St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3 families!

I cannot believe that we are heading into June already!  Here are the learning highlights according to ‘Bathgate’:

Sophia and Nathan both report that programming a beebot with directional instructions has been the best part of their week.  The children rotated around different mats and worked together to make the beebot turn ‘clockwise, anticlockwise, forwards and backwards’.  The children were then tasked with designing their own beebot mat and the most creative one will be used for a class based task next week.

Matteo and Daisy both liked our lesson on ‘conflict and mediation’.  We observed a chemical reaction take place between white vinegar and bicarbonate of soda as a visual for what happens when we enter the ‘Red Zone’.  We learned strategies we could use to approach situations calmly in order to resolve them.

Vikashini liked writing a recount.  She wrote about a visit to the beach and met the success criteria of using time sequence words and past tense words.

Tyler T loved making a comic strip that linked to our ‘conflict and mediation’ learning.  We will continue working on that this coming week.  Through this, we have revisited speech bubbles.

Viaan said the highlight of his week was parachute games during PE.  This week, each child was given the name of an angle: acute, obtuse, right and reflex.  They ran under the parachute when their angle was called out.

Rahim loved our Building Thinking Classroom session where the groups had to figure out the different combinations that different groups of shapes could come in a race.

My highlight was when we went up to the local woodlands to look for and record, angles in nature.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate winner, Vihaan!

I hope you enjoy the photos from the last two weeks below:

Mrs Brown

What another great week in P1A

This week the Dragon left us the story of Little Red Riding Hood.  He left us a basket and we had to design a healthy snack to bring to Granny.  We also made Get Well Soon cards to give to Granny as she was feeling unwell.  We learned about fruit and vegetables and sorted them.  We also looked at where food come from its source either plant or animal.  We worked in groups of four and made  puppets of the four characters and we acted out the story.  It was lots of fun.

On Friday we went to St Peters Church with our Buddies for Mass.  Mrs Russell was very proud of all of us, we were very respectful and listened well.

Our Highlights:

Nathania ‘I liked the story of Little Red Riding Hood

Ini ‘I liked sorting the fruit’

Monika ‘I liked acting out the story with the puppets’

Mashal ‘I liked making the basket of fruit for Granny’

Conall ‘I liked going to Chapel with my Buddy’

Congratulations to Paulo our Hot Chocolate winner and well done to St Teresas’ our winning house this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you all again on Monday

This week the Friendly Dragon left us the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We made a healthy basket of food for Granny so that she would feel better. Miss Stebbing was very impressed with how well we were sounding out our words to label the items. The next challenge the Friendly Dragon left us was to sort food to its source, plants or animals. We did a fantastic job of matching up the items with its source. For Writing, we wrote a sentence about The Big Bad Wolf.

In maths, we have been practising addition and subtraction. We also did a Building Thinking Classrooms activity where we had to share food between 3 characters from the story. We had lots of great ideas for sharing the different items.

On Friday, we went to Mass at St Peter’s with our Buddies. It was lovely and we were very respectful. It was great fun to walk with our P7 Buddies and we agreed that this was the highlight of our week.

Congratulations to Sebastian who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. He is a fantastic friend to everyone and has worked hard in all learning tasks.

This week we have been reading Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. We designed a chair for Baby Bear using the loose parts in the classroom and we used our little teddy to test them out. We tried hard to make it comfy! The dragon also left us the ingredients to make porridge so we got to taste it made with water and then milk. It was delicious! We made Wanted Posters for Goldilocks so that the Bears can find her.

In Maths, we have been learning about sharing out items and we used cupcakes to share between the fairy tale characters. We noticed that sometimes it wasn’t fairly shared out so we helped to fix it.

We enjoyed another session in the Woodland with Kids Gone Wild and we had to sort the rubbish to see how long it would take to decompose. We then got to use the zipline!

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Amelia – I enjoyed eating the porridge.

Alfie – I enjoyed playing UNO.

Mikayla – I enjoyed making our Wanted Posters.

Hanna – I enjoyed doing models.

Sebastian – I enjoyed drawing Goldilocks.

Congratulations to Lincoln who is our Reading Champion for this fortnight. He has been reading lots of Fairy Tales and is able to confidently retell the stories.

Another fabulous week in P1A.

This week we had a visit from the Fairyland Dragon who left us the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We enjoyed listening to the story and comparing it with alternative versions, such as a version told by Baby Bear. The Dragon also left us ingredients to make porridge. We tried porridge made with water and with milk and voted for our favourite. We also designed new porridge bowls for the bears and worked in groups to act out the story.

We continue to consolidate our learning of sounds. We have used them this week to read and match CVC words to the correct picture. We have also made Wanted Posters to find Goldilocks for the crimes she committed at the Three Bears house.

In math, we have been looking at numbers to 30, with emphasis on tens and ones to ensure we recognise the number correctly and not back to front.

Hello P3 families!

Here are our learning highlights for this week according to the ‘Broxburn’ group:

Daniel enjoyed examining the famous painting by Claude Monet called ‘Spring Flowers’.  We discussed how many different flowers we could spot, their position and shape within the painting and then we attempted to draw them.  Next week we will add colour.  Some children volunteered to research the painting and we found out that there were 13 different types of flowers painted (including peonies, hydrangeas, lilacs and geraniums), it was painted in Paris and is currently in a museum in Cleveland Museum of Art.

Amelia loved our outdoor learning lesson.  We were learning about alliteration during Literacy and thought we would find some in nature.  We found some interesting ones such as ‘amazing ants,  crawling creatures, small sticks, risky roots and long leaves’!  We almost found one for each letter of the alphabet!

Tyler liked PE were the children continued to develop their run/jump/throwing skills.

Dawid enjoyed listening to a play called ‘Blueberry Muffins’ about a little boy called Toby who made muffins for his granny’s birthday.  We read through it twice, with Daniel and Umeaz playing the role of Toby and Gabby and Laaibah playing the role of Mum.

Izhaan and Umaez then enjoyed when we followed up this lesson with making our own giant blueberry muffin!  It was great to see some of the children try new tastes and hear how they then made it at home that evening! The recipe consists of mashing one banana, adding a whisked egg, 2 teaspoons of flour and a handful of blueberries and chocolate chips.  You then mix it all together and bake in a microwave for 2mins either in a large mug or bowl.

Vihaan reported that going to the library was something he really enjoyed.  The children enjoyed a lovely story (chosen by our birthday girl, Navami) and had time to browse.  I have sent home a copy of an application form to those children who were interested in becoming members.

Danvith liked it when we tried ginger bear!  The wolf drank it in our Word Boost story ‘Little Red’.

Maja said the best part of her week was when we went to Mass to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension.  The children were very respectful.

My highlight was when the children drew the Claude Monet ‘Spring Flowers’.  They will be beautiful recreations when they are finished!

Congratulations to our Reading Champion, Gabriella!

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend and I will see you all on Tuesday.

It has been another full filled week of learning in P1A.  A large beanstalk appeared in our classroom made by the Friendly Dragon.  We were very excited and imagined ourselves climbing up the beanstalk.  We acted this out and imagined what we could see, hear, touch, taste and smell when climbing the beanstalk up to the Giant’s castle.  We drew our own beanstalks, some of us added a castle at the top.  We also added a photograph of ourselves climbing up and cotton wool for the clouds.

On Wednesday we received a ginormous letter and some footprints from the Giant.  He wanted us to use the footprints to measure with.  The Giant made an awful mess and knocked things over so we had to tidy it up.  We were a bit annoyed with him.  On Friday we received a ‘sorry’  letter from the Giant to say the bell ringing scared him and he didn’t get time to tidy up.  We completed maths and literacy activities related to Jack and the Beanstalk.

On Tuesday we had a session in the Woodlands with Kids Gone Wild.  We had great fun walking across the slack line and using our imagination playing with all the loose parts in the woods.  We have another session next Tuesday.

On Thursday we learned about Ascension Day and some of us went to Church .

Have a lovely long weekend everyone and see you on Tuesday.

This week has been very exciting! The Friendly Dragon made us our own beanstalk in the classroom and it even had a castle at the top. We have been reading Jack and the Beanstalk and we are sure we could hear the giant stomping and stamping. So we used our imaginations to climb the beanstalk and visit the castle. We then used our senses to explore and wrote some fantastic sentences on special castle paper.  We also drew our own beanstalks and put a photograph of ourselves climbing up to the castle.

On Wednesday, when we got back from lunch the classroom was a mess! The Giant had been in the classroom and had left us a giant letter and some footprints to measure with. We were very angry with the Giant as he did not tidy up his mess so we made Wanted Posters and put them all around the school. On Friday, we received another giant letter. The Giant said he was very sorry he had made a mess but he had been looking at all the things in our classroom and got a fright when the bell rang.

We can’t wait to see what exciting things the Friendly Dragon has planned for us next week!

On Tuesday, we were out in the Woodland with Kids Gone Wild. We enjoyed being on the slack line and making a bug hotel.

Oh what an exciting week we have had in P1A.  It all started on Monday when we received a letter from a Friendly Dragon asking us to help rebuild Fairyland. It has started to disappear because people are not reading enough fairy tales. We all agreed instantly to help and wrote letters to the dragon to tell him. We received another letter on Wednesday asking us to learn about castles and to make flags. The dragon had lost it’s castle home and wanted our help to rebuild it. We created some beautiful flags.  We think the Dragon will be impressed.  We also learned about the parts of a castle. We then drew a picture and labelled it correctly.  We received castle books from the Dragon to put all our Fairyland work in to keep it safe.

In Literacy we wrote descriptive sentences about a dragon.  We continue to practise our common words and sounds.

In Maths we looked at sharing zoo animals into enclosures.  We used concrete materials to share out between different numbers of people and we learned what the term division means.

We worked in the playground looking at numbers up to 30 and practising forming letters with chalk and sounding out and writing cvc words.  We have enjoyed playing outside in the lovely weather.

On Friday we went into the woodlands and completed a match the animal game.  We then went on a minibeast hunt and ticked off the different ones we could find.  We were very excited to see up close lots of minibeasts.

We all agreed the highlight of our week was getting the letter from the dragon.

Congratulations to Zaraan our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a great Bank Holiday weekend everyone and we will see you all again on Tuesday.