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First Week of February Reflections

This week we welcomed a new pupil, Sophie, into our class. P5 have been busy making friends and demonstrating our school value of  compassion.

It has been another busy week of learning starting with a visit from Senora Gordon and Senorita Martinez who came to teach us some Spanish greetings. We have followed the lesson up in class by watching The Gruffalo in Spanish and listening for some familiar words while trying to pick up some new ones. It was a great way to celebrate Language Week Scotland.

We have continued to prepare for our writing project by using a storyboard with 2 timelines so that we can coordinate the 2 different time periods in our stories.

Our main focus of maths has been multiplying and dividing using formal written methods. We have been building in lots of practice on the 6x and 8x tables.

Looking forward to next week, we have another Spanish lesson on Monday and we will focus on Health and Wellbeing for Children’s Mental Health Week.

Primary 1

P1 Weekly Learning Reflection W/E 4th February 2022

Good afternoon

In Literacy we have learned the ‘or’ and ‘air’ long vowel sounds and the red word want. We have written words with ‘or’ and ‘air’, built words on our magnetic boards, played roll and read and sorted real and nonsense words. In writing we wrote a description of our superhero.

In Maths this week we have explored reading and writing o’clock times on an analogue and digital clock. We looked at reading half past times on an analogue clock too. We found matching times, made our own clocks, solved time jigsaws and played stop the clock on the netbooks.

We have been exploring the theme of superheroes through our play. We looked at how we get day and night, sorted activities into the right category and made superhero potions in the tuff spot. We also watched Emily MacKenzie who is an author and illustrator read her story ‘There’s Broccoli in my Ice Cream’ and she taught us how to draw Granville. In P.E we have been doing gymnastics and have explored a variety of shapes and rolls.  Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I have enjoyed writing about my superhero Gorgeous Gracie.” Gracie

“I love superheroes. I am Electric Emily.” Emily

“I liked writing about my superhero. I am Marvellous Matthew.” Matthew

“I can write o’clock times on an analogue clock.” Ishanvi

“I have learned how to read and write ‘air’ words.” Angus

“I have enjoyed learning everything.” Aaron

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Maclachlan

General Information

P2 Learning Reflection W/E 4th February 2022

In literacy this week P2 have been sorting words into alphabetical order. In numeracy the children are continuing with subtraction using number lines and number tracks. The children have enjoyed playing strike it out using a number track to 20. Here is a link explaining the game, maybe you would like to play at home too! https://nrich.maths.org/10091

Josh –  I liked making the dance floor. We put lots of paper together with tape. Then we coloured in each rectangle.

Olivia – I liked painting the Chinese good luck symbol for Chinese New Year.

Oliver – I liked learning about Chinese New Year. They make lanterns to celebrate and they wear red for good luck.

Grace – I enjoyed learning about magnets. So when you have something metal and you put it against other metal it can sometimes connect to each other and sometimes push away. Its depends which type of metal it is. If its magnetic it can pull together.

Caleb – We were sorting the alphabet in order. It has 26 letters!

Willow – I liked doing the Chinese New Year symbol. I painted a good luck symbol.

Elyas – I liked finding out about Chinese New Year. It’s the year of the tiger!

Thea – We went to the library. I was reading The Witches with Georgia, there was two books. I like when the granny tells the boy the sentences when they little legends!

Louis – We were writing about our boats. I have cakes and a speed boost!

Arianna – We were doing the ABC’s. We were doing them on a sheet then we put them on order. I am good at it!

Nathan – For Free Writing Friday I wrote, my house is good to play in!

Rhy-Lee – I liked doing magnets. They stick to another magnet because they are magnetic!

Jack – I enjoyed making the dance floor. It took hard work and we had to use team work. I started doing it with Caleb and Josh and other people wanted to join in. We are making decorations for my party!

Ella – I liked playing with the Polly Pocket Land. We started with some rice and then we got some wood and gems. We made gardens and pools and some flowers and trees. We are going to add lego and make some other stuff. We were working together to make it!

Georgia – I liked being in the library. I was reading Charlie and Chocolate Factory and The Witches. I was reading when Charlie gets his golden ticket. I like that bit because I like the golden ticket, I would like to get one!

Primary 7

Friday 4th February – Class Blog

P7 Blog

By Rocco and Chloe

This week we have been learning:

Algebra, we started working on it on Monday and some of it can be easy but some bits of it can be a bit challenging.

Spanish, we had our first Spanish session on Monday with Mrs Gordon and Miss Martinez. We enjoyed learning new words.

Gymnastics, we have been working on Gymnastics routines the past few sessions and performed them on Wednesday in front of the class in groups and we enjoyed giving feedback to each other.

Science, we had science with Mr Keast and we were learning about the Chinese New Year on Wednesday.

French, Madame Moore came in on Thursday morning and we learnt some the words for vegetables in French. We found it fun to play the games too. We have learned 41 new words over the last 3 weeks!

Writing, we have been working on an ‘Author’s Journey’ writing piece, about someone famous or someone in the past which was fun to write about. Next we need to edit and revise our writing further to make sure we are creating a great final piece of writing for our book.

Scottish Loves Languages, for this event we have been challenged to do several different things to earn points and we have done some drawing of the Eiffel tower, we listened to The Gruffalo in Spanish and sang a French song.

We have really enjoyed this week with Mrs Taylor and other teachers, and we are looking forward for the week ahead.

General Information, Primary 2/1

P2-1 Weekly Reflection 04.02.22

ScotlandlovesLanguages - Alliance Française Glasgow

Bonjour!

What a great week we have had learning about the different countries and continents of the world and what a super response to the Cultural Challenges set for home learning, well done to everyone who completed a challenge task. Hopefully your language skills are now a little more developed than they were at the beginning of the week.

This week P1 have been learning the or and air sounds and P2 have been learning about double consonants ff, ll, ss and zz. We have had great fun playing different games to practise these sounds while also developing our observational skills and our turn taking skills. Some people were very good at spotting our focus sounds within differents texts in the classroom. I wonder how many you can spot around your home or when out and about?

In numeracy this week we have been continuing to practise our number bonds to 10 and 20 and have been using these to help us with our subtraction.  We have also been learning about o’clock times on an analogue clock. I wonder how many analogue clocks you can find around your home?

In Art, we continued to develop our observational skills as we watched a Charles Rennie MacIntosh tutorial about how to draw a Rennie MacIntosh rose. We have drawn these using black pens and will finish colouring them next week and let you see them.

In PE we have continued to work on our gymnastics skills and have been practising more rolls. Please remember that our PE days are Monday and Wednesday and children should come dressed ready for PE on those days. You might also like to provide your child with 2 water bottles on PE days so they have plenty to drink.

Yesterday we enjoyed a Digital Schools session with the National Museum of Scotland and it was very informative. We learned about the different parts of a plane and went on a journey to Australia where we met koalas, kangaroos, emus and kookaburras.

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Here are some of the children’s comments this week:-

Poppy “I liked learning about the planes and how the animals move a little bit like the aeroplane and I also liked learning the gymnastics moves.”

Dylan “I liked singing the songs about the different parts of the aeroplanes.”

Ethan “I agree with Dylan.”

Cooper “I really really liked writing.”

Minny “I liked learning about the Rennie Mackintosh rose.”

Kyle “I liked drawing the rose.”

Aylar “I liked doing the rose too.”

Rory “I liked the rose too.”

Theo “I liked learning about the guy who makes the poems – Robert Burns.”