In class this week we did lots of different things.
On Monday morning we did our reading and some groups were answering questions on their task map and others were reading their book to try and finish it.
This week was our first week focusing on our new math topic time.
For time we are working on reading timetables. We were allowed to use are devices to search up the Scotrail website and answer some questions.
Also in the week we had a special visitor called Allie who came in to give us a mindfulness session. She showed us bottles with water and glitter in it. This was to show us that when we shake it the glitter goes around the bottle and it is to show us that this is what are minds are like when they are full. Though the glitter soon settles and that is what are minds should be like.
Mrs McDonald came in to do our maths and we are still doing our gymnastics in P.E.
Pupil Comments:
Taylor: I really enjoyed the gymnastics in P.E especially the wall bars because I got to do flips and have fun with all of my friends on the equipment.
Rebecca: I enjoyed doing a newspaper report about Mary Queen of Scots execution for writing.
Maxx: I enjoyed doing arts and crafts with MRS G!! Doing our pillow project for Father Simon for going to High School.
Charlie: I liked having the monkey bars really high up in gymnastics!
Zara: I liked having Mrs MacDonald for maths this week.
We have had a busy week this week – a highlight has definitely been learning more about castles and adding more features to the castle in our classroom.
Literacy
We are continuing to consolidate our knowledge of the ai and oa sounds. We will be learning more sounds next week. We have used this game in literacy this week to extend our learning:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PictureMatch.html
We also visited the local library where we have started to explore non-fiction books and their features. We have been successfully using an index page to find out information about castles.
Numeracy
We are continuing to learn about numeracy. We enjoyed singing along to this song:
This helps us with our mental subtraction strategies of counting back. It would be great if you could practise counting back from 10 or 20 (as a challenge) at home.
We used this game to enhance our learning this week:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=TakeAway
Weekly Highlights
Here are our highlights of the week
Lucas: I liked learning about jesters. They make people laugh.
Luke: I liked learning about knights. Knights fight other castles.
Paul: I liked learning about the jesters.
Roma: I liked the Elmer colouring in. You needed to do the subtraction sum and check the colour for the answer and then colour it in.
Freya: I liked the Elmer colouring in too.
Olivier: I liked learning about the jester. He lives in the castle.
Mara: I liked colouring in a castle. I had to make sure I had to stay in the lines.
Carter: I liked learning and knights. The knights would fight the baddies and try not let them in the castle as they might try to steal the castle.
Igor: I liked learning about Jesters. Jesters wear a hat with bells.
Celine: I liked learning more about the ‘ai’ and ‘oa’ sounds. They are black sounds.
Jane: I liked the show. My favourite was when the cat got kicked.
Pati: I liked the show and the dancing.
Amelia: I liked doing subtraction. 9-6=3.
Rojin: I liked playing at the tuff table and playing with the cars.
Shea: I liked watching the show and when the cat got kicked.
Anna: I liked the car game in the tuff tray for number work.
In P5D we have been redrafting our imaginative stories that we have been working on over the last few weeks. We are making them into our own books so used word processing to type them up and have been drawing illustrations to go with our stories.
“I liked to type up my story and then was able to print it out.” – Maliha
“I thought this was fun because I got to write it in my jotter then up-level it on the computer. I like drawing pictures and colouring them in!” – Morgan
“I enjoyed doing this because I could make my own imaginative character and make my story into a book!” – Levente
“I enjoyed it because I got to use my imagination!” – Emily
We have had lots of fun in PE because we are doing our gymnastics block at the moment so got to use the equipment. We had to do handstands, make up balances using the rope rings, we were tensing our muscles to create body tension to help with balance.
“It was really fun because we got to hang upside down!” – Zuzanna.
“In PE it was super fun because we did a lot of balances and practised doing handstands!” – Aaron
“It was really fun because we got to do a sit down balance but in the air on the rings!” – Michelle
In maths, we have been learning about time and converting times from 12hour-24hour and vice versa. We are finding this quite tricky but will keep trying. We are trying to use our classroom clock to help us!
We have been working very hard to get our show ready for our audience performances next week and can’t wait to show you all! We have had our first rehearsal without scripts and everyone managed very well.
It has been a chilly week but P2 have been ‘hot’ with their learning!
One way we have kept our learning warmed up is by doing our counting in 2s exercises. Use the following link to try it out at home.
Mrs Currie’s favourite move is the “slide”. Leave a reply to tell me your favourite move.
Also in numeracy this week we have been looking at sharing amounts equally into groups. This will form part of our home learning next week. Lots of practical practise using concrete material will really deepen our understanding before we move onto written equations, also putting the problems into context helps us to see the links with real life and how we will be able to use these skills in the future.
For our writing we have been working hard over the last three weeks to create and build an imaginative story. It all started two weeks ago when we invented a character and wrote a character description. Then the following week we made a plan for our character’s story and wrote a brief beginning, middle and end. Then this week we tried to up level our plans by adding in more detail such as adjectives and conjunctions to extend our writing. It was a real challenge but we have all achieved the outcome which was to create an original imaginative story.
Our historical figure that we have learned about this week was James Young. One of our local high schools is named after him so it was great to find out about why he is so famous and important. Ask your child to tell you one fact about James Young.
Next week in class we are going to be joined by Mrs Lauder who is a student teacher and she will work with our class for the next five weeks. We can’t wait to showcase our amazing learning to her.
This week in P6/7 we watched Author’s Live, starring, Frank Cottrell-Boyce we had a fun time watching and listening to all the things he did when he was little and what inspired him to make his latest book, Sputnik’s guide to life on Earth! We enjoyed it and hope to come to one Author’s Live soon.
Joshua: “Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Author’s Live, I enjoy his famous Broccoli Boy!”
Abi: “Yesterday we watched Author’s Live!”
Jay: “We done Author’s Live with Frank Cottrell-Boyce.”
P.E
We also had our amazing P.E teacher, Mr McCurdy teaching us how to use the bars, volt and balance well. Beth, Abi and Aria were our stars! They taught us exercises they do at their gymnastics club, it was great!
Caiden: “In P.E we are doing gymnastics.”
Cole: “Gymnastics is fun, I like to climb on the bars.”
GOOGLE EARTH
When the P7s we busy, the P6s went onto Google Earth and explored the world! They learned about where Mary Queen of Scots was held in for at least a few years, so the P6s researched to learn more about her!
Brooke: “P6 went on Google Earth to search for Lochleven.”
READING
The P7s finally finished their reading book “Running Wild” by Michael Morpurgo! So, they are now on a new reading book, one full of emotions and an amazing kid full of personality.
On the other side the Killer Cat reading book, also finished their reading book and are now onto another story, but this one is a mystery because they haven’t found out their reading book…
Lorena: “The P7s got there new reading book ‘Wonder’ which I’m really excited for!
Lauren: “My group finished our reading book.”
Toni: “This week the P7s got our new book Wonder. I was really tempted to watch the movie, but I didn’t want to spoil the book.”
Ivana: P7s started their new reading book, it is named wonder.
Thomas: “The P7s started the book, ‘Wonder’”
FOOTBALL
The school’s football team went up to West Calder on Thursday.
Thomas: “The football team had a tournament and did well.”
Ethan: “I went to the football tournament on Thursday.”
Matt: “We went to a football tournament.”
WRITING OUR LAST LETTERS!
This week in writing we discovered Mary Queen of Scots last letter. It was pretty interesting since it was 8 hours away before her execution, we wrote on how we thought if we were in Mary’s shoes. How would you feel? If you knew you were going to die in the next 8 hours!
Ambra: “We wrote a letter about Mary’s last letter!”
Daniel: “We done writing about Mary’s last letter.”
MUSIC
We kindly had Mrs. Smith over and she taught us about different types of music and instruments including; the strings, woodwind, percussion, brass. We also learned about Tempo, Timbre and Dynamics.
Beth: “I really enjoyed doing music with Mrs. Smith, it was great fun and it was nice because we have not done music in ages.”
From Mrs. Roy and P6/7, signing out!
A HUGE thank you to our lead learner Bea for writing this week’s blog post!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucy- In writing we wrote imaginative stories, we had to pretend that we woke up in a castle.
Connor- We could choose to be a King, Queen, Knight, Jester, Prince or Princess.
Emilie- We had to write about what the character wore, how they felt and what they ate.
Julian- I was a King in my story and I felt happy.
Shakti- I was a beautiful princess in my story.
Word Boost
The word Boost story this week was
How to Grow a Dinosaur
Emileigh-Rose- Rip was a boost word this week. If you rip something you tear it without being careful.
Lily- Scatter was a boost word this week. If you scatter things you throw them or drop them so that they spread out.
Adam- Gigantic was a boost word this week. If something is gigantic it is very very big.
Joshua- Glare was a boost word this week. If you glare at someone you look at them with an angry face.
Shay- We are now learning all about subtraction.
We really enjoyed singing the subtract with a pirate song.
It helped us understand what subtraction is and what happens when you subtract. We also learned language linked to subtraction- subtract, minus, takeaway, find the difference.
Khyla- When we take numbers away they get smaller.
Sophie- We pretended we were the teacher; we hid 10 counters under the sheet and told our group how many we subtracted. Our group had to guess how many were left over?
Courtney- We played ten pin bowling, you had to knock some over the pins and then write the subtraction calculation on the whiteboard.”
Isla- We have started to learn about weather in Spanish this week. We learned new words for the different types of weather and sang some songs.
For topic we learned how to identify 2 different types of evidence which can tell us about the past.
We learned the historians, find evidence to learn about the past too.
Miss Boyes read us the story Hamish McHaggis and The Great Glasgow Adventure.
In this story Hamish and his friends, have to make up clues for a treasure hunt. To do this they visit different museums in Glasgow, we think museums would be a great place to find evidence about the past because they have artefacts.
We also think that you could learn about the past from…
“newspapers”
“photos”
“the internet”
“books at the library”
“visitor centres”
We looked in non-fiction books to learn about Castle life in the past.
Connor- Non-fiction books tell us real facts.
Miss Boyes challenged us to find different pictures in the books.
Emilie- They have a contents page and an index which tells you where to find specific information in the book.
We have decided to design a museum about ourselves, of all of our favourite things.
Also this week we were learning about symmetry through art. We looked at pieces of art, buildings and animals which were symmetrical and then we created symmetrical stain glass windows by using different coloured tissue paper. We will look at symmetry in more depth soon.
Fun filled freezing week, but what have we learned this week?
Children have been investigating the properties of water. They found a block pf ice in the garden and we brought it indoors to see how it would melt and break up. Children used their problem solving skills and curiosity to explore different ways to melt the ice. Some tried scissors, others’ tried sticks or our plastic dinosaurs. We then decided to do an experiment. What would happen if we put some items in water and left them outside? Great discussion and investigation on Friday as we found our items frozen in the ice!! The afternoon children will find their items on Monday.
Tooth brushing started on Monday each child has their own toothbrush and follows the Childsmile programme, they are learning to identify their own name on the list to be able to find their own brush.
From our Chinese New Year display in nursery children have been attempting to write in Chinese .Parker could see that the writing has straight lines and tried to copy them himself.
P.E this week was Gymnastics. The full hall gym equipment was out as the children developed balancing skills, climbing skills, jumping skills and remembered to have squashy knees as they jumped down onto the mat.
Have a great weekend everyone !! from the Nursery Team xx
NEXT WEEK
MONDAY –
TUESDAY – CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION (CHINESE SNACK) AND SAFER INTERNET DAY.
WEDNESDAY- WELLY WEDNESDAY BEGINS AGAIN TODAY PLEASE COME DRESSED IN WATERPROOF CLOTHING.
In Math we have been doing our assessments on fractions and decimals. We also did a holistic questions assessment.
In P.E we are doing Gymnastics.
Chi-Chi said that her favorite part this week was swinging on the ropes.
Brandon said his favorite part was side vaults.
In writing we made a diary entry of Mary Queen of Scots! We had to write it as if we just got told we were going to be beheaded. Grace said that it was hard but fun!
Louise took our pictures and we turned them into a person from Mary Queen of Scots’ family using Paint on the netbooks.
Taylor made Mary the 1st and she said that it was very fun to make.
Here are some things people said:
Vanessa: My favorite part of the week was when we were doing gymnastics in P.E.
Isla: I enjoyed it when Mrs. MacDonald came in and taught us Mathematics.
Rebecca: I liked helping around with the food bank.
Roma: we are still learning the oa sound and the ai sound.
Amelia: they are tricky sounds to learn.
Carter: I was spelling the word train, it has the ai sound.
Amelia: I was spelling boat, it has the oa sound.
Lucas: there were socks filled with different things and your partner had to listen to the sound that it made and they had to tell me what the sound was.
Freya: we were practising writing sounds on the teacher whiteboard and the chalkboard. I was practising the k and p because they are a bit tricky for me.
We played this game to help us with our reading skills:
http://www.ictgames.com/cvcPop.html
Word Boost
Carter: Our word boost story was about a growing dinosaur.
Rojin: Glare means you look at someone with an angry face.
Michelle: scatter means if you drop something it would spread out
Roma: rip means you open something but not carefully.
Paul: gigantic means bigger than enormous.
Writing
Carter: There was a dentist in our classroom on Tuesday.
Lucas: we were writing about brushing our teeth.
Celine: we were writing instructions.
Shea: we used the words first, next and then.
Jane: you are not allowed to use the word I when you are writing instructions.
Numeracy
We have started learning about subtraction in our numeracy lesson. We loved the subtract with a pirate song to help us understand what subtraction is:
Shea: I liked doing the teddy bear game. You had to take away teddy bears. If there 5 teddy bears and you took away 2 you would have 3 left.
Anna: I liked the smashing the play-doh because I liked making 10. Then you had to roll the dice and whatever the dice landed on you had to smash that many. I had 10 and rolled a 5 and smashed 5 and I had 5 left.
Pati: I liked the tower game. You build a tower with 10 bricks and you had to roll a dice and if it was a 5 you would take away blocks. You would have 5 left.
Freya: I was playing subtraction games and adding games on the smartboards. There was a dragon adding game I liked.
Rojin: I liked bowling and you had to count how many you knocked over. You started with 10 skittles and I knocked over 6 and I had 4 left.
Michelle: On the computer there were balloons. One time there was 5 balloons and you had to pop 2 and there were 3 left.
Here is a link for the game:
http://www.abcya.com/subtraction_game.htm
Scott: I liked playing the bus. You had to roll the dice to see how many people you get. If you get an adding bit people get on your bus.
Igor: I liked playing the bus stop game with Shea.
Lucas: If you land on take away you have to take away people off the bus.
Topic
Lucas: we made a coat of arms.
Roma: it is a picture on a shield.
Shea: castles have different coat of arms.
Jane: I had a unicorn on my coat of arms.
Olivier: There was a heart on my one.
Anna: we are going to hang them up in our castle.
Check out next week’s homework menu for the link to make your own coat of arms. If you would like a head start on this activity. Here is the link to create your own:
http://www.makeyourcoatofarms.com/app.asp
Mara: I liked playing in the castle.
PE
Freya: I was doing handstands a back handstand and a forward handstand.
Carter: I done a vault and jumped onto the springboard and jumped on the platform and done it with no hands.
Roma: we were making a sequence.
Amelia: A sequence is more than 1 thing.
Anna: In my sequence I did a forward roll, then a balance and then a jump.
It has been an exciting week in Primary Four this week, read on for more information…
Alan, Aaron, Oma, Kayden, Leo – I liked PE – we were using the monkey bars and doing rotation..
Madison – Rotation is where you have to roll over
Julia – We were also doing balance in PE
Annayah – I was really good at the headstand!
Maeve – I liked doing PE and I did a backflip on the rings.
Ava, Ryan, Matthew – I liked rehearsing for the show..
Alishba, Harry, Wojtek – I like practicing the show too – we are nearly ready!
Zoe, Lily – Yesterday (Thursday) we were logging on with our own accounts to make powerpoints about ACTIVE (our monthly GIRFEC theme)
Vanessa – I liked doing number talks
Yaroslav – We have stopped doing adding and have moved into taking away (subtracting -Marcus)
Angelina – I liked the basketball after school club with Mr McCurdy!
Filip, Alice, Lennon, Ana, James, Elenta – I liked doing Kapla, I was building with my friends and they built over me…
Next week we are looking forward to our dress rehearsal for our show – if you haven’t handed in a costume yet, please make sure it is in no later than Monday 🙂 phone or write in your child’s homework diary if you cannot provide this so we can help!
