P1M have had a great start to their education. All of the children have enjoyed their first week and have very quickly picked up our classroom routines. We have participated in lots of different activities this week and we have enjoyed getting to know each other.

We started our first topic which is a book study. We are using the collection of ‘Harry and the Dinosuars’ books. The children have really enjoyed this and we have lots of fun activities based on these stories planned for next week – watch this space.

We are working on holding our pencil correctly and tracing and completing some simple patterns. Why don’t you practise holding your pencil correctly and drawing something at home?

We have been learning some rhymes to help us with number formation. This is something you could practise at home too. For the number 2, our rhyme is: “half a heart says “I love you”, add a line, now I’ve made the number 2.” Add the class favourite for number 3: “around the tree, around the tree, now I’ve made the number 3.”

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Remember to bring in your photographic approval forms – as soon as all children have completed these we can post photos on the blog!

 

Welcome back everyone.  It has been such a quick week but we have achieved a lot.  Here is our new class.

Our Primary Sixes look very smart in their green and yellow school uniform and our senior Primary Sevens look very grown up in their black and yellow uniform.

Our focus in class for the next three weeks will be based on a novel called The Squint by Lesley Howarth.  We have read the first four chapters so far and found out that this story takes place in the modern era as well as the medieval period of history.  The main character Ben looks though a squint (spyhole) whilst visiting a historical house and finds himself part of one of his ancient ancestors lives story!  As a link from this novel we have been learning about medieval coats of arms. In pairs the children were given the opportunity to use a website to create their own.  Here is the link we used,

http://www.makeyourcoatofarms.com/app.asp

Our class will have PE on a Tuesday and Thursday in school.  On Tuesday’s Mr McCurdy has requested that the children bring in outdoor PE kit suitable for all weathers (within reason!).  The children were given a choice between rugby or hockey as their chosen PE lesson on a Tuesday.  On Thursday PE will be in the school gym hall.

For maths we have focused on place value, numbers up to millions.  We have practised reading them, writing them in digits and words.  For extra practise you can try this game.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/place-value-charts

 

Have a lovely weekend and I am really looking forward to next week and getting on with all the great activities and events that are planned.

Well done everyone,

Mrs Currie

We have had a fantastic first week in Primary 4! The Dream Team have enjoyed reading the BFG which is our chosen novel for our novel study this term! One of our favourite activities was painting a picture of the BFG using the description given in the book.  We particularly enjoyed learning about the author of The BFG, Roald Dahl.

We have been creating ‘selfies’. We drew self-portraits and wrote a short personal summary about ourselves.

To ensure everyone feels safe and is happy in P4, we made our class charter. We designed a strip for ‘The Dream Team’ to wear as we have decided that teamwork makes the dream work! We are all in the same team in our classroom!

We have introduced the number of the day board this week. This is to develop our mental maths skills. We have a mild, spicy and hot option to choose from, the hot option is VERY tricky!

We hope you have a great weekend,

The Dream Team.

So we are almost at the end of Primary 1! We can’t believe it! We have made lots of great friends and have made super memories along the way!

Some of our favourite memories have been:

“When me, Wojciech and Lennon were being fox ninja’s” – Leo

“When the egg appeared in our classroom and we filmed it to find out what it was and it was a dragon!!!” – Chloe

“When we made chocolate cakes for Easter” – Vanessa

“When we had the pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk” – Lennon

“When we watched the video of the fire blowing Dragon!” – Wojciech

“We got to see Treasure Island” – Maja

“All the fun we have had during golden time!” – Lilly

These are just a few of our cherished memories!

Primary 1 has taught us that ‘Teamwork makes the Dream work!”

Have a great weekend, P1D and Miss Diamond.

As this is our last blog post of P2M we would like to share with you our favourite memories throughout the year.

Emily: “My favourite has been the fairyland ball because it was fun.”

Jack: “My favourite thing in P2 is going to the library because you get to pick books and go to the park on the way back to school.”

Ava: “My favourite thing in P2 is golden time because I like to play with the toy swords.”

Huda: “My favourite thing in P2 has been PE especially playing rounders because it’s fun.”

Richard: “I love PE. My favourite thing in PE was rounders because my team won twice.”

Sophie Young-Murray: “I have loved number work because sometimes I get pink and green. My favourite thing to learn in number work has been counting in 10’s and 2’s.”

Sophie Douglas: “My favourite thing was the trip to the apple store because it was fun. I liked making the aeroplanes there.”

Pawel: “My favourite has been PE because it is fun. I loved the 100m races.”

Alexis: “My favourite thing in P2 was Miss Meechan because I like working with you.”

Ethan: “My favourite thing was Miss Meechan as well because she took us to the pet shop.”

Ola: “My favourite thing was golden time because I like to play.”

Sophie Roy: “My favourite thing is P2 was structured play because you do different things. I liked to plant the seeds as an activity.”

Robbie:  “I like golden time because you can play.”

Levente: “I liked PE because you can do fun things.”

Katie: “My favourite trip was the transport museum because there were lots of cars to see and I went on a train.”

Michael: “I liked going to the pet shop and I liked all the animals but my favourite was the rabbit.”

P2M, I have loved having each and every single one of you in my class this year. It was been amazing to see you all grow and learn throughout this stage of your educational journey and I am so proud of your successes and the progress you have all made. I wish you all the very best in primary 3 but for one more short week you will be the best class in the school (but don’t tell anyone!)

Miss Meechan

This will be the last blog post of the year.  I asked the children for a best memory or highlight from the session.  Here are some of their responses.

Deacon – I liked Health Week when we did all the cool activities.

Kieran – I liked sports day because we got to do fun activities.

Krzysztof – I liked the Science Assembly that we done.

Rayn – I liked the basketball festival

Kalvin – I liked the potato bus because we got to plant potatoes, eat potatoes…lots of potatoey reasons!

Declan – I liked the fun run because we got to run around Dedridge and not just inside the school.

Amera – I liked it when we done our art folders because we got to decorate our own ones with our own ideas.  I also liked doing our love hearts for our value wall display and the spooky house pictures at Halloween time.

Emma – I liked it when we went to the Forth Bridges Trip because we learned lots of information and we got to try on the clothes that they wear when building the bridges.

This week we also finished off the class novel we have been listening to, it was The Magician’s Nephew by CS Lewis.  (*SPOILER ALERT*)  It was so interesting and exciting to learn how the wardrobe from The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe came to be.

It has been such a busy, hard working and fun year…I have loved every minute P5!  Well done to all.

Mrs Currie

 

I can’t believe I’m writing the final blog post for P1R this year and what a year it’s been! The children have been amazing and have achieved so much which we are all very proud of.

This week we have enjoyed Sports Day (photographs on dojo), a surprise performance of Treasure Island where we could all show off our pirates knowledge, making memory mindmaps and a Moving Up afternoon with our new teachers.

The children would like to share their favourite memories of P1 in this final blog:

“I have liked science, when we made the 3 little pigs houses and tried to blow them down.” Matthew

” I liked going to the Tall Ship because I got to clean and scrub the decks.” Harry

“I loved Sports Day because I was first and got a special sticker.” Oma

” I have enjoyed playing with my friend Angelina and she let me play on her magic watch.” Alice

“I liked learning about life in the 1950’s and all about pirates.” Angelina

“My favourite memory was going to the Tall Ship because we got to ring the bell and I found the treasure.” Ahmad

“The funniest thing was when Miss Proudfoot wore the dunce hat.” Dominic

“I liked making scarecrow puppets and paintings.” Madison

“My favourite memory was meeting Santa.” Alishba

“I love PE especially when we go outside.” Filip

“I liked going to the Tall Ship because I found some treasure.” James

” I enjoyed going to the Tall Ship because we got to look for mice hiding in the ship.” Maeve

” I liked dressing up, especially as a pirate.” Ryan

“I liked going to the Tall Ship because it was fun.” Ana

As you can see the children have many memories to treasure as I will too! It has been a privilege getting to know each and everyone of them this year and I wish them every success for the future!

Have a safe and happy holiday! (Remember we still have 3 days of school next week.)

Mrs Roy

 

 

Our time in P2 is coming to an end but we are still squeezing in lots of fun and learning. Our week started off with a judo session which we all loved. Did you all get the leaflet about it? Our instructor was called Jake and Jake takes the class at Deans High School on a Monday. I would love to hear if some of you decide to give Judo a go?

 

Here are some examples of what we have been doing in CLIC this week. We do the first of these calculations in our head. In this sum we would put 34 in our head and add on 2. We can add on any single digit (1-9) to any other number (within 100). If you are looking for some ideas to do at home over the next few weeks or over the summer these are some good activities to work on.

 

After our whole class CLIC session we work in pairs to complete a range of different CLIC tasks. With our partner, we can choose which activities we wish to complete.

 

We have been consolidating our knowledge of halving numbers by looking at fractions. This week we were still focusing on halving numbers, objects and linking this knowledge to dividing by 2. Here are some photographs of different activities we done as part of this lesson.

Below are some links for games and songs for you to use at home over the next few weeks or during the holidays:

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.ictgames.com/forestPhonics/forestPhonicsOnline/index.html

http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/hangman/?utm_source=Math_FG&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=640×250

http://pbskids.org/games/reading/

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasters3/ghostadd2.html

Look out for some ideas of apps for tablets and electronic devices on the blog next week.

If you want to practise your handwriting over the holidays in preparation for primary 3, remember to visit the letter join website and use the same username and passcode which has already been given to you.