St John Ogilvie Primary School

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.

Hello P2A families!

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

Pola loved making poppies for Remembrance Day.

Eva enjoyed learning Spanish with Mrs Brand.  The children learned the phrases for ‘sit down, stand up, silence and listen’.

Aiden G loved our Nativity rehearsals that started this week.  The children have been learning the songs and have done very well to remember all the words and actions!  They are very excited to find out their roles next week!

Rurai said his favourite part was music with Mrs Morrison as it involved watching a movie!

Pagie was overjoyed to find out that she was chosen to be a Lead Learner!  She jumped for joy!

My highlight has to have been our Nativity Rehearsals.  The children were so excited to hear that the story of the baby Jesus being born is the greatest story ever told in all the world and that they were helping to tell it with their singing and acting.  Look out for a costume letter going home early next week with your child’s role named on it.  These are very exciting times in Infants!  We are honoured to be part of the retelling of this very special story of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.