P2 have had a great week.  We had our first successful trip to the local library, thank you to our adult helpers who came with us.  The children were all able to choose a book to bring back to school and they then used their book to inspire them to record a drawing or piece of writing.  Well done everyone.  In class we have also been learning about the power of the word YET when we are learning.  The children are recognising that they can achieve anything through celebrating mistakes and using them as an opportunity to achieve great learning…we don’t say I can’t do it! We say I can’t do it YET!

We watch this fun song before our learning to help us remember this valuable message,

Here is an overview of our learning from this week,

Literacy – We read the book “Billy Monsters Daymare” for our boost work this week.  We thought it was really funny when we discussed that it is the opposite of our lives; Billy had nightmares about children! The children were then challenged to try to use any of the boost words when talking to me, I was so delighted when Jack told me he had a “tiny” lunch! Well done Jack.  We have also been working hard on using a wide variety of spelling strategies to help us learn our sight words.  We particularly enjoy using worms and snakes spells was and sally anne is dancing spells said.  You and your child can try making up some of your own mnemonic stories to learn tricky spellings.

Numeracy – Which number is largest?  Which is smallest?  Put these numbers in order starting from the smallest. These were the questions the children were answering this week in numeracy.  The children were using the numbers to 100.  We applied our knowledge of place value and looked at the tens digit first when comparing or ordering our numbers and if the numbers had the same tens digit then we looked at the units digit for more information.  We have been using the game Coconut Ordering (Topmarks website) to help practise this skill.  Here is the link to this game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering

Science – Water water all around… We have been discussing water this week and looking at the three states of water (liquid, steam and ice).  We split into two groups and one group watched a short film about an ice festival and then used ice paints (poster paint and water mixed together and frozen over night) to colour some Artic animals.  The other group completed some practical work on observing water in its three states and learning the science vocabulary of SOLID, LIQUID and GAS to describe these states, we played a fun game outside to demonstrate the structure of a solid, liquid and gas (ask your child to explain it to you).  Next week the two groups will have a chance to swap over to experience both activities.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Currie

On Monday we made a display about Kensuke’s kingdom which is our class novel. We did the Matilda challenge if you want to see it go on the St Ninian’s twitter page. On Tuesday the P6’s did symmetry and we also did R.E and we were looking at what the Priest wears on certain times of the year. On Wednesday we had jazz with Mike,  Cole and Matt made a song about rice krispies. On Thursday we had John the janny’s leaving assembly. On Friday Mrs Roy came back and we talked to everyone about what they like and what they don’t like.

Pupil voice:

Bea-We made Kensuke’s Kingdom pictures of a wave and a sunset with a boat. We also wrote arguments about whether zoos should be banned.

Caiden-Today we discussed Ready, Respectful, Safe and made posters for our charter.

Ethan – We had Mike for Jazz.

Cole – On Wednesday we introduced tackling in rugby.

Lorena – On Friday Mrs Roy came back and we all spent time getting to know one another which I really enjoyed.

Teacher voice

It was lovely to return to work today to such a wonderful class of committed, enthusiastic and kind pupils. They have made my return smooth and kept me updated on all that has being going on. I am looking forward to working with each and everyone of them throughout P6/7 and I am sure we will have lots of learning, laughter and fun!! Just a final word to thank the children, parents and staff for their support for the last 5 weeks, it has been greatly appreciated. Mrs Roy xx

Written by the lead learners, Thomas and Mirren

Phonics

We learned 2 new sounds this week. Use the link below to listen to the song for the ‘k’ sound.

Roma: “we learned the k sound.”

Olivier: “it is a yellow sound.”

Anna: “it comes from the back of your mouth.”

Anna: “we learned the ‘ck’ sound too.”

Carter: “you use this sound at the end of a word.”

Freya: “I made the word cat.”

Home Learning: Can you spell words at home where the ‘ck’ sound comes at the end of a word. Remember the rule!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1gyLJOpCzQ

Maths

We have been learning about measure this week. We having been using the words: big/small, heavy/light, empty/fully, tall/short in class to talk about objects. We have taken part in lots of different activities and we look forward to sharing some of these with you at our stay and play event coming soon.

We were using balance scales to weigh objects and Shea told us the scales need “to be the same.”

We were playing with water and sand to help us develop our understanding of capacity and we were trying to use the language of full and empty. At the sink Scott told us that we were “filling up cups.”

When learning about height we had to order our dinosaurs.

Celine: “line up the dinosaurs and you had to put the biggest first and all the way to the smallest.”

We try to measure different objects using things we can find in the classroom. We used pom-poms and Roma told us that we were “checking what size things were.”

Home Learning: Use this language at home when measuring different things. Challenge: we also spoke about the 2^nd smallest or 2^nd biggest thing; the cups which were half full or half empty etc.

 

Number Talks

Shea: “we had to make numbers using rekenreks.”

Carter: “we made numbers with rekenreks and we had to guess how Mrs Davenport made the number.”

Home Learning: Adults draw a dot pattern at home but keep number in 2 lines like this:

 

Tell your child that you have 4 dots and they have to try and copy your pattern. They may make the dots a number of different ways before the guess your way. Try this with different numbers.

 

Music

We enjoyed music with Mrs Steele. Here is what we were doing this week:

Pati: “singing”

Rojin: “playing some musical instruments.”

 

Mass

We went to mass on Tuesday at St Philips.

Lucas: “we went with our buddies to mass.”

Luke: “we walked to mass.”

Anna: “we sing songs at mass.”

Freya: “we listened to Father Kenneth.”

Michelle: “we prayed to God.”

 

Topic

Logan: “we got a letter from Trex.”

Jane: “the letter said that he was long and had a tail and sharp teeth.”

Roma: “I was really happy when Trex came.”

Trex is a dinosaur (a T-Rex) who has joined our class. Trex doesn’t know much about school or about the local area. We are going to help Trex settle in at school and teach him about our local area.

 

Assembly

We had a special assembly on Thursday to say goodbye to someone special.

Freya: “it was sad because John the Janny is going away.”

Jane: “it is called retiring.”

 

Outdoor Learning

Outdoor learning was so much fun this week. Here are our highlights:

Shea: “we had to make dens.”

Amelia: “we played with the leaves that had fallen on the floor.”

Roma: “we picked berries and then painted with them in the classroom.”

Freya: “that was yucky.”

Luke: “we picked up sticks and leaves and we were measuring what size they were.”

Carter: “a tree had fallen down and we had to climb over it.”

Freya: “Roma showed us a fairy house.”

Roma: “it was a fairy door in a tree.”

This week we learned how to safely tackle someone in rugby. We also learned about Negative numbers and ordering decimals numbers from smallest to biggest. On Thursday Mrs McDonald came in to teach us about Place Value witch we learned a lot from this lesson. We were trying to learn about the app called My World of Work. We also tried using OneNote on Glow witch we are going to trial as our pupil profile.

 

Pupil Voice

Taylor: I really enjoyed the Buddy Mass and I also really enjoyed doing a reading at it.

Max: I really enjoyed doing the Negative Numbers in maths.

Vanessa: I enjoyed the buddy mass.

Kalin: I like doing contact in Rugby.

Louise: I also liked doing rugby.

Sarah: I enjoyed doing number talks.

Joseph: I Enjoyed acting in the drama at R.E. as the devil.

Viet: I enjoyed doing My World of Work.

 

We hope you have a great weekend!!

 

Taylor, Joseph and Viet

A short but busy week in primary 7.

 

Lewis: This week we went outside for Rugby it was fun but cold.

Taylor: This week the ambassadors announced Maxx is our new ambassador.

Rebecca: We did descriptive writing of our own made up character.

Maxx: On Thursday Mrs McDonald came in to do maths. We were using the grid method for multiplication.

Taylor: We were learning about comparative and superlative adjectives.

Sarah: We used our boost words for smart start.

Rachel M: We learned that flowers are both male and female. We also learned the names for the different parts of the flower.

 

Today we started our committees for the year.

Credit Union
Jay P: This week we picked people to get trained to work the bank etc.

Community Links
Gaby: I enjoyed making the posters for the Halloween disco.

Mini Vinnies
Zara: We were finding out facts about St. Vincent de Paul and made an action plan.

Technologies
Joseph: We learned all about Google and how you can search anything. We also learned maths using the website coolmaths.

Health & Wellbeing
Maxx: We are planning on introducing a healthy tuck In partnership with locals supermarkets.

House Captain
Rebecca: We surveyed the toilets to check what needed fixed and improved. We were also planning a charity event for Mary’s Meals.

We have been working hard this week and are really excited to share our learning with you.

In RE, we have been learning about bidding prayers and finding out what they mean and their purpose.

In literacy we have been learning about past, present and future verb tenses and using them in sentences.

We have continued with our hockey tournament and have been earning lots of points for our teams.

We have been learning how to say greetings in Spanish and enjoyed whole class conversations using what we learned.

We have been sharing strategies in number talks and are becoming more confident when working with and understanding numbers.

We had our first pupil committees this morning; we all had fun and are looking forward to what has still to come;

‘Community Links committee have been making an action plan for the year ahead and designed posters to advertise the Halloween disco.’ – Aaron

‘We have been learning about Credit Union and had 3 stations, the first one was the bank, the second one was the book updates and the third one was looking at the receipts and paying in slips.’ – Rhia

‘In HWB we have been thinking about and making posters about what we think is important about HWB.’ – Ola

‘We have been playing different games on the netbooks in the digital technology committee.’ – Andrew

‘In Mini  Vinnie’s we were planning to donate toys and clothes and make Christmas decorations to sell at the Christmas Fayre. We are also going to make cakes for Easter.’ – Ethan

 

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D.

It has only been a short week for us but we have managed to squeeze in so much learning!

Phonics

In phonics we have been learning the ‘i’ and ‘n’ sound. The ‘i’ sound is another sound that comes from the vowel house. It is a black sound and our mouth makes a tunnel shape when we say this sound. We now know 2 sounds from the vowel house – ‘a’ and ‘i’. We have been learning that the sounds from the vowel house usually come in the middle of a word. We have been thinking really hard about where we hear a sound coming from – the beginning, middle or end.

The ‘n’ sound is a blue sound which comes from our tongue. We noticed that the ‘n’ sound is dark blue and ‘s’ and ‘t’ are light blue. We were learning that this means loud and quiet sounds. The lighter the colour, the quieter the sound. So ‘n’ is dark blue because it is a loud sound.

Here are the songs we have been using this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7GuPnhElJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-SkJfIVSXg

Home Learning: ask your child to spell these words (write them down somewhere, use play-doh to make the letters or be creative)

as

it

is

an

nap

nip

Numeracy

In numeracy we have been talking about numbers that come before, after and in between. We were using little number lines to help us with this.

Home Learning: ask your child what number comes after 4, after 7 etc.  Ask your child what number comes before 9, 3 etc. Ask your child what number comes in between 3 and 5, 6 and 8 etc. Challenge: go beyond 10!

We have also been working on our counting skills. We have been using these songs to help us:

Topic

We made our own dinosaur masks this week as part of our topic. We had lots of fun using different materials as part of the masks. Glitter was definitely the favourite material to use! We had lots of fun during ‘fun 31 (golden time)’ playing with our masks and making stories. We had stories about mummy and big sister and little sister dinosaurs. Did you see our class photo on twitter? @mrsd_stnps

Spanish

We have been learning to say hello (hola), goodbye (adios), good morning (buenos dias) and good night (buenas noches) in Spanish. We played some fun games and listened to this song too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZKw5IldE9Y

Another busy week in P1D.

Next week:

Tuesday is our buddy mass. We would love if you could come to St Philips at the Lanthorn to join us celebrate liturgy with our peers.

Wednesday afternoon we are going a walk in our local area. Please ensure children have a warm jacket (weather depending) and you may wish to provide your child with a pair of trainers in their bag for this walk.

Have a lovely weekend.