Grace: I liked learning about numbers because I love writing them.

Max: We learned the ‘o’ sound, it looks like a circle.

Carly: I liked PE and we had to try to jump over the crocodiles on the ropes.

Sophie J: I liked learning about the ‘e’ sound, it is a black sound.

Anna: I got the golden ticket for super work.

Lennox: I liked number work.

Parker: I liked learning the ‘e’ sound, it lives in the vowel house.

Sophie F: I liked building Fariyland.

Zaki: I liked learning about numbers.

Myron: I liked PE and doing exercise.

Amelie: I liked learning the ‘o’ sound, o is for orange.

Kian: I liked learning the new sounds.

Anaiya: I liked swinging over the crocodiles.

Mason: I liked learning about the ‘e’ sound – you do the smiling egg mouth first then go around the shell with a flick at the end.

Joanna: I liked learning about letters.

Chloe: I liked trying to build Fairyland.

Reka: I liked doing number talks.

Harry: I liked using the bricks to build Fairyland.

Lucy G: We got a letter from the dragon and he asked us to help him.

Ethan: I liked building Fairyland because the dragon doesn’t have anywhere to live.

Learning Across the Curriculum
Evie, Adrin, Aidan, Zuzanna and Aaron.

This week we have been working with Marty the robot, we had to use a computer to navigate/programme him to do what we want. Some of the options we had to choose from were Kick, Walk Forward, Wiggle, Circle Dance and Walk Backwards. There is a video of Marty on our class Twitter.

During P.E we split up into different groups of our choice, Indoor Fitness or Outdoor Rugby. In rugby we did passing work and contact games, and in fitness we did Agility, Endurance and Strength.

Learning in Literacy
Louise, Kacper, Shannon, Ethan, Levente

This week in reading primary 7 have been reading Skellig ,its about a boy who moved house but stayed at the same school but found a strange creature in the garage. We had to answer challenging questions using our higher order thinking skills. Primary 6 have been reading Kensuke’s Kingdom and learning about sailing around the world! It sounds like a big adventure and we can’t wait to read the next chapter of our book.

In writing this week we worked in groups to create Halloween poems. We had to think of our own rhyming scheme and use lots of figurative language that we have been working on. When we finished we typed up our poems and we also recorded them and added sound effects.

Learning in Numeracy
Ailie, Kasia, Mark, Joseph, Hasan, Robbie

Skills for Learning, Life and Work
Ola, Jan, Emma, Oliwier, Joshua, Huda

What a busy first week of Term 2 we have had!

• Brooke – we got to change our PE and do either fitness or rugby  – I chose fitness
• Abi – we got told that fun 31 wasn’t going to keep going, some of us wrote letters saying what was good about fun 31 and why we should keep it
• Ryan T – we learned about the development of the brain
• Ryan B – we learned that with growth mindset doing more things helps your brain develop
• Jay – we used Marty the Robot app to control it and we also used SCRATCH with it
• Harley – we listened to our new class playlist during free writing Friday

Have a lovely weekend – think about those Sound Sleep strategies!!

 

Mrs C 🙂

It has been a busy week in P5!

One of the highlights of our week was getting to use Marty the Robot. We had to use Scratch to program him and make him move. We hope to make a music video and make him dance by the end of our Marty project.

“He was really fun to play with!” – Filip

“I enjoyed making him dance; he ended up in the splits at the end!” – Maeve

“On Scratch we had lots of different commands that we could use to make Marty dance. My favourite was the splits and the circle move!” – Angelina

In maths we have been learning about symmetry. We were outside using hoops and natural materials to create symmetrical patterns and have been looking at lines of symmetry in shapes. We developed our learning further through an art lesson where we had to complete an animal drawing ensuring it was symmetrical.

“ I liked drawing the other half of the cat, it was really hard but that’s fine!” – Alishba

“I liked doing the white tiger and it has so much detail on it! I liked how it looked when I was finished!” – Wojtek

“I liked it when I had to do the hair on the face because I had to add texture!” – Harry

In PE, we were focussing on our fitness. We used playing cards and dice. If you rolled a 6, your partner got to choose what exercise you had to do 6 of. When we used the cards, each suit meant a different exercise! A joker meant 30 press ups.

“I liked it because nearly every time you got a different exercise to do!” – Marcus

“It was a competition so whoever got the most cards won! My team won!” – Maeve

“It was fun to play with because of the competition! My team had the least players and we didn’t get the joker!” – Ahmad

We have tried to incorporate more free play into our daily routine. We are taking it very seriously and have demonstrated that we can be trusted to complete our learning activities and have some free play at the same time.

“It is fun and we are getting more time to actually play with our friends!” – Ahmad

“I think it is a really good decision because it gets us away from our devices!” – Angelina

“I really like free play and I like that I can play with my friends and play board games!” – Oma

“Having time to play when we are learning helps us learn and focus more and have a growth mind-set!” – Annayah

 

Have a great weekend, P5 and Miss D!

Literacy

We haven’t been learning any new sounds this week as we are now finished learning our first set of sounds. We have been using our knowledge of these sounds to read and spell words. We have also been working on our letter formation, this is something you could practise at home too.

We are developing our writing skills. We know that sentences need a capital letter; a full stop and finger spaces between words – you will be very impressed at our Stay, Play and Write on Tuesday.

Numeracy

In number talks we have been finding as many different ways as possible to make the numbers 5, 6 and 7. We were using our fingers to show these amounts.

5 can be 5 and 0, 4 and 1 or 3 and 2.

How many ways can you find to show 6 and 7?

Our numeracy focus this week has been ordinal numbers – first, second third etc. and putting numbers into a sequence.

What numbers are missing in these sequences?

0, 1, ____, 3, ____, 5, 6 ____, 8, ____, _____

10, 9, ____, ____, ____, 5, 4, ____, ____, 1 ____

Did you see our tweets for Maths Week?

IDL

We have started to learn some Spanish. This week we learned how to say ‘hello’ in Spanish. We played a game whilst listening to this song. When the song was playing, we were walking around the classroom, when the music stopped we found someone to say ‘Hola’ to.

We were learning that plants are living things just like animals. We spoke about what plants need to survive. We were very excited to plant our own seeds and we have checked on them every day – making sure we water them. Can you remember what type of seeds they were?

Our Learning Highlights of the Week

Anaiya: I liked numbers because I liked doing the number 1.

Joanna: I liked doing numbers and the number 2.

Sylvia: I liked number work and learning my numbers.

Grace: In number work I was counting seahorses. There were 7. For 7 it is – across the sky and down from heaven, now I’ve made the number 7.

Carly: I liked getting the golden ticket because I done great work. I had to do the numbers in the right order.

Lucy: I counted how many leaves we collected outside. I got 7.

Kian: I liked learning how to count on from 10. You add to count on more. If there were 10 dots then 4 it would be 14.

Sophie J: I liked counting on from 10. If there were 10 and then 6 there would be 16.

Ethan: I liked number work and learning the number 10. 5 and 5 is 10.

Riyah: I liked finding the leaves outside. I put them in order from big to small.

Lennox: I liked the robot talking.

Myron: I liked counting,

Reka: I liked finding leaves outside. We found big ones and little ones.

Zaki: I liked working with Mrs Docherty and I read the words.

Max: I liked writing the letters.

Harry: I liked writing about a mat. A dog sat on the mat in my story.

Mason: I liked hopping in PE.

Chloe: I liked PE and skipping with the big ropes.

Sophie F: I liked planting seeds. We need to water the seeds to make them grow.

Parker: I liked planting the seeds because I want to see them growing.

Oliver: I liked counting backwards from 10 to 1.

Anna: I liked collecting the leaves and sort them out.

Most days in class near home time we have our Spanish learning time,  we have been learning some basic Spanish vocabulary, we have focused on saying hello and asking how someone is feeling.  To do this we have been using this catchy song.  Try it out at home.

P2 – For literacy this week we have started our PM writing programme of work.  This programme helps us focus on different types of genres and purposes for writing.  The genre we have looked at this week is a recount.  We read a recount by a little boy who had helped his mum in the house with some jobs.  This made us think about a time that we have helped someone and what we did to help them.  We have written a plan which includes a title, orientation, sequence of events and a personal comment.  Next week we are going to turn our plan into a full recount.  We have also focused on the spelling pattern _ay.  This makes the same sound as -ai-, so we learned that ay usually comes at the end of a word (there are always exceptions such as crayon) and ai in the middle of a word.  Watch this little teaching video, it gives us some good advice about adding tails onto words such as _ing or _ed or _ er, this is something we will be looking at in more depth over the course of P2.  For our reading our comprehension work was based on finding the title, author and blurb on the book.  Keep practising this at home everytime you are reading together.

P1 – In literacy P1 have been using the sounds they have learned to blend and make CVC words.  The phonic sounds we have learned are s, m, t, p, c, a, i, k and ck.  To learn to blend we have used our magnetic boards, written on whiteboards, jumped in lettered hoops and match pictures and words.  Try asking your child to either tell you the sounds or write the sounds they hear in the following words; mat, map, cat, cap, sit, sip.  For writing this week the children were thinking of something or someone who might be sitting on a mat and they wrote a short story and drew a picture of it.

P2 – In Numeracy for our learning about numbers to 100 we have been looking at counting backwards as well as identifying the largest/biggest number and the smallest number.  The children learned a dice game where you make one of the dice the tens die and the other the units (ones) die.  When you roll them you put the two digits side by side to make a two digit number, your opponent then repeats this and whoever gets the largest number wins a point (or takes a counter).  Have a go at this game at home.  For number talks we have been looking at dot patterns, the children are given some dots to count and we are trying to find efficient ways to count them.  They have realised that it can be quicker and easier to not lose count if you group them, however you have to be able to add the groups together as you go, that is the tricky part.  Have a go at this number talks;

P1 – For numeracy P1 have reached the number 10 and are now learning about forward and backward sequences when counting out loud.  Some children have started to group amounts into a bundle of ten and then count on from this to reach a total within 20.

For our IDL topic we have completed our learning about water by exploring the three states, solid, liquid and gas and we used our pupil voice to help us plan some activities.  Thanks to Isla’s question about how does water help food cook, we boiled pasta in class to see the changes and why they happened…we then got to taste it too!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

We have been busy in P5 this week.

We have had lots of fun at the harvest festival where we were learning in collaboration with other primary schools including Bankton, Dedridge and Williamston about harvesting and what kind of foods are harvested in different countries.

“I enjoyed learning the song about a farmer during harvest time!” – Madison.

“I was a little bit nervous standing up in front of the other schools to present!” – Alan.

“Julia K and I got picked to go up with some other boys and girls from different schools and we had to make different words from H-A-R-V-E-S-T. – James.

“I enjoyed learning the song that we had to sing for the other schools, ‘The Harvest Song’. – Oma.

We continued with our basketball skills in PE this week but missed Mr McCurdy and we hope he feels better soon.

We enjoyed our trip to the Library this week and choosing a book to bring back to school.

“I chose ‘The Secret Diary of Kitty Cask’” – Wojtek

“I chose ‘Action Dogs Ocean of Pearls’” – Harry

As part of celebrating maths week, we worked in teams to solve a murder mystery challenge where we had to solve different clues using different mathematical processes.

“This was really tricky because there were lots of names on the suspect list!” – James

“I liked the murder mystery because we had to work out the different clues!” – Julia C.

We have also been learning about rounding and adjusting to help solve calculations mentally.

“I found this very hard to begin with but after practise I got used to the process.” – Angelina

“I thought it was fun but there was some bits that I got confused with.” – Ahmad

We have also been writing about the African Grassland. We wrote a narrative about an animal that you could find in the African Grassland and had to make sure we had an orientation, a complication and a resolution. We also tried to use adjectives and adverbs to add more detail and description in our writing.

“I wrote about a Zebra called Zack!” – Maeve.

“I wrote about an elephant called Cassie!” – Alishba.

“I wrote about a Gazelle called JJ!” – Olivia.

We hope you have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5!