Learning Reflection W/E 14.12.18

Nativity

Well done to all of P1 and P2 for their fantastic Nativity performances this week. On Monday the children had a dress rehearsal for the whole school then on Tuesday and Wednesday they were thrilled to perform for parents and carers. I think you will agree they all did a wonderful job. We are all feeling very festive now!

 

 

 

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Subtraction within 10

 This week the children have continued to explore subtraction within 10. During our number talks some of the children are beginning to make addition and subtraction links!

 

 

 

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Pingu lives in an igloo

The children have been finding out some interesting fact about penguins. The question they wanted to explore was do penguins live in igloos? They watched an episode of Pingu and listed all the things that Pingu could do.

 

 

 

 

 

Hiba – Pingu tidied his toys.

Kaelan – Pingu spat out his food because he didn’t like it.

Alister – Pingu’s dad pumped up the ball.

Austin – I saw Pingu use his arms to eat food and get toys.

Lewis – He was throwing a ball.

Subhan – Pingu was throwing a snowball.

Poppy – He can do everything that we can do!

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Igloo Challenge

Then the children were set a penguin building challenge. Moving your arms like penguin flippers can you build an igloo? The children put socks on their hands and some even had rulers up their sleeves to limit their arm movement. It was very funny to watch!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Igloo Challenge Conclusion

Poppy – They don’t have hands to do stuff and grab stuff and pinch stuff. They have flippers penguins and humans are not exactly the same.

Lewis – Penguins can’t pinch they have flippers not fingers.

Subhan – It’s so hard to pick things up like penguins we have hands so it’s easy.

Charley – you couldn’t use your hands so it was difficult.

Austin – It’s too hard.

All – people build igloos!

Kaelan – penguins cuddle up when it is cold.

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Christmas Lunch

 On Thursday the children all enjoyed their Christmas lunch which was served by Santa!

 

 

 

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Building our class igloo

Now the children know that penguins don’t live in or build igloos, people do! They have been very busy building a class igloo.

 

 

 

We need lots more milk cartons!

Learning Reflection for W/E 7.12.18

   

The children designed some lovely posters to help advertise our Nativity. We looked at examples of events posters and discussed our success criteria. They children decided that a successful poster should include information about: what, where and when. Our sounds focus this week was w, y and tricky word put. In numeracy the children are continuing to play games to explore subtraction.

Lewis – We learned w and y. They are not the same colour, y is green and w is a red sound, yak has the y sound.

Charley – We have a chocolate calendar.

Alister – We are counting down to Christmas.

Poppy – I was learning y, you go down the horn up the horn and under the head.

Sushanth – The daddy penguin keeps the egg warm on his feet.

Roshan – I liked to learn about w it’s down up down up, web begins with w.

Solomia – We learned the y sound.

Hiba – We were starting from ten and we rolled the dice and then we had to take away that number, I used a rekenrek to count.

Christian – I made a penguin.

Austin –  We played a game where we turned around and Ms King mixed the numbers up then we had to sort them in the right order, we looked at the number next and before to see what they should be.

Subhan – I enjoyed learning about penguins, the daddy penguin tucked the egg on his feet so it’s not cold.

Kaelan – We were skip counting in 10’s then we made them in the right order we looked at the number before and after to check.

Nicholas – We are learning w it’s a red sound because it’s a loud lip sound.

We still have a few of these lovely stockings which were handmade by the children in P1b. Last few remaining £2.50 each!

Learning Reflection for W/E 30.11.18

Highlights

Lewis – I liked counting in 5’s the numbers end in 0 and 5!

James – Learning the ch sound the c and the h join together and it makes a new sound, chip has the ch sound.

Charley –  I liked sewing because we were learning running stitch.

Poppy – I enjoyed learning the ch sound they are special friends Chick, chocolate, chalk , Charlie, chat have  the ch sound.

Alister – In assembly I liked the Christmas pudding song.

Sushanth – We learned taking away the number to find what’s left.

Roshan – The adult helps the baby penguin to back to the huddle, the will get warm.

Christian – The P4 assembly was Christmas

Austin- The daddy penguin put the egg on his feet to keep it warm. He doesn’t get any food he has to stay there for 2 whole months.

Kaelan – When the mummy penguin was off to get food the daddy penguin looks after the egg.

Subhan – I like to do sewing I am making a Christmas stocking.

Nicholas – making penguins

Solomia – There is an egg in the classroom, there is a penguin inside.

Hiba –  We are looking after a big egg there is a baby penguin inside. We are keeping it safe.

Challenges

Lewis – Taking away because it was hard which number to put on.

Poppy – Counting in 5’s and 10’s

P1b brought in their favourite books from home to share with the class for Scottish Book Week. We have really enjoyed sharing our favourite stories with each other. Miss Sommerville set up some fun phonics activities this week. Everyone enjoyed the messy table activity v for volcano. We are very sad to say goodbye to Miss Sommerville, who has finished her teaching placement with us. We wish her every success with the rest of her teacher training.

Miss Sommerville, we will miss you! xxx

Highlights

Austin – I liked the volcano because they were exploding we made lava for them. Volcano starts with the v sound.

Poppy – I liked learning v, down the line up the line because it’s the same shape that you do.

Charley – I like making the penguins they were hard to cut out but they were fun to make. We are reading a story about being different and the penguins are all different on the door.

Nicholas – Volcano starts with v the volcano went splash.

Lewis – Making the volcanoes it was hard to build and get it right it was too high so we made it lower.

Solomia – Putting the shinies in the tub to get popcorn and movie.

Christian – Playing with the volcano

James – You had to build a big a triangle volcano then we put lava it it.

Challenge

Poppy – The writing in the story corner is hard because its really hard to read the print.

Charley –Trying to collect lots of shinies to get to the top. You need to do good work and good siting and listening to get up to the target.

Nicholas – Collecting shinies by being good.

James – Making the penguin it was hard to cut.

This week in P1 we have been learning the sounds: sh & r and tricky word so. They really enjoyed making shark hats with Miss Sommerville. In science the children have been experimenting with push and pull forces. Our numeracy focus is information handling. The children have explored tally marks and pictographs. In P.E they have been playing team games. Here are their highlights and challenges from the week:

Highlights

L –  Learning the sh sound it has two letters when you mix them together it makes green.

J – Making the r, we go down the robot and round his arm.

P – Learning the sound sh. Two sounds together makes a new sound, and a different colour if you mix the blue s and the yellow h it makes green sh.

Al – Learning r because it’s a blue sound, robot starts with r.

Sus – We made a pictograph of eye colour. Brown is the most colour, blue was the least.

R – Doing sharks it has a sh.

So – Getting a certificate!

H – Making the shark was fun, shark begins with sh.

Ch – We done singing and watched Primary 5 assembly on Harry Potter.

Au – I liked doing the sharks. I had to stick on the teeth and make it scary with a big mouth. Sh is a s and a h, it’s a green sh because blue and yellow make green.

Sub – Learning sh and r, Shoe has sh at the start.

N – Making a shark because they have sharp teeth.

Challenges

J – Making a shark they start with the sh sound. trying to stick the band on, you had to put lots of glue at the bottom to make it stick on.

P  – It was really hard trying to pick an eye colour because some people had both colours, like blue and green together.

Sus – We can’t use red and grey only blue green and brown.

L – It was very difficult to paint with your thumb because it was too big for the rainbow and it would go on the other colour. I did wee dots with your pinkie and it didn’t go onto the other colour.

So – Sounding and blending words because it was hard.

Au –  Reading the word search I had to concentrate.

Learning Reflection for W/E 9.11.18

P1 learned the sounds h & l and tricky word yes. For  writing the children used some words to describe the loud and noisy sounds that fireworks make, such as: pop, zoom, bang, whoosh and boom!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We enjoyed taking a stroll to see the poppy display outside the church. In art we have started to make a poppy picture using our thumb prints. Our assembly this morning was about Remembrance Day. We learned that people in Scotland wear red poppies for remembrance, white poppies for peace and purple poppies to remember animals that died in war.

P1 Remembers…

Lewis – We remember when the people died.

James – I remember learning h.

Poppy – My great, great, Grandfather went in the war and he survived.

Alister – I remember doing the letter l, leg has l.

Hiba – The poppies are sad!

Austin – It is about the soldiers who died. Purple poppies remember all the animals that died.

Subhan – I remember the kindness song.

Kaelan – I remember that we need to be kind.

Nicholas – I remember doing shape in maths.

Christian – Singing kindness.

Catch Up for W/E 2.11.18

The children all enjoyed the 3D shape lessons they had with Miss Sommerville last week. They were very busy, sorting, printing and hunting for 3D shapes. Their favourite activity was building 3D junk models.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

S – I made a dinosaur, I used a circle and a cuboid.

K – I made a dinosaur. I used a circle, a cube, cuboid and a cylinder.

P – I made a car and a drum, I used a cylinder and a cuboid.

A – I made a rocket ship and a drum.

C – I made a drum it has circles.

A – I made a jet and a launch pad. I used a cylinder and a triangle. I used 2 cuboids to make the launch pad.

H – I made a craft box. I used a cylinder and a cuboid. a cuboid has rectangles. I used a rectangle of tape.

N – I made a dancing box.

C – I made a vampire and a haunted house.

L – I used a cylinder and a circle on the vampire.

R – I made a rocket ship. I used a cylinder and a cuboid. a cylinder is curvy.

J –  I made a car, I used a cylinder and a cone. The box has rectangles.

S – I made a car. The box has a rectangle, it is straight. The wheels are a cylinder, it is curvy.

S – I made a car, I used a cuboid.

Learning Reflection for W/E 12.10.18

This week we learned the sound u and b and tricky word he. Our writing focus this week was about things I am thankful for. Here are some of the children’s comments:

Kaelan – I am thankful for cocoa

Lewis – I am thankful for mum’s healthy food

James – I am thankful for apples

Poppy – I am thankful for food

Christian – I am thankful for potatoes

The children have really enjoyed playing shops this week. There has been lots of money talk, coin identification, sorting, counting and giving change!

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Learning Highlights

Charley – playing the money games and sorting them out

Nicholas – playing the clapping game

James – counting the coins in the shop. I got a wee postcard because I was counting my numbers in the shop. I was counting the numbers on the coins.

Alister – We made hedgehogs, I coloured in all of mine I put leaves on it for spikes.

Hiba – leaning the sound b

Roshan – singing

Poppy – I liked the homework doing the number after and before, two more.

Lewis – playing shop keeper

Learning Challenges

Lewis – counting the pennies

Nicholas– writing b

Charley – clapping our hands and stomping our feet , it’s tricky because you need to listen.