Monday
This week in P7 We had mindfulness with Mrs Smith in the hall. For Maths we did rounding to the nearest 100 1000 etc. to help us remember we use five to the sky four to the floor.
We were summarising an article. Our Boost words for this week came from the article.

Tuesday
We did a poster about understanding the role of Jesus the Healer. We used our novel wonder for Emotions work about the main character getting betrayed. We also made maths posters using our shape, angle and symmetry photos from last week.

Wednesday
In writing we did a diary entry to show the characters emotions –from Wonder. In maths we did standard written addition up to millions.

Thursday
We had a special visitor in our class called Mrs McDonald that came from St Margaret’s to teach us some maths that was really fun.

Friday
Today we had our first house assemblies and we also had Golden Time.

Pupil Voice This Week

Lucas C “I enjoyed writing the diary entry from Wonder”

Isla “I enjoyed playing Rugby for PE”

Taylor “I enjoyed working with Mrs McDonald for maths”

Oskar “I enjoyed PE this week”

Grace “I enjoyed Rugby”

Rachel M “I liked working with Mrs McCdonald this week”

Kalin “It was fun when Mrs McDonald came in for maths”

Blog post by Charlie and Sarah (Lead Learners)

We have had another busy week in P1D. On Thursday we had to look after Ninian the Minion for the day because Mrs Purdie wasn’t in her office and we were worried that he might get lonely. He had a very busy day in our class.

First of all, Ninian had to order his lunch. He wanted the blue tray for his lunch.

During our soft start he was playing in the office.

He joined in with our circle time and he was very impressed with all of the describing words we were using to describe our dinosaurs. He heard super words like ‘dangerous’ ‘colourful’ ‘spotty’ ‘stripey’ ‘spikey’ ‘lovely’ ‘happy’ ‘nice’.

Ninian then helped Mara to write her story about a dinosaur using some of the super describing words.

After we all had finished our writing, Ninian wanted to listen to everyone read their stories to the class. He loved listening to the super describing words in our stories.

This week we have been looking at different dot patterns in numeracy and talking about how we can see the dots. You could try this at home too using dots, stickers, grapes etc. Arrange them out in a random order and ask your child how many they can see? Then ask how do you see them? If you lay out 4 dots, they may be laid out with 1 at the top and 3 at the bottom. This game also helps us with this:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/gingerbread-man-game

We have been learning the ‘s’ and ‘p’ sounds this week. Here are the songs we have used to help us enhance our learning of these sounds. S is a blue sound and p is a pink sound. Ask your child why these sounds are these particular colours?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlPKm1Hbl8

Next week we will be learning the ‘a’ and ‘t’ sounds. We’ve already had a sneak peak at the songs!

Finally, we would like to share with you our favourite parts of the week.

Carter: I liked PE and playing the big ball game and we were in groups and we had to try and score a goal at the bench and the game was over.

Rojin: I liked yoga

Lucas: I liked PE and playing tig

Anna: I liked listening to stories

Roma: I liked making dinosaurs and then a video

Amelia: I liked PE and playing tig

Freya: I liked playing turtle tig

Shea: I liked writing my story

Michelle: I liked learning new sounds

Pati: I liked learning the ‘p’ sound.

Logan: I liked PE

Luke: I liked playing outside

Scott: I liked playing in the office with the telephone

Celine:  I liked writing and playing in the office

Layla: I liked playing outside

Mara: I liked playing with cars

Jane: I liked playing

Olivier: I liked playing outside

Igor: I liked playing outside

Paul: I liked playing on the smart board

Have a lovely weekend.

We have had a good week in P5D.

We have continued with our class novel which has been interesting because it is full of surprises. Who would have thought Boadicea could talk!? We wrote our own predictions about what we thought would happen next.

“It was interesting to listen to other people’s predictions!” – Michelle

We have been doing drama related to our class novel ‘Junkyard Jack’ and recorded ourselves to share with the rest of our class.

“I enjoyed getting to watch the other group’s videos. It was really fun!” – Ola

In maths, we have been rounding whole numbers to the nearest, 10, 100 and 1000.

“I have enjoyed learning about rounding to the nearest 1000 using big numbers.” – Emily

We have been focussing on addition in our Number Talks sessions.

“It is really fun and quite challenging sharing strategies with the class, that’s why I like it!” – Aaron

In PE, we have been developing our skills in hockey. We have been getting our teams ready for an in-school tournament.

“I really enjoy hockey because you have a position to play in the team e.g. a striker, a defender, a midfielder and a goal keeper!” – Zuzanna.

We have been learning about keeping ourselves safe as this month’s GIRFEC focus is ‘safe’. We learned about ‘Stranger Danger’ and how to keep ourselves safe when we are out and about.

“I enjoyed making a poster about Stranger Danger with a group.” – Robbie.

In RE we wrote our own prayers about our hopes and dreams for the new school year.

“I liked writing sentences about important things in school like being ready, safe and respectful, having a growth mind-set and being hard working all the time.” – Kasia

We are looking forward to Scotland’s Maths Week next week.

Congratulations to Ola who is taking our first praise postcard home this week for always being kind, caring and helpful to her peers.

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D!

Here is an overview of some of the learning P2 have been working on this week :

Numeracy – For our Number Talks we have been looking at dot patterns, the question we are asked is “How many dots do you see?”, but the main focus is us describing how we have reached our answer. It is amazing to see all the different strategies that the children use to count.  Here is an example of a Number Talks we completed this week and some of the strategies we discussed.

Now try this Number Talks at home with your child,

We have also been continuing to focus on numbers to 100.  This week we have been counting large amounts by grouping in tens and then counting in tens and adding the ones (units) at the end.  This is leading us on to understanding more about the place value of Tens and Units.

Literacy – We have been starting to learn the key vocabulary words for P2 (there are 28 words that we would ideally like children to be able to read, spell and use in their daily writing by the end of P2).  The words we have focused on this week are but, can, came, for and had. In our writing this week we worked hard to make sure that we use capital letters and full stops in our sentences and we all can now use I when writing a personal story.  Next week we are going to write a set of instructions about looking after a dog (pet).  We will use the Charlie and Lola story We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog as our context to our writing.  You can have a chat at home about this to help your child be prepared for their writing.

Health and Wellbeing – In PE the children have been focusing on hand eye coordination.  They have been using bean bags and balls to practise throwing and catching.  Just to confirm our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday.  The children have also been continuing to discuss feelings using Charlie and Lola as our focus.

Next week it is our Feast Day Mass on Friday in school to celebrate St Ninian, so the children will be doing a lot of learning all about St Ninian’s life and work.  It is also Maths Week Scotland so the children will be engaging in a wide variety of practical numeracy , exciting problem solving and maths games…it is going to be lots of fun!

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie

We have had another busy week in P1D. Here are some of our highlights:

In literacy we have been learning some sounds. We were learning the ‘m’ and ‘c’ sounds. We were learning about the name of these letters, what sound they make and where about in our mouth we make these sounds from. The m sound comes from our lips. We put jam on our lips and made the ‘mmmm’ sound because the jam was tasty! It turned our lips red. This helped us to learn that sounds that come from the lips are red sounds. The ‘c’ sound is a yellow sound. It comes from the back of our mouth. We had to shine a torch in our mouths to see all the way to the back. The torch turned the back of our mouth yellow. We also learned some songs to help us remember these sounds. You could practise these at home too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFUhr2LToBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-g13UbDxu0

We also started our book study topic ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs’. We have enjoyed listening to 2 of the Harry and the Dinosaur stories so far. In one of the stories there is a boy called Jack-osaurus. We thought that this was a good name so we decided to draw and paint our own dinosaurs and give them names too. Here are some of  our names:

Shea’s dinosuar is called ‘Shea-osaurus’

Pati’s dinosaur is called ‘Pati dinosaur’

Roma’s dinosaur is called ‘Love Heart-osaurus’

Freya’s dinosaur is called ‘Mummy-osaurus’

In one of the Harry and the Dinosaur books, Harry starts school. Some of his friends are feeling excited, others are feeling sad, nervous and shy. We spoke about how we were feeling starting school and if we were feeling nervous and sad what we could do to make ourselves feel better.

In numeracy we were learning the correct formation for numbers 5, 6 and 7. Here are the rhymes and sayings we used to help us.

5 – “the neck, the tummy and the hat”

6 – “bend to low to pick up sticks, now I’ve made the number 6.”

7 – “across the sky and down from heave, now I’ve made the number 7.”

We also started ‘number talks’ this week. We were looking at different patterns of dots and talking about how many spots we could see and how we saw them.

When we saw 6 spots Carter told us:”3 dots at the top and 3 dots at the bottom is 6.”

Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday.