It has been another superb week in P2, there have been a lot of interesting and valuable learning experiences.  Here is an overview of what we have achieved.

Topic – Science (Water); We have now all had a chance to do ice painting and observations of water in its three states.  To link this learning to real life skills we undertook the task of making Vegetable Pasta (with the help of Mrs Burchill – thank you!).  When we were making the pasta the children all observed how we use water in our every day lives to cook, they also were able to apply their learning about how heating water up can turn it from liquid water into water vapour.  The children were so excited when they started to see steam as they knew this was the water boiling (and boiling over oops!).  They then learned how to chop, peel and grate vegetables.  The best bit was the tasting!

Numeracy – We have started to recap our addition within 10 skills.  We focused on the number bonds to 10 and how we can show these using concrete material and pictorially on a number line.  We then asked the question, if these are number bonds to 10 how can we adapt them and add to them to make number bonds to 11.  Again the children used a wide variety of resources to show this.  We discussed switchers too, ask your child to explain to you what a switcher is.

Literacy – On Thursday we wrote some instructions about how to make our Vegetable Pasta dish and Mrs Smith joined us for this lesson and she was so impressed with our learning.  We focused on numbering our instructions and trying to start each instruction with a verb opener.  Look out for a consolidation home learning task next week about writing instructions on how to make your favourite breakfast (bowl of cereal, toast with jam, boiled egg etc).  This week we completed our first block of spelling lessons which focused on our P2 key words and today we completed a check up task to see how we are getting on, it’s great to know if we are making any mistakes because this is the best way to learn!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

Lucas-this week in P.E  we did contact rugby and tackling with the tackling bags.

Oskar-when the girls were away we had free time to go on one note and add our goals and go on the chat .

Lucas and Oskar-this week in writing we had our assessment and it was about if animals should be kept in the zoo.

Kalin-i enjoyed doing the pivot animator and we made loads of animations.

Lewis- i liked doing rugby with the St Margret pupils.

Brandon- We were doing fun stuff on pivot animator while the girls were at there fitness.

Sarah-  at fitness I liked the football .

Lewis- When the girls went away boys got to go on the computers and some people got to go on piviot animator.

Oskar-we did the poems about refugees.

Rebecca- All the girls went to an Active Girls Day in James Young High School and my favorite part was the Aerobics which really stretched my muscles.

Vanessa: I had fun doing the girls fitness day because we met loads of new people and did loads of sports!!!!!!

Maxx- this week S.T Margrets students came and Ethan and Megan did rugby and we done tackling with them.

A reminder for Monday

We have our Risk Factory visit. The bus will be leaving at 8:45 so it is very important all primary 7 pupils arrive to school in plenty of time.
Please bring a packed lunch to have on return to school.

Have a great weekend

This week has been fantastic in P5D!

We have been learning about things that are soluble and insoluble and what solids would dissolve. We have learned that different variables can have an effect on what happens. We also learned the difference between dissolving and melting.

In maths, we have been using tower sums to solve more complex addition and subtraction problems. We carried out a small number assessment to see what we have learned.

In art this week, we linked it to our science topic and used watercolours and salt to see what happened. We discovered that the salt absorb the colour and change the look of our painting.

We celebrated national poetry day by writing poems all about our teacher eating our homework!

My teacher ate my homework,

She was VERY hungry!

I spent AGES on that homework,

So I was very angry!

My teacher ate my homework,

I was so surprised.

She swallowed it in one gulp!

I couldn’t believe my eyes!

My teacher ate my homework,

I won’t be doing it again!

So I just said to my teacher,

Thank you and AMEN!

By, Calvin, Michelle, Aaron and Andrew.

We have been learning about being ready, respectful and safe and Miss Diamond will be looking out for people being very respectful next week as some children will be chosen for hot chocolate Friday.

Congratulations to Andrew for being awarded our praise postcard this week 🙂 !

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D!

We haven’t been learning any new sounds this week in our phonics. We are spending 2 weeks consolidating our knowledge of the sounds we have been taught and taking part in different activities to develop our blending, spelling and reading ability using these sounds as well as our listening skills to hear the sounds in a word.

Here are some of the different activities we have been doing:

One of the activities we have particularly enjoyed has been the race car blending game. We have a word on a piece of paper e.g. cat. We drive a car over the word, saying each sound as we go. We make the car drive faster and faster to help us read the word. You could try this at home too.

Carter: “when the cars cross the letters we read them”

Shea: “we have a phonics phone we say the sounds and they go into our hear so you can hear the sounds coming from your mouth.”

Pati has also being practising writing her “name”.

Carter:  “there is shaving foam on the tuff table.”

Luke: “we look at the cards and we write letters on the tuff table like n and a and p and k.”

Home Learning: What can you use at home to practise writing your sounds and sight words.

We have loved number talks this week. We have been using bunny ears to show our understanding of how the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 are made.

Home Learning: Ask your child to show you bunny ears for 2, for 3, for 4 and for 5. Ask your child to show you the game we have been playing with bunny ears.

Anna: “we have been counting bunny ears.”

Freya: “try and copy what Mrs Davenport is doing and get the right number.”

In our numeracy lessons this week we have been talking about 1 more, 2 more and numbers that come before or after other numbers. Here are some of the activities we have been doing:

Olivier: “counting” with numicon

Paul: “playing hopscotch. I needed to set it up myself and I had to put down the number 1 then 2 then 3 then 4 and all the way to 11.”

Layla: “in the tuff tray I was using a paintbrush to write numbers.”

Carter: “I was fixing the number line and putting the numbers in the right order.”

Home Learning: Ask your child what is 1 more or 2 more than a certain number. E.g. what is 1 more than 6? What is 2 more than 3? What number is before 7? What number is after 9?

We have developing our reasoning skills. This week, Mrs Davenport and Mrs Docherty have been asking us lots of ‘why’ questions in lots of different lessons.

A dinosaur egg had appeared in our classroom:

Anna: “a dinosaur egg came into our classroom.”

Roma: “it has hatched now.”

We had to think about why it was here.

Rojin: “the mummy dinosaur and daddy dinosaur aren’t looking after the egg.”

For our writing lesson we had to think about why the dinosaur parents weren’t looking after the egg anymore.

Roma: “I think they were on holiday.”

Luke: “I think they are at the beach.”

Carter: “I think they are shopping getting food for the little dinosaur.”

We found out that dinosaurs eat different food. We wanted to make sure that the baby dinosaur had lots of food for when it hatched out the egg.

Rojin: “we collected food for the baby dinosaur.”

Olivier: “we got leaves.”

Scott: “and grass.”

Carter: “some dinosaurs don’t eat meat.”

Roma: “it would make it sick.”

We had a wonderful trip to the library on Tuesday.

Michelle: “we took books”

Shea: “I picked a book about a spider.”

Logan: “I picked a book about a rocket.”

Jane: “we took our books to the park and we played.”

Carter: “we read our books in the park too.”

We have also been using our reading books in class lots too. Here are the titles of our books this week:

Carter: “A New Dog.”

Amelia: Six in a Bed.”

Where do we begin, what a busy week it has been!

Monday

We used a science text and identified our 8 BOOST words for the week, they were pretty tricky! Each day we will be doing a different activity liked to our BOOST words. During PE we went outside with Mrs Roy for rugby and did some rugby circuit work. It got messy especially at the station where we had to lie on our stomachs and then race to the rugby ball!! We finished reading chapter 7 of Kensuke’s Kingdom and learned more about the relationship between Michael and Kensuke. Everyone took part in Numbertalks and we enjoyed sharing our strategies. The Solar System is our mini science topic this term and we were learning about constellations and the different parts of the solar system.

Wednesday

Today we worked in our reading groups and did some work on our HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills), we will be using these across the curriculum throughout the year. Mr McCurdy took us outside for our final rugby practice before our rugby festival next week with the other P6 and P7 classes. Jazz was great fun as we were composing and playing our own tunes which we will be performing at a small concert next Thursday at 11am, parents welcome to come along. Synonyms were the focus in Wordboost today, not as easy as it looked! In science we explored the planets and then a did a house quiz to see what we had remembered.

Thursday

It was National Poetry Day and we studied the poem, ‘Russian Dolls’ written by Rachel Rooney. Mrs Roy brought in some real Russian Dolls to help us visualise the poem and we listened to a recording of Rachel reading the poem. We all had a go at unpicking the layers of our character and wrote our own poems, we then shared some of these on Twitter, follow us at @mrsroy16 or @StNiniansPS. Rachel Rooney was very impressed an sent us some personal tweets. In numeracy we revised rounding numbers up to 1million as this was something which we all agreed needed a bit more work, this will be followed up with a homework task next week. In RE we spoke about discipleship and identifed how we could be closer to God.

Friday

We started the morning with Numbertalks and played Countdown, Brooke and Haseeb got really close to solving it, here are the numbers if you want to try it at home – 100, 50, 75, 3, 10, 7 – target number was 423. Then we played Quick on the Draw during Wordboost and worked in teams to think of ways to visualise all of our BOOST words. Then we went to our House Assemblies.

Other news

Ethan took part in the WL Schools Cross Country event at Dechmont representing our school and he came 4th which was a fantastic achievement!!! Well done Ethan!!!!

The P7 girls took part in the Active Girls festival at JYHS and all behaved perfectly and joined in with all activities.

Our P7’s will be going to the risk factory on Monday morning, remember to bring a packed lunch.

Pupil voices

Aria: Pupils came to help from St. Margaret’s

Mirren: This week we did Jazz mattaz with Mike and we are practising for the show.

Haseeb: In writing we did a poem about a Russian doll and we wrote 7 verses and emotions in it.

Abi: We did PE we did rugby we got wet and covered in grass and we were cold.

Abi and Bea: This was our first week when Mrs. Roy came back, we were all very excited and ready to learn with her. And we had a wonderful with her this week.

In maths we did number talks we put our thumbs up if we got a answer and put our fists up if were thinking

Thanks for reading our blog

Bea, Abi, P6/7 & Mrs Roy