Another busy week in P2.

This week was Inspirational Maths week.  One of the inspirational lessons we completed was “Piano Fingers”.  For this we numbered our fingers and then had to use the correct finger to press the numbered piano keys.  This inspired us to think about how we use our fingers to help us count.  When we count with our fingers we do not always just count in ones.  Sometimes we make each finger worth ten and count up to 100.  We use little tunes to help us do this, ask us to show you.

Here is a picture of us all trying to find different ways to make five with our fingers, the challenge was to try not have the same combination of fingers as the person next to us!

 

 

In our writing we have been focusing on using connective (joining words) in our sentences.  The two connectives we have discussed are “and” and “because”.  We learned a little story to help us learn how to spell “because”,

b-illy

e-ats

c-arrots

a-nd

u-sually

s-ome

e-ggs

This week we also had our special feast day Mass to celebrate St. Ninian.  We learned the story of St Ninian and how he grew up and travelled from Scotland to Rome to become a Bishop.  We even had an extra long playtime as a treat!  Luckily it was dry!

For handwriting we have focused on learning how letters can join using lead in lines and flicks.  We have practised l, i, t, c, o and a.  From these letters we now know how to join our writing for the word “cat” and “cot”.  As a challenge, what other small words can you make using these letters and try to join them up when you write them.  Good luck!

This week in primary 7

This week has been maths week and it has brought lots of excitement. It has been more fun than we thought!

There is nation-wide Sumdog challenge and our class has not done great but we have put on our growth mind-sets and tried our best for the day remaining.

We also tried going outside and looking for maths in nature and buildings using the AAL to take pictures and put them in a collage. Here are a few of the collages!

We are on our rugby block for P.E and we were doing team drills where we ran in a line and passed the ball between each other. Miss McCormack gave us a fitness challenge on Wednesday and we all succeeded but it was tough.
Pupil Voice:

This week was fun because it was maths week .I enjoyed doing the marshmallow challenge.    Aurora

I have enjoyed this week mostly for sumdog because I have got given a sumdog star reward. Deacon

This week I enjoyed Ninian’s Natter because in p7 we got to do an extra maths challenge. Neave

This week I enjoyed writing, we were writing newspaper reports about hurricane Irma. Erin o

This week on Friday we had a school mass and I did the offertory. Ali

This week we had the dogs trust, they telling us how to treat a dog and it was fun. Edwin

Rugare –Today we had the mass for St Ninian, we all enjoyed it.

 

Another excellent Lead Learner blog – well done guys! hope you all have a great long weekend! Miss McCormack

This has been a very inspirational week. We worked hard on different maths and numeracy activities and enjoyed sharing these with some of our parents at Ninian’s Natter. The highlight for most of us was baking cupcakes. We were focussing on reading scales and weighing out the correct amount of ingredients.

Another activity that we enjoyed was getting the chance to play one another’s home-made maths games. We had board games, online games,  physical games and quizzes.

We have had lots of opportunities to work in groups this week. One of the challenges was to make numbers 1-20 by only using the number 4 and the four processes. This was tricky!

We loved being part of the Sumdog competition set up for Inspirational Maths week.

We have taken a new approach to the daily mile which has proved to be a huge success so far. We now have to complete as many laps as possible and record the distance in miles ran as a class.

Hannah – ‘I liked creating a diamond in art using grid references.’

Emily – ‘I liked designing my own cupcake.’

Maliha – ‘I liked using number maps to share different strategies.’

Evie – ‘I liked completing the numbers to 20 challenge only using ‘4’.

Aoife – ‘I enjoyed improving my daily mile.’

Alekander + Aaron – ‘I liked making the icing to use on my cupcake.’

Mark – ‘I liked getting to eat my own cake that I made.’

Congratulations to this week’s lead learnes, Kasia and Kacper.

Have a good weekend, P4/5 and Miss Diamond :).

This week in P1B we have been learning more sounds.

Jiya- “We have learned the a sound.”

Micah- “and the t sound.”

 

Abu bakr- “The a sound is a black tunnel sound.”

Thea- “The a sound lives in the Vowel House at the end of the tunnel.”
Hannah- “You have to open your mouth wide to say this sound.”
Abigail- “The t sound is blue because it is a tongue tip sound.”

Alasdair- “T is a short, bouncy sound.”

 

We loves singing the songs to help us learn our sounds.

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

 

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

This week was maths week and we enjoyed taking part in different maths activities.

 

Our maths activities were learning our number bonds to 10 using the hand frames.

Annabelle- “We had to make 10 with the dinosaurs.”
You had to choose to add on 1, 2, or 3 dinosaurs each time and the first person to get to 10 was the winner.

 

For the three block tower game
Abigail- “you had to make tower blocks with 3 cubes but they had to be different and then you coloured the blocks in on your sheet.”

 

Abu bakr- At another station we “used the colourful beads to make shapes.”

 

For measure this week we have been learning the meaning of the words
Christopher- “full”, “half full” and “empty”.

Cooper- “If it’s full the water will be all the way to the top of the bottle.”

Riley- “The water would be to the middle when it is half full.”

 

Leon- “If the bottle is empty that means that there is no water.”

We filled bottles to make potions with Miss Boyes and we glued crepe paper onto bottle templates to show the different amounts.

On the smart board we enjoyed playing this game

http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games/game15.htm

 

 

For science this week we went into the hall with the musical instruments.

Yasmin- “We were finding out how to make quiet sounds and loud sounds.”

 

Micah- “To make a loud sound with the tambourine you would shake it very quickly.”

 

Amelia- “If you were making a quiet sound with the tambourine you would shake it slowly.”

 

Jiya- “If you were hitting a drum to make a loud sound you would hit it hard.”

 

Yasmin- “If you were hitting the drum to make a quiet sound then you would hit it softly and gently.”

 

For RE we listened to the creation story.
Hannah- “God made the world in 6 days and on the 7^th day he took a nap to rest.”

 

We went into the school garden to find things that God created and we took photos with the ipads.

God created the-
Christopher “moon and the sun.”
Cooper “Animals”.
Annabelle- “Trees and plants.”

Abu bakr- “ The land and the water.”

This s the creation story video which we watched in class.

 

We loved going to mass this week at the Lanthorn with our Buddies. We sang hymns, prayed and listened to Father Kenneth.

Have a lovely long weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 1B!

Literacy

Victoria: “the a sound is black.”

Liam: “the a sound comes from the vowel house. You get to the vowel house through a black tunnel.”

Mark: “we used black play-doh to make the ‘a’ sound.”

Kayla: “we learned the ‘t’ sound too.”

Oliver: “the ‘t’ sound is blue because it comes from our tongue, there are blue veins on the bottom of our tongue.”

Eve: “we played ‘t’ sound bingo game and I won 2 times.”

Maths and Numeracy

Isabelle: “we made plates and put pom-poms on them. We had to write a number in the middle of the plate and put on that many pom-poms.”

Seren: “I made a plate with 11 pom-poms.”

Joshua: “we sorted out emojis into crying and not crying.”

Mark: “I sorted shapes into squares, circles, triangles and rectangles.”

Oliver: “we matched them all together.”

Eve: “we made caterpillar bodies using green paint and our fingers. There was a number to tell us how many parts of the body a caterpillar needed.”

Isabelle: “I made a circle using beads.”

Oliver: “I made hands to show that I had 10 fingers.”

Kayla: “we made potions for a witch.”

Isabelle: “she wanted a full bottle and a half full bottle.”

Evie: “she wanted an empty bottle too.”

Evie: “I put pink stars into the potion for the witch.”

RE

Blake: “we went to the Lanthorn to go to mass with our buddies.”

Hanna: “I sat beside my buddy.”

Chloe: “we watched a video about God making the world.”

Blake: “it took God 7 days to make the world. On the 7th day He had a rest because He was tired.”

Victoria: “we took the ipads outside to take pictures of  what God made.”

Liam: “I took a picture of plants.”

Mark: “I took a picture of bugs.”

Eve: “I took a picture of flowers.”

Science

Liam: “we played instruments and checked what were loud and what was quiet.”

Oliver: “we all closed our eyes and someone had to play an instrument and then someone had to guess what instrument they played.”

Mark: “I picked the guitar to play.”

Blake: “I picked a beater and a sound bar to play.”

Joshua: “Miss Meechan told everyone to get a quiet or a loud instrument. The loud instruments were really loud and the quiet instruments were quiet.”

Remember to follow Miss Meechan on twitter for lots of photos – check your child’s learning journal for more personalised photos and comments.

@missm_stnps

Below are some links and ideas you can use at home this week to support learning:

Write a number on a paper plate and ask your child to put that amount of grapes/raisins/maltesers etc. on the plate.

Write a number on a small piece of paper, get some paint, a paint the correct number of finger dots beside that number.

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

http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games/game15.htm

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

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

 

This week in P2 we had our first set of Lead Learners.

Well done both Kerr and Sophie, they definitely lead by example by working hard and displaying super manners and attitude in class.

To follow on from our book study (which focused on the South Pole) we have decided to follow up with the theme of Hot and Cold Climates.  While we were discussing this new topic we had a lot of amazing ideas to learn about,

Ephriam – “Deserts”

Lucy – “Egypt people”

In numeracy we have been looking at numbers before, after and between within 100.  We have used our class technology to help us with this

We also have been finding out more about partitioning of numbers and using concrete material to show this,

We also had an interesting homework task which asked us to sort emojis and then challenge ourselves to find things in the house to sort.  A lot of us used class dojo to send Mrs Currie our photographs, she was super impressed with our hard work and amazing ideas for sorting into different categories using set criteria.  Kayla even brought in a sorting box to class and some of us helped her sort her items out.

Next week will be very exciting as it is Inspirational Maths Week!  So look out for more amazing Maths news next week!

 

This week has been amazing! We have had lots of fun learning including, learning about food safety and hygiene, learning about place value of whole numbers and decimals, exploring warm and cool colours and making up our own characters using adjectives to describe them.

‘My favourite part of the week was creating my own character and drawing a picture of it.’ – Joshua

‘My favourite part was when I wrote a description of a character.’  – Shannon

‘My favourite part was learning about warm and cool colours and drawing a sun/moon picture to demonstrate what I had learned.’ – Jan

‘We liked doing art using warm and cool colours.’ – Ethan and Aaron.

‘My favourite part of the week was when we were helping Miss Diamond plan what recipes we would like to make during food technology and learning about keeping safe when cooking.’ – Hannah

‘I enjoyed taking part in basketball matches in PE.’ – Evie

‘I liked doing handwriting using a song and we had to try and guess what song the lyrics were from and then try to sing it.’ – Kasia

‘We liked writing my own prayer about ‘starting the new term’.’ Adrin and Joseph

We would like to congratulate our first P4/5 lead learners who have been a great help and super role models this week. Well done Mark and Emily.