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Primary 2/3 told me that Health Week has been fantastico!
The children wanted to share their favourite parts of the week with you.
Chloe – synergy was my favourite because it helped me to get fitter.
Levente – I liked Judo the best.
Andrew – cross country running was great because I could practise running fast.
Rachel – next step dance was fun. We did hip hop dancing and I’ve never done that before.
Zuzanna – I like doing head stands in yoga!
Good afternoon from Primary 3!
We have had another really busy week and here are some of our highlights!
RE
Primary 3 were learning about the Feast of the Ascension and behaved beautifully during our Mass at the Lanthorn on Thursday. They really enjoyed listening to the Primary 4s who shared their special Communion hymn with us.
Jack – ‘It was perfection!’ Emma – ‘It was good because they all tried their best.’
During the month of May we have also continued our learning about Our Lady and the importance of saying the Rosary prayer regularly. We now know that she appeared to St Bernadette in Lourdes, France and the three children in Fatima, Portugal – Mrs Scott has promised to bring in special photos from Fatima because her oldest son Matthew was there for the 100th anniversary celebrations recently! The children have also been able to use their individual Rosary beads, received as a special gift this week – practising moving along one bead at a time to say the different prayers.
LITERACY
Writing – ‘We loved writing about Humpty Dumpty because we got to use our imagination and we could all write different stories about what happened to him. It was up to us to decide what he was doing before he went on the wall, why he was on the wall, how he managed to fall off the wall and what happened next!’ – Emily & Niamh.
The children had some fantastic ideas about why Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall – they really entertained me on Thursday!
He was trying to fly; He was pulling his socks up and fell over; He was trying to catch a butterfly: He was watching a parade and was leaning forward to see more closely; He was reaching for an apple from a tree. Brilliant aren’t they?
Reading – ‘It was fun getting to read two books on the netbook then find the answers to the questions all by myself. One of them was about Chameleons and the other one was about a type of hippo!’ – Orla; ‘It was good to do this on my own because I wouldn’t normally read those kinds of books.’ – Emma; ‘They were non-fiction books.’
GLOBAL GOALS – Having a Quality Education
Thank you for all the foodbank pictures as our class collage is now complete.
Cameron – ‘We were learning about schools in Africa this week and some schools don’t even have any fences around them.’ Teegan – ‘I liked seeing how happy the children were when they got a better school.’ Kate – ‘They didn’t have any classrooms and had to do their work outside.’ Michael – ‘The country in Africa we looked at was Ethiopia.’ Orla – ‘When they got new toilets they were outside.’
SCIENCE
Sophie YM – ‘I learned that the Earth spins round and round. When the sun shines on one side of the Earth, it means that it is daytime there and where it doesn’t shine that means it is night-time.’
Maliha – ‘It takes 24 hours for the Earth to spin around and that is why we have 24 hours in a day.’
ART
Emma – ‘It was really interesting making my McCoo Highland Cow. I hadn’t used oil pastels before.’ Richard – ‘We learned that we had to use different colours for the stripes and draw them from the top to the bottom.’
EVERYONE – ‘We learned that the man who made these pictures is an artist and his name was Steve McCoo.’
MATHS
‘I’ve learned in Measure that you can use different things to measure with.’ – Emma; ‘You use scales to measure weight and we were reading kg.’ – Daniel; Emily – ‘We were reading different scales about kg.’ Richard – ‘When the arrow is in the middle of two numbers it means ½.’
Enjoy what is left of the sunshine!
From Mrs Scott and Primary 3.
What have we been learning in P2/3 this week? Here are some of the children’s highlights.
Carly, Annayah and Dominic – I liked planting seeds. I had to follow instructions and think about what plants need to grow.
Alishba – I liked making salad and it was yummy!
Harry and Calvin – I liked PE when we did the high jump. I jumped really high.
Rachel – I liked designing my own fidget spinner. It had to be symmetrical!
Matthew – I liked doing symmetry in maths when we designed symmetrical fidget spinners.
Michelle – I liked rounding numbers to the nearest ten in maths.
Chloe and Brooke – I liked making the salad because I got to learn different holds for cutting and it tasted good!
Kuba – I liked the Achievements Assembly. I was proud of James and Harry when they had to stand up because they brought in their new belts and certificates for Kicking Kids.
Zuzanna – I liked writing to Mrs Purdie because we could write about what we like at St Ninians.
Maya – I liked slicing the food when we made salad.
Pawel – I liked teaching my friends the Polish words for our salad ingredients.
Levente – I taught everyone how to say salad ingredients in Hungarian.
Hasan – I liked doing the CEM test.
Andrew – I liked eating the salad we made!
James – I liked the Achievements Assembly because I was an achiever!
Oma – I liked doing PE because we did the high jump and I could jump really high.
Angel – I liked rounding numbers to the nearest ten in maths. It was quite hard at first but I kept trying and it got easier.
Maeve – I liked doing number talks because they were quite tricky but they got easier when we shared our strategies.
We have also been thinking about Global Goal No. 3 and talking about what it means. Look out for our posters!
If you would like to try making our layered salad at home, here is the recipe http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/attachments/eb941dd0-5377-4c95a2df64fd.pdf
Symmetry has been a big focus for us in maths this week. This is one of our favourite websites to improve our skills https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-sorting
We’ve also been working hard on our Spanish conversation skills. Our phrase of the week has been ¿Cómo estás? Try and ask us this question and find out how we are feeling!
We hope that you all have a lovely long weekend.
from P2/3, Mrs Howley and Mrs Keegan
Another week full of learning in Primary 3!
RE – NO POVERTY PRAYER
Following on from our activity last week to help understand what it might be like to not have the things we need, we discussed what that might mean. We talked about how it could mean not having a bed to sleep in or a warm house in the winter time or proper clothes to wear. The children were very receptive and each wrote their own prayer to Jesus which we have displayed in our classroom.
TALK IDEA – WHY DID THE COW JUMP OVER THE MOON?
Thanks so much for having this discussion with your child this week – here are some of the questions P3 came up with and their answers!
Jack – Why did he do it? For fun! – Kate
Richard – Was the moon big? Yes – enormous, gigantic! – Alexis, Huda
Ola – How did you actually manage to jump over the moon? Maybe he had jumping hooves ! Sophie YM
Emily – Did you feel big compared to the moon? Yes – I felt massive!
Emma – How did you survive going through the moon’s atmosphere?
Michael – Did you see stars? What did it feel like?
Sophie R – Did you see aliens?
Alexis, Seamus – Did you see rockets?
Sophie D, Sophie YM – Was the moon made out of cheese?
Robbie, Bartosz – If the moon was made of cheese, did you eat it?
Daniel – Did you see lots of planets up there?
Cameron – How did you breathe up there?
This is our talk question to discuss next week – we would love to see some of your responses on our blog and/or your comments on this as a task?
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Hickory dickory dock, The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one, The mouse ran down,
Hickory dickory dock.
Why was the mouse running up the clock? What could he see?
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MATHS
VOLUME – We wanted to see what 27 litres of water looked like because Jess the RHET farmer told us that a cow gives 27 litres of milk every day.
Sophie R – Each person filled a jug with water and poured it in to a plastic box.
Kate – We used jugs that measured up to 1 litre and then we filled them ourselves up to the line.
Ava – It looked a lot! Orla – that’s a lot of milk from a cow in one day!
DATA HANDLING & TECHNOLOGY – We worked in groups to measure our heights and decide whether we were more than 1 metre, about 1 metre or less than 1 metre. If we were doing this task again we would challenge ourselves by recording our actual heights in metres and centimetres though! We showed this information on a tally chart then used it to make our own Bar Chart using technology. We used this online activity to make them https://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/bar_pie_data.asp?ChartType=bar
INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING
Cameron – we got to look at Dedridge on Google Maps.
Jack – we had to look for places that we knew.
Sophie D, Maliha, Emily, Sophie YM, Sophie R, Jack, Cameron, Richard, Michael & Niamh – we found Lizzie Brice roundabout and Asda.
EXTRA CHALLENGE:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/ and key in Saint Ninian’s Primary School, Douglas Rise, Livingston
How long does it take to get to school by walking/by car/by bus?
Click on directions then key in home address to find out!
Why don’t you post what you find out on the blog next week!
To reinforce their recent learning on what a noun is, Primary 3 had to read a passage about Lizzie Brice then spot all the nouns. Super work Primary 3!
WRITING
Richard – We wrote a thank you letter to Jess from RHET to thank her for coming in to visit us and telling us all about her farm. Mrs Scott was very impressed at how neat our handwriting was and our layout of a letter!
Have a lovely weekend from Mrs Scott and Primary 3!
In Primary 2/3 this week we have been really busy in lots of areas. Thank you for all the pictures that the children have sent in of their cress plants. Their growing skills are very impressive!
We’ve continued our learning about Food and Farming and had some super discussion in pairs in Science about the parts of a plant and what plants need to grow.
Read on for some of our highlights.
Harry – I liked changing tables because I’m a Whizz Kid now and it will be my last table in P2/3 before I move to P3.
Hasan – I liked painting a butterfly. Mine looked good and I learned symmetry.
Oma – I liked doing learning about the month of Mary in RE. We used paint to decorate the word ‘Mary’.
Maeve – I liked sorting living things into different categories.
Levente – I liked playing the symmetry game on the smartboard. I played it at home too.
(In Maths we have been exploring symmetry. Try this activity at home to help reinforce learning https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching)
Alishba – I liked writing to Farmer Jess to thank her for coming to visit us.
Brooke – I liked being outside for PE and playing jacks and boules.
Rachel – I liked learning about empathy and learning challenges in class dojo.
Kuba and Andrew – I liked PE because we were jumping over the hurdles. I was good at the hurdles.
James – I liked running fast in the Daily Mile.
Annayah – I liked praying the ten rosaries.
Aaron – I liked designing pictures of Mary.
Matthew – my cress is growing really fast at home.
Michelle – I liked maths because I learned loads about symmetry.
Carly – I liked the literacy carousel because I made my words in playdough.
Maya – I liked when we were painting symmetrical butterflies and I liked learning lots of new things to say in Spanish. I liked High Five Spanish.
In Spanish this term, the children have planned their learning to develop their skills in asking questions and answers. Do ask your child what’s hey learned in Spanish this week. There are lots of great activities on the BBC languages website to help wth these skills.
Sneak preview! Next week in writing we’re writing to Mrs Purdie to tell her about all the things we like best at St Ninian’s. Have a chat with your child about this and they can share their ideas in Big Writing on Thursday.
Have a lovely weekend.
From Primary 2/3, Mrs Howley and Mrs Keegan
Well done to Primary 2/3 for all their hard work in planning and performing in their Ancient Egyptians assembly and to all the parents and grandparents for coming along and providing a fabulous audience.
Some of our highlights this week have been:
Kuba – I liked rehearsing for our assembly.
Annayah – I liked singing songs in the assembly, especially the mummy song.
Alishba – I liked when we were drumming in music and keeping the beat.
Levente, Aaron and Andrew – I loved the mummy song in our assembly.
Pawel – I liked Big Writing and making props for our assembly.
Carly – Farmer Jess told us about crops that grow in Scotland and she showed us lots of pictures.
Chloe – I liked doing the Daily Mile because I’m getting fitter and faster.
Harry – I liked going on a walk and looking at the land around our school then finding out what it was used for.
Zuzanna – I liked Big Writing because we wrote about our walk.
Rachel – I liked our assembly because I loved the songs.
Angel – I liked it when Farmer Jess came to visit and showed us oil seed rape seeds and we got to hold them.
Oma – I liked rehearsing for our assembly. We used our singing skills and our listening and talking skills.
Matthew – I liked doing Sumdog because I got lots of coins. Sumdog helps me get better at maths.
Maeve – I had great fun when Farmer Jess came to visit because she talked about lots of animals and we found out about wee and poo from cows!!
Have a great weekend!
From Mrs Howley, Mrs Keegan and Primary 2/3
It has been a busy start to the term in Primary 2/3 and we have thoroughly enjoyed using the outdoor environment to develop our learning during Outdoor Week.
Read on for some of the children’s highlights:
Carly enjoyed planning our Food and Farming topic with her elbow partner.
Harry enjoyed PE outside with Mrs McMullen, especially playing tig.
Maya enjoyed doing our alphabet challenge outside where we had to use all of our senses to find something for each letter of the alphabet.
Brooke enjoyed our full stop hunt in the playground – you won’t believe how many full stops we found!
Aaron liked everything!
Andrew enjoyed writing about his trip to London during Big Writing.
Kuba enjoyed today’s assembly.
Oma enjoyed making a graph in the playground to show what we collected in the garden.
Chloe enjoyed Big Writing because she wrote about her friend and her holiday.
Maeve enjoyed Big Maths Beat That and our alphabet challenge because she even found a holly tree for the letter H.
Alishba enjoyed finding out about the vision of Jesus in RE.
Rachel enjoyed our full stop hunt in the playground.
Calvin enjoyed information handling when we sorted out information about food.
Levente enjoyed our Sumdog assessment.
Angel enjoyed collecting leaves and stones so we could make a graph.
We’ve also been busy working on our assembly for next Friday. We hope that you can join us at 9am. We’re especially looking forward to sharing our Egyptian songs with you!
from Primary 2/3, Mrs Keegan and Mrs Howley.
A huge congratulations to Joseph Gall in P5 whose 500 word story on The Perfect Teacher has been shortlisted from over 131 000 entries to the final 5000 in the Radio 2 500 words competition.
We are all very proud of you and wish you luck in the next round,
Mrs Smith
Today’s challenge: If you can, attend the Reconciliation Service taking place on Wednesday 5 April at 7.00pm in St Andrew’s Church. (See you there!)
“This is a great opportunity for us to come together during Lent to acknowledge our sinfulness and celebrate God’s mercy in our lives, both individually and as a community. Fr Tony will lead a short service of Scripture reading, reflection and music. The service will end with individual confessions with one of the five priests available, after which you will be free to leave. A brief Examination of Conscience is offered on the insert in this week’s newsletter to assist in preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.”
This you tube clip is a fantastic way to remind children and adults alike about how to go to Confession:
Today’s challenge: Fast from comparing yourself with others. #LentChallenge
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