Primary 3

Primary 2/3 Weekly update

Primary 2/3 would like to share their learning highlights with you:

Aiden loved writing his story about a fire fighter in Mighty Writer.

Casper loved working with number lines to 1000 in maths. His number line was very very big!

Daniel loved doing handwriting because he likes writing letters. He noticed that his letters were very neat this week.

Abby loved learning about our community this week.

Abigail loved finding numbers on number lines in numeracy this week. She would really like to make her own big number line.

Freda loved story writing because she loves using her imagination.

Rutendo loved topic because she enjoyed using the netbooks to research the work of the fire station in our community.

Rafay loved spelling words with ch at the end this week.

Bernice loved climbing in PE.

Abu Bakr liked doing number talks because he was blown away by the strategies.

Paul loved maths because he loves addition.

Mark D. loved using a number line to help him round.

Joshua did really well on Sumdog and liked evaluating his reading book.

Oliver loved going to the cinema because it was so much fun.

Lloyd, Wiktoria and Marcel loved PE because they were climbing and playing a game with the nerf gun.

Blake liked making a number line in numeracy.

Poppy liked thinking about strategies in number talks.

Seren enjoyed our revision week in Word Boost because she could remember loads of words.

Isla loved Spanish because she can count really well.

Mark K loved Sumdog and reading.

Nathan loved writing about a fire fighter using Mighty Writer.

Everyone has enjoyed updating their profiles and we’ve tried using the OneNote app to help us.

Congratulations to Casper and Mirren who were our Star Writers this week and loved reading their stories to the nursery.

Have a lovely weekend.

From Mrs Keegan and Mrs Caskie.

In writing this week we all wrote fabulous stories, recounting the story of Peace at Last. We worked especially hard to reread our work and worked really well with our partners. Our focus was to use capital letters, full stops and fantastic openers. Our star writers, Abby and Bernice, were delighted to visit the nursery to share their stories.

Primary 2 children were really excited to begin rehearsals for the Nativity this week. We’re looking forward to sharing this learning with you.

Everyone worked hard during Smart Start, especially when investigating maths through play. The children decided that the best way to record their learning was to use digital technology rather than paper – great idea!

Digital learning has been a focus this week and the children have worked hard to login to Glow at home. We have been so impressed to read about the children’s wider achievements and to see the photos as well as to receive emails from the children.

In Number Talks we have been using the Rekenreks online to build our understanding of number. “How many can you see? How do you know?” have been key questions in class. The children have been really confident in sharing their strategies.

We’re looking forward to Cool to be Kind week next week, especially Odd Socks Day on Monday. You can get a sneak preview of the Choose Respect song for Odd Socks Day 2018 by clicking the image below. We can’t wait to join in with the song!

We’re also looking forward to our cinema visit next week. Please remember to complete the permission slip and return it to school.

Primary 3 Learning

Hi everyone!

Here are some of our highlights from Primary 3 this week which the children wished to share.

Exciting news! Primary 3 have decided that they are going to become authors of their own books. They are going to be writing their own imaginative stories through a writing process, just like real authors! We have started our setting this week and are very excited about it! We plan to produce our books, complete with front cover and blurb etc. Watch this space!

FIREWORKS SENSORY ACTIVITIES

In preparation for our Writing lesson where we were describing a Fireworks Setting, we had some SENSORY experiences.

James – we were smelling hot chocolate, tomato ketchup and fried onions. This helped us imagine we were actually at a Fireworks display.

Kerr – we had a picture of a bonfire on the smartboard. It made us think we were at a bonfire because it looked realistic. It made popping noises.

Sahara – we opened our classroom door so the wind could come in and make us feel cold.

Klaudia – we had to put our jackets on, just as if it was a real bonfire night.

Kaitlyn – Mrs Scott splashed a little water on us at the end so we could pretend it was raining.

FIREWORKS ART

Dawid – We used chalk pastels to help us draw fireworks. It was a fun task to do. It helped me learn about the lines and shapes of fireworks.

Adam – Mrs Scott made a skyline on our classroom wall and our fireworks look amazing above it!

Lucy – I noticed that part of the skyline looks like the Macarthur Glen glass dome and the clock tower on top of Morrisons.

Stefan – I liked doing my fireworks art. It was really fun.

POPPIES

Kerr – I enjoyed making my poppy and I learned that people died during the war.

AUTHOR JOTTERS

Klaudia – I enjoy writing in my author jotters because it is up to me what I want to write about. I have been writing about the monster, the talking pen. Little Lucy and I am thnking of more characters.

Jarred – I am writing a story of my own called Super Poop. It is a detective story and a mystery. There is pizza and coca cola in it too and someone saves the day.

Amber – I wrote a story and it was called Boo the Hamster and his house.

Leigha – I’m writing a story called The Robbers and it is finished now.

Kaitlyn – My story is called Floofie Bunny and it’s fun.

Kayla – During Smartstart, I was showing my friends how to make 3d triangles using our collage materials.

Esmee – I am writing a story and it is funny. It is called My Cat Milo.

CINEMA TRIP ON TUESDAY

If you haven’t already, please return your child’s permission slip for the trip on Monday.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Mrs Scott and Primary 3

P3 Weekly Round Up!

What a fantastic week it has been in P3!

Routines and Behaviour

Mrs Scott and Mrs Conway have been SO impressed this week with the behaviour in P3! On Thursday we had almost everyone on our praise board 🙂 fantastic! We have been trying so hard with the routines in class – to help us listen to instructions, follow directions, show we are READY to learn, show RESPECT to our classmates and staff and to keep ourselves and others SAFE.

We have recently started earning table points which the boys and girls are really enjoying – if you are spotted being good, being organised, being ready to learn, being a good friend (amongst other things!) you can earn your table 10 points – the winning table at the end of each day get a special prize! We are thinking about team work and what makes a good team 🙂 ask your child if their table has won, and if they have any ideas to help their table earn table points next week.

Literacy

We have continued to work on our WORD BOOST work. This week we read ‘Beware of Girls’. Our boost words were;

damp

cottage

sniff

grumble

stagger

distant

Can you child use these words in a sentence? We are aiming to build the vocabulary of our children and word boost helps us do that! Does your child know any amazing words that would make us go WOW? Let us know of any next week 🙂

Numeracy and Maths

On Wednesday we managed to consolidate our grid reference work with a Halloween problem solving task. We had Mrs Swann (parent helper) to help with our grid reference colouring challenge. Mrs Swann was so impressed at how little help the boys and girls needed! Well done! Next week Mrs Conway is hoping to introduce the boys and girls to a simple version of Battleships – have you got this game at home? Ask your child if they would like to play to support their learning about grid references 🙂

The boys and girls LOVE learning about place value – especially when we can watch the ‘Place Value Rap’! This is a bit tricky for our boys and girls but has taught us about how we write numbers from left to right, but build numbers from right to left!

We showed maturity and respect at our whole school mass on Thursday to celebrate the feast of All Saints Day. The boys and girls completed lovely prayers to some of the saints we discussed in class. Although the clip below is American, it helped us with our discussions about All Saints.

Committees

This week we had our committee group Friday – we split into our committee groups 9-10am on Friday morning and each of us explore something different through play. Have a look at our school twitter page to get an idea of the kind of activities we have been taking part in!

Have a fantastic weekend!

P2/3 Weekly Update on our Learning Adventure.

Another busy week in P2/3.

In our outdoor learning we were nature detectives and used magnifying glasses to look at a variety of things in the school garden. We had to work in teams and draw the object as it looked with our eyes and then draw it after using the magnifying glasses. It was amazing what we found and as it was frosty it was even more exciting.

In Literacy this week we read Hiccup The Viking which was our Word Boost book. We had to listen out for the following words ocean, spine, shriek, ancient, immediately and peculiar and remember if they were nouns, verbs or adjectives. In our reading we worked on our higher order thinking skills of Remembering where we had to write down the setting of our story, the main characters and what happened at the beginning of the story. We also worked on Understanding using our word boost knowledge of adjectives we had to write three adjectives to describe the main character, think of the main idea of our story and describe why the title was appropriate to our reading book.

We continued to work on our addition and counting in Numeracy and are becoming super at our number talks.

Here is a link to a game we used to help us with our addition.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=maths/addition

In our number talks we sometimes use ten frames and we can come up with lots of strategies of what do we see and how do we see it. Here is one you can try at home and you can post your strategies too!

In P.E. we are working on a fitness block and this week we became teachers and worked alongside P1D in a fitness circuit. We followed our school rules of READY, RESPECTFUL AND SAFE. We really enjoyed working with them and want to say a big thank you to Mrs Davenport for inviting us to join in.

In Digital learning this week some of us have logged onto Glow and we will continue with this next week. This will also be part of our Homework for next week and we are excited to be digital learners.

We have also been working very hard during our Smart start in the mornings with lots of focus and great collaborative learning.

Have a lovely weekend. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan.

Primary 3

Phew! Another busy week in Primary 3.

Primary 3s as Teachers

Kerr – We helped show the Primary 1s how to use a netbook. We used our own instructions that we had written during our Writing lesson.

Ephraim – I loved teaching the Primary 1s all the things that they needed to do to use a netbook.

Kyle – It was a fun thing to do to help the Primary 1s learn more about netbooks.

Sahara- My group was showing the Primary 1s how to log on to Sumdog.

Kaitlyn – We got to be like teachers by teaching a small group how to use a netbook.

Klaudia – I think it was really cool and fun to do. Some of the children were quite shy and I’d like to do it again to get to know them more. Then they might ask more questions!

James – Our netbook went out of charge when we were using it so we were able to show the Primary 1s how to plug the charger in and solve the problem.

Lucy – I thought it was funny because the Primary 1s were surrounding me when I was explaining things to them.

Amber – We were mini teachers teaching little children!

Primary 3 Author Jotters

Lots of excitement in Primary 3 this week! As part of our focus on Developing a Writing Culture across our school, we thought it would be a good idea to create more opportunities for free writing in Primary 3. The wealth of quality discussion from this stimulus has been fantastic and their enthusiasm has impressed both Mrs Conway and I very much. We may well need to move onto our second jotters soon! In just a few days, we have talked about some of the aspects of an Author’s process of writing including editing, changing ideas, doodling, drawing, illustrations etc – keep it up Primary 3!

Brooke – we got our first Author jotters this week. We can write our own stories and they can be made up as well. We can write about ourselves, it is up to us!

Jarred – I was reading my story to my reading group. They were my Audience and I was the Author.

James – Lucy read her story to me. I was her Audience. My story title was ‘Superpig’ as the pig called Wilbur in my reading book gave me the idea!

Adam – My story was a pretend one and I drew lots of pictures just like a real Illustrator.

Kaitlyn – I made a book and it was called ‘Floofie Bunny and Her Great Adventures’.

Kerr – I wrote some poems as our Autumn Shape Poem in Writing gave me some ideas.

Maths/Numeracy

We have continued to look at Place Value and developing our understanding of how numbers relate to each other when adding.

Ephraim – I liked getting to use the Diennes materials for hundreds, tens and units.

Topic

Our new Social Studies topic will have some different areas of focus around our Local Community. Primary 3 will be discussing this as a class next week and helping to form our plan on what would be helpful to learn. Watch this space!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Kind regards

Mrs Scott

P2/3 Weekly update

Welcome back! I hope you all had a lovely break. It has been a short but busy week in Primary 2/3.

Topic

We made a start on our new topic, “Our Local Community of Livingston” by investigating our needs and wants and creating posters. We then made videos to share our opinions and developed our digital literacy skills by using the iPads. There was lots of great discussion and sharing of ideas.

Literacy

Everyone enjoyed spelling this week as each child chose the words they found particularly tricky to work on. There was a choice of activities – word building with straws, finger painting the words using autumn colours of paint, creating word searches and working with whiteboards. Lots of great individual learning went on.

We have continued to build the reading culture in P2/3 and everyone loved BEAR time today. Don’t forget to bring your bear every Friday! The concentration and focus in the class is lovely as all the children read to their bears.

Maths and Numeracy

In numeracy this week we have worked on our addition skills and learnt to write lots of number words. Everyone liked playing the Fruit Splat game to help us read number words quickly and we worked on ordering numbers on the net books using a Topmarks game.

Have a lovely weekend from Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan.

GIRFEC theme for October – HEALTHY

Our House Captains and Vice Captains led fantastic assemblies this week by promoting healthy lifestyle messages. They reminded the children about healthy packed lunch choices and the importance of getting regular exercise. They had also recorded a special video message from Mr McCurdy who was so proud of our 2 PE lessons each week and the numbers of children attending after school clubs.

The Captains have challenged the whole school to start Fruity Friday by bringing in a piece of fruit for snack each Friday. We look forward to seeing everyone’s healthy snack this Friday!

Well done to our Captains. #stninianskidscan

P3 Weekly Round Up!

We have had a wonderfully creative and calm week in P3 – despite it being very busy!

The boys and girls were a great help in keeping Mrs Conway and Mrs Scott organised as they swapped their Tuesday and Thursday this week – Mrs Conway was SO pleased to see how amazing the class are at writing! We wrote our own Skeleton fact files on Tuesday morning and can’t wait to share them with you at Stay, Play and Learn on Friday 12th at 9am. Do you love the warm/cold colour art work in our featured image? These will also be on display on Friday!

Mrs Scott was also very impressed with how well our boys and girls are developing their reading comprehension! Most of our reading groups came home with special bookmarks this week – these will help you and your child choose some questions to discuss about their reading books when they do reading homework with an adult or older sibling. If your child doesn’t have theirs please let Mrs Conway know by writing a note in their homework diary 🙂

Our number work continues this week with addition and working with numbers to 1000! Some people couldn’t load our homework game – but our Sumdog homework challenge next week will be focusing on these areas. Your child’s sumdog login will be in their reading diary – please let us know if they are unable to complete sumdog homework at home, time can be given to this across the school day!

This weeks Boost words were;

Nudge

Nervous

Astonished

Continue

Separate

Co-operate

Our core literacy homework task will be based on some of our Boost words next week!

In RE we have been learning a lot about Our Lady, which will continue to be our in class RE theme throughout October – we LOVE this action song… have a go at home;

How can you and your child say YES to God, like Mary did?

We have noticed some fantastic creativity in our collage Smartstart! This week we even had some budding authors making books during their smart start time! Mrs Scott has taken these ideas on board to incorporate into our writing sessions next term.

Sean joined us this week from St Margaret’s Academy on his work experience! He has been a hit with the boys and girls of P3 – and even brought his Nintendo Switch in today for us to enjoy during FUN31! Sean’s help this week has been great and we will all miss him next week – we hope he will come back and visit us!

Have a great weekend! Next week will be the last week of term before the October holiday!

P2/3 Weekly update

What a fantastic week it has been in Primary 2/3!

In Science we investigated our sense of sight and learned that we see things upside down. We found out that our brains puts it the right way round for us! We explored how blind people can cross the road and use braille without sight. We also investigated our sense of taste and found out where our taste buds are then tried lots of different tastes – sweet, salty, sour and bitter.

In Literacy we had fun celebrating National Poetry Day and listened to poems, shared poems and read poems.

We wrote about our Most Magical Meal in writing – come and have a look at our writing jotters and read our wonderful stories. We all loved reading the work of our Star Writers and sharing our stories with our talk partners.

Everyone loved visiting the library on Tuesday and choosing books to take back to the classroom.

In spelling, Primary 2 have been learning the ea pattern and Primary 3 have continued to work on their key words. We all loved reading our new Word Boost Book, Beaten by a Balloon, then learning and using some fabulous new words – glance, bound, hideous, barrier, powerful and promptly.

In Numeracy we have been adding, sequencing and ordering numbers as well as improving our number strategies in Number Talks.

We’re all looking forward to welcoming you to our class next Friday for Stay, Play and Learn. All the children have also been asked to bring a bear and a favourite book/ story/ comic to school next Friday too for BEAR (Be Excited About Reading) as we continue to build our reading culture in P2/3.

Have a wonderful weekend.

From Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan