This week we have been working really hard.

We have been finishing up our time topic and have made evaluation posters to share all we have learned and evaluate what we know.

We have introduced something new for writing this week called PM writing. We have really enjoyed using this so far.

“It was fun learning about a recount!” – Ola

“It helped us learn about sequential language!” – Zuzanna

“”I really enjoyed it because it made learning about nouns, verbs and past tense verbs easier.” – Michelle.

In art we have been using still life images to create pictures using cubism. We will share some of these with you next week.

We have continued with number talks and have enjoyed sharing strategies about how we solve calculations and our number sense.

We have enjoyed working with the nursery in PE where they have been developing their throwing and catching skills. We have been demonstrating real responsibility during this activity.

In our own PE lesson, we were learning tennis skills and participated in cross country running. Next week we will try to beat our personal time.

This week our praise postcard was awarded to Ola for going over and above in her role as 1+2 language ambassador ensuring we all know how to pronounce our phrase of the fortnight. Well done Ola!

Have a great weekend,

P5D and Miss D

Phonics

Michelle: we have been learning more about the ‘ch’ sound.

Mara: we have been learning the ‘th’ sound.

Scott: it is a cheeky sound because you stick your tongue out.

Amelia: it is a light blue sound in any words.

Anna: it is dark blue too. You use the dark blue ‘th’ sound in a sight word.

Shea: they are different colours.

Carter: that sound is a ‘t’ and a ‘h’.

Freya: the ‘th’ sound and the ‘f’ sound the same. The ‘f’ sound is pink and the ‘th’ sound is blue.

Roma: bath has the ‘th’ sound at the end.

Rojin: path has the ‘th’ sound at the end.

Celine: think has the ‘th’ sound at the beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5odH4nSjE

Please note that next week is a revision week for phonics and word boost – no new sounds in sounds jotter and no parent postcards for word boost.

New sight words or sight words information will be sent home with homework on Monday.

Writing

Pati: we are having a party for the castle.

Anna: we are having a banquet and we had to write an invitation.

Luke: you had to write what people would need to know.

Shea: we had to write where it is.

Carter: they had to know when it is. The 8^th of March.

Jane: It is at 11am.

Carter: people might not come if you don’t make it exciting.

Some of the exciting things  we included in our invitations:

Luke: There will cakes and castles.

Jane: I wrote that there are books because my mummy loves reading.

Mara: There will be a crown.

Paul: There is cake.

Word Boost

Roma: we were reading a book called ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’.

Carter: the giant gave his belt to the dog who was trying to cross the bog and his trousers fell down.

Anna: he gave his shoe to a mouse because they didn’t have a home.

Jane: in the story a goat needed a sail and the smartest giant gave his t-shirt away for the sail.

Shea: the giraffe’s neck was cold so he gave away his tie to the giraffe because it looked like a scarf.

Luke: a boost word is smart it means you look tidy.

Rojin: a boost word is perfect it means it can’t be any better.

Michelle: a boost word is comfortable it means you are very very warm

Jane: you would feel cosy too

Anna: a boost word is match it means that it is the same as something else.

Numeracy

Shea: you can use your fingers to subtract.

Roma: the rekenreks and the blocks help if there was a tricky sum. You could have 12 then you took 11 away the rekenreks and blocks would help you.

Carter: we have been doing take away and 12 take away 11 is 1, I just knew it because 11 is 1 less 12.

Amelia: you can use your head to do subtraction. You put a number in your head and use your fingers to count back.

Lucas: if you subtract the number gets smaller.

Topic

Anna: we were learning about Edinburgh castle.

Paul: there is a 1 o’clock gun it makes a bang noise at 1 o’clock.

Luke: there are stairs they aren’t straight they are a wee bit bendy.

Jane: there is a crown in the castle.

Shea: we made our canons with a balloon, tape and a toilet roll tube.

Luke: you have to pull the balloon and you let go and the ball comes out.

Our castle banquet is on Friday. Please arrive for 11am and make your way to the infant hall (lunch hall).

Thank you

This week in class we went to Pizza Express to make pizzas and after we used our experience to help us write a recipe for pizza.  The pizzas were great!

Also we had 7 Norwegian visitors come in and look at our school. They came to see us do Number Talks and they were very interested on learning about OneNote.

In PE we completed our gymnastic group sequences. We filmed these and will watch them back as a group to self assess our performance.

In maths we were focusing more on time. On Thursday some of the pupils went out in the area and played with some maths games and it was really fun and we played sumdog for a homework competition. We have also been using online timetables to plan and organise trips – we can all now read the train timetables and use the search tool on the Scotrail website.

Mrs McDonald came into our class to do our math lesson and we are still enjoying working with her every week.

Lukasz: This week we played group rounders with Mr Mcurdy my team lost but it was still really fun.

Charlie: I liked when the Norwegian visitors came in and we did some number talks.

Oskar: I really enjoyed when we walked down to Pizza Express and made an AMAZING margarita pizza.

Gaby: I am enjoying using our new reading comprehension boxes.

Joseph: I also enjoyed making the pizzas at Pizza Express and I like the cheese.

Chloe: I also enjoyed our visit to Pizza Express.

Pupil Voice:

Beth – today we watched the p3-5 show called Blast from the past it was great and all the children were very enthusiastic.

Daniel – we went to mindfulness with Ali on Thursday

Lauren – we had mindfulness with Ali this week.

Neve – we watched the P3-P5 show.

Jay – we watched blast from the past P3-P5 done the show.

Brooke – today we watched the p3-5 show I loved it and it was really funny.

Joshua – we did writing about Mary Queen of Scots being executed

Lorena – today the full school got to watch the p3-p5 ‘’Blast from the past’’. It was amazing. They done a great job!

Abi – today we watched a show with p3-p5 it was really funny

Harley- one thing that I really liked is when we were writing a newspaper report I liked it because I learned more about Mary Queen of Scots.

Matt – On Monday in PE we started to practise our routines I was in a group with Jay and Ethan.

Ailie – In PE this week we got to make up floor routines to our choice of music

Lorenzo – I liked when we done the time games

Caiden – My favourite thing to do is Maths, PE and Art

By Lead Learner

Jay (P6)

This week we have been very busy.

We have been rehearsing our show a blast from the past! We had a dress rehearsal in front of the whole school.

In maths we have been doing 24 and 12 hour clock times.

“When we were doing time it was very very VERY fun”- Aaron

“It was difficult but fun!” – Emily

“I like playing shut the box with Mrs Currie in maths.” – Sophie R

In number talks, we enjoyed sharing strategies about how we solved subtraction calculations.

In writing, we used a picture as a stimulus and had to use our imaginations to put together a story.

“I liked writing about it because I love the Ocean!” – Andrew

“I liked to write about the picture because I got to use my imagination!” – Kasia

We had our first mindfulness workshop with Miss Townley. We had to relax and lie down and think about only positive things. This helped us get rid of worries, relax and more focussed. We could feel the changes in our own bodies.

In PE, we have been using the apparatus in gymnastics. We had a focus on body tension this week to help strengthen our muscles.

We hope you have a great weekend, P5D and Miss Diamond

We have finished our week with a real treat, we watched the dress rehearsal of the P3-5 school show…IT WAS AMAZING!

This week in class we have also been AMAZING learners.

As we had snow last week we wrote about snowflakes this week in our literacy learning, we created our own poems.  To write our poems we learned that we needed to start each new line with a capital letter and how to use a comma at the end of a line.  We also explored as many adjectives as we could to describe snowflakes and we used these throughout our poems.  The results were fabulous!  We wrote our first two stanzas this week and next week we are going to write the next two stanzas, wouldn’t it be great if we could have a little snow to help inspire us…but not too much !

In our numeracy learning we continued to share equally.  However this week sometimes we had one or two left over at the end that we couldn’t share between our groups because it would make our groups unequal!?  We learned that these left over amounts were called remainders.  Try out these calculations and see if there are any remainders,

15 shared equally between 2 groups

19 shared equally between 3 groups

Our historical person that we learned about this week was St John.  We found out that he was alive at the same time as Jesus and that he was one of his Jesus’ Apostles.  Our local hospital is called St John’s Hospital.

Next week we are starting our new Science topic and we will be starting with The Sun as our focus.  Have a think about what you would like to learn about the sun and post your idea as a reply.  I will then add your idea to our Pupil Voice planning sheet in class.

Everyone in class have finished setting themselves learning goals for this term and they have all been uploaded to each child’s OneNote profile.  Log in to have a look at your child’s goal and have a chat with them to help them achieve it.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie