Here are the children’s highlights of our learning this week:

Oliver: “the ‘s’ sound is blue.”

Seren: “it is blue because the back of our tongue is blue and the ‘s’ sound comes from our tongue.”

Chloe: “we were making the ‘s’ sound with pipe cleaners.”

Eve: “we made a Harry and the dinosaurs book.”

Kayla: “we stuck on the author and illustrators name onto the bottom of the book.”

Isabelle: “the title goes at the top of the book.”

Hanna: “we learned how to write the number 8.”

Mark: “we went a walk around the school and saw Mrs Roy.”

Liam: “I made a dinosaur and wrote about the dinosaur. I was the star writer.”

Victoria: “we were writing numbers in flour trays. I wrote the number 8.”

Robert: “we made dinosaurs using plasticine”

Chloe: “we took vidoes with our dinosaurs.”

Blake: “in PE when the music is on we done lots of travelling like running or galloping and when the music stops you freeze or find your own space.”

Evie: “We made a letter ‘p’ with pasta.”

Joshua: “We have a ‘s’ box and a ‘p’ box. Pasta is in the pink ‘p’ box and scissors are in the ‘s’ blue box.”

Below are some ideas to support learning at home:

If you make something at home e.g. a dinosaur, why don’t you make a movie by filming you acting out a story with your creation – great ideas for oral literacy and improving your technology skills!

We were learning about ‘heavy and light’ – what things can you find in your house that are heavy and what things are light?

‘s’ is a blue sound because we use our tongue to make this sound. Can you find the blue veins on the bottom of your tongue. ‘p’ is a pink sound, we make this sound from our lips. Some lip sounds are red because they are loud sounds like ‘m’ but ‘p’ is a quiet lip sound so this is a pink sound. Here are the songs we used to support learning.

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

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

Remember to follow Miss Meechan on twitter for videos and photos of our learning @missm_stnps

Check out your child’s online journal for lots of updates too.

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to reading all of your comments on Monday.

Miss Meechan and P1M

What a busy week we have had in P1M.

In numeracy we have working on number formation, sequencing numbers within 5 and counting to 20. Below are some links for videos and games you can use at home to support learning.

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

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers

In literacy we have introduced 2 sounds this week. The ‘m’ sound and the ‘c’ sound. We have learned that the ‘m’ sound is a red sound, because we make this sound from our lips and our lips are red. We put jam on our lips and made the long ‘mmmmmmmmm’ sound because the jam was very tasty! The ‘c’ sound, is a yellow sound. We make this sound from the back of our moths, we used a torch to look into the back of our partners mouth and when we shone the torch, their mouth turned yellow! Here are some songs we have learned to help us remember the ‘m’ and c’ sounds.

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

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

Next week we are learning the ‘s’ and ‘p’ sounds. Do you have the ‘s’ or ‘p’ sound in your name?

Finally, we continued our ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs’ topic by listening to the story ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs go to School’. We were able to compare the way Harry was feeling starting school with our own experiences. In the story, a boy called Jack named himself Jack-osaurus. We thought this was very funny so painted our own dinosaurs and gave them funny names. Mark’s dinosaur was called Mark-osaurus, Blake’s dinosaur was called Blake-osaurus – you get the idea! We can’t wait to show you our paintings!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Meechan and P1M

Another amazing week for P2.  We are well and truly getting back into the swing of school and have achieved a lot this week.

At the beginning of a day we work from our Smart Start boxes, which are filled lots of interesting activities linked to our learning, for example Snakes And Ladders; linked with our numbers to 100, word searches; linked with our topic about penguins, handwriting; handwriting sheets practising the letters we have covered and much more.  We can choose which ever activity we would like to use which helps develop our personalisation and choice in our learning.

We also continued to learn about penguins this week and we used a variety of different types of sources to learn information such as power points and videos.  Here is the link to the video we used to get some of our information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8qilxaBR20

Using this information we then created fact files.

In numeracy we continued to count up to 100 and look at how numbers are made.  We learned the big word “partitioning” which means splitting a number up into it’s different place values.  Ask us about the magic trick that helped us partition the numbers.

We also all started taking home our reading books this week and everyone was so enthusiastic about their new books.  Mrs Currie was very impressed.

Well done P2!

This week in primary 7 we have been doing reading and maths for our smart starts.

The book we have been reading as a class is called Wonder. The reason we are reading Wonder is because we are focusing on kindness. In wonder the main character is August and he has a deformed face. We have made our own portraits of ourselves in the form of August’s picture on the front cover so that we realise that you shouldn’t make fun of people or judge people even if they look different. We included words to describe ourselves around our portraits which will be used for a wall display next week.

This week we have also been focusing on counting above millions. We have been revising place value and using this to help us with numbers beyond 1 million. We went outside for maths to revise our knowledge of angles and took pictures of angles outside.

In PE we have started Rugby with Mr McCurdy and Miss McCormack did a bootcamp session working on our stamina.

Pupil voice and photographs:

Isabela – On Tuesday we played Rugby.

Ali – On Thursday we went outside and found some angles.

Emma – This week we started to make a design for our wonder wall and we have finished making our class charter.

Edwin – this week for P.E we did rugby and it was fun.

Emily – this week we started playing rugby in P.E. and on Thursday we did bootcamp wich was really tiring but still fun.

Erin R- On Thursday we had assembly and Father Kenneth and Father Matthew came to assembly  and talked to us about Malawi.

Erin O- On Wednesday we wrote diary entries based on our class novel Wonder. We had to write as if we were august going to school for the first time in his life.

It has been a very busy first full week back in P4/5.  The class are all working well as a team and are enjoying learning together.   Highlights this week in our learning include learning our special prayer to St Ninian.  Using our novel Gangsta Granny by David Walliams, we have been exploring character feelings.

In Maths we have been looking at the importance of place value and we all had the chance to take part in a range of carousel activities to help us get more confident at sequencing numbers accurately.

We enjoyed Father Kenneth and Father Matthew speaking to us about what going to school is like in Malawi.   We would like to fundraise to help Father Matthew with his work and maybe write to some children in Father Matthew’s School.

Mark – I was sad when I heard that children in Malawi have classes with more than 100 pupils in them with only 1 teacher.   They also sit on rocks and don’t have chairs and desks.

Hannah –   I am enjoying reading Gangsta Granny and completing the activities that go with it.

Emily – I loved Maths this week and I am more confident with forward and backward numbers.

Evie –   I was shocked to learn that children in Malawi need to use rocks to help them count while we have lots of different things to use.

Ethan –  I loved taking part in handball this week in PE.

Aaron – I enjoyed playing buzz and shazam with Mrs Purdie on Friday.

Aoife –  We are excited that we will be researching the country of Spain for our new topic and we discussed what we would like to find out about Spain with Mrs Smith.

What an exciting week we have had!

We have been using the books Lost And Found and Up And Down by Oliver Jeffers as our stimulus for learning.  With these stories we have discussed friendships as well as learning about penguins.  As a result our classroom is filled with penguins.

In Up And Down we stopped the story at the point that the penguin rushed off to find a way to learn to fly and we had some amazing ideas,

For our numeracy work we had juggling penguins which helped us with our number bonds to 10.

We also looked at numbers to 100, have a go at this game to help you with ordering numbers up to 100.

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

A lot of hard work from everyone this week! Well done.