Primary 3/4 Blog Week Beginning 8.1.18

 

Dear All

Happy New Year with lots of cheer! Hope you had a good holiday.

This week in literacy we wrote about what we did in our holidays and what our new year’s resolutions are for 2018. We practised writing, spacing consistently. We did show and tell to hear about each other’s holidays. We listened to a poem about someone who had a sore pinkie and a rhyming story about fish. We also sang a song about someone who had lost a bouncy ball. We listened to a Hamish McHaggis book about Stirling Castle. In grammar we learned to write commas in lists and we learned to write words with the ‘ph’ sound.

In French we revised the French alphabet, the weather, greetings, how to say our name, months of the year and numbers. We learned how to say pets and animals.

In numeracy we went into groups to learn our times tables forwards, backwards and divided by. We also learned our number bonds to 15 using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

In health and wellbeing and learning across the curriculum we went outside to match leaves to trees. When we came back in, we matched cards of leaves to trees and put them in our jotters. We had music with Miss Bain and learned how to read music singing in low, high and medium voices. We learned a Scottish song called Katie Bairdie.

Hope you have a good weekend!

P5’s week.

We went out to observe the birds in and around the playground and field, in order to compare numbers from the Autumn.

Also, we did a colour survey, which we are going to use for data handling in Maths.

We have been talking about friendships, our best friends, and positive and negative influences on our lives.

With Mrs Tulloch, we have been learning about magnets.

Welcome Back!

Happy new year everyone! We hope you all had a lovely and relaxing Christmas break! It was great to see the pupil’s huge smiles and enthusiasm for starting back on Tuesday morning. The class loved sharing their favourite parts of the holiday which they then used to write a Christmas Holiday report.

We reflected on the year that is now past and discussed all the things we are looking forward to in 2018. This was a great starting point for evaluating our learning in Primary 3 and deciding what we would like to work on going into the new term. The class created their own Learning Zone that helped them visualise what we feel really confident doing in class to what we feel we need to work on.

Throughout the next few weeks our focus in class will be on Scotland and looking at all things Scottish. We hope to learn some Scottish poems in time for Rabbie Burns Day and have set up stations in the classroom that include designing our own tartan and paper weaving.

On Friday we welcomed Mrs Birkett to the class and she will be working with us over the next few Mondays and Fridays.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs McVay and Primary 3

Welcome Back!

Happy New Year from P2A. We celebrated the new year by singing Auld Lang Syne and looking at different ways people celebrate.

We also set ourselves a very special homework task. We had another visit from the Kindness Fairy as she wanted to check we were still following our kindness promise. We talked about acts of kindness and we each picked a kind thing that we are going to do this week. On Friday we all shared the kind acts we have been doing. Miss Mudd was incredibly proud and even awarded us with a kindness award! Being kind is one of our school values so it is important for us to show kindness all the time.

We started using our traffic light cups more in class. We can use them to show Miss Mudd if we are stuck and we were using them to self-assess our writing.

This week we were talking about what makes a good learner. We drew around one of our bodies and filled it with our ideas. Here are some to share with you:

  • Listening skills
  • Concentrate
  • Ask questions
  • Keep trying your best
  • Show resilience
  • Be confident
  • Be positive
  • See mistakes as good things
  • Share your ideas

 

We then thought of examples of when we have shown some of these qualities. We realised that we can all be great learners!

We also started turning our classroom into the Isle of Struay. We turned our reading corner into Grannie Island’s house, we added a Post Office to our role play area and we built the Redburn bridge.

On Thursday we joined P2B for some Cosmic Yoga. We had to follow instructions and listen carefully. We stretched our bodies and developed our balance.

We have also changed our Dojo skills this term. Miss Mudd has linked them to our school values so we can earn dojo’s for showing our values.

Hope you all had a lovely break. It is nice to be back and we have an exciting term ahead!

 

Miss Mudd and P2A x

Springing forward in learning in 2018!

Happy New Year and welcome to our first blog post of 2018!

In Literacy we are learning how to write a report. We wrote reports on our Christmas holidays and included lots of detail about people we visited, foods we ate and the gifts we gave and received.

In Maths we are learning how to tell the time – o’clock, half past and quarter to/past. We enjoyed playing games, making our own analogue clocks and recording the time on our Maths wall. We are learning a song about how to tell the time – here’s the link if you’d like to practise at home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqsp6pUgWxI

We start our Scottish focus next week, we are going to be looking at Scottish arts and crafts. If any of you have any areas of expertise (knitting, weaving, etc) please get in touch, we’d love to have some experts in to show us how it’s done!

Homework and reading books will go home on Monday.

PE is on Wednesdays and Thursdays this term.

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince

Terrific Scientific in P7a

Mrs Tulloch challenges the children each week with their learning in science and technologies. They are very fortunate to have her share a wealth of knowledge and lots of fun and practical activities.

This week the P7 children assisted Mrs Tulloch by demonstrating some fun experiments including making lava lamps. Here are a few photos of them at work.

Thank you Mrs Tulloch for everything you teach us, and for always helping us learn new and exciting things.

P7a and Mrs Gordon

Buddy Christmas Story Writing by P7

The P7’s had a fantastic time creating, writing and illustrating mini books as Christmas presents for their P1 buddies. The P7’s surprised their buddies by delivering their presents after break and reading the stories to the P1’s. Here are a few photos.

Merry Christmas to all from P7, Mr Logan and Mrs Gordon

 

Merry Christmas from P1B

A very short final blog of the year.

Here are a couple of pictures from today.  Our buddies surprised us with story books that they wrote and illustrated.  They read us the stories and gave them to us as a Christmas gift.  We love them!  Thank you very much P7 🙂

We are saying “Merry Christmas” (very loudly!) in this photo, taken just before our Christmas party.

Enjoy the festivities, have a happy and peaceful time.

P1B and Mrs Kennedy

P3 Week commencing 18th December 2017

On Monday in Maths we worked with our Learning Partners to try and solve the “Mystery of the Missing Reindeer Bells”. One of the naughty elves had hidden the beautiful shiny gold bells which decorate the reindeer’s harnesses.  The reindeer cannot fly without them! We had to use all our maths problem solving skills to find the answers to the clues.  By working through the clues and finding the correct answers we eventually found out that the culprit was an elf who wore a green hat, curly shoes, had brown hair, worked in the toy department and was called Neville.  The bells have all been found and the reindeers are now all ready to help Santa delivery all his presents.

In the afternoon we joined P1 and P2 for a Big Winter Read. We listened to Miss Baillie reading “The Polar Bear Son” and we will be doing work about the story when we return after the holidays.  Then when we returned to the classroom we learned how to make a Christmas “pop up card” with a polar bear inside.

On Thursday we had a fantastic time at our Christmas party and showed off our amazing dancing skills. At the end of the party we all enjoyed a nice ice-cream to help us cool down.

Then on Friday we took part in the “Christmas Carols around the Christmas Tree” by singing our song “Santa Clause is coming to Town”.

Have a lovely Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all back in The New Year.

Primary 6B

What a lovely week we have had in Primary 6B.

We finished reading Wonder and were then able to enjoy the film during our trip to Cineworld on Thursday. The children were stars and their behaviour was exemplary. They enjoyed the film and were keen to compare the differences between the two media.

We shared our learning in Science with our Primary 2’s this week, allowing them to play the board games that we made with Mrs Tulloch.

We also now have a fantastic display of our toucans in the style of Henri Rousseau.

The children also enjoyed creating their sock snowmen.

Wishing you all a lovely break and a prosperous New Year.

Mrs Kerr

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