This week in P2M we haven’t had any reading books, however we have been working really hard with our tricky words. Have a look at some of the different activities we have been doing.

 

We play a game on the ipads which helps us to read tricky words. We love trying to beat our best ever score on this game.

We have also been using our POP game. In this game we have to choose a piece of popcorn and read the word on that piece. If you read it correctly you get to keep it, the person with the most popcorn at the end wins.

We have also been playing a tricky words snakes and ladders game. We have to work in pairs on this task and peer assess of our partner managed to read that word correctly.

We have also been working on our vowel house. We are now learning alternative vowel patterns and it was time for us to complete an updated vowel house which included these. Miss Meechan covered the big vowel house so we couldn’t peek at it!

We love word twister in this class. The words on the twister mat were all of our spelling words from last week which had the ‘y’ and ‘igh’ sound. We are now ready to add these to our tricky words wall in the classroom. When we play this game we count how many words we read correctly using tally marks and the winner gets a dojo point.

 

We also played pass the word this week. Ask your child how we played this game.

 

Miss Meechan and P2M.

 

As part of Technology week, Primary 6/7 have been having great fun, setting up as small teams of engineers.  We have all taken part in a project to build and test ‘Robokid’ vehicles. The robots were designed by Scottish engineers at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.

First we built our robots…..

Then we used our problem solving skills to ensure they were all wired correctly.

Then we learnt to use the robot and control it through a cable controller….

And finally it was time for our driving competition!

 

We also had a fabulous time yesterday with a visit from Jenny from Quality Meat Scotland. We learnt all about the importance of buying Scottish meat and we discussed healthy foods. After that we helped prepare, cook and eat some fajitas which were delicious!

 

Enjoy the long weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

We have had a fun filled technologies week in P1D. We have loved learning about food technology where we made treasure map pizzas and cheese and apple pirate ships! There is no end to our creativity.

We had a special visitor from Morrison construction called Sharon. She told us all about her job and even let us help her design and build a new city! How cool!

We have had lots of fun revisiting different maths concepts this week and you would have been so impressed with how much we have remembered!  We have enjoyed using different materials to explore numbers including rekenreks, ten frames and our favourite is our hidden bunny ears!

We have come on leaps and bounds in gymnastics. Our skills, control, balance and confidence has grown so much during this block. We have some very talented gymnasts in our class.

We have been preparing for Lent this week. We thoroughly enjoyed Shrove Tuesday and loved having a tasty little pancake. We participated well in the whole school Ash Wednesday mass.

We would like to thank you for your support at home with this weeks food technology homework! We loved showing off our Pirate snacks to one another!

Have a great weekend!

Miss Diamond and P1D.

P2M have had a great week and have really enjoyed learning about technologies as part of ‘technology week’.

Our number concept this week has been ‘odd and even’ numbers. We used lots of socks to help us with this. If we had 3 socks, 2 of them would be paired and there would be one odd sock, which mean that 3 is an odd number.

We played an online game about odd and even numbers. Have a go at this at home:

Odd and Even

Katie said: “2 is an even number so 32 is an even number too.”

Alexis said: “1 is an odd number.”

Sophie D said: “3 is an odd number.”

Teegan said: “9 is an odd number so 19 is an odd number too.”

 

We loved our trip to the apple store on Tuesday.

Jack said his favourite part of the trip was “getting t-shirts.”

Maliha said “I liked getting the wristbands with photos.”

Bartosz said: “I liked throwing the aeroplanes.”

Richard said: “I liked recording the planes flying.”

Have you checked out all of our pictures on facebook?

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When we came back from the apple store we continued the technologies theme by looking at internet safety. We learned about how to stay safe on the internet. Ask your child how to stay safe online.

We also completed a food technologies task. As it was pancake day we were given pancakes and we had to choose a tasty topping for the pancakes.

Sophie YM said: “I put chocolate on my pancake, it was really tasty.”

We also learned about what ingredients were needed to make pancakes.

Pawel remembered that you need “eggs and milk to make pancakes.”

Huda said “I put a smiley face on my play-doh pancake.”

We have also began our multiplication topic this week. We have done this by putting objects into different groups.

Sophie R said: “we had to count how many were altogether in the different groups.”

Michael said: “If you have 4 groups of 2 that is the same as 2 groups of 4 because they are switchers.”

Emily said: “I made 6 groups of 5 and there were 30 altogether.”

We have also began a new ‘maths topic’ this week. This topic focuses around money. The first week of this topic we have been working on adding together a range of different prices of objects. We set up a shop to help us with this.

Jack said: “We had to add items together, I bought beans and a book and had to add them. I added 30p and 50p, this was easy because 5+3=8 so 50p+30p+80p.” – Super maths Jack!!

Robbie said: “there was a shopkeeper who had to figure out the sum.”

Have a lovely long weekend and I will see you all on Wednesday.

Miss Meechan

 

We are still working hard on our Scotland topic. At the start of the week we listened to the poem ‘The sair finger’. We practiced saying it to each other in our groups. We all found this poem so funny, it must be the Scots language! We love hearing all the funny words!

At the end of the week we had Miss Smyth and she continued with our Scotland topic and we looked at the life and times of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We watched a wee video clip and then started to create our very own Rennie Mackintosh inspired artwork. We were very impressed with ourselves as we learned that he liked to draw using geometric shapes. So far they are looking fabulous. We’ll share them with you when we finish .

Next week we are very excited as we have some of the teachers in our school coming in to work with us, they are in for an absolute treat, as it’s technology week as well! We have a trip to West Lothian College to their engineering department! We’ll keep you posted on how our trip goes! 😃

 

Have a great weekend!

Miss Smyth and primary 3.

Another busy and exciting week in P2M.

Our week started off as usual with our spelling lesson on Monday morning. This week we were focusing on the ‘y’ sound e.g. my, cry, reply. Mrs Purdie came to see our spelling this week and she was very impressed with how good we are with this, we loved showing off our skills to her.

Our number lesson this focused on partitioning (breaking up numbers). We done this through the use of hundred blocks, tens sticks and units cubes. It was quite a tricky task but with lots of practise we soon got to grips with this and were ‘building’ numbers using this resource in no time! We even played an online game to further our knowledge with this – look out for this game in the homework next week!

  

We have done lots of practise with our learn-its this week. Have you been using your new individualised learn-its for practising at home? In class we completed a matching task with some learn-its which are quite tricky, we were working to match these up as quick as a ‘CLIC’.

We have come to the end of our addition and subtraction topic and this week we have been working on problem solving. Miss Meechan would read us a problem and then we had to decide if it would be an addition or subtraction problem before solving it. This was quite tricky but very satisfying when we found the correct answer. We also played a new board game called ‘bus stop’. Why don’t you ask your child about this game.

This week was Catholic Education Week and this year was focusing on ‘learning to be merciful’. Ask your child what ‘being merciful’ means?  We took this theme and focused on 2 parables – the lost sheep and the prodigal son. Firstly we listened to the parable of the lost sheep and then Miss Meechan told us that there were some lost sheep in our classroom and it was our task to be good shepherds and find them. We then created our own ‘lost sheep’ and made this into a new display in our classroom.

 

Next week is ‘technologies week’ at St. Ninians. However, we decided to start this theme early. As part of our Katie Morag topic we wanted to learn about transport to and from the island – boats in particular. We looked at a range of images of different types of boats – fishing boats, rowing boats, cruise ships and even catamarans. We then used a range of recycled materials and created our own boat as part of a group. We had to think about what materials would help the boat float and what materials might sink. Floating was very important because we would be taking our boats to the pond to test them out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We love working as a team and we are very competitive in P2M so we decided to turn this into a competition… a boat race! As you can see from the pictures Miss Meechan and Mr McCurdy took this challenge very seriously… and won the competition!

 

  

Our writing lesson this week was all about writing instructions. To do this we made crispy cakes. After we made the cakes we had to think about the different steps that were involved from washing your hands all the way to letting the cakes cool down before eating. We had some extra cakes left over so we shared these out with Mrs Purdie and some other teachers who thought they were delicious too!

Finally this week we welcomed Miss McCormack into our classroom and we are pleased that she is going to be working with us for 6 weeks! We look forward to sharing our learning with you Miss McCormack.

Due to the bad weather conditions at the start of the week, many of our Primary 6s were disappointed to discover that the skiing/snowboarding trip had to be postponed. However in true St. Ninian’s style they soon bounced back as we all took part in a mini-topic about having a Growth Mindset. We learnt many things including how to change a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset. We took part in drama activities, played games, designed posters and created Power points. We also took part in a quiz at the start of the topic and then again at the end of the topic and discovered that nearly everyone had a Growth Mindset by the end of the week! What a fantastic result!

Aside from the topic work we have continued to thoroughly enjoy participating in gymnastics for P.E. and have all improved our skills using the apparatus.  Today we attended our different committees and we are all looking forward to next week which will focus on Technologies and will involve some very different activities for us all to get involved with.

 

Have a great weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves