St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3 families!

Here are our learning highlights for this week from ‘Livingston’:

Navami liked our phonics lesson about the spelling pattern, ‘tion’.  The children were challenged with building the tallest tower with 8 sheets from the recycled paper drawer, in teams, within a given time.  The children came up with very creative ideas; with the tallest structure measuring a whooping 182cms!  After we measured each and created 1st-6th place, we then created some destruction by knocking them down!  That was the best part, according to Navami!

Maks loved Building Thinking Classrooms this week were the children worked together to find out how many scoops of ice cream Mrs Brown and her family had one hot day.

Ollie said the best part of his week was our Word Boost story, ‘Myron’s Magical Cow’ and he liked learning about the vocabulary ‘nudge’ best.  The children are excited to play Word Boost Corners on Monday morning!

Elize enjoyed designing her very own Beebot mat.  Some children are still working on their design.  They are taking their time to make it just right; hoping theirs is chosen to be made in to a mat for the whole class to use in a lesson.  Hopefully we will have the winning design soon!

Leighton said the highlight of her week was going to our class mass today.  The children received a lovely compliment from the priest and congregation about how enthusiastically they joined in with the prayers and singing.

Oscar loved our maths lesson this week on area.  His group decided to use magnetic tiles to find the area of a jotter.  The children knew to use objects that were the same size.  They discovered that the area of the jotter was 20 magnetic tiles.  Afterwards, they learned to find the area of squares and rectangles by counting squares, for a more accurate reading.

Alex and Joseph recount how bench ball was the best part of their week.  The children are excited to learn football skills for PE for the next few weeks (linked to The World Cup).  With so many  children already being in a football club, Mrs Brown is going to have lots of assistant coaches to help!  Lucky me!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!  (I will amend this post on Monday to record who our Hot Chocolate award winner was as we did not have time today.)

Mrs Brown

Another great week in Primary 1A.  This week the Dragon left us the story of Hansel and Gretel.  We had to design a house made of sweets and for writing we wrote what the house was made of.  We continued a pattern and compared different character sizes.  We watched an alternative story for Hansel and Gretel and made puppets to retell the story.  We learned about looking after our teeth and sorted good and bad food for our teeth.  We played a game on the iPad on how to properly brush teeth.

We practised formation of letters and read the story using magnifying glasses to find high frequency words.

We looked at numbers to 30 and practised formation of numbers.  We also used the Beetbots and got to programme with instructions to make them move.

On Tuesday we had a visit to the library.  We got to ask questions and had the opportunity to look at lots of books.  We all got a book marker and a form if we want to join the library.  We also got information on the Library’s Summer Challenge.  Mrs Russell was very proud of our behaviour and our listening skills.

As part of the World Cup our class are learning about the country France.  We made French flags and located France on a world map.

Weekly Highlights

Paulo ‘I liked drawing’

Willow ‘I liked playing outside’

Mashal ‘I liked when the Dragon came and left us stars’

Monika ‘I liked learning about Hansel and Gretel’

Nathania ‘I liked learning about keeping our teeth clean and using the iPad’

Arire ‘I liked drawing’

Zaraan ‘I liked using the Beebots’

Stephen ‘I liked the Beebots

Well done to Aarya our Reading Champion and Willow our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

This week the Friendly Dragon brought us the story of Hansel and Gretel. We talked about Children’s Rights and how they were not kept in this story. We also designed our own sweet houses. The Dragon was worried about how much sugar Hansel and Gretel has eaten so it asked us to talk about brushing our teeth so we could help them. We had lots to say! In maths, we learned about Venn Diagrams and sorted different sweets.

On Thursday, we went to the Library and had a talk from the Librarian. We listened to a story of the Princess and the Pea. It was very good! We then got stickers and a special sheet to join the library. We need to take them back to the library to register for a card. We also found out about the Summer Reading Challenge.

We all agreed our highlight of the week was going to the Library.

Congratulations to Grace who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been a kind and supportive friend. Well done to Alayha, who is our Reading Champion for this fortnight. She has shown fantastic effort in her reading group.

Pupil Highlights:

Caiden: I enjoyed making the Cueva de las Manos as we are learning about the country Argentina as part of the school topic World Cup countries.

Grace: I liked drawing Argentinian landscapes.

Diana: I liked doing our co-ordinate work where we had to plot things and also give co-ordinates.

Alicja:  I liked learning how to divide with remainders with Miss Smith.

Linda: I liked doing the coordinate work in Teejay.

Rory: I enjoyed doing  division with remainders and learning how to use the multiplication grid.

Aadya: I liked creating our own co-ordinates on huge paper.

Chahiti : I liked going outside looking for the wild flowers to identify them as part of our Green  Tree Award.

Congratulations: Well done to Rory to winning Hot Chocolate this week. You have been so focused in all your learning this week. We are all so proud of you.

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.