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Primary 2/1

P2/1 Learning Reflection Week Ending 13th December 2019

In Literacy P1 have been continuing to revise all of set 1 sounds. We have written words to match pictures and played roll and read. P2 have learned the ‘tious’ or ‘cious’ sound. We wrote words on whiteboards and looked for them in a word search. In writing, we wrote a letter to Santa. In Numeracy this week P1 continued to explore subtraction. We have played four in a row and used Numicon to help find the difference. P2 continued to explore place value using the base 10 materials. We continued with rolling a double dice, writing down that number then splitting it into tens and ones. In P.E we did a Christmas themed yoga. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Gabriel is our star of the week. In art we made split pin Christmas puppets. On Tuesday and Wednesday we performed our nativity Fishing for Stars. We thoroughly enjoyed performing in front of an audience. Miss Maclachlan is very proud of us for our fantastic performances. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Sam: “I enjoyed the Nativity.”

Hamish: “I enjoyed revising the nk sound. I enjoyed the nativity as well.”

H: “I liked the nativity. I enjoyed playing my instrument.”

Solomia: “I enjoyed our nativity. I liked dancing on the stage. We got to go on the stage twice. I feel happy when I am on the stage.”

Connie: “I enjoyed our nativity Fishing for Stars. I liked the songs. I enjoyed performing in front of an audience.”

Ayden: “I liked the songs from our nativity.”

Teria: “I enjoyed the Christmas yoga. I liked that it was Christmassy and I really wanted to do it.”

Charlotte: “I enjoyed playing my instrument in the nativity.”

Lucia: “I enjoyed the Christmas yoga.”

Ch: “I enjoyed being an angel in the nativity.”

Alister: “I liked using the base 10 materials in numeracy.”

Lucas: “I enjoyed playing Joseph in the nativity.”

Class Posts, Primary 3/2

P2 Learning Reflection for W/E 13.12.19

Isaac – I enjoyed doing numbertalks we are breaking each number into its place value. So for 21+32 the 21 has two tens and the 32 has three tens and so add two tens and three tens that makes five tens that’s 50. 21 has 1 one and 32 has 2 ones that makes 3 ones. So 50+3= 53.

Subhan – I liked the Nativity show. I was a narrator I had to speak to the audience, I felt good.

Poppy – I liked doing the Nativity I was the enormous star in it. I liked walking around the room, everyone had to follow me. I was a little bit nervous but I was happy to perform.

Leighton – I liked the nativity. It was really good. I liked the bit when I was following Poppy and trying to catch the stars.

Nicholas – I enjoyed the nativity. I was a sheep!

Emma – I enjoyed sewing my stocking for the Christmas fair, when it was done I liked the look of it. I had to do little stitches; it wasn’t hard it was easy.

Kaelan – I liked the Christmas fair. I bought my sewing. I made a robin it looked so cute.

James – I liked the nativity because I was playing an instrument and I was playing it in the first song. I was playing a triangle.

Rory – I enjoyed the Christmas fair because it looked quite Christmassy! I enjoyed the nativity because I liked my tambourine playing in it.

Lewis – I enjoyed the nativity. I was a Wise King. I had to plod on the camels and bring frankincense for baby Jesus.

Lois – I enjoyed the dress rehearsal because it was fun to wear our outfits. I was a narrator I liked the part when I had to speak. I needed to say another part too!

Sushanth – I enjoyed eating the Christmas lunch. I enjoyed my turkey it tastes like chicken or something.

Austin – I liked doing my class talk. I was talking about the changes of the moon, my numeracy and the sounds spelling. I like talking to the class about my learning.

Leo – I liked the nativity. I got to play the triangle. I was happy.

Ziva – I liked the nativity. I liked when the enormous star shouted out. I was on percussion for High on a Hill, I played maracas it was easy to keep the beat.

Eaun –  We did the nativity this week. I was in percussion. I played the tambourine. It was good.

Charley – I liked doing the nativity we got to do it in front of the mums and dads and we were wearing our costumes.  I was an instrument player, I played the chimes it sounded like stars!

General Information, Primary 1

P1 Week beginning 2.12.19

Thank you to all the parents who came to our music performance on Wednesday of this week.  It was so lovely for the children to share with you what they have been learning. The children had so much fun working with Dave Trouton on their listening and talking skills, and exploring instruments.

 

The children have been revising letter sounds this week as we have finished our first set of sounds, next week we begin the first set of complex sounds.

The children made some posters for our Nativity performance next week, here is a sample.

The children orally made up a story this week, which they will write and illustrate in their own books over a few weeks.

In maths they have been adding and subtracting within 10, using a variety of concrete materials, and some quiz questions about odd one out.

 

The children have been working on their sock snowmen over the last few weeks and this week checked that their eterprise gifts were ready, no snowman had lost an eye or nose before the Christmas fair!  They are excited to have them ready to sell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some of the children’s comments about their learning:

FW – I liked putting the pom-pom on my snowman.

IG – liked making the sock snowman although it was difficult to tie the scarf round his neck.

PP- the performance with Dave was fun.

SS – I liked playing my instrument.

IG– I was a bit nervous at the music with Dave,  but I’m ok now.  GG – me too.

And RC was so happy to receive her pupil of the week certificate

Primary 2/1

P2/1 Weekly Learning Reflection week ending 6th December 2019

What a quick but busy week for P2/1!  In Literacy P1 have been revising all of set 1 sounds. We have made words on our magnetic boards, sorted ng and nk words, wrote ch and sh words and played roll and read. In writing, we designed a poster advertising our nativity ‘Fishing for Stars’. P2 learned the ‘tion’ sound. We searched for tion words in a word search, played roll and read and made words on the magnetic boards. In Numeracy this week P1 have started exploring subtraction. We have played dice subtraction, four in a row and completed a worksheet. P2 have been exploring place value using the base 10 materials. We have been partitioning numbers into how many tens and ones. We rolled a double dice, wrote down that number then split it into tens and ones. In Science we have been learning about the constellations. In P.E we continued to practise our dance for our Christmas party. On Wednesday morning we performed the story of the lion and the mouse with Dave. We thoroughly enjoyed performing in front of an audience. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Hamish is our star of the week. Practise for our nativity is continuing and we can’t wait to perform it next week. Our nativity performances are Tuesday 10th at 2.30pm and Wednesday 11th at 10am.  On Friday we went to P4’s assembly. It was all about St Andrew. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Gabriel: “I enjoyed P4’s assembly. I liked the song I am my country.”

Hiba: “I enjoyed P4’s assembly.”

Ch: “I found it tricky learning the ‘tion’ sound.”

Lucas: “I enjoyed making ng and nk words.”

Christian: “I loved the Primary 4 assembly on St Andrew and the song I am my country.”

Olly: “I enjoyed the assembly all about St Andrew. P4 spoke clearly.”

Lucia: “I enjoyed learning about the nk sound.”

Murdo: “I enjoyed learning the new sound ‘tion’.”

Alister: “I enjoyed learning the ‘tion’ sound like Murdo. I liked P4’s assembly. I liked singing the song Welcome Everybody.”

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.