St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have had a great week in Primary 3B!

As part of our work on time, children enjoyed learning about the days of the week, the months of the year and the seasons. We have also started looking at the days of the week in Spanish!

Furthermore in Spanish, we revised our numbers to 30 by playing Bingo! We also revisited our colours by completing a word search.

We continue our topic on The Vikings; and this week enjoyed learning about Viking Long Ships! Children watched an information video and had to label a diagram of a ship.

This week our Hot Chocolate Award winner is Amelia! We are so proud of Amelia who has been working so hard on her confidence!

We also congratulate our Star Table this week; Table Cinco (5)!

Mrs Broadley

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Hello P2B families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Yellow Table:

Ciara said the best part of her week was learning songs and rhymes with Mrs Morrison.  “10 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” was her favourite one!

Amy liked handwriting this week.  We teaching handwriting at this time of the year in families of how they are formed.  This week we revised the formation of ‘l, i and j’ that all begin with a downward movement.  Amy, your handwriting was beautiful!  You remembered that ‘j’ does not rest on the line but hangs down like a monkey’s tail from a branch!

Georgia-Rose loved our ‘Maths Week Scotland’ activity where we worked with a  partner to see how many triangles we could see inside a larger triangle and how many squares we could see inside a larger square.  When we went over the answers on the smartboard, the children were amazed at how many there was to find!

Eli also said his learning highlight was a ‘Maths Week Scotland’ activity.  This one however was when we had a challenge to work with a partner to build as tall a tower as possible with lego without it toppling over and also to build as tall a tower as possible with marshmallows without it toppling over!  We learned from this that buildings need to be be created with sturdy shapes that fit together and do not change shape and need a strong foundation.  Well done Primary 2B, super teamwork!

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was our discussion on how we use maths in everyday life from the moment we wake up (Time), to when we brush our teeth (1^st we put the toothpaste on, 2^nd we …..) to when we go to bed! We also discussed the maths that different peoples’ jobs involve.  We discovered that doctors and nurses use A LOT of maths!  We had fantastic insightful comments about needing to know the correct amount of medicine to give patients and Blair talked about needing to be able to read the numbers on a blood pressure machine!

Congratulations to Sofia, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

Just a little reminder that reading books remain inside the waterproof homework packs in your child’s school bag each day and that they will be collected up on a Friday.  Thank you for your continued support.  I hope you and your child enjoyed their first reading book home together in P2.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Dear Families,

Wow, what a busy week we have had again!

Throughout literacy this week we have been focusing on our reading skill of clarifying. We thought about what this means and how we can use different strategies to clarify a word or term we don’t understand. We had great fun trying to clarify the meaning of words in different languages with Mrs Callaghan and worked on producing a Frayer model to clarify the definition of some vocabulary we had not heard of before. For writing this week we have continued our procedural writing where we have been looking at ‘bossy’ verbs and ensuring we always include a title, goal, material and steps. We wrote a procedure to tell others how to plant a daffodil bulb (we did this ourselves last week during outdoor learning!) and Miss Ventisei was once again so proud of the quality of writing produced. Well done P5A!

This week in maths we have been using our knowledge of rounding to estimate an approximate calculation. We worked really hard on some challenge cards and enjoyed playing lots of different games throughout the week to help us understand this concept. On Wednesday, we worked collaboratively as a class to share and practice our understanding of the concept by producing some fantastic posters for our maths working wall- take a look at these in our collage! We also really enjoyed learning all about the  properties of a circle with Mrs Callaghan this week.

Another highlight of the week was our learning through science. We were learning about all of the different inventions that have changed space exploration and also some that have impacted our daily lives today- who knew that Nike Air Max trainers were designed by a NASA aeronautical engineer?! We enjoyed taking part in a QR code hunt around the classroom to collaboratively find all of the different inventions and use technology to research each one. Super teamwork was shown by everyone!

Throughout IDL this week we have been learning about Robert the Bruce. We listened to and discussed the famous story about the spider and Bruce losing the battle against England 6 times and also researched his life using the iPads. Some of us presented our findings using videos, images, powerpoints, word documents and lots more. We even posted them on a padlet page so we can all view them together. We also designed our very own battle shields fit for William Wallace and Robert the Bruce! We thought carefully about the design of each one and worked really hard to produce some amazing artwork- well done Primary 5!

On Friday, we started our introduction to coding. We used a programme called Scratch to code a short animation of our choice and Miss Ventisei was so impressed with our enthusiasm, wonderful digital skills and creativity. We are looking forward to developing our coding skills throughout the year!

Here are some of our class highlights of the week:

Emily: I LOVED the estimation and rounding ball toss game in maths this week!

Leo: My favourite part of this week was definitely coding.

Farrah: I liked cutting up newspapers and magazines to make our spelling posters this week!

Our Hot Chocolate Friday winner this week was Tyler. He consistently showed our school values of Ready, Respectful and Safe all week- well done Tyler, we are so proud of you!

This week we have been learning the ‘s’ sound. We made snakes using repeating patterns and carefully cut them out. It was great fun! In writing, we wrote our own sentences about what we could see in a farm picture. For Word Boost, we have been reading ‘Penguin’s Hidden Talent’ and we spoke about the talents that we have. We are getting very confident in listening for the words and explaining what they mean.

In maths, we have been doing different activities for Maths Week Scotland. We read the story ‘The Perfect Fit’ and we made patterns and objects using the shape tiles. We have also been learning the names of different 3D shapes. We now know how to write all the numbers from 0-9.

This week we learned about our sense of hearing and sense of sight. We played a sound game and we had to circle the correct picture on our worksheet. We listened to ‘Pirate Pete and his Smelly Feet’ and discussed smells we liked and disliked.

We have continued to enjoy spending time in our Optician Role Play Area.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Vedansh – I enjoyed being Lead Learner.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed drawing.

Olga – I enjoyed writing.

Summer – I enjoyed practising ‘s’.

Lillian – I enjoyed playing the shape game.

Oliver – I enjoyed doing my writing.

Eve – I liked colouring in.

Miss Stebbing – I was very pleased with everyone trying so hard to write the number 8 and 9 correctly. I also enjoyed making patterns with the shape tiles at the maths table with everyone.

Congratulations to Summer who is this week’s Hot Chocolate Winner.

Wow, we have reached the end of another very productive week in Primary 4B!

In maths/numeracy, we have moved on from Place Value and are now looking at time.  We have started off with understanding hours, days, months, years and seasons.  Next week we will be moving on to reading the time.  Any practice the children can do at home, starting with o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to, before reading to the nearest five minutes, will be invaluable.

In literacy, we have continued with our procedure work.  We looked at verbs and adverbs and understood their purpose.  We then found these in a procedure and identified how they were used in there.

We had a brilliant time at the hockey festival on Thursday.  We showed our super skills and worked well within our teams.

Matteo: I really enjoyed choosing some different friends to sit with inside during lunch and break.  (Matteo’s ankle is in a cast so we are taking extra special care of him!).

Aiden:  I really liked going to the hockey festival and learning Spanish.  Some of the hockey festival was really funny.

Ishani M: I really enjoyed doing maths (seasons and time).  My favourite out was seasons because it was fun writing them down. My personal favourite is summer.

Ishani S and Millie: I liked doing the kindness calendars.

Khael:  I liked doing handwriting (it and ck).

Markuss: I liked doing hockey.

Very well done to Jonah, who is our hot chocolate winner this week.  Jonah has been engaging really well with his learning in a very respectful manner.

Well done to the children who are remembering to bring in their reading books on a Thursday.  Please can anybody who forgot bring theirs on Monday.

Have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Mrs Brown

Hi Families of P2a

We have had another super week. Lots of hard work, awesome learning and fun!

Some of our highlights:

It was Maths Week Scotland and we had lots of fun doing maths challenges. One of our favourite activities was working in teams to make symmetrical pictures, using loose materials.

Linda – Me and Deveena made a beautiful symmetrical butterfly and flowers.

Grace, Caleb and Vivien – We loved making a symmetrical picture with loose parts. We made a face.

Shay – I made an eagle Mickey Mouse.

In topic we learned about Concord and super sonic speed!

Jack – It travels really far in short times.

Ollie – It doesn’t fly anymore.

If you could fly anywhere in the World where would you go? The children loved talking about this and drawing pictures of the lovely places.

Chimamanda – I choose Antarctica. I drew me and my mum there with the penguins and the snow.

Angel – I drew the pyramids because I want to go to Egypt.

Diana – I drew the Northern Lights in Iceland.

We had lots of fun learning the days of the week in Spanish. We learned some cool songs and dances to help us remember these.

Huge Congratulations to Angel, our Hot Chocolate Winner!

Have a lovely weekend!