St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been reading the 3 Little Pigs for the Dragon. We have a 3 Little Pigs building site and we have been building houses with bricks, sticks and straws. Some people have been pretending to be the Big Bad Wolf and they try to blow the houses down! In writing, we wrote the story of the 3 Little Pigs. We are getting very good at remembering full stops.

In Maths, we ordered the pictures from the Little Pigs story from smallest to the biggest. It was tricky to fit them all on the paper but we tried our hardest. We have also been practising our subtraction sums and we are remembering to count back.

On Wednesday we did a Huff and Puff Challenge. We had to blow different objects across the classroom. The peg, the marble and the pencil were the hardest. The balloon and the ping pong ball were easier. We were puffed out at the end!

In Spanish we revised all the things we have been learning over this year. We got to sing our favourite song which is all colours.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Caleb – I enjoyed playing in the Lego and I liked playing in the building site.

Zion – I liked playing in the building site.

Rory – I liked playing with the Lego.

Jack – I like playing with the Buddies.

Diana – I liked playing with everything.

Angel – I liked doing everything.

Vivien – I liked playing at outdoor learning.

Hello P2A families!

Here are our learning highlights according to the Yellow and Blue Table:

Aiden G’s highlight was baking bread.  We have been learning about farming in Scotland.  The children listened to the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’ to learn about the different stages bread goes through from farm to fork. Aiden thought this was the best part of his week, especially the chocolate spread topping!

Pola enjoyed our Word Boost story, ‘Pig’s Prize’ and her favourite Word Boost word was ‘prod’.

Ruari said he enjoyed our whole class Narrative writing piece called, ‘Big Teddy, Little Teddy’  In this particular story, the two teddies were squashed in a toy box but then moved over to give each other enough space.  One of the features of a Narrative, is a ‘Complication’ (problem), followed by a Resolution (solution).  The children then proceeded to write their own Narrative, called ‘Big Dog, Little Dog’.  Ask your child if they can remember what their Complication and Resolution was.

Rebekah enjoyed feeling real wheat as part of our learning about baking bread.

Ollie loved the game where each child had to make a list of correctly spelled words from a list of random letters.  Ollie made 7 words.  Well done Ollie!

Ella said the best part of her week was when we acted out ‘Little Red Hen’.  She played the part of the Lazy Dog.

Eva enjoyed story writing for ‘Big Dog, Little Dog’, as described above.

Paige enjoyed measuring out and adding yeast to the ingredients for making bread.  We learned that this ingredient makes the bread rise.

Kyle enjoyed the lesson about food packaging.  We compared packaging of different loaves and discovered that bright colours, different styles of font and pictures help make packaging unique. We then designed our own packaging.  Kyle’s bread company was called ‘Life of Bread’.  I would buy it!

My highlight was when we prayed a Decade of the Rosary together.  We know that May is the month where we think about and pray to Mary more.  The children made a lovely bouquet of flowers for our May Altar with Mrs Dickie.

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

We had a super week in P1B.  This week the Dragon left us a letter with a basket and red cloak.  He wanted us to read the fairytale  story Little Red Riding Hood.  We were all very excited.  We made a get well soon card for Granny.  Chose what food to put in a basket to send to Granny to make her feel better.  We spoke about healthy and unhealthy foods and sometimes having a little treat.  Granny was so delighted with all our hard work she asked the Dragon to send us ingredients to make ourselves a Jam Sandwich.  We were able to discuss how to make the sandwich step by step and then we made our own one.  It was delicious.  We then sequenced pictures showing how to make the sandwich.

In writing we focused on descriptive writing and looked at different characters from the story and described them using talking sentences.  Then we wrote a descriptive piece about the Big Bad Wolf.  We used lots of fantastic describing words and remembered to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.  Our teachers are very proud of how well we are working.

This week in Numeracy and Maths we have been practising counting in 2s and 1os.  We listen to songs and join in singing.  It is really fun.  We have looked at o’clock and can identify the hands on the clock face and know where the numbers go.  We made our own clock using paper plates.  We also looked at fractions halves and quarters.  When we made our jam sandwich we cut it into halves and then quarters.

In Heath and Well Being this week we had a great discussion on things that are safe or unsafe to eat or drink.  Mrs Russell was very impressed how grown up we are and we know never to touch medicines or cleaning products and where they should be stored.  We sorted everyday items into safe or unsafe to handle.

This week we started to build a Castle in our classroom.  We used big boxes to get the shape of the castle and we painted it.  We will continue to work on this and decorate the inside.

Dear Parents,

On Monday we had Mrs Laftery for P.E and we played dodgeball and some fun games.

On Tuesday we had Mrs Morrison for music where we sang two songs so that we can warm up for graduation.

On Wednesday we had story writing and we had to base it on a World War II child’s evacuation day.

On Thursday we had out door learning and we did orienteering with the maps and then used them for a game of hide and seek.

On Friday for maths we had Sumdog as there’s a competition.

Have a great weekend,

Lead Learners Lauren and Maria and Primary 7a.

This week we have been exploring RRSA Article 6 (life, survival and development): Every child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and  develop totheir full potential. This has been very interesting for the children to reflect on how much they have changed, grown and developed since they started school in Primary 1. As they are preparing to become buddies they have been thinking about things they couldn’t do then and now take for granted. Next week they will begin making the videos for their House Captain Speeches. Rehearsals in class have been very good.

We have been investigating coordinates. Plotting points on a map and a grid.

We have had a great week planting, weeding and clearing up some areas around the school grounds. All the children in P6A have worked cooperatively, negotiating tasks and improving their outdoor environment. Hopefully the weather will be good next week.

Pupil Highlights:

Ronan: I enjoyed doing my colouring in this week.

Elizabete: I liked learning about WW1 because it was interesting looking at primary and secondary sources.

Adam: I liked playing rounders.

Josh N: I liked doing the shot put in P.E.

Olivier: I liked making a start on making a newspaper about the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand.

Sam: I liked making up the times tables to the songs.

We have had a great week here in Primary 3B.

Literacy

This week we have focused on a book called “The man who wore all his clothes”. We made predictions, thinking about what we think might happen. We identified the key events in each chapter the created a story hill where we put the chapters in order.

Maths

We have started to look at fractions, we have explored halves, quarters and thirds.  We went outside to measure things in the playground using metre sticks.

Health & Wellbeing

We continued learning about how to keep our bodies health and how to have a balanced diet.

Pupil highlights

Layla – I enjoyed doing work on emotion cogs with Mrs Dickie.

Zac – I enjoyed doing PE with Mrs Lafferty. We were doing  standing long jump, running long jump and speed bounce.

Leah – I have enjoyed doing the halves of shapes.

Matteo – I liked doing the literacy work with “The man who wore all his clothes”.

Shelby – I liked doing fractions and looking at quarters.

This week we have been reading the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We made a basket for Granny and we wrote a list of all the things we put in. We also made repeating patterns using pictures from the book and we did some subtraction calculations. To make Granny feel better we made some get well soon cards and posted them in the dragon’s post box. Granny loved them and sent us the ingredients to make a jam sandwich. We had to tell Miss Stebbing the instructions to make the sandwich and we learned we had to be very clear. She put the whole loaf of bread on the plate and then put the jar of jam in the middle of the two pieces of bread. It was very funny!

In Writing, we have been learning to describe the different characters from Little Red Riding Hood. For talking sentences we described Red Riding Hood using the Describing Bubble. Then we wrote our own sentences about the Big Bad Wolf.

We learned about the features of a castle this week and we drew our own castle and labelled all the different features. We also built a castle in our classroom so the Friendly Dragon can have its castle back in Fairyland. The Friendly Dragon left us a baby dragon that we have named Spike. We love looking after Spike and making it things in Creative Zone.

In Health and Wellbeing we learned about things that are safe or unsafe to eat and we talked about medicines. We were very good at discussing the different substances and where they should be stored in our houses.

Some of our personal highlights from this week are:

Diana  – I enjoyed everything.

Chimamanda – I enjoyed making the big castle for the Friendly Dragon.

Vivien – I enjoyed playing with everything.

Rory – I like doing everything.

Jiade – I liked playing with the tablet.

Zion – I loved doing every single thing this week for the dragon.

Caleb – I enjoyed playing in the castle.

Riley – I liked playing with the Lego.

Ollie – I enjoyed playing What’s the Time Mr Wolf.

Hello P2A families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Green and Red Table:

Kayla loved learning the months of the year in Spanish.  We discovered that all the months, apart from January, have the same spelling at the start as the English spelling.  How interesting!  The children enjoyed singing along and having to sit down and stand up when their birth month came around.  Here is the link to the song if your child would like to practise them at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKznbHvPFwc

Nathan loved the challenge of building a bridge for the Three Billy Goats to cross.  The challenge was that it had to hold the weight of 3 stones (that represented the goats) for 5 seconds.  Nathan’s team was successful!  Well done guys!

Emily said the highlight of her week was PE with Mrs Lafferty where they were seeing how far they could throw javelins.

Julia enjoyed our PM writing sessions this week.  We moved on to learning how to write narratives.

Chiji liked our Number Talks.  This week we continued to work in partners to estimate a given number of items in a jar and then use clues to work out the exact number, such as “The number is more than 42 but less than 60”.   We had a 100 square to help us.

David S said his favourite lesson was looking a famous bridges from around the world.  He recognised our very own ‘Forth Rail Bridge’.

Joe loved finding out that he was this fortnight’s Reading Champion!  Congratulations Joe!

John like playing Common Word Bingo, especially as he won!

Babafola said his favourite lesson was on the Zones of Regulation.  We continued to focus on the Green Zone – the zone our body likes to be in and how we can get back to Green.  For more information about these zones, check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1cnNsTPRaA

My highlight was watching the super teamwork that went on during the bridge challenge activity.  I felt so proud to see everyone working together, listening to one another and helping one another.  Well done P2A!