This week we have been learning about making marks called tallies. James

We were making fossils… take a look.  Holly

Learning -er diagraph.  Alex

Been learning about dinosaurs…the T Rex.  Mia

Been learning about the Triceratops.  Aileigh

Learning about the Stegasoraus.  Jude

We’ve been learning to talk different languages.  Ellis

We’ve been learning how to speak in French.  Aaron

We’ve been learning our tricky words.  Carley

We’ve learned tricky words once and love.  Olivia

We made a dinosaur pictogram.  Jack

For World Book Day we all read a story at the same time.  Carely

We wrote about our favourite story and drew a picture.  River

We were learning n.  Mac

We were learning adding and taking away.  Shannon

Pupil of the week: Oliver Black for doing really well at counting, adding and taking away and having lots of magic moments in numeracy.

We matched dinosaur fossils to the dinosaur.

We used clay to make our fossils!

Here are some pictures from World Book Day!

As you can see, a VERY busy week!

Last week was yet another busy week in P1a with lots of new learning!

We learned the sounds ie and ar and revised all our tricky words learned so far!  In reading we are identifying as many of our tricky words as possible and are really good at spotting them.  We are really good at blending words and using the pictures to help us read also.

We have learned all about the Stegosaurus – the one with the plates down its back!  This week we are learning all about the  T Rex.  Last week we also learned about what dinosaurs ate.   Carnivores ate meat and had big, sharp, pointy teeth.  Herbivores at plants and had flat teeth and some had long necks to reach leaves.  Omnivores ate both plants and meat.  Humans are omnivores!

In numeracy we were learning about information handling.  We gathered information on our favourite fruits and presented it in a pictogram.  Then we gathered information on eye colour and presented this in a pictogram.

We have started our new Context for Learning…. dinosaurs!  We are very excited about becoming palentologists.  We’ve already hatched our own dinosaurs!  We got ice eggs and hatched our dinosaurs using lots of different strategies….

• we used tools to smash them open
• our hands to warm the eggs
• hot water
• we dropped them from a height
• we kicked them off the wall

Here are some photos..

Here is some of our learning this week………………………

We were learning about dinosaurs. James

I was learning the sound p. Mac

We have been smashing dinosaur eggs. River

We learned the words eight and always. Oliver

We learned p in phonics.   Ellis

We wrote dinosaur stories. Max

We did dinosaur dot to dot in numeracy. Holly

We played dinosaur roll a dice. Jude

We used hot water to get our eggs to melt. Aaron

We learned the sound or. Ada

We used tools to crack the eggs open. Jack

We warmed the eggs up in our hands. Mac

We learned taking away to get a smaller number. Amber

We learned ‘counting on’ in numeracy. Olivia

We’ve been adding numbers to make a bigger number. Alex

We’ve been learning to tell the time. River

Pupil of the week: Ada for her excellent number work – subtracting within 20!

Well done Jude who won the P1 MVP award!

We have been learning the sound oi. Justin

That the sounds i, g and h make the igh sound. Emily

We sang songs in music. Holly

We learned the tricky words when and what. Alex

We’ve been learning down and went. Olivia

We’ve been learning about Katie Morag. Ada

We learned that Katie Morag lived in a place called Struay. Carley

We have been learning about Scotland. James

We learned the song, ‘Ma ma will you buy me a banana?’ Alieigh & Oliver

We learned the song, ‘Ali Bali’. Jack

We learned skipping in PE. Megan

We were learning about Bathgate and comparing it to Coll. Ellis

We learned about musical instruments and which one made the longest sound. River

We were learning about money. Max

We were learning how to take away numbers to make smaller numbers. Amber

Apologies, last weeks blog didn’t seem to post.

This weeks news…..

I like it when we go to assembly because I enjoy the music. Carley

I enjoyed assembly today. Aaron

We learned the sound s. Mac

We learned how to skip in PE. Oliver and Ada

We learned how to hop in PE. Alex

We learned skipping. James

We learned how to take away numbers in numeracy. Amber

We listened to Katie Morag Delivers the Post. Jude

We put the pictures of Katie Morag Delivers the Post in order. Olivia S

This week we wh this week. Megan

We learned the tricky words old and only. Aaron

This weeks Pupil of the Week is James for working really hard in PE and learning how to skip!

Olivia was our Pupil of the Week last week but the as the blog didn’t post we’re posting again. Well done Olivia for always working hard and being an excellent role model!

We have had a very festive week in P1a and it has definitely been the busiest week so far…..

The Golden Club event was really fun.  Ada

We learned 2 new tricky words, by and one.  Alex

I enjoyed the Golden Club event because the magician was funny.  Emily, Holly and Ellis

I enjoy Golden Time.  Amber

I enjoyed the Christmas dinner.  Oliver

I liked the Christmas show.  Jack

I liked learning the y sound and the song. Mac

I enjoyed performing in both the Christmas shows.  Jude and Aaron

I liked the magician when he did funny stuff.  Aileigh

I enjoyed the Golden Club event.  Carley

I enjoyed the Christmas dinner.  Olivia S, Megan, James

I love school.  Shannon

I like doing the work.  Max

I enjoyed the Christmas party and winning best dancer with Megan and Holly.  Justin

Thank you to all the parents for their continued support!

We were so busy with Christmas show rehearsals and church service song practice we forgot to blog! Sorry!

We have been working hard to learn our words and the songs for the Christmas show and we are really excited about performing it next week.

The 1st December was the start of the Christian festival, Advent and we learned all about the meaning of Advent and why some people open Advent calendars (and some eat chocolate)! It’s not just to help count down the days until Santa comes!

Our tricky words last week were go and no.  We have started learning vowel diagraphs, ee for sheep and oo for food.  We continue to work on knowing money to £1 and adding to 5/10/20!

In LAC we were learning about forces and completed a fun activity with our buddies, pushing cars and guessing how far they would travel!

On Friday we spent time looking at our targets in our review jotters and looking at the progress we are making this term in Literacy, Numeracy and H&WB.

It is another busy week this week in P1 as the learning and Christmas madness continues…. next Wednesday is Christmas show, party and lunch!!!

Have a great week!

We had a great week in Primary 1a.  A lovely lady came in and did a drama workshop with us all about Hairy McClary from Donaldson’s Dairy.  We had great fun!

We took part in a Drama workshop all about Hairy McClary. Alex

I liked be Scarface Claw’s guard. Amber

I liked adding numbers to 20. Holly

I liked being a guard and going to sleep during the Hairy McClary workshop. Justin

I enjoyed number work. Mac

We learned the tricky words some and come. Emily

I liked learning the sound ‘v’ for van. Ada

I learned the words some and come. Carley and Mia

I learned about push and pull in Science. Oliver

I like Golden Time. Aaron, Jude, Olivia, Jack, Shannon, Ellis and Aileigh

Have a lovely weekend.

This week in P1 we learned

The sound ‘d’.  Holly

I liked doing the sound ‘u’ and d is for dinosaur.  Alex

I liked learning the letter ‘k’.  Carley

I liked learning the sound ‘d’ because it’s in my name.  Ada

d is for dance.  Megan

e is for egg. Amber

I like the sound ‘e’.  Jude

Our tricky words this week were you and your.  Jack

We learned the sound ‘u’.  Mia

I enjoyed the Big Balbardie Blether learning about Maths.  Olivia S

I like the sound ‘e’ because it’s in my name. Aileigh

We learned about Guy Fawkes wanting to kill the king and we celebrating by setting off fireworks.  Mac

Guy Fawkes put gunpowder under the king’s chair.  Max

The king killed Guy Fawkes.  Amber

If you are going to a bonfire or to see fireworks stay safe and keep your pets inside as they get scared.

Have a great weekend.

This week in P1a….

I enjoyed outdoor PE playing the bean game.  Alex

We learned a new sound, ‘e’.  Emily

We learned a new sound, ‘h’.  Holly

Listening to the story Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam on the smartboard and being taught how to draw a picture by an Illustrator.  Ellis

We learned the tricky word, ‘are’.  Carley

I enjoyed learning the ‘e’ sound.  Ada

We learned the ‘f’ sound.  Justin

We learned ‘h’.  Mia

I like when it’s buddy time.  This week we collected leaves and stuck them on a tree…..but they fell off!  Aaron

I enjoyed buddy time when we went outside and collected leaves.  Jude

I enjoyed buddy time going outside to get leaves.  Olivia S

I liked watching the story on the smartboard.  Jack

I enjoyed learning the sound, ‘c’. Megan

I enjoyed learning the sound, ‘e’.  Amber

I learned the tricky word, ‘all’.  Oliver

I liked learning the letter, ‘e’.  Aileigh

I liked playing with my buddy.  Mac

Pupil of the Week:  Well done Jack for finding tricky words in a storybook.

Happy Halloween!

P1a have really enjoyed their first term being in P1a.

We have learned lots of sounds: s, a, t, p, i, n, b, f, o, m, c, k, ck and

Tricky words: she, he, I, do, to, the, he, me, we, be

Here are some of our favourite things at school….

Jude & Olivia’s  favourite thing in school is Golden Time and playing with his toys.

We have learned the sound, ‘b’ and I love Golden Time. Holly

I like when we go outside and play with each other.  Ellis

I enjoy playing with my buddy, Jamie.  Mac

I like buddy time because we can play games in my buddies classroom and do the dot-to-dot.  Carley

I liked going to the church with my buddy Aaron.  Justin

I like playing with my buddy and having Golden Time. Amber

Playing at Golden Time with my Shopkins.  Aileigh

Playing with the iPad at Golden Time.  Jack

Playing at Golden Time and playing with the iPads.  James

This week we learned or enjoyed…

The sound, ‘f”.  Aaron

The sound, ‘b’.  Justin

Jude’s daddy came in. Shannon

Olivia’s daddy came in to talk about his job.  Ada

Jude’s daddy teaches football. Oliver

Mrs Dunbar came in to read us a story.  Mia

Alex enjoyed going to the church for the Harvest service.  Alex

Hope you all have a lovely holiday!

This week we have had a really busy week.  We learned the sounds ‘n’ and ‘o’ and tricky words ‘to’ and ‘do’.   On Tuesday morning we had our first shared start and that was great fun.  On Thursday morning we went to the Library and a lady called a Librarian, read us 3 stories.  We then had to decide which was our favourite story.  We kept ourselves safe walking to the library by listening to adults, holding hands with a partner and wearing high visibility vests.  When we were crossing the roads, we waited for the green man and checked for traffic before crossing.

I enjoyed learning our sounds ‘o’.  Amber

Megan learned the sound ‘n’ and remembered her aeroplane wings!

We have learned 1-10.  Carley (We are learning 1-20 already!)

I like coming to school every day.  Justin & Emily

James liked going to the library.  James

I liked going to the library and reading the stories.  Olivia S

I loved going to the library and reading the stories.  Mac

I liked doing the letter ‘o’.  Holly & Aileigh

I like playing at golden time.  Aaron

I like when it’s golden time.  Jude

We’ve been learning that people that look after us, our mummies, daddies, grannies and granddads. Carley

We’re learned that the teachers look after us in school.  Ada

A fireman also helps us.  Olivia S

The police help us. Mac

A paramedic also helps us! Jude

The lollipop man helps us cross the road.  Jack

I enjoy playing the in the playground before school.  River

I enjoyed iPad time.  Ed

I like playtime. Ellis

Have a lovely weekend.

We have had a really busy and fun week in P1a.  We took advantage of the lovely weather and went outside with Mrs Laidlaw for number work and used chalk to write the numbers 1-10 in the playground.

We read some stories about Elmer the Elephant and wrote about what makes us special.

This week we have learned….

The sound c.  Aileigh and Justin

The sound t.  Amber

The sound s.  Emily

The tricky word ‘me’.  Shannon

The sound m. Ada and James

The sound a.  Jude and Holly

The tricky word ‘we’.  Amber

The sound p.  Jack and River

In writing we wrote about, what makes me special. Carley

I enjoyed running around outside with my buddy.  Oliver

I enjoy Golden Time.  Ada

I enjoyed playing with my buddy outside. Mac

I enjoyed playing with my buddy. Holly

I enjoyed playing with Meadow.  Olivia

Pupil of the week: Aileigh for working hard to write the sound t and write her numbers.

Enjoy the long weekend.

We have had a very busy week in P1A.  We have been learning the sounds ‘m’ and ‘c’ and tricky words ‘I’ and ‘the’.  In numeracy we have been counting to 10, ordering numbers to 10 and writing numbers to 10.  We have been learning about friendship and read the story Room on a Broom.  We wrote stories about who we would have on our broomsticks!

Pupil of the week: Jude for always doing the right thing, working hard and always having a smile on his face.

Playground certificate: Ellis for being a kind friend in the playground.

Here are some pictures of us working hard!

What a busy week we have had………………………………

I enjoyed reading The Twits, the class novel. Archie

I enjoyed maths because we were taking away tens and ones, it was fun. Callum & Paige

I enjoyed learning about the Jewish festival the Passover. Kamron.

I enjoyed the Home Learning 5 minute mental maths frenzy! Steven

I learned how to use co-ordinates by playing a Treasure Hunt game with Archie and I won! Noah

I learned that the Jews used to put lamb’s blood above their door to keep away danger. Harry

I learned my 3 times tables in maths. Tobin

I enjoyed making glaciers using marshmallows, chocolate sauce and porridge! Gary, Mark, Aiden, Jack & Lewis

I enjoyed going to Mrs Drummond’s class to practice the Christmas songs. Lauryn & Emma

I enjoyed learning about Didbook. Fiona

I enjoyed learning about co-ordinates and playing the Treasure Hunt game with Dasha. Michelle

I enjoyed the chocolate geology because we were allowed to eat the marshmallows and chocolate sauce! Jordan & Stacey

I enjoyed the co-ordinates game becuase it helped me improve. Gabriel

I enjoyed doing maths because I learned my 3 times tables. Dasha

I enjoyed maths because in my Maths Journal I made a maze and I had to collect gems of different colours and count them. Casey

I enjoyed playing Exhaustion in PE because it was all about stamina and see who could win! Murray….. and guess who won?!

I enjoyed writing Part 2 of our Alien Adventure! Skye, Katie & Robyn

I enjoyed reading The Twits because I thought it was funny when the monkeys and birds stuck all the furniture on the ceiling. Luca

I enjoyed learning the Tongue Twister. Cameron….give it a go……

If two witches were watching two watches

Which witch would watch witch watch.

I enjoyed reading because I’m improving! Colin

I enjoyed reading The Twits because I thought it was funny when the monkeys and birds stuck all the furniture on the ceiling. Luca

Have a great weekend!

This week in P5B we have enjoyed learning about lots of different things….

I enjoyed listening to the P3/4 assembly.  Colin & Jordan

I enjoyed doing the maths maze and practising the 3 times tables. Gary

I enjoyed art because we learned how to draw like Quentin Blake.  Katya

I liked art because I enjoyed drawing.  Mark

I enjoyed chocolate geology because we made mountains from Oreos. Cameron & Paige

I enjoyed doing the 3 times tables because I didn’t know them before but I have started to know it.  Harry

I learned to paint with water colours.  Stacey

I liked it when Mrs Davidson came in and learned how to draw using a shape. Aiden

HAVE A LOVELY WEEKEND.

This week in P5b we have been learning and enjoyed……

How to draw fireworks. Katie & Casey

Adding tens and units. Callum

I enjoyed the Handball festival.  Archie, Jamie, Mark & Jordan

I enjoyed doing the grid references in mapping.  Gary

I enjoyed using co-ordinates to find things/places on a map.  Noah

I enjoyed the BBB.  Harry, Steven & Aiden

I enjoyed looking at the Atlases.  Fiona & Michelle

I enjoyed linking our maths to our fireworks (radial symmetry).  Tobin

I enjoyed topic work.  Dasha

I enjoyed saying what we liked about Christmas with Mrs Drummond.  Katya & Robyn

I enjoyed researching the towns and villages in West Lothian.  Cameron & Kamron

I learned how to do my hundreds, tens and ones.  Paige

I enjoyed doing the radial symmetry in art. Jack

I enjoyed going to Mrs Drummond’s class and learning about the birth of Jesus and when Mark said, ‘back to the future,’ instead of ‘back to the studio!’ Everyone laughed.  Luca

I enjoyed doing the poem about our favourite place in Scotland.  Gary & Archie

I enjoyed starting The Twits.  Fiona

I enjoyed the 5 minute frenzy.  Noah & Gabriel

Have a great weekend.

We have learned a lot this week in P5B……

I learned how to show shading on an apple.  Paige

This week I enjoyed music with Mrs Drummond.  I learned that music can make a picture in your head.  Fiona

This week I enjoyed doing my science and learning how water evaporates.  Jamie

I learned how to shade an apple.  Katya

I learned all about evaporation in science. Michelle

I enjoyed maths on Monday when we did chimney sums.  Archie

I enjoyed building the trebuchet with Mrs Mackenzie.  Tobin

In maths I learned about different types of angles; obtuse, acute and right angles. Gary

I enjoyed going into Mrs Drummond’s class and learned how to think about what a song is about and draw it.  Aiden

I learned the names of lots of new angles.  Cameron

Have a great weekend.

A huge well done to everyone in P5B for a wonderful assembly.  They all worked really hard to learn their words and the words for the songs!! They were all fabulous!

I enjoyed the assembly because everyone liked it. Aiden

I really the enjoyed the assembly because everyone worked hard and sang well. I enoyed Achieving, Believing and Celebrating. Jack

I really enjoyed learning the words for my assembly and for everyone taking part! Kamron

I enjoyed the assembly because I thought I was going to be really nervous but when I said my words I wasn’t.  Harry

I enjoyed the assembly because everyone got to see their families and we showed all the other teachers that we are No. 1! Stacey

I enjoyed practising the assembly and learning all the songs.  Fiona

I enjoyed singing the songs at the assembly.  Callum

I enjoyed the assembly, the songs and my part.  Mark

I enjoyed the assembly, learning the songs.  Dasha

I liked learning the songs for the assembly.  Lauryn

I enjoyed doing the team building and discussing what we needed for the trebuchet and I enjoyed counting the number of right angles on the tables – 118!! Murray

I liked maths when we went around the class finding right angles.  Gary

I enjoyed playing with the big ball at break. Noah

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