We enjoyed baking some shortbread today. We have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes and this was a great way for us to create some shapes with the dough. We enjoyed the feeling of the dough and Hamish and Katie thought it felt “slimey”. We read the instructions after we gathered all of the ingredients and materials. We enjoyed taking part in the preparation for our school snack. Mrs Harrison baked the shortbread in the oven for 25 minutes and some of us ate it for our snack in the afternoon.
Class Sun have been very busy enjoying in the festivities this week. We had our Christmas party and enjoyed playing lots of party games, as well as being very surprised by Santa visiting. We have made lots of Christmas gitfs for our families too.
We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas break!
Class Sun have been busy getting into the Christmas spirit. We have continued to learn more about winter as well as some of us continuing to practise for next week’s Nativity.
Hamish and Kaite enjoyed singing the Nativity songs.
We have been extendning our knowledge of numbers as well as beginning to look at shape, pattern and size.
Shea enjoyed shape sorting and matching shapes to descriptions.
We enjoyed reading/listening to the Gruffalo’s Child and The Penguin who Lost his Mummy.
Kai and Zoe enjoyed recalling all the animals.
In Writing we made angels and then told stories about them. Most of them were busy angels who liked to sing!
Erin enjoyed writing a story about the angel who lost her magic.
Please find attached an activity document for use should our school be closed due to inclement weather.
Regards,
Mrs O’Neill and Mrs mallin
This week some of us have been very practising songs for Nativity. Here they are so you can help us at home:
Song 1: Woolly Sheep
One woolly sheep won’t stand still,
Running around on the hill
Keeping all the shepherds busy,
Working till they feel quite dizzy
Work, work, work,
Work, work, work.
Two woolly sheep…
Three woolly sheep…
Four woolly sheep…
Five woolly sheep…
Work, work, work,
Work, work, work.
Phew!
Song 2: Sleepy Shepherd
Somebody is snoring, somebody’s asleep,
Somebody should be looking after his sheep,
But he’s a sleepy, sleepy head,
What a sleepy shepherd he is.
Somebody is snoring, somebody is snug,
Somebody is curled up like a bug in a rug,
And he’s a sleepy, sleepy head,
What a sleepy shepherd he is.
Instrumental
Somebody is snoring, somebody’s asleep,
Somebody should be looking after his sheep,
But he’s a sleepy, sleepy head,
What a sleepy shepherd he is.
What a sleepy shepherd he is.
Song 3: One Starry Night
A beautiful angel came to the hill,
Came to the hill, came to the hill,
A beautiful angel came to the hill,
One starry night.
He hovered above with silver wings,
Silver wings, silver wings,
He hovered above with silver wings,
One starry night.
And over his head a halo bright,
Halo bright, halo bright,
And over his head a halo bright,
One starry night.
He told us about a tiny child,
Tiny child, tiny child,
He told us about a tiny child,
One starry night.
Song 4: Would you like to come along?
Strolling down to Bethlehem, skipping through the night,
I’m going to find a stable with a tiny babe inside.
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Strolling down to Bethlehem, skipping through the night,
I’m going to find a stable with a tiny babe inside.
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Song 5: Under a star
Under a star, deep in the night was a stable,
Under a star, deep in the night was a stable,
Under a star, deep in the night, Jesus was born,
Jesus was born for you and me.
There in a place so far away, we found him,
There in a place so far away, we found him,
There in a place so far away, Jesus was born,
Jesus was born for you and me.
Under a star, deep in the night was a stable,
Under a star, deep in the night was a stable,
Under a star, deep in the night, Jesus was born,
Jesus was born for you and me.
Song 6: Bumpy Road
Three kings were riding down a bumpy road,
Following a star showing the way to go,
It was a bumpy road, bumpy road,
It was a bumpy, bumpy road,
Three kings were riding, wearing royal crowns,
Sitting on their camels, heading for the town,
It was a bumpy road, bumpy road,
It was a bumpy, bumpy road,
Instrumental
Three kings were riding down a bumpy road,
Following a star showing the way to go,
It was a bumpy road, bumpy road,
It was a bumpy, bumpy road,
Song 7: Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up! (clap, clap) Wake up! (clap, clap)
Come and see the King!
Wake up! (clap, clap) Wake up! (clap, clap)
Come and see the King!
Rub your eyes, jump out of bed,
Don’t you be a sleepy head!
Come and see the new born King.
Wake up! (clap, clap) Wake up! (clap, clap)
Come to Bethlehem!
Wake up! (clap, clap) Wake up! (clap, clap)
Come to Bethlehem!
Up you get, don’t make a fuss,
Wipe away your sleepy dust,
Come and see the new born King.
Wake up! (clap, clap) Wake up! (clap, clap)
Come and see the King!
Wake up! (clap, clap) Wake up! (clap, clap)
Come and see the King!
Rub your eyes, jump out of bed,
Don’t you be a sleepy head!
Come and see the new born King.
Come and see the new born King.
We have also been very busy with sensory experiences and measuring. We made pizza, which we tried for snack and salt dough. We enjoyed the pizza and are going to turn the salt dough shapes into Christmas tree decorations.
We continued our Winter learning context by researching animals in winter. We found out their names, what they eat, where they live and what they do in winter. We enjoyed learning the wow word HIBERNATION and what it means.
Kai found out that owl sleep all day.
Hamish found out that badgers live in sets.
Zoe made a reindeer and Katie made a wolf.
Shea found out that foxes eat rabbits.
Erin found out that hedgehogs hibernate.
Next week we are going to be learning about winter weather and clothes. We are really hoping for some snow!
Song 1: Woolly Sheep
Running around on the hill
Keeping all the shepherds busy,
Working till they feel quite dizzy
Work, work, work,
Work, work, work.
Work, work, work,
Work, work, work.
Phew!
Song 2: Sleepy Shepherd
Somebody should be looking after his sheep,
But he’s a sleepy, sleepy head,
What a sleepy shepherd he is.
Somebody is curled up like a bug in a rug,
And he’s a sleepy, sleepy head,
What a sleepy shepherd he is.
Somebody should be looking after his sheep,
But he’s a sleepy, sleepy head,
What a sleepy shepherd he is.
What a sleepy shepherd he is.
Song 3: One Starry Night
Came to the hill, came to the hill,
A beautiful angel came to the hill,
One starry night.
Silver wings, silver wings,
He hovered above with silver wings,
One starry night.
Halo bright, halo bright,
And over his head a halo bright,
One starry night.
Tiny child, tiny child,
He told us about a tiny child,
One starry night.
Song 4: Would you like to come along?
Strolling down to Bethlehem, skipping through the night,
I’m going to find a stable with a tiny babe inside.
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Strolling down to Bethlehem, skipping through the night,
I’m going to find a stable with a tiny babe inside.
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Would you like to come along with me?
Would you like to come along?
Song 5: Under a star
Under a star, deep in the night was a stable,
Under a star, deep in the night, Jesus was born,
Jesus was born for you and me.
There in a place so far away, we found him,
There in a place so far away, Jesus was born,
Jesus was born for you and me.
Under a star, deep in the night was a stable,
Under a star, deep in the night, Jesus was born,
Jesus was born for you and me.
Song 6: Bumpy Road
Following a star showing the way to go,
It was a bumpy road, bumpy road,
It was a bumpy, bumpy road,
Sitting on their camels, heading for the town,
It was a bumpy road, bumpy road,
It was a bumpy, bumpy road,
Following a star showing the way to go,
It was a bumpy road, bumpy road,
It was a bumpy, bumpy road,
Song 7: Wake up! Wake up!
Come and see the King!
Wake up! (clap, clap) Wake up! (clap, clap)
Come and see the King!
Rub your eyes, jump out of bed,
Don’t you be a sleepy head!
Come and see the new born King.
Come to Bethlehem!
Wake up! (clap, clap) Wake up! (clap, clap)
Come to Bethlehem!
Up you get, don’t make a fuss,
Wipe away your sleepy dust,
Come and see the new born King.
Come and see the King!
Wake up! (clap, clap) Wake up! (clap, clap)
Come and see the King!
Rub your eyes, jump out of bed,
Don’t you be a sleepy head!
Come and see the new born King.
Come and see the new born King.
Class Sun enjoyed telling stories to each other this week following the storyteller visit.
Kai and Hamish enjoyed sharing the Bear Hunt, while Zoe enjoyed the Hungry Caterpillar.
Katie and Erin were enthusiastic about sharing the Gruffalo with us and describing him to us all.
Shea laughed at the aliens who loves underpants.
Aliens was our writing focus this week. We used salt dough to make our oen aliens and then told our friends all about them.
Thus was fun!
This week in Class Sun we have started our new learning context of winter. we have been looking at dark and how it makes us feel. We have been reading The Owl that was Afraid of the dark. In the story fireworks helped Plop to be less frightened. We made firework pictures using chalk and used clay to design our own fireworks. We enjoyed sharing our experiences abou the fireworks we saw and heard during our lesson and at home with our families. Making marble night skys and pretending to be fireworks was fun too!
We are looking forward to learning more about the darkness and winter time!
Room on the Broom was one of Class Sun’s main learning contexts this week. We enjoyed reading and talking about ‘who’ was on the broom an d’who’ was not on the broom. We used the words of the story to help us learn about rhyme and adjectives.
Erin’s favourite part was ‘the hideous beast’ who rose out of the ditch.
Hamish’s favourite part was when the dragon chased the witch and wanted ‘witch and chips’ for tea.
In writing we made our own ‘hideous beasts’ to write about using clay.
Katie made a monster with a round head and body and two big eyes and two fluffy wings.
Sensory play helped us to learn about following instructions and to build our descriptive language.
Zoe anjoyed making sparkly paydough and using it to make the withces wand and hat.
Kai and Shea enjoyed making gloop to represent the bog that the animals all fell into. All of the boys and girls enjoyed talking about how the gloop changed from soft to hard.
Class Sun enjoyed their October Break and enh=joyed telling everying in class about the exting things they did.
We have been focussing on singing a variety of songs in different ways. We have been singing fast, slow, loud and quiet!
Zoe liked singing Five Little Ducks.
Hamish liked singing Wind the Bobbin uo loud.
Kai liked singin The Wheels on the Bus fast.
We have also been proactsing our listening skills and focussing on the words stop and go. Mrs McGonigal came in to help us with this and taught us some new tunnel and ball games.
Erin was very good at listening for the word o so she could crawl through the tunnel.
Shea focussed well and listened for his name during the ball games.
Another Literacy focus has been on ‘who’. We played the ‘Who’s in the Story Bag game’. This week there were lots of animals. Our favourite was the spiders. We made our own spiders and talked about ‘who’ they were.
Katie enjoyed making a spider called Spidy and then singing Incy Wincy with him.
We are looking forward to lots more exciting learning this term!
Well it’s been another busy week in Class Sun. Here’s a few things we have been focussing on….
Numeracy
We have been learning the language of before, after and in between. Some of us have been focussing on numbers to 10, others numbers to 20 and some of us numbers to 100.
We have been counting using a variety of materials and have enjoyed singing fun counting songs to support our learning. We are looking forward to going on a number hunt next week.
Literacy
We have been learning more sounds and looking at where these sounds are found in words. We used paint, rainbow letters and messy play to practise our sounds. We have also read the Three Little Pigs and then used the story to extend our learning by making puppets, masks, looking at and making the different houses. During outdoor play we worked as a team to act out the story.
LAC
With Mrs Thomson we were making patterns with bubble wrap – these are very cool!
We explored bubbles and enjoyed talking about all the experiences we have had with bubbles. During Move-It time we have been learning to play in a group and how to play different wide games. ‘What’s the Time Mr Wolf?’ was our favourite.
We hope you all have a relaxing holiday weekend.
Class Sun have been busy bees this week exploring letters and numbers. They have enjoyed using a variety of different sources to help them do this. We have been looking at letter and sound shapes and names as well as number shapes and names.
We also made playdough for our choose trays. It was great fun. We loved making lots of shapes with the cutters after we made it.
Adam our P7 buddy visited us this week and played games with us.
Here are our highlights from the week:
Hamish enjoyed making words with the a sound.
Katie made patterns with the chalk.
Zoe made lots of bead necklaces at the threading table.
Shea loved chalking words and writing on the whitboard.
Kai enjoyed playing games with Adam.
Erin has enjoyed making lots of books to share her stories with us.
This week Class Sun have enjoyed expolring a variety of Art materials. Mrs Thomson the Art teacheer also visited us for the first time. We have enjoyed using a variety of materials and our hands and fingers to paint.
We have started a beautiful outdoor scene as our first learning display with our our art work.
Hamish, Katie and Kai enjoyed making butterflies with paint handprints.
Zoe enjoyed making clouds with cotton woool.
Shea enjoyed making a rainbow fish with couloured tissue paper.
Erin enjoyed fingerpainting flowers.
We have learned lots about texture and colour this week and are looking forward to exploring these more!
Well it’s been a VERY busy week for Class Sun. We welcomed our new P1s to Balbardie and together we have had lots of fun getting to know them, each other, our new classroom and exporing the wider school.
Shea enjoyed digging in the sand and making sandcastles. He made super animal noises at storytime to help us with our animal story about the farm animals who got all mixed up.
Erin loved helping the new boys and girls learn songs and was great at showing them the actions. Thanks for helping us Erin.
Hamish explored the cars on the road mat. He had different sizes and types of cars and enjoyed telling the adults the different numbers and colours they were.
Kai took us all on an adventure with the trains. He was making the trains go up and down the track and bridge. We all knew the train was coming as Kai made the different train noises to tell us.
Zoe was busy rolling and cutting with the playdough. She enjoyed discovering all the shapes she could make and finding out how far she could roll it along the table.
Katie was intrigued by different places and ways she could measure herself around the school. Her favourite measuring place was the giraffe on the way to the office.
We are all looking forward to more exciting learning next week and look forward to sharing it with you!
Busy week in class star. We have moved on to our new classes and all the children are excited working with different children and getting to know their new teachers. We posted our persuasive letter to Mrs Miglis trying to convince her to allow fidget spinners in ARB.
Jayden – I like doing jigsaw puzzles in Class Star today because I was with Adam and Cameron. I have also done glow in the dark puzzles. I have also wrote a letter to Mrs Miglis that fidget spinners should be allowed in the ARB and waiting for her to get back to me.
Joe – I like doing maths, literacy, French and last but not least I enjoyed learning about symmetrical. When I went to Armadale Primary I went outside in a big field and tried to catch a butterfly I caught seven.
Cameron – OK I done a experiment to make gummy worm move but it kind of worked. I done this maths test and I don’t no when I am going to get my test results. I watched the jungle book It was better than I thought. Remember stay toned for more.
Dylan – The science experiment did not work the wiggly worm did not move. I did a debate and sent Mrs Miglis a letter to get fidget spinners allowed in ARB. I got my P7 leaver hoodie.
David – I have been playing with Yolie in the playground. I worked with Mrs Mclean and did counting, doubles and taking away.
Yolie – I have been going to the back playground to play at playtime and lunchtime. I liked drawing I done shopkins and a rainbow. We made slime in class it was blue but then changed to purple it was so sticky and stuck to my hand.
Class O & M joined this week for some work. This week in RME we were learning about The Prodigal Son, we watched a short film made from Lego figures. In writing we had a debate about Fidget Spinners and we will be writing our opinions about them next week.
Cameron. I enjoyed making a weird biscuit and it was a pig and i enjoyed P.E. because we did it with class m i enjoyed making fidget spinners out of kinex and i learned about fidget spinners and i enjoyed about the bible story stay tuned for more.
Dylan- We did Lego Bible story it was all animated with Lego figures and I would like to know how they made it.
Cody -We done a fidget spinner debate to increase fidget spinners in school and everybody in the class was for fidget spinners. we are going to be writing about it and we will be designing our own fidget spinners.
David – I made icing and I made a pig on the biscuit. I made this father with his arm open for his son to come home. He was happy he was home.
Yeah! we were delighted that the sun shone on Wednesday so we could have our sports day. Although the sun made it tiring we all tried hard in the races. The adults found it very tricky to capture us as we ran because we were running so fast.
Shea enjoyed trying to balance egg for the egg and spoon race.
Dylan tried hard to keep running fast in the sprint race.
Erin, Yoile, Logan, Aiden, Adam and Jayden found the sack race a challenge but enjoyed trying to keep inside the sack as they moved!
David, Cameron and Joe all had a few great ideas to keep the egg on the spoon steady for the race.
Cody has been practicing in the lead up to sports day and made sure he was warmed up and ready to go.
Charlie was determinded to beat Miss Garland in the sack race!
Caitlin and Gabriel loved posing to show off our medals!
On Tuesday some of the pupils from Classes M and O went to the Bo’ness Steam Railway to find out more about steam power and trains. The steam train was very different to the usual electric or diesel trains. It was very smelly and and moved slower.
In the museam we learned about how steam work, who invented them and where. We even had a go at driving a steam train and working the signal box. It’s a very tricky and tiring job.
we would highly recommend the Bo’ness Steam Railway for a family day out!
This week we had a great time celebrating success with our friends and schoolmates.
Guy – It was fun to perform.
Jason – It made me feel jolly.
Elliot – I was amazed and happy to get the Headteacher’s award.
Jason – I was really shy when I got my award.
Elliot – I enjoyed doing my solo with my robot changing voice machine.
On Wednesday with Mrs Mackenzie we finished our arctic animals pictures. We had to make backgrounds for them which showed how they blend into their environment when the seasons change. Mrs Mackenzie was really impressed with them!
In maths with Mrs Collings we were doing data handling, looking at coins in a purse. We had to work out how many coins there were, how many silver ones, round ones and those worth more than 10p and less than 10p. It was pretty challenging!
For outdoor learning day on Thursday, we played playground games with the P1s. We had written instructions for them in language and then had to explain the games to them before we played. It was lots of fun and we hope our P1 friends enjoyed it too!
Pupil of the week – Dani for dealing with her diabetes in such a mature and responsible manner.
Table of the week – with 570 points
We have had a busy week learning about paragraphs and have wrote a story to include at least three paragraphs. We have been looking at frequency charts and creating our own chart.
Cameron – I wrote a story about a imp from PVZGW2! and I did some fractions and I help others and I was measuring weird things like my finger bye for now.
Cody – I wrote paragraphs about Garden warfare 2 And what it is if your wondering, I done fractions and measured some stuff like a table and my hand which is 6 Centimetres! (No not the table) bye M8s.
Jayden – I have enjoyed our first week of swimming it was so fun I dived in the water but my chest got a bit soar but I like jumping into the water. I like doing drawing in the school. I have also made a self portrait drawing. Sometimes I play and draw my things I was learning from Cameron. I also like the new sensory tray which is jelly you can eat jelly but not the jelly in sensory tray.
Liam – I have had fun with the puppets. I enjoyed doing a summer word search and also like blanket fun with Mrs Wilson.
