Our busy week has come to an end and everyone has done so well. 

The Nativity was brilliant, everyone in the whole school saw it and the hall was jam packed on Tuesday and Wednesday when family and friends came.  On Thursday it was our turn to be the audience when we went down to the Regal to see Aladdin.  Here are some of our favourite bits:

Calum – I liked it when the baddie came on.

Kay – I enjoyed seeing Aladdin and Jasmine getting married.

Alfie – It was funny when the guards were running around chasing Aladdin.

Kaite – I enjoyed all of the panto.

Lots of people agreed with Calum and liked the baddie best.

In the afternoon we got a sneak preview of the Nursery Nativity when we went up with Mrs Hay, we all thought it was looking very good. After that it was buddy time and we made Christmas cards with our buddies.

In maths we are all doing really well remembering our number facts to 5 and we also looked at doubles this week.

Next week we are looking forward to our Christmas party on Thursday and the Church Service on Friday.

Bye for now, P1l

Today all of Primary 1 visited Bathgate Library.  When we got there we listened to the 3 stories which are shortlisted for the Scottish Book Trust book awards. There was Jumblebum, Paper Dolls and What’s the Time Mr Wolf.  Everyone did really well walking there and back and our listening skills were superb. 

After hearing the stories we voted for which was our favourite.  Jumblebum came out on top and Jason said he liked the story because it reminded him of his room which can also be a mess.  Thank you to the library for asking us to visit and to everyone that helped us today.

Primary 1l have been getting glittertastic making things for the Christmas Fayre tomorrow.  Pre-orders for the candle holders have been very strong and tomorrow there will also be beautiful christmas tree decorations at 50p each.

In maths this week we have been looking at the number facts of 4, looking at the different ways to make 4.  Everyone is getting the hang of it and next week we will look at the number facts for 5.

We have been up to the hall to practise our Nativity and things are really starting to take shape.  Please remember costumes are to be in for Monday.

Hopefully see you all at the Fayre tomorrow.

P1l are loving their ‘Mystery Box’.  Lucas, Joshua and Alfie all took the box home this week.  They put something from home inside the box and everyone else has to ask questions to find out what is hiding.  It is a lot of fun and it also helps us ask useful questions, listen to others and think carefully about what people are saying.

In maths this week we have started to look at the number facts for 2 and 3 and how adding sums can be somersaulted to make a new sum with the same answer.

Mrs Leamy asked us what we had improved this week and what we had learned and Enci had a great answer in that we had got better at tidying up!!

Today everyone got their own Book Bug bag from the Scottish Book Trust.  We have read the books in class and really enjoyed them.  On the 3rd December we have been invited to the library where we will hear the stories and then vote to see which one we like the best.  We hope you enjoy reading your books at home.

Lots of people in P1l forgot to get dressed this morning , they came to school in their pyjamas! Thank you to everyone for their donations to Children in Need.

While we had our milk today we thought about all the things we have been learning this week and we came up with lots of things.

With Mrs Spence we were writing about the adventures of Rambling Rosie. This week she stayed with Liam and he took her to play golf then Mrs Spence took her swimming. We have working on our adding skills and using the + and = symbols. Mrs Hay came into class on Thursday and we were making sound stories.  We all had a turn of playing music and being a good audience.  We have learned all the songs from our Nativity and we made angels to go on a display in our classroom. We were being animal detectives on Thursday, we carried on our work with the story Dear Zoo and created our own page drawing an animal of our choice.  We then worked with a partner to ask questions to find out what animal they had drawn.

Well done to Callum who is Pupil of the Week and to Suvi and Megan who are on Step 4 for their excellent behaviour.

Bye from P1l

There were some very scary sights in P1l this morning as everyone came dressed up to raise money for this years float.  Today we also had our first ‘Big Balbardie Blether’.  We all went to different classrooms to be with people from our own houses and came up with ideas on how we could improve the house system in school. It was a big thing for us all to be with new people and in new places and we all did really well. Another first this week was outdoor P.E. Thankfully it was cold but dry on Thursday afternoon and we had a good time travelling in different ways in the play ground and moving carefully in our own space. So many firsts this week, we also started to practise songs for our Nativity and we have changed our house corner into a shop.  By far the most popular choice of shop was Tesco! Here are some things we enjoyed this week.

I like our new shop in class – Enci and Jay.

I have liked colouring in this week – Katie.

Playing in the shop has been good – Callum.

I liked playing with the cars and my friends at Golden Time – Miles

I like playing in the library – Catriona

This week l have been learning new sums – Katie.

A super week for everyone in P1l – well done.

 Yesterday Primary 1 headed over to Balbardie Park for an Autumn Walk.  The children had a great time and everyone was very proud of how well they behaved.  The children were armed with plastic bags and collected lots of lovely leaves to make things with back at school. After some leaf collecting we all sat down for a well deserved biscuit before collecting some more things before heading back to school. Thank you to all the mums and grannies who came to help us, we really appreciated it. 

 Primary 1

Well, on Monday Miss Henderson came into our class with a basket and red cape.  She had found it outside and immediately knew something was strange so came along to P1 to ask us about it.  As we know lots about fairytales it didn’t take us long to work out it must belong to Little Red Riding Hood and that Dennis the Dragon must have had it but dropped it. After we worked it out we listened to the story and were all very good at realising that Little Red Riding Hood should not have spoken to the wolf because he was a stranger.  Our Red Riding Hood activities continued during the week and Mrs Jamieson helped us decorate some cookies to go in baskets we decorated. On Wednesday with Mrs Spence we wrote ‘Wanted’ posters to help find the wolf and on Thursday we had a different version of the story called Little Bad Riding Hood.  She ate all the cookies on the way to Granny’s house and put stones in instead.  In the end it turned out she was a hero because the wolf ate the stones and his teeth fell out!

Our sounds this week have been ‘t’ and ‘i’ and we are doing really well with them.  Some people have started to sound out words and make up words themselves – Mrs Leamy and Mrs Spence are very proud.

Here are some of our thoughts about school:

I like doing letters and numbers – Alfie

I am looking forward to going on a trip with school – Katie

We like drawing in school – Suvi and Maisey

I like playing with the Lego – Lucas

Bye for now

P1l

The first full week in primary 1 and no one fell asleep!  P1l have had a super first full week in school and everyone has coped really well.

The children have started to learn their sounds and this week we looked at m and c paying particular attention to how they make the sound with their mouth.  We use our lips for m so it is a red sound and the back of our mouth for c so it is yellow.

On Tuesday we looked at why we come to school and the children worked really well together thinking by themselves, then with a partner and finally sharing their ideas.  Lots of ideas came through but my two favourites were:

‘Becasue we get too big for Nursery so they have to build a school.’

‘So we can learn to read so that when we have our own boys and girls we can read them stories.’

On Wednesday we had Mrs Spence and we made some monsters for our ‘Monster Maths’ and owls for our ‘Tree of Knowledge.

On Thursday it was a big day getting our first reading book and l have heard a few very proud children talking about their reading and great claims of “I can read now”.

A wee reminder that reading books and reading records are to come to school everyday please.

Have a great weekend.

Bye Mrs Leamy

It has been a very exciting week as the children in P1l started school!  Mrs Leamy and Mrs Spence have really enjoyed getting to know everyone and help them settle into school.  Everyone is getting to know the classroom and we have been on a tour of the school, taking photos of people as we go.  Break time has been lots of fun playing with our buddies outside.  Here our some of the things we liked this week;

I have liked making new friends – Alfie.

I saw Miss Bollen – Megan.

I loved playing with everything – Catriona and Alex.

I like playing in the sand and kitchen – Enci.

I like playing with the cars – Miles, Maisey, Joshua, Jay, Jacob and Callum.

I like playing outside – Lucas.

Next week, gym will be on Monday.

Bye for now P1l.

Hello Everyone

We had great fun yesterday when Alan Maybury from Hibs Football Club came to give us a football skills session.  It was a bit cooler outside but we soon warmed up with lots of running around and games.  A big thank you to Mr Maybury and his colleague Andy for coming in.

More hard work was on the cards today when we became gardeners.  The whole class was involved in tidying the playground and spreading out wood chips in the garden area at the side of the school.  With the nice weather we have been using the area for Golden Time so it was good to be able to give it a spruce up.  We were rewarded with delicious ice lollies from Mrs Jamieson.  The ice lollies were great because they helped us think extra hard during our writing planning session about a flashback story about being stuck in a bottle.

Bye for now P4l

Time really is whizzing by, it is hard to believe there are only 3 weeks left in P4.  This week we have been reading our class novel Four Children and It.  We are enjoying the book as lots of things keep happening.  The story is all about 4 children who have wishes granted my a strange creature called a Psammead.  The Psammead is a sand creature which is in a sand pit in a park.  We are planning to go for a picnic over at the park in the last week of term and see if there are any Psammeads in Balbardie Park.  In writing this week we went all spooky carrying on a story starter called ‘The Ghosts’.  We had to carry the story on in the style of the author, it was a tricky job but we did our best and had great results. Maths was all about division and we took it to the next level looking at dividing numbers with remainders.  Because we have worked so hard on our times table it was no problem for us.  We finished with Golden Time in the sun and here we are enjoying ourselves.

Hello Everyone

Thank you to everyone who commented on our blog last week, it was great to hear about the things people are enjoying. 

This week we are going to have a blog home learning challenge.  Below is a short sentence and your challenge is to extend it by adding a chunk on at the end. Use your skills from class, thinking about VCOP. You might use on a connective or add on a chunk using ‘who, when, where, before, after’, etc. So the sentence start is:

           The boy closed the curtains. 

An example of adding something might be:  The boy closed the curtains before the fireworks started. Or you could improve it further by saying: The scared boy closed the curtains before the noisy fireworks started.

Please remember to keep it to one comment post per person but you could try out a couple of sentences in your post.

Other News

Another great bowling session this week.  We had our class photographer Lily there but unfortunately she chopped off most peoples heads so bowling photos still to follow.  Our 6 class i-pads were in action this week with people recording themselves reading aloud to help work on fluency and expression.  People had lots of fun listening to themselves and we have some very expressive class members.

Bye for now and happy blogging.

P4l

Hello Everyone

First of all a big well done to Becky Houston who was our class winner for the in school Park Smart t-shirt design competition. Becky created a fabulous design and we were very proud of her  when PC Arnott and Mrs Madden came in to award her with a goodie bag.

Lots going on this week.  In maths we have all been focusing on division and it  has been great to see so many people using their excellent times tables knowledge to help them.  In writing we tried something a bit different and worked with a partner to create a playscript based on a picture.  We were focusing on question making  in reading and watched a short film called the Happy Duckling to practise our prediciting and questioning skills before moving onto working on our group novels.

Now it is over to you at home.  It would be great if people could add to our blog at home.  At some point over the weekend or next week please can you add a comment to our blog.  You click on the box at the top of the post that says responses and type away.  It could be something you have enjoyed in school, something you have learned or something that went really well.  It would be great to see lots of people commenting on our blog.

We look forward to seeing some comments soon.

Bye P4l

Hello Everyone

On Wednesday this week P4 were invited to try out bowling at Bathgate High Bowling Club.  Everyone had a great time and the coaches even laid on drinks and snacks.  We are going to go for 6 weeks and learn how to be good bowlers.  Here are some of our thoughts,

It was good because we got a snack and they taught us the basic things we need to know. Shaun B

I like it because it was fun.  I didn’t know there was another type of bowling other than ten pin. Rachel

I liked it because we got to have lots of turns, we put the mat down and throw the jack. Catherine

We had a think and lots of us thought that Joe was showing signs of being a really good bowler.

Everyone is looking forward to going again on the 22nd May.

Bye

P4l

Hello Everyone

P4l were very pleased to welcome Emma from the SSPCA in to class on Monday.  Emma talked to us about caring for pets and how important it is for people to be prepared before they get a pet.  She also spoke to us about some sad cases where animals had not been looked after but thankfully the SSPCA stepped in and rescued the animals nursing them back to health.

Well done to Mhairi for her excellent performance at Balbardies Got Stars in Their Eyes.

Comments from our Review Jotters

This week we were reviewing things that we found tricky.

I found handwriting tricky because it was hard to join the letters neatly. Lily

Handwriting was tricky because the joins were new to me. Eve

This week we found our reading task tricky because we were writing diary entries as characters from our books and it was hard because we did’t know what it is like being someone else. Ava and Rachel

I found maths tricky as it was hard working out the right change from £1. Anais

P.E was tricky because we were climbing and the wall had very little hand and foot grips. Catherine

This week l found it tricky in maths to give change from £1 and £2. Lucy

Bye for now P4l

Wee Reminder – swimming kit needed for Monday 29th April

This week in P4l   in our Being Cool in School work we looked at body language.  We learned about what it is and how people show weak, cool and aggressive types of body language.  We are really enjoying using this resource and it is helping us to think of ‘cool’ responses in our behaviour.  In maths we have all been learning about money, looking at calculating amounts and change. We all got new reading books and lots of us have read some already.  In writing we wrote about our personal thoughts on either ‘The Best Day Ever’ or ‘My Dream Day’.  Mrs Leamy is very pround of the progress everyone is making. 

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Bye for now.

P4l