St John Ogilvie Primary School

P1B have had a busy week of learning.   In Literacy we looked at the sounds o and e.  They are both vowels and live in Inky’s Vowel House and they are the colour black.  We are able to identify words that have the sounds at the beginning or in the middle.  We use our actions to help us blend the sounds together to make words.

This week we received our book bug bags and were very excited when are buddies came and read one of the stories in our book bag to us.

In Numeracy and Maths we have been looking at dice patterns and also the addition and equals signs.  We used these signs to complete addition sums.

We sorted dinosaurs from largest to smallest and ordered them from smallest to largest.  We also measured dinosaurs using cubes.

In our Outdoor Learning session in the Woodlands we looked at ‘My First Book of Woodland Animals’ and discussed what hibernation is.  We then chose an animal from the book and built them a den to hibernate in.  We also used leaves to make a woodland animal picture.

We have been practising very hard for our Nativity.  We are enjoying learning all the songs.  We now know what part we have and had a practice on our staged area.

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend and we look forward to another successful week of learning to come.

A great week of learning in P7B!

This week the children have enjoyed our learning, here are a few highlights:

• Rory enjoyed meeting his buddy on Friday and his maths knowledge check!
• Lucy enjoyed our discussion on our fears – spiders, sharks and many more!
• John enjoyed meeting his buddy and revisiting writing expositions!
• Beth also enjoyed writing some expositions!
• Akki enjoyed maths this week; collecting and analysing data (see a picture of one of the bar graphs)

Our relaxing tea morning went very well! The children had a few next steps for me and my tea making abilities – the tea was apparently weak with not enough sugar (no sugar at all!) – I will try improve my skills. We did have fun and it was nice to read our books, have a cup of decaf tea in front of the fire (on the screen).

Thank you for a great anti-bulling week P7B! Have a relaxing weekend.

We have all been working really hard this week.

In maths we are using our addition and subtraction skills to solve word problems.  We have been looking at identifying the key vocabulary in a problem and how this helps us work out which operation we need to use.  We also learned how to use a calculator to add up different amounts which was great fun.  Everyone has been trying really hard and Mrs Callaghan is very proud of us all!

For literacy we are working on description texts.  We have explored the structure of a description text and the different types of language that is used – particularly the use of adjectives.  We also created a describing bubble for our wall to help us remember the different types of sentences we could use when describing.

As part of our recycling topic, we looked at how paper is made and why it is important to be environmentally friendly with paper.  We learned how paper is recycled after we put it into the blue bin and then we made our own recycled paper – which is currently drying in class over the weekend.  It was great fun and everyone enjoyed the squishy feeling of the paper pulp we used.

We linked our RE to Anti-Bullying week and listened to a story about a “little being” who was being unkind to his friends.  It reminded us that we need to be kind and caring to our friends and make sure we are behaving in a considerate way, otherwise our friends would be sad.

It was lovely to attend our school assembly today about Catholic Education and particularly swaying along to the hymns.

We are all looking forward to another super week of learning next week.

This week we have been celebrating Book Week Scotland.  We got our Bookbug bags and we were very excited.  We got to read our books in the area and with our Buddies!  We built towers with junk model boxes just like Inch and Grub.  We did a Draw Along with Catherine Raynor to draw Arlo the lion.  Our pictures were fantastic!

In maths we were measuring the lengths of different animals that live in the ocean.  We had to go outside the see how long the Blue Whale is.  It is 24 metres long!  We have been practising our adding using the numicon.

Our Nativity practices are going well and we are getting very good at singing all the songs.  We now know what part we will be playing and we had a chance to practice on our stage area.

Some of our personal highlights are

Jiade – My favourite book was Inch and Grub.

Diana – I liked reading the Lion Who Couldn’t Sleep.

Caleb – I liked when I got to do Wriggly Nativity.

Aadya – Inch and Grub was my favourite book.

Rory – I liked playing with the Avenger lego.

Vivien – I liked reading Inch and Grub because it was a good book.

Dear Parents,

We have had a very busy week in P3B!

As it is Anti-Bullying week, we have been focusing on how to be kind to others and what to do if someone is being unkind to us.  We even got some advice from Horrid Henry and his friends!

This week was also Book Week Scotland.  Unfortunately, we have not received enough Book Bags for all of the Primary 3 children yet, however as soon as they arrive, the children will receive these.  We have looked at the books that are in the bags and looked at the different materials they will receive.  The children really enjoyed the stories, especially Octopus Shocktopus!  On Wednesday, the children were authors for the day and made their very own books, including front covers and blurbs.  They really are fantastic!

In Maths, we have been continuing to work on addition and the children are working hard to improve their mental addition skills.  We have also been looking at tessellation where the children have been identifying examples of where you may see tessellation in every day life, Paige even noticed that there was tessellation on the soles of her shoes!  Ask them if they can find an example around the house.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Craig and Mrs Robson

Pupil Highlights:

Daisy: ‘ I liked experimenting with the water colours’

Filip: ‘ I liked playing the drums in Music’

Sylvia: ‘ I liked doing Science and painting too’

Aoife: ‘ I liked multiplying decimal numbers by 10, 100 and 1000’

This week we have been writing our numbers and we have been trying to write them properly.  We were learning about adding and we talked about how we got the right answer. We got to play with the maths games and one of them was to count French fries into the packets.

In literacy we have been practising writing our letters.  Our new sound was ‘i’.  We also learned a new common word, it was ‘and’.

In writing we made information booklets about sharks, whales and dolphins.

We have written our proud clouds again this week.  In the playground we have been using kind hands, kind feet and kind words.

In topic we have been learning about different sea creatures.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Aadya – I enjoyed working in creative zone.

Caleb – I liked playing with the transformers.

Caiden – I liked drawing.

Jiade – I liked playing outside.

Diana – I liked reading the books.

Vivien – I enjoyed working in creative zone.