What have we been learning this week?

Odd and even numbers – Brogan

All the even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 – Brogan

All the odd numbers end in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 – Sean

We have been learning all about toys – Jack

We have been learning about toys from the past too – Sean

Some toys are made of metal and some of plastic – Jack

Old teddies had glass eyes – Alex

New teddies have plastic eyes – Eva

We looked at old toys with Maureen (they were about 60 years old)

We liked various toys:

the yo-yo – Aleisha, the spinning top – Bailey, an old teddy bear – Warren , an old baby doll – Adam, weeble wobble clown – Freya

We have been learning names of toys in French – Sara

Yo- yo is the same le yo-yo.

We have been solving different kinds of problems in numeracy this week. We were using the Solve it Blocks to make the pattern and also matching the pattern with counters and mats. Have a look at our photos.

Just a few photos from the Christmas Party.

too tired to dance…..

Here is a photo of when we dressed up bright and colourful to highlight the importance of being seen. As it is still dark in the evenings it is still advisable that we dress in bright colours to stay safe.

Please find our latest newsletter attached JAN newsletter

A big thank you to those of you who managed to come along to see our Assembly on The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark last week.

Following on from this fabulous Assembly, we are now practising for the Nativity with the Primary 1s. This will be part of the Christmas Show this year and you can buy your tickets now.

We are busy learning the songs and actions and some of us are learning our words to be the Narrators.

In literacy we wrote a poem about an owl this week. In reading we were learning about the importance of italics and bold fonts. We worked in groups to identify these in a piece of text.

In maths we were reading tally marks then drawing a bar graph.

In science we were learning about star constellations with Mrs Millar.

We learned the importance of dressing in bright colours to keep us safe as part of road safety week.

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In maths we did a survey about pets then we made a bar graph and a pictograph. We used tally marks to do the survey.  – Aleisha, Freya, Alex.

We have been putting numbers in order to 20 – Aleisha

We have been matching names to numbers to 20 – Warren

We have been finding facts about owls – Jana

We wrote them on our fact sheet – Jack

We made a fan with Mrs Turnbull to learn our f sound – Callan

We have been learning sh and ch sounds – Adam

We have been learning oa/ai sounds – Alex and Eva

We have been starting to learn about technology with Mrs Millar

– Mrs McLay

This weeks Skillionaires are Callen Singleton and Payton Owens

– ” I can decide the order of the pictures and words from my book”.

– Well done

We have been busy practising for our Assembly next Friday – we hope you can come along to see it.

Callan Johnston won the Spotlight this week for super subtraction!

This week Skillionaire focus was Analyse.

The Skillionaires this week are Jack Kerr for breaking down numbers using ten frames and Aleisha Quinn for interpreting a bar graph.

Callan – we have been practising our handwriting this week.

Brogan – we have learning how to take away

Sara – we were painting firework pictures.

Dionne – we are learning about bar graphs in maths.

Jack – we had special visitors this week. They were firemen!

Everyone had great fun! Photos to follow

What have we been learning?

In Art

We learned about mixing primary colours – Dionne, Callan, Brogan

We learned how to make secondary colours – Warren

We painted Autumn leaves – Aleisha

In maths

We have been getting faster at taking away – Jana

We have been doing tricky pages – Callen

We have been learning about Bar charts – Ross

Writing

We were writing a story about our holiday – Sean

We are trying to remember capital letters, full stops and finger spaces – Eva, Jana, Alex

Skillionaires this week :  Apply

I can write a story about my holiday – Sean

I can make a picture of autumn leaves – Dionne

Some of us had spooky fun at the Halloween Disco last night – so some are tired today.

Enjoy your weekend!