St John Ogilvie Primary School

Second week of advent we learned about the advent wreath and the meanings for each candle and the evergreen wreath which holds it together.  We continued to research our faith through the Gift of Knowledge.

In maths we continued to learn about fractions as well as the properties of 3D shapes.

We used our writing targets and picture prompts to create different types of  descriptive writing. We hope to share some of them on the blog next week with some of our lovely artwork.

In our Spanish lesson we learned the names of Spanish colours.

Have a peaceful weekend.

This week we worked in partners and planned and budgeted for our own Christmas lunches.  Nikola said she “enjoyed working with her partner and doing the challenges”

Max “liked doing music on the laptops with Mrs Morrison”

Lucy enjoyed “arts and crafts” with Mrs McLaughlin.

Francesca particularly liked “writing stories this week about a Christmas Disaster.”  She said “I really liked getting to use my imagination and be creative”

Aarya liked doing Arrays for maths.

Everyone enjoyed solving different challenges to work out which elf stole the Golden Bells from Santa’s Sleigh.

On Tuesday we took part in a live author and illustrator session with Rob Biddulph where we drew sausage dogs with a Christmas theme.  It was super fun and we all tried our best!

We are super excited for our Christmas lunch next week and getting to wear our PJ’s next Friday!

We have had another busy week in Primary 4B !

Here are some of the activities that our class has really enjoyed .

Emma – I enjoyed reading and discussing the Christmas Story.

Eoghan- I liked working with a partner to complete our Christmas party budgeting task.

Natalia- I enjoyed learning about multiplication in Numeracy.

Jude- I liked reading our passage about winter and completing our clozed procedure activity.

Joy- I had fun learning about Christmas traditions in other parts of the world.

Ibrahim- It was good to learn about local Livingston charities and the amazing work they do. We created our own food bank parcel in class.

Congratulations to Saujus on receiving our hot chocolate award this week !

We hope you have a super weekend.

Mrs Lea and Primary 4B

Pupil Highlights:

Olivier: I liked making the origami bears in technology.

Ronan: I liked learning about negative numbers.

Sam: I liked doing the origami because we got to use the Ipads giving us the instructions for how to do it.

Josh N: I liked doing music when we got to play all the music games.  I also liked learning about the connectives ‘Furthermore, In addition, On the other hand’ that we had to use in our main section of our discussion text.

Aoife: I liked learning the dances in P.E.

Marriyah: I liked using the new Nelson spelling books and finding out what the words mean.

Daisy: I liked reading our class novel.

Teacher Highlights:

I have been very impressed with how well the class have been able to contribute the arguments for, and arguments against an issue, and, apply them in their writing.  We have all been discussing that if we cannot say it, we cannot write it.  The learning is in the talking.  I have also enjoyed giving one to one feedback to the pupils on their writing and seeing the improvements and corrections they are then able to make on the same day.

Hello P2A families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Red Table:

Olivier enjoyed the lesson about the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary with the message that she would have a son, Jesus, the son of God.

David S loved our St Andrew’s Day celebrations, especially drinking Irn Bru and eating shortbread.  Thank you Mrs McKissack and Mrs McLaughlin for this lovely treat!

Julia said the best part of the week was today, Crazy Hair Day!  We noticed that Julia’s hair was symmetrical with all her lovely, bright hair bobbles.  We had been learning about symmetry with Mrs Brand this week!

Joe also loved eating shortbread.

David K liked making paper trees today for our window display.  The children completed instructional drawings for the trees and robins.  Be sure to have a look at our lovely Christmas themed window display when you are next in the playground.

Chiji liked listening to the story ‘My Big Shouting Day’ when the class explored the feeling of anger and how to self-regulate to calm their body down.  Chiji said he liked the strategy of getting a hug to help him feel better.

Zosia enjoyed the maths lessons this week where the children were learning to read and write number words up to 100.

My highlight has been watching the children become more independent in the Nativity rehearsals.  Most know their stage directions without prompt and the singing is beautiful!  We are very excited to have our dress rehearsal on Tuesday and filming will take place on Friday.

We have had another busy week in P1B.  This week we looked at the sounds h and u.  We practised how to say the sounds and identified words that have these sounds in them.  We also worked really hard on the letter sound formations.

In Numeracy and Maths we have continued working on our counting and adding and taking away.  We also introduced money.  The boys and girls are learning to identify the different coins up to £2 and also order them from smallest to largest amount.

We had a great St Andrew’s Day celebration we made our own Scottish flags and designed our own tartan.  We learned about St Andrew and how he gave up his job as a fisherman to follow Jesus.  We were very excited to get to taste Shortbread and Irn-bru.

We have been very excited to open our class Advent Calendar and learn about what Advent actually means. We made our own class Advent Wreath using our handprints.  We all have an Advent Bookle that we are working on in class to help us prepare for Christmas.  The countdown to Christmas has well and truly begun.

Our Nativity practises are going very well and we look forward to preforming next week.

Today we were very lucky to get to go into the hall with Father Simon for the Blessing of our school crib.  We even sang a song for all the boys and girls to hear.

Some of our learning highlights:

Lilly “I liked practising for the Nativity”

Amariah Grace “I liked learning my new sounds”

Blair “I liked Choosing Time”

Lewis “I liked making pictures for the windows”

Congratulations to Maja who was our Hot Chocolate winner.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we look forward to another very busy week ahead.

P1B Mrs Russell and Mrs Meikle