St John Ogilvie Primary School

Another busy week this week in P1B.

This week we have been learning the ‘ai’ and ‘oi’ sounds.  We are working very hard at blending our sounds and making words.

In topic we looked at the life cycle of a butterfly.  We linked this to our Maths and looked at symmetry and made a symmetrical butterfly using paint.  We also looked at halves of numbers and we are getting good at recalling what half of an even number is.

We drew our own butterflies and coloured them to add to our Living Things display.  We also painted trees to show the different seasons.  We discussed which was our favourite season.

Following on from learning about the life cycle of a tree we wrote sentences about trees remembering to use capital letters and full stops.

As it is Mother’s Day on Sunday for Writing this week we wrote sentences about our mum.  We worked really hard and wrote fantastic sentences about our mums.  Mrs Meikle was very impressed with our work.

We decided to change our Role Play area in to a florist.  We are making our own flowers using craft materials and starting to learn about how plants and flowers grow.

We enjoyed dressing up in the role play area and pretending we were zoo keepers, pirates and the police.

Today we helped Mrs Russell celebrate St Patrick’s Day.  We made leprechaun masks, shamrock badges and learned about the life of St Patrick.  We listened to Irish music and had a dance and Mrs Carlyle performed an Irish dance for us.

Highlights from this week:

Mrs Russell ‘I loved celebrating St Patrick’s Day with you all.  You made it very special for me’

Victoria ‘I like when it is Friday and we play the ‘Friday Song’

Martyna ‘I like doing my own learning’

Faye ‘I liked making my leprechaun’

Luca ‘I liked drawing’

Rose ‘I liked writing’

Enso ‘I liked making my shamrock badge’

Well done to Aaron our hot chocolate winner!

Thank you everyone for all your hard work this week.  Have a fantastic weekend everyone and see you on Monday.

Hello Families of Primary 2A,

We have had another wonderful week!

In Numeracy we have been learning about money, the children have enjoyed lots of fun activities identifying coins, ordering coins and adding coins to make an amount.

In Literacy we have been learning new sounds, our favourite spelling activity was writing our spelling words in shaving foam.

We have been reading the story book ‘Class Two at the Zoo’ by Julia Jarman, the children loved acting out different characters in the book. We designed enclosures to keep the anaconda safe and stop him from escaping, Primary 2A thought of such amazing ideas –  you can ask your child about their design!

In Spanish we have been learning how to say farm animals. We played lots of fun games to practise – you can ask your child if they can remember any animals (vaca, cerdo, gallina, caballo, oveja, perro).

Primary 2A made beautiful mother’s day cards using tissue paper – the children enjoyed writing special messages in their cards, they are so excited to share them with you!

Here are some highlights from pupils in Primary 2A:

“I loved decorating my mother’s day card and writing words to mummy” – Deveena, Chahiti and Diana.

“The shaving foam was so fun” – Linda

“I like learning about money, my favourite was the coin game” – Vivien

“I enjoyed playing with the zoo animals” – Ollie

“I liked going to the woodlands for outdoor learning, I found a centipede and slugs” – Riley, Rory and Caiden.

I hope you have a lovely weekend and a happy mother’s day!

Miss Roscilli

Our role play area has been changed into a Vet Surgery. We would like to say a big thank you to Ezara and Eleanor at Riverside Veterinary  Practice for giving us things for our role play area. We have loved giving the animals their injections and treating their wounds with the bandages and tape. We have been reading the posters to learn about what different animals need.

This week we have been learning about half of a quantity. We had to share the frogs between two lily pads so they both had the same amount. We also learned about estimating. Miss Stebbing had gold coins in her hand and we had to estimate how many were there. We then counted them to check.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘ai’ and ‘oi’ sounds. For the ‘ai’ sound we used spinners and we had to write the word for the picture it landed on. For the ‘oi’ sound we had gold coins with words on them in a pot of gold and we played pass the pot! It was great fun but some of us were too busy singing and forgot to pass it on.

We have been learning about the lifecycle of a frog and the lifecycle of a butterfly. We are very good at remembering the order of each one.

On Thursday, a Leprechaun had left gold coins in our classroom. We decided to make a trap to try to catch it. We worked together and we were very creative. We had a big surprise on Friday morning for St Patrick’s Day when we found a letter and some treats that the Leprechaun had left us.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Vedansh – I enjoyed making the flower bookmarks for Mother’s Day.

Olga – I enjoyed playing in the vet’s.

Connor – I enjoyed playing guess the numbers.

Lillian – I enjoyed making the trap.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed with everyone trying to spell words with ‘oi’. Everyone worked well with their partner to think of the sounds they needed.

Congratulations to Kacper who is our hot chocolate winner this week.

Dear Parents,

This is our weekly news:

On Monday, we  started the West Lothian Sumdog competition and we got our parts for our P7 show.

On Tuesday,  we wrote our narrative stories, we finished our massive into the forest drawing and we did Right of the week, Article 35.

On Wednesday,  We were scanning books for our new Library that P7A had the idea of making and we did music with Mrs. Morrison for our show.

On Thursday, we did drama, discussed the parts and what we do for the P7 show and we did RE to learn how Jesus died.

On Friday, we finished in 10th place for the Sumdog competition, we even had 3 Top 10 finishers!

Mr McGurn also took the Confirmation group and we enjoyed reward time/ Fun Friday.

“I enjoyed drama, when we got out roles for the show,” said Tanvi.

“I loved how the drama goes because it is fun and good,” said Bettina.

“We used our shoes and our hands in art to draw ourselves.” said Pardhu.

“We did a Sumdog competition this week and we were 10th!” said Liam.

This week’s hot chocolate at home winner was….

Well done, enjoy your treat!

Enjoy your weekends see you next week.

By Lead Learners Lily and Chiedochie.

In P4b, we’ve been very busy exploring our recycling topic and building up notes in order to prepare us for writing an information report.  We’ve been simultaneously developing our knowledge and understanding of the structure and features of an information report so we are able to confidently apply these skills within our own writing.

In maths, we have moved on from presenting information and started our fractions unit.  We’ve explored fraction walls and number lines and have deepened our background knowledge and understanding of what fractions are and the patterns within them.  We have then been able to order and compare fractions with the same denominator and with different denominators.

Highlights:

Stefi: I enjoyed doing PE because we got to play alphabetic tig.

Emily: I enjoyed doing fractions because I found it quite easy and fun.

Aiden: I enjoyed free time in PE because I liked throwing the basketball into the hoop.

Amelia: I enjoyed St Patrick’s Day.

Well done to Amelia, our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Brown and P4b

Pupil Highlights:

 

This week in we explored Article 35 which states that, Governments must protect children from being abducted, sold or moved illegally to a different place in or outside their country for the purpose of exploitation.

We discussed “How do you keep yourself safe at home, at school and in the community..”

In math, we continued learning how to find fractions of amounts by dividing by denominators and multiplying by numerators. This is very tricky but we are all becoming more confident. We also took part in the West Lothian Sumdog competition and we were 10th overall across all the schools and classes in West Lothian.

In literacy, we have been focussing on developing different reading strategies – clarifying, questioning, predicting and summarising what we read.

Some of us have finished our John Muir Powerpoints but some are still working on them, hopefully finishing them next week. Due to the heavy rain we decided to paint our wooden posts and mini seats. We managed to get a first coat on but will put a second coat next week before decorating with positive messages and pictures of nature. We also decorated small wooden discs to hang around the school to make people feel happy.

Next week we start a competition to wheel or walk to school. We are due to have a new bike shed erected during the Easter Holidays and we hope for more children to cycle to school.

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Green Table:

Maja thought that our Woodland Library event was the best!  P2B were lucky as we had 2 Woodland Library events!  One session was with P4 reading to us and one was with P6.

Eli always LOVES joined up handwriting!  This week it was joining ng together.  Next week we plan to revise the joins we have learned so far before moving on (un, ig, ed, an and ng).

Lilly said the best part of her week was learning about the importance of cleaning our teeth.  The children practised flossing on themselves.  We learned a song that Mrs Devlin made up for her own children.  Ask your child if they can sing it to you!

Sofia loved giving the dinner tickets out with Mrs Begley this week.  She was the successful candidate of the application form for Office Assistant in P2B.

TJ  really enjoyed making music this week.  We went out the MUGA with a range of musical instruments and in groups, tried to recreate river sounds (linked with our book study, ‘The River’ and our learning about the River Almond).

Karina said the best part of her week was learning about the history of Livingston and is excited to make ‘De’Leving’s Peel’ next week!

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was the learning about the different strategies we can use to ‘Get Back to Green’.  The children have been learning about the different Zones of Regulation.  We learned about all the different things the children can do to make their brain feel  happy and calm again: dancing, listening to music, spending time in nature, painting, reading, crafting, having a snack, having a drink of water, taking deep breathes, cuddling a teddy, receiving  a hug, talking to someone about their worries/problems…….

Congratulations to Theo, our Hot Chocolate award winner for this week!

Pupil Highlights:

Julia – On Tuesday we went to the woodlands with our buddies and read books to them.

Hannah – Today it’s St Jhn Ogilvie Feast Day and Father Simon came to school in the morning for mass and we got a cake after break time.

Tanya-On Thursday we continued our geodesic domes in our groups.

Hanna – We discussed our class novel and did some questioning on it, I really enjoyed it.

Riya- This week in maths we did our number talks and word problems.

Hot Chocolate Winner – Julek for high quality questions and answers for our world book day book Into The Forest by Anthony Browne.