St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week Sparkle has left us lots of challenges.  She made a story on the Mighty Writer Board and we had to write it out in our trios and then record it on Chatterpix.  The next day she left us a detective activity where we had to solve clues using our maths skills to find out who had stolen the reindeer bells.  It was Neville the Naughty Elf (he was a toymaker).  Today she is practising her maths and concentrating on her times tables.  We have had a busy week with our Christmas lunch and making snowman pictures from a worm’s eye view.  We are reading the Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher and it is a good book.

Here are some of our learning highlights from this week.

Aoife – I liked making the lanterns after we learned about Christmas in China.

Daisy – I learned how to do the worm’s eye view and about Christmas celebrations in China, France, Japan and Germany.

Olivier – I learned how to draw a snowman.

Patrick – I learned that in Japan a Buddhist monk named Hotei-osho acts as Santa.  Some people think he has eyes in the back of his head.

Marriyah – I learned that in Germany on 5th December children leave out their clean shoes and ST Nicholas fills them with sweets.

Joshua – I learned how to sign the Christmas songs.

Josh – I learned that some people in China don’t celebrate Christmas.

Miss Stebbing – I was proud of P3A when they were writing an imaginative story about an elf going on an adventure.  They tried their best to use adjectives and most people remembered capital letters and full stops.

This week in P3B we have been reading the Christmasaurus – the book that Buster the elf brought us as a gift. We have been making predictions about what we think might happen next. On Monday, we went to the pantomime, it was Snow White. During numeracy and maths we did some Christmas themed addition and subtraction and also sorted elves into a Carroll Diagram. We continued our Christmas Around the World topic and Aeryn told us all about Christmas and New Year in Japan. She brought in a fun traditional Japanese game that is played at New Year for us to play. We also made some Chinese lanterns after learning about Christmas in China. We wrote a story all about our elves going on an adventure. On Thursday we had our Christmas lunch, it was very yummy! On Friday morning we joined P3A to learn Christmas songs in sign language.

Our Learning Highlights:

“I enjoyed writing about my elf.” – Rabail

“I enjoyed Christmas lunch. There was music outside.” – Zephaniah

“I enjoyed when Aeryn told us about Christmas and New Year in Japan and the game that she brought in.” – Niamh

“We put elves into girl order, boy order, with a present, without a present. It was a Carroll Diagram” – Jayden

“I liked when Miss Brannan read the Christmasaurus book to us. William and the Christmasaurus meet together” – Naman

”I enjoyed the pantomime it was really funny and Miss Brannan had to go up and dance” – Reece

P1B have had an action packed week this week with starting with our Christmas Panto ‘Snow White’, our dress rehearsal on Tuesday and our shows on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening.  I know you were all so proud of your beautiful angels, snowflakes, shepherds, sheep, Wisemen, servants, camels, Mary, Joseph and not forgetting the donkey.  Thank you for all of your support with costumes and your attendance to help us celebrate the birth of our Lord.  We are looking forward to next week, our last week of 2019 were each day will be filled with sparkle: Christmas art, RE, parties and maybe a Christmas movie.

This week in P3B during PE we showed Mrs Lafferty our best dancing. When we came in on Monday, we had a visitor in the classroom. Buster the Elf has been visiting us from the North Pole every day this week. In science we learned about nocturnal animals. We learned about advent and made kindness advent calendars. For writing we created an elf profile. For maths we had to solve The Mystery of the Missing Reindeer Bells by solving different problems to find clues. We also learned about the properties of different 3D shapes. For our topic we started learning about how Christmas is celebrated in different countries around the world. On Friday morning we learned how to draw The Christmasaurus!

Our Learning Highlights:

“I liked when we were doing our best best dancing. We learned how to do different dances for our Christmas party. We can do these dances at a ceilidh” – Aeryn

“I enjoyed doing dances to the times tables. My favourite is the 10 times table” – Amelia

“I enjoyed doing the elf profile because it was about elves and those are my favourite Christmas things. We wrote about the appearance and what it liked and what it dislikes.” – Jayden

“I liked when we looked at people who lived in different countries and Christmas around the world. I liked learning about France.” – Sophie-Leigh

“I learned times tables. My favourite one is probably the 5 times table. I can use groups to help me.” – Jamie

“I liked when we were learning about bats in science. I learned that there were different kinds of bats one called a fruit bat and one called a vampire bat. There are only 3 vampire bats in the world.” – Gracie

“I liked signing songs in sign language.” – Vivien

This week is Anti Bullying week and we have been thinking about how to be a good friend. We spoke about the importance of speaking up for ourselves and for others. We decided we would like to wear odd socks to school today to celebrate difference and to celebrate our uniqueness.

P1a had a fantastic week. We met the ‘ a ‘ sound and Emily decided to stick the apple she made on her head which made us all laugh.

Ben: ‘ Miss Smith’ starts  with ‘ m’ and  ‘ s ‘ .

P1a also had a fantastic time taking part in all the halloween activities.

Caelan: ‘ My favourite part was when we got to go to P2 and make the biscuits. ‘

P1a have also started working with numbers 1 to 20.  Identifying the numbers and placing them in the correct order. 

Miss Smith is so proud of primary 1A for working so hard in their literacy this week. As we had a week off, we were revising our sounds taught so far ‘ m, c, s and p’. We worked in partners looking at different pictures, we had to say each word slowly,  then, ‘ chop it up’ and decide whether the m, c, s or p was at the start or end of the word. We even met the two friends ‘.. ck’ for when we hear the ‘ c ‘ sound at the end, like the word ‘ socks’.

We also finished our leaf crowns but realised when we were making them that they were too long for crowns.

We also had lots of light bulb and funny moments:

Sophia: one time papa put a cabbage in my head and he cut it in half and put it on my head

Ben: the word points  starts with p and ends with s