St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello special SJO families,

P2A have had a busy week!

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

Kayla loved looking at moss with a magnifying glass in the woodland.  This task was a follow up to a fun lesson about magnifying glasses and microscopes.  We looked at objects on the smartboard that had been put under a microscope.  We had a dog’s nose, a buttercup, a bubble and moss among others.  The children were AMAZED!  We only had one person guess correctly!  It was tricky!

Pola enjoyed the lesson about Children’s Rights.  We were focusing on the right to be safe, to learn and to play.  The children worked in groups to create a Rights Garden.  One table made a sky, one grass, one flowers and one bees.  The finished garden is beautiful!  Pola contributed to creating the sky.

Emily liked our prayer writing activity when we thanked God for something or someone in our lives.

Nathan loved when he was chosen to be the ‘teacher’ in our maths ‘Counting Cowboys’ game where the children had to read numbers up to 100.  I think we might have a future teacher in our midst!

Ben’s favourite part of the week was today when he was chosen to be a Lead Learner.  The Lead Learners have many jobs but the most important one is to choose a target for the class to work on.  Both Lead Learners chose ‘Push chairs in’ as the target.  This was a fantastic target as it links to the ‘right to be safe’ we were learning about.

Isabel was excited to play ‘Snakes and Ladders’ as one of the maths activities this week.

My highlight was today when we had our first ‘Free Writing Friday’ session.  The children spoke about, then drew their story before writing it.  Some children then shared the story with the class and had the choice of projecting their voice or speaking into the sparkly microphone.  The stories were fantastic!  We had mermaid stories, fish getting trapped in clams, Santa getting stuck in a chimney are just to mention a few.  I am looking forward to next Friday already!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Homework will start next week so be sure to check this out on Seesaw.  Homework will be issued on a Monday and due on a Friday but can be submitted before then if you wish.

Hello special SJO families!

What a fantastic start to the new school year it has been for me, getting to welcome the new P2s into my class!  I am sure you cannot believe it has been a full year since your babies started P1.  The children have all settled in really well and have resumed friendships and have made new friends!  We welcome a new pupil to our SJO family, Izaan!

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

Ollie liked when we made crowns so we had one as well as the giant, George, from ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’.

Izaan loved playing ‘Counting Cowboys’ during Maths where we had to shoot the answer to the other cowboy.

Lucas enjoyed ‘Choosing Time’ where he chose to play with the marble run.

Ella also enjoyed ‘Choosing Time’ and used her cutting skills to make a pet lama called Flower!

John too said he liked ‘Choosing Time’ where he played with the dinosaurs.

Rebekah loved when we made smart ties and stuck them to our jumpers to pretend we were the giant, George.  We felt very smart with our smart ties on.  I hope you enjoyed the photograph of them on Seesaw.

My highlight has to have been the discussion we had about Heaven.  The children were learning the ‘Our Father’ prayer and the meaning of the words.  They shared who they knew in Heaven.

This week we have been reading ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.  We were sticking the pictures in the right order, we using our describing to write about Little Red Riding Hood, we made a card for Granny to get well soon and we made basket of food for Granny.  We made sandwiches and we took them outside to eat them in and watched the P7s doing their sports.

We have been learning a new sound it is ‘ou’.  We also learned the sound ‘igh’ and ‘oi’.  We made words using these sounds.

In maths we have been learning to count in 5s, 2s and 10s.  We have been thinking about the teen numbers.  We watched Numberblocks 13 to help us.  We can split the number to say how many tens and how many ones.

During Sports Day we had to do lots of different challenges.  We all got a sticker (Mrs Newall got a sticker too) and Mrs Lafferty said we worked very hard.  Miss Stebbing was very impressed!

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Julia – I enjoyed learning about doing the Red Riding Hood activities.

John – I liked playing with the other children outside.

Pola – I liked doing our reading groups.

Ella – I liked learning about how to read stuff.

Ruari – I learned about writing my name.

Kyle – I learned to say my sounds properly.

This week we have been learning about odd and even numbers. We have been using tally marks to count in 5s.

We have been learning about words that rhyme.  We have been reading The 3 Little Pigs.  We did a huff and puff challenge.  We had to blow different items across the table.  Our partners had to tick a sheet to say how many huffs and puffs we did. On Tuesday the Wolf blew down our castle.  He left footprints all over the floor.  We made wanted posters to find the wolf.  He wrote us a letter to tell us he had a bad cold and had sneezed and that was why the castle fell down.  We built houses out of sticks, bricks and wood.  Miss Stebbing tried to blow them down using a hair dryer.  The hair dryer had ears on it so it looked like the wolf!

At outdoor learning some of us were making a fire, some were climbing a tree and some people were playing in the mud kitchen.  It was fun! We were finding sticks for making a fire pit.  They had to be the length from your finger to your elbow.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Ben – I learned about playing nicely with my friends.

Ollie – I learned how to climb trees safely.

Ruari – I learned how to make a fire pit.

Chijiakwu – I learned to count in 5s.

Pola – I learned about being nice to friends and being safe.

Kayla – I learned to share the space in the woodland.

Zosia – I learned about living creatures in the woodland.  I worked with Chijiakwu.