This week we all experienced a summer festival in the Sensory Room with Mrs Henderson. We listened to different types of music and chilled out on deck chairs. We also learned how to make our own smoothies. We hope you like our pictures:

Dylan – I made a raspberry smoothie. It was in a cup with a curly straw. I haven’t been to a real festival before.

Joe – Me and David were at a pretend festival with Mrs Henderson and we were drinking smoothies. The smoothies were made with banana, milk and ice cream they tasted good. We also played with the bubbles it was fun.

Adam – I liked playing in telly tubby land. I got rocks and me and Dylan took it over. We built a den. It was cool.

This week in class we have been learning about the fruit and vegetable section of the eatwell plate. Over one quarter of our diet should be fruit and veg.

Everyone tasted fruits and gave their opinion. Aiden, Adam and Dylan loved the pomegranate. It was a new fruit for a lot of us to taste.

Adam – I made pomegranate juice. I picked out all the seeds then Mrs Mallin took them home to blend them. It was a nice drink.

Dylan – I liked the taste of pomegranate. It was delicious. It tasted juicy and it popped in my mouth.

Then we made lentil soup using lots of fresh ingredients.

Cary – I’m not looking forward to tasting the soup.

Joe – The soup was great. It was smooth. It had carrrots,onion, potato, lentils and ham stock cube. It smells like smoky bacon crisps. The onions made my eyes water.

We all agreed that we are going to try and eat more fruit and vegetables each day.

With all the lovely weather we had last weekend we were feeling rather summery in Class M. For Out and About we decided to go to Kelly’s ice cream shop as a special end of term treat. We all brought money in from home and had a look online at what types of things they sell and how much they cost. Everyone had £3 to spend so we had to work out if we could afford our purchase and whether or not we would get any change. We all chose very carefully and ordered independently. The adults were very pleased with everyone’s polite manners and behaviour in the shop. Most of us chose cones with 2 scoops and a flake. Aiden wanted a snow cone, and Adam bought sweets. Even the adults treated themselves to a cone!

Happy Easter everyone!

This week in Class M we held a Victorian tea party. We all helped to prepare the food, including cakes and sandwiches, then we sat down together with Class O to enjoy it. Here are our thoughts on the tea party.

Joe – The victorian tea party we had was awesome. I was called Benjamin and enjoyed the jam sandwich and cake we had.

Dylan – I made a cake for the victorian tea party. It had chocolate and white icing on it and chocolate sprinkles it tasted yummy.

Adam – I missed the tea party because I was off, but I’m going to make cakes today for Golden Time today instead.

Cary – I think it’s a bad idea to cut the crusts off the sandwiches and that’s where all the nutrients are.

The Christmas festivities have began in Class M. The children tell us about their favourite parts of the week.

This week Iv been to the Christmas disco. It was at night time. I played some party games and danced. Miss Robertson thinks I am a great dancer!- Dylan.

Ive been to the Christmas disco on Wednesday and I was talking to my friend Jayden, Logan and Cameron. It was very hot because we were dancing so much! I was doing the worm dancemove. Also I played party games. I was in Mrs Aitkens group. I liked the Mars Bar game because I rolled a 6 on the dice and got to have a turn. We also played pass the parcel and I won! 🙂

I enjoyed the Christmas lunch. I had turkey. I pulled my Christmas cracker with Caitlin.  – Cary

On Monday it was a special day. Monday was St. Andrews Day. Says Dylan.

We watched a clip on the smartboard about St Andrew, then thought about what it means to be Scottish.

St. Andrew was a fisherman says Joe.

Adan said “We ate haggis because it is Scottish. St. Andrew was Scottish.”

Cary and Aiden did not like the haggis so the just ate oatcakes instead.
        

In Class M this week for our writing we learned about: Advent.

Below the children tell us 1 fact about advent:

Dylan: “Advent has 4 Sundays before Christmas!”

Joe: “People get advent caledars and have to find a number of the day to open. Sometimes there is chocolate inside. I have a candycane advent calendar.”

Cary: “Advent is the time leading up to Christmas. We count down the days in December”.

Everyone is looking forward to the next few weeks leading up to Christmas. We are excited to take part in lots of fun events such as the panto, disco and Christmas Lunch.

This week Class M have spent a lot of time preparing for the Christmas Fayre. Firstly we were the production team, and made all the items to sell. Then we had to price the items and make sure we were going to make a profit.

We are really looking forward to selling all our hard work and hope that everyone will come along on Saturday between 10 and 12.

Caitlin “this week we made an igloo for the christmas fayre and we made baubles and we put glitter on them.This week we had PE and miss muirhead came to PE with us for the first time in forever.”

Aiden “We have beeing busy this week.Class M have beeing makeing an igloo out of milk bottles. also makeing baubles my one was BOWSER!!!!.

Dylan: “We’ve been making an igloo for the Christams Fayre. It’s in the Gym Hall. It’s made out of milk bottles. The glue gun sticks the milk bottles together. I made a bauble. We had to design it.”

Adam: “I had lots of fun building the igloo this week and it was really funny when there was a leak and Dylan had to fix it! It was funny because he didn’t know which one it was leaking.”

Joe: “We’ve been making an igloo and it’s awesome! I’ve not been inside it yet. At the fayre it costs 50p to go inside and get your photo taken”

Other news from our week:

Dylan: “At swimming I done a mushroom in the swimming pool. You have to bend your knees and curl up on top of the water. Then you sink. This week I helped to build an igloo out of milk bottles. I liked using the glue gun. The igloo is awesome! Come along to the Christmas fayre and you can get a photograph inside the igloo for 50p!”

Callum: “I enjoyed snack this week. It has been great. I have tried pineapple. I like cheese and ham on my toast or sandwich. This is yummy. I made Christmas bags for toys to go in. I made 2. They will be on sale at the fayre. They are really cool.”

Yolie: “At the swimming pool I wore goggles in the little pool. I was kicking my legs under the water. I was good at it. I like it under the water.”

Liam: “I have been swimming in the swimming pool, it was fun. This week I got a certificate for trying hard in the lunch hall. I done super singing at Get Together and am looking forward to the Christmas fayre.”

In science we have been learning about batteries. We found out that it is a chemical reaction inside the battery that gives us the energy. We made our own fruit batteries using a lemon to light a bulb. The acid in the lemon reacts with the copper and zinc.

This week it was very windy outside and we had lots of fun with the leaves in the playground.

Adam: “It was really fun at playtime because the wind made a leaf tornado. The leaves went everywhere when it stopped!

Dylan: “In the playground there were lots of leaves. We played a game with the bucket blast buckets. The aim of the game was to stop Callum from taking your leaves. You had to run away from him. I liked the game. This week I created my own Didbook profile. I have my own email address and made me own password. When I log in to Didbook it says “Hello Dylan” I think this is good.

Joe: “Me and my friend from Armadale Primary were playing with the guitar and telling jokes. He made me laugh. We made decorations for the Christmas fayre for our writing. We had to write instructions on how to make a bauble. It was fun!”

Cary: “This week I have enjoyed making some shapes out of nets. I’ve made a 3D triangle and a 3D rectangle. I like cutting them out and trying to figure out how they go together.”

Class M have been working with Mrs Innes in Expressive Arts. She asked us to design an island and present our design to the class. Here are some facts about our islands.

Aiden – My island has some defences. The rocks are made out of titanium. The grass is where you find the monsters. I had to stand up and tell everyone about my island.

Joe – My island has got different houses, fields, rivers and mountains. I drew a key outside it. It means you have to write outside it. It labels the things.

Dylan – The island has 2 houses and a military base with nuclear bunker. Around the island is water and fish in the water. There is an area where you can fish.

Caitlin – On my map there is a Disney Princess castle. There is a river with some lily pads, a tree house and a swimming pool with water slide. It has lots of different coloured houses.

Adam – My island has 8 main houses and defences and a flying transformer. It can camoflauge into anything, drive on the land, fly in the air and drive on water. It can also go invisible. I enjoyed showing it to the class.

This week we returned to school after the October holidays. A few of us had been on holiday and were excited to share where we had been.

Dylan: “On the October holidays I went to Berwick Caravan Park. I saw Miss Robertson. She was on her holidays.”

Joe: “I went to sea houses and went to soft play. I had lots of fun.”

Adam: “I went to Spain. It was really fun but I was really hot. I liked the hotness at first but then I got fed up with it. I was at my Grandad’s house.

On Thurday we went Out and About to look at the different businesses around Bathgate. We used tally marks to keep count of each type of business.

Adam: “I had fun counting all the shops. There was loads of cafes.”

Dylan: “This term at school I am looking forward to my birthday! I’m going to be 10!”

Joe: “Last night I went to a Halloween party with Boy’s Brigade. We played a balloon race, hockey and we dooked for apples! I dropped a fork and got an apple!! I was dressed up as a Zombie.”

Cary: “Being back at school has been fun. I am looking forward to our new topic about Electricity as I am interested in circuits.”

This week was a short week. It had 3 days. Its nice to have Miss Muirhead back

Caitlin: I enjoyed this week because we went to the park and I played on the metal slide.

Adam: I kind of liked the park. I didn’t like it because it started raining. It was fun when I went on the monkey bars.

Aiden: I loved the park because I was hanging upside down.

Dylan: I liked P.E this week because we played tunnel tig.

Joe: I liked the park but I didn’t like the shute because it was scary.

Cary: I am enjoying listening to our class novel “the Demon Dentist!”.