Thank you to the children for helping to write the blog post this week and letting you know what we’ve been up to.

What sounds have we been learning?

Roma: ‘a’ and ‘t’ sounds this week.

Anna: ‘a’ is a black sound.

Shea: it comes from the tunnel in your mouth.

Freya: it lives in a house at the end of the tunnel.

Carter: it is called the vowel house.

Luke: ‘t’ it is a blue sound.

Paul: the sound comes from your tongue.

Shea: the tip of your tongue.

Roma: I spelled the word ‘cat’ using the letter mats and letter cubes.

Freya: We played bingo and we had put coins on the pictures that begin with the sound. I won the game.

Here are the links for our songs for the sounds this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mVER0qQ6Q0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg_KvU5oc9Q

We also really enjoyed maths week too. Here are some of our highlights of the activities we took part in:

Scott: I played with the cars and playing on the road. We had to drive the cars on the numbers.

Jane: you had to start driving the car at zero.

Celine: in the sand you had to get the correct number onto the circle shape.

Rojin: it is like being a pirate looking for treasure.

Paul: you had to play on the pond and try not to fall into the crocodiles. You had to roll the dice and find the number to stand on.

We were also experimenting with sound this week in a science lesson.

Luke: we picked musical instruments to make loud sounds and tiny sounds.

Freya: a drum could make a loud sound but if you tap it very gently it can also make a quiet sound.

In our writing lesson we watched a story called ‘Partly Cloudy’ (link below). We then wrote about our own creations using describing words. Have a look at some of these fantastic descriptions:

Rojin: a rainbow dog.

Anna: a rainbow cat.

Carter: a funny dog.

Shea: a rainbow dog.

Michelle: a colourful unicorn.

Roma: a rainbow and glittery dog.

Amelia: a rainbow cat.

We had lots of fun in PE with Mr McCurdy this week.

Luke: we were running, skipping, bear crawls and duck walks.

Layla: I can do crab walking.

Don’t forget to check twitter too for lots of photos from the week: https://twitter.com/mrsd_stnps OR @mrsd_stnps

This week in primary 7 we have learned lots of new things.

On Monday

In maths we focused on Pascal’s Triangle and Fibonacci’s sequence. For Pascal’s Triangle we looked at our worksheet and had to try and find the secret.

“I thought it was fun” – Lewis

“Pascal’s Triangle is that every row adds up to double the one before” – Rebecca

Also on Monday we went to mindfulness music with Mrs Smith and practiced our hymns for Friday.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did p:e we a learning how to play rugby we do different games to keep our stamina and confidence.

Wednesday :

We did writing with Mrs Docherty. It was descriptive writing piece about a bridge.

We did P.E again with Mr Macurdy and we were working on contact Rugby this time.

Thursday

On Thursday we focused on grammar and went outdoors on a maths challenge. Mrs Macdonald came in from the High School to do multiplication grids.

Friday

It was our St Ninian’s Feast day Mass also we have changed the name of Golden time into Fun 31 base on the Rights of the Child.

Miss McCormack would like to say a big thank you to all the parents who came to Ninian’s Natter – it was lovely to meet you all.

It has been a hard working week in P2, here is an overview of our learning this week.

Numeracy – Maths week has been a real success!  The children had so much fun and great learning experiences using all the maths games and activities set up in our area.  They were able to explore numbers in a wide variety of contexts for example in our ‘Ninian Shop’, Snakes and Ladders and a range of building and counting games.  They also explored shape through the use of pin boards and 2D shapes to make patterns and pictures.   In class we have continued to develop our knowledge and understanding of double digit numbers up to 99.   We have been learning how to make a double digit number ten more and ten less by using the place value system.  We have been using cubes, counting beads and 100 squares to help us do this.

At home you can practise counting forward and backwards in tens to 100 and for some extra practise try these at home,

What is ten more than 40?          What is ten less than 80?

What is ten more than 23?          What is ten less than 65?

Literacy – The common words that we have focused on this week are, have, him, his, new and my. We had a lot of fun using a variety of different activities to help us learn to read and spell these words such as finger painting, chalk writing, word processing and play dough writing. Can you think of any other ways to learn these spellings?  This week we wrote our instructions about looking after a dog and the children all had some great ideas.  Next week we will conclude our Charlie and Lola focus by reading the story Whoops, It Definitely Wasn’t Me.  From this we will write a personal story about a time when we have broken something by accident and we will try to include some detail about what, when and how in our story.

Health And Wellbeing – This week in PE we played a brilliant game which has been helping us learn to throw a bean bag/ball accurately, ask your child to explain the game to you.  Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday.  We have been continuing with our Ready, Respectful and Safe charter in class to help us be the best we can be, and the children are all really trying their very best, the Smile Chart is full every day!  It was also great to spend time with some of our parents and family during Ninian’s Natter which was the children’s first chance to share their learning experiences and successes.

Have a lovely holiday weekend,

Mrs Currie

Welcome to our P5D blog post. This has been a really good week.

We have been learning about how to log in to Glow using our own login details and exploring the site and the available features. We enjoyed using Microsoft word online and accessing it through our one drive!

“It has been really interesting and fun to learn about Glow and I managed to login and write on word at home!” – Ola

As it has been maths week, in art we made portraits using numbers only. This meant we had to be VERY creative.  We also made pattern pictures using shape and colour This was trickier than you would expect.

“It was really fun to make the portraits out of numbers!” – Kasia

To help with our number knowledge we have been doing daily number talks, number of the week and the countdown challenge where we have to use the four processes to try and reach the target number.

“I enjoyed doing the number of the week because it was challenging!” – Emily

We have been creating and interpreting different graphs and know that not all graphs contain numbers.

In writing, we pretended to be the main character in our class novel, Jack, and wrote informal letters to his mum to tell her  what we had been up to and how we planned to help her escape from prison.

“What I really liked about writing a letter to Jack’s mum was that we could pretend we were someone else and got to pretend we jumped into Jack’s body!” – Zuzanna

In PE, we have been developing our dribbling skills in hockey. We started a small class tournament and can be rewarded points for winning and good sportsmanship!

“I enjoy hockey and shaking hands with other teams to be a good sportsman.” – Ethan

We have been learning about fiction and non-fiction texts and developed our comprehension skills using a short extract about Ed Sheeran and his musical talent.

“I liked learning about Ed Sheeran and the songs he sings.” – Michelle

“I didn’t know that he wrote his own songs!” – Kasia

“I learned that he wrote a song for Justin Bieber once!” – Calvin

Congratulations to Kasia this week for being awarded our praise postcard for always giving 100% in everything she does!

Have a great long weekend,

Miss Diamond and P5D

This week in Primary 6/7 we have been very busy! In R.E with Mrs Howley some people painted rocks from Saint Ninian’s cave and we were also drawing pictures looking out from St.Ninian’s Cave. In Maths, P7’s worked on Maths Grids with Mrs McDonald from Saint Margaret’s and P.6 were with Mrs Young doing word problems with three digit numbers.

We used the context of our class novel, Kensuke’s Kingdom, to write about setting using interesting and descriptive language.

In P.E we were playing rugby with Mr McCurdie. Daniel got a golden ticket for helping in the lunch hall and he gets to have hot chocolate Friday.

We had a whole school Mass for St. Ninian’s feast day on Friday.

Bea: I enjoy working with P.6 on our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom.

Toni: Mrs Mc Donald taught us to use a grid method to times hundreds by hundreds, I enjoyed this.

Ivana: I enjoyed the writing lesson, using descriptive language to describe the setting of a desert island.

Brooke: I found the Maths tricky because I had to work out what to do but I got more confident.

Ailie: I loved outside Rugby with Mr. McCurdy.

Harley: I enjoyed writing this week. I liked reading about Robinson Crusoe. Have a nice week end .

The children have all been given a challenge worksheet home with them today.

The rules of the sheet are,

1. Roll two die and mark in the values into the addition calculation boxes and then add to find a total
2. EXTENSION : Roll two die and use the two numbers to make a double digit number. (For example if you rolled a 2 and a 6 you could make the number 26 OR 62) Mark this number in the first box and then repeat to get a double or single digit number for the second box. Then add together.
3. You could work out which total you get most often, is there a pattern?
4. Encourage your child to talk about the strategies they used to reach their answer.

Your child can use any material that you wish to help with the addition calculations (these can range from cubes, coins, beads…)

If you don’t have any die DON’T PANIC! Here is a link to a website with interactive die for you to use.

https://www.random.org/dice/?num=2

Check out the weekly update for more fun Maths family learning activities and ideas.

Happy counting,

Mrs Currie, Mrs Caskie and Mrs Scott