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Primary 1

P1a Learning Reflection W/E 23rd November

In writing this week we wrote about a magic button and what it could do. We read One Button Benny which was in book bug bag and this inspired our writing lesson. We learned the sounds j and v. We thought of words with these sounds then made them on our magnetic boards and then wrote them down. We made jellyfish and volcanoes. We revised our tricky words. In Maths, we have been collecting, representing and answering questions about pictograms, tally charts and bar graphs. We made our own pictogram of eye colour, a tally chart of our favourite pets and a bar graph of our favourite book. We looked at toys and had to sort old and new toys.  In P.E, we played duck duck goose and dodgeball. We have been busy practising for our nativity in the hall as well this week. Our enterprise is nearly finished and pictures will be available shortly. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Murdo: “I found it tricky to write the letter v.”

Euan: “I enjoyed learning about pictograms and in particular colouring in an eye for our pictogram.”

Sevinc: “I enjoyed learning about ways to represent data like pictograms.”

Leo:” I found it tricky when writing the letter j.”

Coben: “I found counting tally marks tricky.”

Rory: “I found it easy learning about j and v.”

Ziva: “I enjoyed doing tally marks and the volcanoes.”

Primary 4

This Week in P4

This week we have had three visitors to take our learning forward in two areas. On Monday, we were pleased to welcome another of our class parents to the class to share their life journey. We found out about apprenticeships, and the important part that maths and physics play in his current career. We discovered that management and planning of time was important as well as independent skills. The class asked some interesting questions about skills as well as what Mr johnston’s favourite car was!  (I do love the links that go on in their brain.) Thank you Mr Johnson for giving us your time.

On Thursday, we had a visit from a five month old and her mum. We linked their visit to our learning about the GIRFEC wellbeing wheel. We talked about a babies needs, and care, keeping a baby healthy, safe and nurtured. We spoke about a babies development and what she could and could not do at five months old. One of our children had a music box which she played, and the baby fell asleep just before they left. Thank you for your visit.

In PE the children have been really pulling together their skills for benchball, they are beginning to show a greater awareness and understanding of tactics and defence skills to win the games and many are persevering and increasing their length of pass/ throw.

In our spelling word of week pocket was the word adventure, so we developed our learning with other words that ended in ‘ture’, challenging themselves with temperature and linking their learning with mature and nature.

The children are collecting facts about key Scottish animals about their habitat, food, and predators. Again, our outdoor classroom we continued tidying the back garden,  planting iris, daffodil and tulip bulbs and collecting more worms for our wormery.  We have prepared, cooked and eaten the potatoes the children found in the planters while they were weeding.  Almost all the children tasted them, and all rose to the challenge of unscrambling the method list and putting them in the right order.

The children were challenged to summarise what they have read so far in their group reading book, or were asked to find links with factual book and their reading book.

In maths,we had a go at money sums and word problems, it seems that many are a little rusty with their chimney sums but their mental maths is much better. Word problems can be difficult as they children find the vocabulary or pattern of information hard to unravel – more practice on its way!

Some of the class continued to type up their story writing while others were writing letters to Mrs Mill to ask for a loan to buy resources for making our snow globes.  I wonder if our ‘bank manager’ will say yes?

The children enjoyed learning about visiting a mosque and even learnt how to greet each other in Arabic.

 

 

Class Posts, Primary 2/1

P1 & Ms King

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.

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 7

Another fast and furious week in P7, finishing on a high as we finished the West Lothian Sumdog competition in 5th place having also been the daily winners on Wednesday. Special mention to Sophie  who finished 3rd in the individual competition, getting 952 correct answers out of 1000 questions.

Arron – This week I really enjoyed the division questions because the one with remainders I found really easy and now that has helped me with my division sums on the big maths questions. In P.E. we ran from one wall to another and we done it twice and I got 15 seconds all 3 times I ran back.

I think that my spelling improved this week because we had harder words and I got all of them right – Jack

Lewis – this week improved on dividing at maths. This week it was fun it was a bit hard to understand at first but when you got it, it was easy.

Kaitlyn – I found the division in maths hard but I think that I will get better

Harry – I enjoyed maths it was really fun because I got to help other people.

Tyler – I enjoyed football because the fitness and agility bit of the session and the matches at the end are very fun!

Liam – I am really happy because Mrs Mill offered me a solo to Walking in the Air from The Snowman in choir!

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 6

This week in Primary 6…

This week, Calum was our Blog Master. 

It has been another busy week in P6.

This week we were doing badminton.

“I enjoyed when we did the games.”-Zoe “I liked the rallies because you were able to do every job.”-Cameron

“I liked doing rallies in badminton.”-Callan

“I liked that we got to play the same people.”-Ainslie

This week we were learning about World War II.

“I enjoyed learning about rationing.”-Calum

“I enjoyed learning about rationing because I enjoyed learning about the different types of food that were rationed.”-Luke

This week we did some art based on our class novel, Holes.

“I liked doing art because it was fun.”-Logan F

“I enjoyed doing the art.”-Haley D

“I liked doing the lizards.”-Lewis

“I enjoyed doing the painting because we got to have fun with the paint to make the door for Book Week Scotland.”-Charlie

“I enjoyed doing my lizard.”-Natalie

“It was fun because we got to use lots of paint”.-Eesa

This week at Rumble…

“I enjoyed playing the drums.”-Cade.

“I enjoyed playing the drums.”-Finlay

“This week it was definitely my favorite one.”-Leon

This week we had some people doing Fresh Start.

“I wrote a letter to Mr Turner.” – Charlie

 

General Information, Primary 3

P3 Weekly Reflection 16.11.18

This week we have been having discussions about presenting a positive attitude to our learning.  We have been talking about why it is important that we come to school ready to learn and why we need to learn to manage distractions so we can focus on our tasks.  Next week in class we will have the target ‘To follow instructions first time’ so that we are ready for learning and not wasting precious time.

Lakshya enjoyed writing counting poems this week.  We had to think of rhyming words and try to use these in our poems, it was not as easy as you might think.

Anna liked watching the film clip about Joseph Lister when he invented antiseptic.  It is thanks to him that we can go in for operations and come out without infections.

Kayden enjoyed science with Mrs Fraser.  The children are learning about energy and the effect of cutting down lots of trees.  Some great discussion was had.

We enjoyed ending our week on a high by watching the Primary 5 assembly on Harry Potter, what an amazing effort from the children in P5.

Have a lovely weekend.

Primary 1

P1a Learning Reflection W/E 16/11/18

Another busy but quick week in P1. We started our enterprise for the Christmas fair. In Literacy we have learned the sounds sh and r. We made words with these sounds and learned how to write the sound r. We learned the tricky word so. In writing, we used our sounds to help us write a sentence about our buddies. Some of us wrote about our P7 buddy and some of us wrote about our P4 reading buddy. In Numeracy we have been continuing to learn our number bonds to 10. We are getting really good at recalling these facts. In health we listened to the story “The Dot” then we painted our own dot pictures and we made dots with our picture on one side and why we are special on the other side. In Science, we were learning about things that move and discussed what would be dangerous to stop. We have also been working hard with P1 and P2 on our nativity. We got given our parts and have been practising really hard.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Euan: “I found it tricky learning the sound r.”

Ziva:” I enjoyed learning our letters this week.”

Isaac: “I found it tricky writing the letter r.”

Leighton: ” I enjoyed learning my number bonds to 10.”

Sam:”I enjoyed learning the sound sh.”

Emma:”I enjoyed making our Christmas enterprise.”

Murdo: ” I found learning the sound sh tricky.”

Primary 4

This week in P4

This week the children have visited the cemetery to explore the subject of our Remembrance Day. The children took time to respectfully look at the graves and find those who had served in the military. The children were moved when realising how young some of the service men were when they lost their lives.  The display created by the parish was lovingly made up of knitted poppies and the time and effort put in was recognised by the children.

In our literacy work we have been reading the book Storm by Kevin Crossley-Holland as a class.  Through the book we have been exploring the tools the author uses to affect the way the reader thinks and feels about characters and to set the mood and pace of the story.  

The class worked fantastically this week to tidy the back garden, clear some leaves, collect litter, weed the planters, find worms for a wormery, and plant some bulbs.  Some of the children found some potatoes that had self seeded from last year and have chosen to cook them as wedges next week.

For maths we have been learning about budgets and making plans for our business enterprise.  More of this will emerge over the next few weeks.

The children were story making with their P1  buddies this week and they loved it – such an effective way to extend their sense of story sequencing, sentence structure, vocabulary as well as building up their confidence in their work.  

The class have been introduced to the wellbeing wheel and we have considered what inclusion can mean through the story Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson .  

We have revisited the 6 x table, and applied our learning of author’s tools to our reading group texts,  they have had  judo taster session and shared their home learning as a class, they have begun learning some basic Scottish country dance steps in PE and are looking at energy and electricity in science.

Finally, on Friday children got to hold the stick insects if they wished to. I was surprised how many were had a go.

 

“They are really soft they just pad gently”  “It feels a little tickly”  ” They go quite fast”  “They like the dark colour on my sleeve”

 

 

 

 

 

And last but not least, we had fun in the NYCOS session as you can hear –

 

 

 

 

Class Posts, Primary 2/1

P1 & Ms King

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.