spooky sounds.

In maths we did some more 2D shape,and had to trace over the textbook to get the shape.

We made some Anti-Bullying posters that needed lots of bright colours!

 

by Lily and Poppy

Primary 4

A Week in P4

Primary 4 have worked very hard this week. We have been focusing on learning how to give peer or self feedback that is specific and helpful so that we can improve. We have learned that re-drafting can make a big difference to our work that can make us feel proud of what we have done.

Anna – I think I have done better on the maths sheet after I had another go.

Alexander – I enjoyed all the songs in choir practice.

Jarrad – I liked the assembly, I liked the acting.

Angus – I enjoyed when everyone went to the choir and everyone left got to draw squirrels for autumn.

Freya – I liked drawing the butterflies and looking at what we could do better in the next one.

Kayden – I enjoyed assembly because it was fun how the people were acting.

Darcy – I liked the choir. I liked the tune of Mary’s Song.

Kaitlyn – I liked drawing the butterflies. I learned that you can do different drafts until you’ve got what you want.

Joe – I liked the number talks when I had the fastest strategy and Sophie had a smart one.