Hello everyone!

In gymnastics we have been using equipment like the frame.

We have been learning about the 5 times table.

We have been learning about pets, a cat called codie came into our class and we are making hamster houses wiith carboard.

We have been traveling in gym and running and jumping around the gym hall.

Balmalloch is very fun and Balmalloch is the best!

This message was typed by Stephen, Zac, Lizzie and Emily.

This week we are starting to look at a new topic in maths. We will be exploring money. We have been talking about what we know already. This is what we know:

Zack- There are special coins called Euros that you spend in another country.

Amy- You spend money in shops.

Skye- You get more money in cash machines.

Lucie- You use money to buy food to eat.

Aaron C- You can use money in lots of shops.

Mason- You can buy toys at shops.

Ross- I think that George Washington created money.

Kyle- When you get money you can buy anything you like.

Scott- You can buy costumes.

Arran- You can buy a motorbike.

Adam- You can buy lego.

Rebecca- You can get some more money if you go to a bank.

Grace- You can get money in the bank.

Jack- Money is round.

Riley- You can buy clothes.

Jaeden- Your parents have the money to buy the toys.

Ellie- You can sometimes find money that people drop.

Today Primary 1a were trying to use positional language. We tried to use words like forward, back, under, over and turn to guide our partner around the room. We also got to try out the Beebot game on the IPads. We had lots of fun but it was a bit tricky to guide the Beebot in our game!

The children at the nursery celebrated the end of their topic by having a ‘At The Movies’ Day. They all had great fun and even Spiderman came to visit us!

As you will know, Balmalloch Primary School is a Rights Respecting School.  At the end of last session, we were proud to achieve our 1st Level Award in May 2015.  We are now working hard towards achieving our 2nd Level Award.

To help with this, 8 members of the Balmalloch Primary School Rights Respecting Action Group visited Woodlands Primary School in Cumbernauld today.  Woodlands Primary have already achieved 2nd Level and the purpose of our visit was to allow the pupils in the Action Group to find out what we in Balmalloch are already doing well, and what our next steps are to help us achieve second level.

Our visit was a great success and the pupils have returned to Balmalloch with lots of super ideas.  We would like to thank the staff and pupils at Woodlands Primary for all their help today.

If you would like to find out how you can help us in our journey towards second level, please contact Mrs Morris via the school office.

The children all enjoyed their Valentines disco tonight. Thank you to the PTA and the staff for all of their help.

We are sorry we did not write our blog last week, Emma and Faye were off and we didn’t want to do it without them.

The past two weeks we have been working on our two times table, they are easy! We will be moving on soon.

Dog’s Trust came to visit us and we met a nice dog called Alfie.

We took part in Future X and we liked the Hunger Games game the best.

We have been using our Go Noodle account and our new champion is Bart Reynolds.

We made up cat characters and wrote poems about them.

We have been using our smart board to play games to help us with our times tables and pets topic.

Our school disco is next week and we are very excited!

Pets we looked at,

We looked at mammals, we looked at reptiles, we looked at birds, and we looked at amphibians.

By Faye.

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Primary 1 and Primary 1a had a great time in the hall today. We had a visitor from Future X that played lots of games with us. Our favourite was the game with the bibs. We think it was called tail chase. We were very good at this game and lots of us were winners! We really hope our visitor comes again because we he was great and we had fun.