St John Ogilvie Primary School

Today we watched the Scientists doing a show.  They turned water different colours using chemicals and they did some magic with the balloon string when they tore pieces off and then put it back together!  Yesterday we completed a maths challenge to find out who was the Pancake Pincher.  It was Seb.  We had to use times tables and division and counting in 5s, 10s, 2s and 3s (forwards and backwards) to solve clues.  We made pyramids for our new topic and we wrote facts about the pyramids on the side.  Did you know that the tallest pyramid was 140m high?  It is the Pyramid of Giza.  We have been learning the 7 days of the week in Spanish.  We updated our EPortfolios this week.  Please look at them and leave a comment.  We can show you how to log in.

Here are our personal learning highlights:

Edin – I had fun describing our monsters with the similes.

Joshua – I liked when the Scientists did the balloon trick.

Daisy – I liked when the Scientist mixed the vinegar and baking soda together and made the explosion.

Josh – I liked when we had to solve who was the Pancake Pincher.  It was a bit tricky!

Grant – I liked when the Scientist poured in the baking soda and the vinegar.

Ronan – I liked when the Scientists poured the water in the cup and it went white then black.

Natalia – I liked when the Scientists poured the water into the beaker and it turned pink.

Aoife – I liked when the Scientists did the balloon trick.

Inaya – I liked when the Scientist threw the ball behind him and one in the air and it went away.

This week we have been learning about Fairtrade.  We are making a display for the area and we will put up a photograph when it is finished.  We did some chocolate tasting for maths and the 2 most popular bars were both Fairtrade.  We made graphs to show the results of our favourite chocolate.  We need to remember to look out for the Fairtrade logo when we are out shopping.  In maths we have been learning about subtraction with borrowing.  It has been challenging so our brains have definitely been stretched!  In literacy we learned about similes.  We need to listen or look for the words ‘as’ or ‘like’.  We made our own monsters and next week we will be describing them using similes.

Our learning highlights for this week are:

Emily – I loved when we were tasting the chocolate.

Joshua – I liked when we drew our own monsters.

Daisy – I learned about similes and it was fun.

Natalia – I liked making my own monster.

Josh – I like doing the subtraction.

Madiha – I liked when we were doing the monsters.

Edin – I liked when we were writing the similes so we can write about our monsters.

Myles – I liked when we were doing the monsters.

Ronan – I liked when we drew the monsters because it was fun.

Aoife – I liked learning what similes are and writing the similes.

Samyuktha – I liked to taste the chocolate because it was super fun.

Sam – I liked drawing the monsters.

Week Beginning 17.2.20

P1B highlights:

DaisyDee – “When my name went on the ‘Over and Above’ board.”  As part of celebrating the children’s ready, respectful and safe behaviour, we now have in our classroom an ‘Over and Above’ board where the children will write their names if any adults in the school notice behaviour that is over and above.  The board will get cleared each day ready for a new start.

Markuss – “ERIC time.”  Now that the children are making headway with blending letters together to read words, we have introduced a 10 minute ERIC (Everyone Reading Together in Class) time each day straight after lunch.  The children are free to lie down with a book, teddy and pillow anywhere in the room and enjoy a book from our class library.  We have a lovely, cosy fire flickering on the smartboard too.  Also, if everyone manages to read quietly and not disturb anyone reading then we all get a house point!

Maeve – “Painting a Fairtrade logo.”  These next 2 weeks we are celebrating ‘Fairtrade Fortnight’.  The children made a paper plate logo with the choice of paint, collage, felt tip pens or crayons.  Look out for the optional Fairtrade homework that will be sent home in your child’s homework bag.

Layla – “Playing with the new Fun Friday toys.”  On Fridays as you know, the children in P1B have a 20 minute slot to enjoy some extra fun and are welcome to bring a toy from home.  The children were very excited to see the new toys they are also welcome to play with.  The 2 weekly classroom helpers have the important role of putting the toys out and putting them away behind the curtain but everyone helps during tidy up time to put them back in the boxes.

Mrs Devlin’s highlight – The highlight of my week was when we went to the woods for our outdoor learning. Watching the children stand with their mouths open catching the snow and feeling the sensation of it on their skin was lovely to see.  During this time when the sky was overcast and grey, suddenly the sun came out and sunlight flooded the woodland making it look like a magical Winter Wonderland.  Please remember to send your child dressed for the outdoors on outdoor learning days (see diary) including hat, scarf and gloves for this colder, wetter season.  Thank you.

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.