St John Ogilvie Primary School

What another great week of fun and learning in P1C.

This week we have been learning about beginning, middle, end in Literacy.  We listened to sounds and had to identify the sound was at the beginning, middle or end.   We also looked at pictures of different animals and people and identify who was at the beginning, middle or end.

We have been learning about the emotion sadness.  We listened to stories about sadness and discussed what makes us sad and what strategies we can you to help us feel happy and calm again.  We drew a pen drawing of what makes us sad and tried to write about it.

In Maths, we have been learning about the numbers 2 and 3. We played ‘show me, throw me’ and looked at all the different ways to make 2 and 3 using ten frames, numicon, dice, fingers, blocks.  We also practised how to write the numbers correctly using whiteboards and large paper on the floor.

In RE, we have been talking about our gifts and talents. Everyone spoke confidently about their talent and we drew a picture in our jotters to show our talents.

Here are some of our personal highlights for this week:

Taro ‘I liked drawing and running’

Olivia ‘I liked learning about the spot of sadness’

Robin  ‘I liked listening to the nursery rhymes’

Falyn ‘I liked learning about a spot of sadness’

Ariya ‘I liked writing the number 2’

Mikolaj ‘I liked playing outside’

Ruaridh ‘I liked playing with the cars’

Samuel ‘I liked playing with our friends’

Fraser ‘I liked playing outside with my friends’

Mrs Russell’s ‘I loved how confident everyone is at coming over to the teaching table and completing tasks.  You are all working very hard and we are very proud of you’

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Hello families of P1A!

I cannot believe another week has passed already!  The children have all been superstars!  They have been working hard on Wonderful Walking through the school and know this means walking with our hands by our side and lips closed.  This means that not only is everyone keeping safe but also no other classes are being disturbed.

Here are the learning highlights from the Blue table:

Levy enjoyed the story of The 3 Little Pigs.  This linked to our learning all about the number 3.  The children successfully answered many comprehension questions throughout the story which impressed Mrs Brown!

Aleigha also reported that she enjoyed our learning about the number 3.  We discovered that if we form it the same way as the beginning of the number 2, that then just gets repeated.  Aleigha enjoyed writing in on her friend’s back as well as on an LCD writing tablet and whiteboard.

Joshua said that the best part of his week was listening to the story called ‘Bear’s Woobly Tooth’.  This story linked to our learning about our feelings.

Nathaniel liked when we went up to our school woodland.  We talked about how to keep safe in the woodland and had time to explore.  Our class will have our outdoor learning day on a Tuesday afternoon, when possible.

Cooper enjoyed looking at the pictures of all the adults in the school again and trying to remember their names.  We had a discussion on what is a Trusted Adult and who we would like as ours.  The children know that they can always talk to me about their worries but if there was someone in particular they would like to share that with, their Trusted Adult, then I will arrange that for them.

Bianka loved learning about how we are all given different gifts and talents from God and how we are all unique.  We looked at images of fingerprints and the different shapes and lines they make.  The children then dipped their finger in to ink and made a print in their jotter to see what lines and shapes they could see that were unique to them.

My highlight was the beautiful singing of the song, ‘He’s Got the Whole World in his Hands’.  The children have been learning how we are all part of God’s family and are therefore, brothers and sisters in Christ.  They enjoyed pointing to the boys when they sang, “He’s got you and me brother, in His hands” and pointing to the girls when they sang, “He’s got you and me sister, in His hands.”  There was lots of giggling and fun.

I hope you all are having a lovely weekend.

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning about beginning, middle, end in Literacy. We had to listen to three sounds and then say which came where. We also wrote a sentence about feeling sad. We also learned how to draw a person using shapes and then about hairstyles and faces.

In Maths, we have been learning about the numbers 2 and 3. We have practised making the finger patterns and spoke about how we can make the numbers in different ways. We were also practising how to write the numbers correctly.

In RE, we have been talking about our gifts and talents. We drew a picture in our jotters to show our talents.

We have been learning about the blue zone and read the book Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late to learn about being tired. We then designed pyjamas for the pigeon.

Here are some of our personal highlights for this week

Rio – I enjoyed learning numbers.

Maya – I enjoyed drawing hairstyles.

Moses – I enjoyed learning about beginning, middle and end.

Leo – I enjoyed playing with the dinosaurs.

Ava – I enjoyed writing the number 3.

Hello families of P1A!

The children are continuing to settle in to school each day and it has been a pleasure to have gotten to know them so far.  They are growing in confidence with our routines and are beginning to make new friends.  Each week, one of the three table groups will feed in to the weekly blog, reporting on what they have enjoyed most about their learning for that week.  This week, we have the Red table:

Maddison loved colouring in and cutting out a picture of a tree as part of our learning about Creation.  The children have been thanking God for our beautiful world and learning about all the different things He made over the seven days of Creation.  We watched a beautiful little video to support their understanding.  Here it is again, in case you wanted to watch and talk about it together Bible Story Series: Genesis The Creation of World.

Archie said that the best part of his week was listening to stories.  His favourite one was, ‘Gorilla Loves Vanilla’.  Afterwards, each of us shared our favourite flavour.

Emily liked practising writing her name.  We worked hard to copy the shapes of the letters and did so on chalk boards, white boards and searching for the letters within a tray of mini magnetic letters.  Regular practise at home will be very helpful to your child.

Theo loved playing with the marble run.  This has proved to be a favourite activity with most of the class and it has been super watching the children share and work together to build creative runs.

Casey, like Maddison, said that the best part of his week was contributing to the Creation display.  Casey chose a bird to colour in and cut out.

My favourite part of the week was watching the teamwork during ‘Tidy up Time’.  I was amazed at their super ability to return the classroom resources to the correct place after ‘Choosing our own Leaning’ time.  We have been learning about ‘Safe Sam’, ‘Ready Rosie’ and ‘Respectful Rahim’ and tidying up very well keeps our classroom safe.  Thank you everyone for being respectful of our classroom resources.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Luca.  Each week, one child will be chosen for going ‘over and above’ in their behaviour and attitude.  I hope you enjoy your yummy hot chocolate, Luca!

I have some beautiful photographs to share on the Blog and will do as soon as all of the parents have returned their photo consent forms.

The P1A blog will be updated each weekend.  I hope you and your child enjoy looking at it together and talking about the learning that is going on in the photographs.

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning all about ‘same’ and ‘different’ in Literacy. We matched up pictures that were the same and then found the odd one out on a worksheet. Our favourite part was listening to sounds to see if they were the same or different. The duck noise was very funny!

In Maths, we have been learning about 0 and 1. We have been trying hard to write them correctly and show the number using our finger patterns.

We have learned all about the different adults in school who help us and recognised lots of them.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Alan – I enjoyed playing with the Numberblocks.

Thomas – I enjoyed making models.

Ava – I enjoyed learning about same and different.

Cai – I enjoyed learning about loud and quiet.

Yahya – I enjoyed using the lego.

Congratulations to Millie who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been very helpful and has been a great friend.

Hello Everyone

We have had a great start to Primary 3 and have all settled back into school very well. We have had fun learning lots of new things.

In Writing we created imaginary houses after listening to the story ‘ A New Home for a Pirate’. We drew beautiful pictures and wrote our favourite things about the house we designed. We also wrote some summer acrostic poems.

In Maths we practised place value, tens and ones. We followed number sequences and shape patterns and learned how to divide.

In Health and Wellbeing we talked about our feelings and the zones of regulation. We learned about being a good friend and made lovely posters about them. We made ‘ourselves’ from lots of different materials and displayed these beautifully on our class charter. We made our own group names for our tables and created our class rules to help us to be Ready, Respectful and Safe.

We had fun learning Spanish colours and numbers through songs.

Weekly Highligts

Alfie, Felix and Martha – We liked doing the art hub. We drew Red Panda’s. They are very cute!

Hallie – I loved all of the writing tasks as writing is my favourite thing.

Tiara – I liked writing my acrostic peom.

Zenith and Vivaan – We loved all of the maths. We really liked division.

Kaya – I liked learning Spanish.

Zoe – I liked learning how to divide and doing the division worksheet.

Have a lovely weekend!

From Primary 3

Primary 1 have had a fantastic first week in school. They have been making new friends and learning all about their new classrooms. They have enjoyed playing with all the resources in their classrooms and have been fantastic at tidying up!

We are looking forward to seeing everyone on Monday!

from

Mrs Brown, Mrs Meikle, Mrs Russell and Miss Stebbing