Category: Whole School

In Maths we have been learning about patterns and number sequences. We challenged ourselves to continue number patterns to and beyond 100.

In Literacy we wrote stories about Santa’s problem. We tried to include exclamation marks and question marks in our writing. We were given this story starter:

Everything was quiet at the North Pole until…

Waaaaaah!’ cried Santa, as loud as could be.

Mrs Claus came running out of the workshop.

‘Whatever is the matter?’ she asked, passing Santa her handkerchief.

‘I… I… I think Christmas will be ruined!’ Santa sobbed….

A.M’s story:

All the reindeers were playing in the dark then all of them got lost! Mrs Claus said, ‘how are we going to find them in time for Christmas?’

Santa said, ‘let’s blow the reindeer trumpet then they will come back!’

‘Well done’, said Mrs Claus. So Santa blew the trumpet 1…2…3… BRRRRRRP. Then all of the reindeers came galloping back.

J.B’s story:

‘Because I’m ill’ said Santa.

‘How?’ said Mrs Claus.

‘Well, there was no stuffing for the teddies, so I filled them with mince pies!’

‘How silly’, said Mrs Claus.

‘…Then I got hungry so I ate the teddies.’

‘WHAT?’ said Mrs Claus.

‘Oops’ said Santa. A couple of days later Santa woke up in hospital feeling much better just in time for Christmas.

 

Here are some photos of our Christmas crafts, we made penguins, 3D Christmas cards and holly wreaths.

We LOVED our Christmas party!

Have a Very Merry Christmas!

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x

On Monday Miss Baillie took all of the infant children for a big ‘Winter Read’. They read the story ‘The Polar Bear Son – An Inuit Tale’.

The story is about a lonely old woman  who adopts and raises a polar bear as if he were her own son. The polar bear provides well for her and the villagers soon become jealous. They force him to leave his home but eventually a mother’s love conquers all and they are reunited together. This story is based on a traditional Inuit folktale.

The children have been asked to complete some work based on the book to display in our infant winter wonderland corridor.

In Literacy we have been writing stories which started off with Santa having a problem. The children had to think about what the problem might be and how it could be solved, so that Santa could do his very important job on Christmas Eve. Some fantastic ideas. We have also done some work on my favourite subject – CAPITAL letters and full stops. We’ll get there.

We have been doing Wintery pictures of Snowy Owls for our Winter Wonderland display in the Infant area.

Thank you to all those who attended our Showcase on Wednesday. The children really enjoyed showing the adults what they were learning. Our activities were based on our class novel – “The Christmasaurus”.

In Maths we continue to work on subtraction.

The children have been learning some Scottish Dancing in P.E.

Have a good weekend everyone. Photos to follow.

 

Literacy

In phonics we have been learning our consonant blends. Miss Mudd’s group have been looking at pr, fr, gr, cr, br. We worked in partners to build words with our magnetic boards. We continued with our class novel ‘The Christmasaurus’ and set up stations with different activities for our learning showcase. We enjoyed having our special adults in to see us for the learning showcase. We used description from the story to draw the North Pole Ranch,  made Christmas lists and added up different amounts of money, designed and described new elves for Santa and used snow to practise writing our tricky words.

This week we also started our ‘Trapped in a Snow Globe’ imaginative writing pieces. Miss Mudd took photos of us pretending to be trapped and we used chalk and black paper to create our snow scene. We had to use our imagination to help us with our writing. We used our senses to help us describe the setting and used talking partners to help us come up with a mini story.

Numeracy

In numeracy we have been looking at subtraction stories for 11, 12, 13 and 14. We used our knowledge of addition to help us with our take away sums. We have learnt how to use a number line to subtract and how to use the Numicon. We have been doing a Christmas maths challenge each day to develop our ability to talk about our strategies. We were also applying our addition and subtraction knowledge to Christmas maths problems and we had to identify which operation we had to use.

Other

We made Christmas cards for our families this week. We used finger prints to create wonderful Christmas pictures. Well done to BW for moving up a group at his martial arts class. He also got a new tab. We are very proud of him for working hard to achieve this. A huge well done to all of P2A for winning class of the week again! Miss Mudd has seen a big improvement in behaviour and this has been recognised by other staff members too.

Have a lovely weekend

 

Miss Mudd and P2A

Mrs Miller from the Scottish Parliament Outreach Team, visited us in class this morning.

She shared lots of information about the parliament and allowed us to explore different issues using an interactive voting system.

We had a mock election, with Party Leaders delivering a manifesto.

Well done to the ‘Save the Earth Party’ who won our Election.

We also had a debate, with the mace present. Our Presiding Officer chaired the debate extremely well and the chamber voted that we should not have one hour of PE every day.

This week, Primary 6B have completed comic strips showing the feelings and emotions of Via (a character from our class novel ‘Wonder’). I’m sure you’ll agree that these look great!

As part of our RME, we have been looking at Christmas Traditions. We created our own Christingles and explored the significance of each part as we made them.

Our art this week has involved working with oil pastels and water colours to create toucans. These images show the pupils hard at work on this project.

We are looking forward to our outreach visit next week from the team at the Scottish Parliament – with lots to learn there too!

SP outreach visit

Have a lovely weekend,

Yours

Mrs Kerr

Most of the week we have been doing our Nativity Performances. The children have been fantastic and have sung their little hearts out. I was very proud of them as I’m sure you all were. Very well done P2B, you deserve a big pat on the back.

In Maths we have started on subtraction up to 20, although some children are working beyond this.

We have written our letters to Santa, so he’s going to very busy.

And today we have been selling our ribbon Christmas trees and tea lights. All of which were very successful. The children have also been making tree decorations for our school tree and the one in the church.

Have a good weekend everyone.