St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week in P3B during PE we were doing gymnastic obstacles and balances on benches and mats. We were bouncing tennis balls off the ground with rackets.

In maths this week we were practicing our rounding to 10 and did some challenges. We also learned numbers up to 20 in sign language.

It is Scotland Loves Languages week. Teachers in the school have been wearing stickers with different countries on them, we have been saying hello to them in that language. Each day we have been picking a different sticker for Miss Brannan to wear. We all got a love heart with someone else’s name in it and had to write nice things about that person in Spanish and decorate it. For writing this week we made a poster using the different ways to say hello that we have learned throughout the week.

Our new topic is Ancient Egypt and we wrote about what we already know and what we would like to learn. We learned where Egypt is and about the different things we will learn during the topic.

On Friday we made paper lanterns to celebrate the Chinese Lantern Festival that marks the end of Chinese New Year.

Our Learning Highlights:

“Me, Jude and Aditya are making a poster about Ancient Egypt” – Naman

“I liked when we were doing the Scotland writing, it was fun” – Aeryn

“I liked when we were in the classroom and we had to say hello to each other in a different language and write people’s names next to the country they were wearing” – Aditya

“I liked when we were writing about our learning on the maths wall” – Amelia

“I enjoyed doing the Chinese lanterns” – Summer

“I enjoyed writing notes about what we want to learn and what we already know about The Egyptians” – Declan

This week we have celebrated “Scotland loves Languages” week.  We have made posters which show how to say hello in different languages and used a different language to greet each other every day – Temi

Some of us had an enrollment for the Pope Francis Faith Award at mass this morning.  This is part of our preparation for Confirmation – Ciaran

In Maths we have been adding and subtracting decimals – Sarah

We have enjoyed taking part in some games to help us develop our ability to listen.  Ask us about them at home! – Hashim

On Wednesday it was World Read Aloud Day.  We were lucky because our class had a teacher from another school come to read to us! – Zuzanna

Also on World Read Aloud Day, Mrs McKissack came out to the playground at lunch time to read to us, it was good fun – Temi

This week we have really enjoyed preparing for our bear hunt by making masks and maps to help us.  We listened to Michael Rosen reading us the story and really linked the noises and sound effects.

We learned about making a story plan to help us create stories with problems and solutions.  We then used our sounds to write our own stories this week and are looking forward to sharing them with our class dragon.

Today we attended Mass with Fr Simon and showed him our amazing singing of the hymns and he came to speak to us afterwards about the different church colours.   Fr Simon said we are enthusiastic learners.

We are looking forward to next week to do more fantastic activities.

P1a all worked so hard at  being consistently ready, respectful and safe that they each were awarded a ready, respectful and safe certificate on Friday.

The pupils also had to collect  100 objects at home and bring them into class. We loved showing each other what we had found and Caelan even said Miss Smith could keep some of the tiny hair clips he had brought in ! ( She did not but thanked him anyway ).

Learning Highlights:

Mason: I liked making the dragons on Monday for learning our d sound.

Sophia: I liked making crowns with my P7 buddy because we had to make sure each strip had ten pieces and I liked using the stickers.

Pixie: I liked writing what we can now do when we are in Primary 1. Pixie wrote that she can now make toast by herself !

This week we have been completing the Daily 10 Maths activity to practise rounding and 3 times table.  We have stated to think about our new topic which is the Egyptians.  We filled in a KWL grid and we have lots of things we want to learn.  We finished our SHANARRI topic by creating characters with special skills.  In writing we wrote poems about a dug, a coo or a tod and we had to use Scots words.  With Mrs Ogurno we listened to the poem ‘A dug , a dug’.  We learned the months of the year in Spanish and next wee it is Scotland Loves Languages Week so listen out for us practising lots of different languages.

Here are some of our learning highlights from this week

Sam – I liked learning about the Spanish months of the year.

Josh – I liked doing the Spanish wordsearch.

Daisy – I learned how to say the months of the year in Spanish and it was fun.

Patrick – I liked learning how to round numbers to the nearest 10.

Aoife – I liked doing the KWL grid for the Egyptians.

Nilaya – I liked doing the Daily 10.

Emily – I liked doing the Daily 10 on the whiteboards.  It was fun.

Inaya – We updated our EPortfolios on the IPads.  I learned how to sign in and make a post.

Here is a link for the Daily 10 game.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

Week Beginning 20.1.20

P1B highlights:

Layla – “Doing highland dancing was my favourite.”  As part of our celebrations of Burns Day, the children were watching highland games on the Smartboard and also some people doing highland dancing.  They had good fun joining in.  Other Burns Day fun involved designing tartan umbrellas (for our ‘u’ phonic sound) and performing ‘Ally Bally Bee’ at assembly today.  The link is as follows in case your child wants to perform it for you at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNsqZEKkzRQ

Zac – “I liked making our own clubs.”  This week the children have been learning what it means to feel ‘Included’.  We listened to a story called, ‘Strictly No Elephants!’ about a child and their pet who did not feel very welcome at a club.  We decided to make Welcome posters for our classroom door so that everyone who comes in to our room feels included.  We also created our own made up clubs during story writing and decided the name, when and where it was going to be.  The clubs ranged from ‘The Mermaid Club’ to ‘The Teddy Club’!

Paige – “I liked the shapes in the woods.”  P1B have been learning to recognise and make 2D shapes this week.  We searched for them naturally in the woods.  We discovered there were many circles there!

Maeve and Mrs Devlin’s Highlight – “The Assembly.”  As mentioned in this post, the children performed Ally Bally Bee at the assembly today.  I was so proud of them!  This was also my highlight!