St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week in P3B, to get ready for Halloween we used some Halloween related words to write acrostic poems. We made sure to use adjectives to make our poems more interesting. We also took part in some problem solving during maths to help solve who stole the Halloween cake. In pairs we took a clue each then worked as a whole class to put the clues together to solve the mystery. We were brilliant detectives! We learned a bit about The Day of the Dead and how it is celebrated at the same time as Halloween. We made some colourful skull masks. We also learned how to say some Halloween words in Spanish and in Sign Language! We drew some animals that we know live in the Rainforest using oil pastels on black card so that the bright colours would stand out. On Friday we took part in some Halloween activities with our friends in P3A and had great fun!

Our Learning Highlights:

“I liked doing the masks. They are skulls. They are for The Day of the Dead. It’s a thing that Mexican people celebrate.” – Akash

“I managed to get an apple very easy when we were apple dunking” – Ali

“I liked drawing the rainforest animals. We used oil pastels” – Niamh

“We were doing Halloween poems. We could either pick the word pumpkin, cauldron or Halloween to write an acrostic poem” – Aeryn

“I liked finding the cake thief by solving maths problems. We worked with a partner to solve a clue. We gathered together and mixed the clues up.” – Naman

Week Beginning 28.10.19

P1B highlights:

Paige – “My favourite part was having the rabbits.”  The SSPCA delivered some mechanical rabbits to P1B and we learned how to take care of them so they are happy and healthy.

Layla – “I liked finding Numicon on the branches.”  The children have been learning about Even and Odd numbers.  We met a little owl called Even and he only ate 2, 4, 6, 8 and O ending numbers.  The song is to the tune ‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm’.  Ask your child to sing it to you.  We went on a number hunt around the school and wrote the numbers down in the correct column.

Ishani S – “I liked seeing the classroom full of leaves!”  We started our new topic, ‘The Graffalo’ this week.  The children found the room with a carpet of leaves one morning and different footprints.  They had lots of ideas about who the footprints belonged to!  Some thoughts ranged from wolves to bears!  At last we discovered the book and linked the footprints to the characters.

Jude – “I like making Halloween cookies.” On Thursday the children rotated around the P1 and P2 classrooms and engaged in lots of fun Halloween themed learning.

Mrs Devlin: The highlight of my week was today when we put the letters we have been learning together.  We put c and a together to make ca, s and a together to make sa, m and a together to make ma and finally p and a together to make pa.  I revealed to the children that on Monday we will meet the new sound ‘t’.  We placed it at the end of our letters and some people read sat, mat and cat!  It was truly magical!  Keep an eye out in your child’s diary for suggested words you can make with your sound flashcards by gluing them together.

We will have a new pupil join our class next week called Emily.  She visited our class today and listened to a story.  We are so excited to have a new friend join P1B.

Please keep the ‘Common Words’ flashcards bag in your child’s homework pack so these can be updated on Fridays.  Keep the ‘Sounds’ flashcards bag at home as you have been issued with the sounds we will be focusing on up until Christmas already.  Thank you.  This message is only relevant for P1B.

This week has been a very busy week with lots of Halloween and Autumn activities.  We have been learning Halloween words in Spanish and in sign language.  We also have been signing along to Remember Me from the film Coco.  In maths we have been looking at our 2 times tables and we made an array to show each sum.  We also had 2 special visitors from the SSPCA, ask us about what we learned!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHQpcz4aSp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vceLLb1WPOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRZGdsuoLw

Our highlights from this week are

Myles – I liked learning the Spanish words.

Adam – I liked doing the Halloween treasure hunt.

Daisy – I liked when we done the Halloween treasure hunt.

Aoife – I liked doing the Sign Language.

Josh – I liked when we were dooking for apples.

Natalia – I liked decorating the pumpkins with the patterns.

Marriyah – I liked doing RE when we were learning about All Saints’ Day

Elizabete – I liked when Isabella did the Halloween signs and when we done the dooking for apples.

Inaya – I like doing the Spanish numbers game.

Miss Stebbing – I was proud of P3A when they made their artwork outside using the leaves.  I also liked seeing them trying their best to sign the words to ‘Remember Me’.

The Scottish SPCA came to our class and we learned facts about keeping animals safe, building cool coding robots that moved using the tablets.

Michelle from WELDAS , came to talk to our class about the dangers of smoking and raise our awareness of how it is not good for your health! We took part in some fun activities

.On Halloween we completed maths  Murderer Mystery activity, we worked with a partner to solve various clues which eventually told us the winner of the Halloween costume competition!

In art, we created geometric patterns using bright colours and then designed a tree silhouette using black card.

It was a busy week !

By Sasha and Adrian

Week Beginning 21.10.19

P1B highlights:

Leah – I liked making pasta in the mud kitchen for Paige.

Millie – My favourite part was learning about God making the world in 7 days.

Markuss – I like teaching P2 and P3 the actions to the Hail Mary prayer at assembly today.

Meave – Using the soft pastels was my favourite thing.

Mrs Devlin: Today I had a good old chuckle to myself talking to the kids about Ireland.  During news time I told them that my sister will be visiting from Ireland next weekend.  Matteo made me laugh until I cried when he said, “They talk funny in Ireland.  That is why you say Ogilvie Brrrrrrr.”  This then led to the children trying to teach me the “correct” way to say bear.  I literally had tears running down my face it was so funny.  Thank you Matteo for the laughs.