St John Ogilvie Primary School

In Primary 3B this week we finished reading The Twits. We planned for our writing next week by coming up with a new trick that Mr or Mrs Twit could play on each other. We also made our own Roly-Poly Birds and put these up on the wall ourselves! For maths we have been focusing on place value and have played games to help identify hundreds, tens and units. On Friday morning we attended mass in the school.

Here are some of our learning highlights for the week:

“I enjoyed reading The Twits, it was really funny when they shrink.” – Aditya

“We have been saying what is the hundreds, the tens and the units. My favourite game is the basketball game” – Jude

“I liked doing the Roly-Poly Bird because we did lots of colouring and artwork” – Vivien

“We wrote about a trick that Mrs Twit or Mr Twit could do. It was fun writing it” – Sophia

As part of our regular Friday Outdoor Learning, this week P7B were taking part in two activities:

We were learning how to use flint and steel, cotton wool and petroleum jelly to light a fire in preparation for two weeks time when we are going to make toast at the fire pit.

The other task was to use sticks to make a frame and then create a picture using found materials from around our woodlands. We had some very different approaches!

P7B intend to be out regularly on a Friday and if parents can support us in providing children with a change of clothes and shoes (that are allowed to get muddy) and a waterproof coat/jacket, which takes account of Scotland’s usual weather, that would be a massive help.

Many Thanks,

Mr McGurn

This week we finished The Twits and we started writing about a new trick Mr or Mrs Twit could play. We went to Mass with p5 and p7a on Friday. We were very respectful and Miss Stebbing was extremely proud of us!

Here are are some of our learning highlights from this week.

Marriyah – I liked when we were doing The Twits and we were writing about a new trick.

Sam – I liked when we got to make Mr Twits face on our photograph. My beard was very long.

Josh – I was proud of us all singing nicely at Mass.

Emily – I was proud of our mime to act out a scene from the Twits.

Joshua – I liked playing games in maths to help us do the sums.

Inaya – I liked the Spin to Win game for place value. We beat Miss Stebbing!

Here are a couple of photos of our whiteboard work.

Hello Families of P1B!  I cannot believe we have been at school for one whole week and how far we have come!  The children are settling in very well and getting themselves organised quicker each day as they become more familiar with our routines.  Some highlights of our experiences at school so far are quoted as follows: Paige liked it when we chased each other around the room with feathers.  We were pretending to be Ticklish Two the swan.  Ticklish Two is a character in our Number Zoo that helps us learn how to form the number 2 correctly.  Markuss has loved meeting our Spanish friend ‘Paula’ the friendly caterpillar.  Paula has taught us how to say, “Hello, Goodbye and My name is” so far in Spanish.  Ishani S also claims that learning some Spanish has been her favourite part of Primary One so far.  Finally, Jonah thinks that cooking and tasting asparagus has been his highlight.  We were learning about asparagus as part of our ‘a’ phonics.  We look forward to all the exciting things coming up next week!  Watch this space….

Today P4B have been learning about shapes. We have looked at properties of 3D shapes, identifying number of faces, edges and vertices. We have had lots of fun making 3D shapes, 2D shapes and shape tile patterns.

Primary 3A have been very busy this week. We have settled in well and we are trying our best to follow our rules of ‘Ready, Respectful and Safe’. We have had lots of compliments for our ‘Wonderful Walking’. Ask us to show you what Wonderful Walking looks like.

Here are some of our learning highlights from this week.

Josh – We have been writing our own stories in our Free Writing Friday jotters.
Adam – We have been learning about writing adjectives in our stories.
Nilaya – We have been learning about partitioning numbers.
Marriyah – We have been learning about our rules.
Myles – We were learning about how to split up numbers. We used cubes to help us.
Daisy – We have been learning how to use the 100 cubes.
Edin – We have been learning about The Twits.
Sam – My favourite bit about The Twits was when Mrs Twit went up in the air with the balloons!

We played this game to help us partition the numbers.
http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html

P1a have had a very very busy first week.  We have been able to show our teacher what being ‘Ready’ looks like and we can now get ourselves ready by ourselves in the morning and at the end of the day. We are really good now at putting on our indoor shoes so we can be safe in the school.

We have also loved telling our teacher what musical instruments we can hear ‘ first, middle and last’ when being played behind a screen. Emily didn’t fall for Miss Smith’s trick when the bells were played first, middle and last !

All of primary 1 were able to bring Miss Smith 2 pencils, two teddies, two glue sticks , and even two chairs and two pillows as we have  been learning about number 2 this week. Sophia was able to tell the class that it is much more fun playing with another person because it means they can pass a ball to you and you can have shots. Caelan was able to tell his teacher that there were only two pairs of gloves at the puppy hospital and ‘ we needed 1 more’. We have all been working really hard at writing what number 2 looks like on paper.

Miss Smith could not be more proud of her new class . Bravo P1a.

This week we have been acting the scenes from The Twits and making a display to show our work.  Grant, Amelia, Adam and Josh were in charge of putting up the display and making a banner.  We also used the Mighty Writer Board for the first time.

Here are some of our learning highlights.

Patrick – We were rolling the tyres and playing on the Pirate Ship this week at Outdoor Learning.

Samyuktha – We had Free Writing Friday and I was writing a story called ‘Come Home Already’.

Emily – In science we were learning about liquids and solids.

Aoife – I love maths because we got to play games and got to do activities from the Rainbow Trays.

Adam – We have been remembering to be ‘Ready, Respectful and Safe’.

Inaya – We read Six Dinner Sid and he flipped himself into the water.

Sam – We went on the Mighty Writer Board to help us write about The Twits.

Week Beginning 2.9.19

P1B have had a super week of learning!  Some of our learners recount their ‘best bits’:

Szymon: I liked when it was our turn to play football in the MUGA.

Mia:  I really liked running in PE.

Aiden: I loved playing with the babies during Choosing Time.

Maeve:  My favourite part was playing with playdoh during Choosing Time.

Mrs Devlin: When I think back over the week, I must say I did enjoy when we made Spanish flags and listened to some traditional Spanish Flamenco music. Keep up the great work P1B!

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