Class O have been learning about money and using money to buy from the shops. The sensory room had been transformed into a Halloween theme and we had lots of fun playing pin the boo on the ghost and enjoyed playing with the green goo fishing out the spiders and skeletons.

The children thoughts for the week:

Dylan – The electric eel is dangerous and it could kill you. The real name for an electric eel is the knifefish. The electric eel sends 500 volts.

Jayden – On Monday sensory room was spooky for Halloween. There were glow in the dark spiders. Spookyslime was there to touch it felt smooth. We’ve been using coins, counting in pence and pounds for maths. I have also been delivering the children in need orders to all the classes.

Cameron – I enjoyed the handball festival. I scored my first ever goal. The festival was in Bathgate Sports Centre. I went with P5a. We played castles in PE with Mr Jeffries.

Cody – I enjoyed going into the sensory with Jamie we had fun playing peek a ghost and playing with the skeletons.

This week Class O have been busy learning about Children in Need. We are learning about this for our topic and are looking to sharing our learning with you at our assembly. We have been deveoping our money skills to support this.
We all enjoyed learning a song all about helping others. We will be looking at different ways to raise money and will be organising the sale of Pudsey merchandice in school.

Cody: Children in Need raises lots of money to help others. I found out lots of ways that people raise money and found some of them hilarious, like sitting in baths of beans!

Jayden: Pudsey Bear is the mascot for Children in Need. He is very popular and funny.

Jamie: I researched the different products available to buy and looked at how we could use them to raise as much money as possible.

Caitlin: I was practising adding and subtracting values of money like a shop keeper.

Cameron: I like how the song has instruments in it. I really liked the drums.

Liam: The song is great for dancing to. I am good at the actions.

Class O have enjoyed being scientists this week. We have had fun experimenting with water and recording our results. We have also taken advantage of the great weather by doing outdoor maths, we have been looking at our 7 times table.

Liam – I liked to create a kiddie ride on the I book. It was called ‘The red story machine kiddie ride’. I also had fun being a scientist in the sensory room.

Jayden – I was doing outdoor maths with Cody. We learned the seven times table it was fun. I was being a scientist. Being a scientist was fun with Dylan and Liam. I made a paper boat go by using water. We were using balloons  for friction. We were testing the sugar cubes. We added sugar cubes to cold water and warm water the warm water melts the sugar cubes quicker.

Cody – I was doing outdoor maths with Jayden I had learned the 7 times table it was fun. in integration I learned dance drama it was lots o fun.

I enjoyed making the Notman model. It was a rollercoaster it was good fun. In P5 I enjoyed practising playing handball for the tournament.

Some pupils from Primary 5 went to school camp at the Lowport Centre. Cameron really enjoyed this.

Cameron: I took part in lots of activities. I went canoeing on the canal, tunnelling, walking around the loch, swimming and we had a disco. My favourite part was canoeing becasue I had never tried it before and it was really fun. I will definitely try it agian.

Cody, Caitlin and Jamie worked well as a team playing Monopoly to develop addition, subtraction and money skills.

Caitlin: It was fun playing with Jamie and Cody. I was trying to buy lots of houses to help me win.

Liam and Jayden used a variety of materials to complete multiplication calcualtions this week.

This week Class O refelected on the class novel we have been reading by recreating some of the main scences through role play. We have been reading Gansta Granny by David Walliams.

Cody: I enjoyed trying to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London after swimming up the River Thames.

Liam: I loved dressing up as the Queen and pretending to be Ben while eating biscuits and playing Scrabble.

Jayden: Dressing us as granny and playing Scrabble with Liam was fun. I tasted cabbage and It tasted good.

On Wednesday Class O enjoyed going Out and About to Bathgate cinema. We were practsing our skills. We now all feel confdent enough to go to the cinema with our family or friends. If you ave not visited the Bathgate Cinema yet you should…it’s AMAZING!

Cody: The film was very funny. My favourite character was Chuck (the banana shaped bird).

Callum: Wow! The film was great! It was so funny. I laughed lots!

Cameron: I had lots of fun. I enjoyed the movie. There was lots of funny bits. Mighty Eagle was the funniest.

Liam: I liked watching Angry Birds. I had a snack too.

Yolie: We wne t to the cinema. We saw Angry Birds. I was excited.

Wow! What a great day Sports day was!
The sun was shining and everynone tried very hard in their races.
We hope you enjoy viewing a few of our pictures from our races and medal ceremony.

Yolie: I enjoyed running with the P5 girls at the park.

Cameron: I was kind and helped otheres with their races.

Liam: I liked the morph suit race. I won!

Callum: I loved going to sports day with Miss Robertson. I tried hard in all the races.

Cody: The sack race was hard. I tried my best. I’m going to pratise for next year!

This weel Yolie and Liam enjoyed reading Jack and the Beanstalk. They used their senses and science to investigate beans, growing, feelings and emotions.

Yolie: I liked spinning in he unberella to pretend i was climbing the beanstalk. I felt a bit dizzy!

Liam: The pipecleaners were good to make a beanstalk with. It was fun twisting and squeezing them.

Jamie, Callum, Cody and Cameron enjoyed working as a team to make sure the monkeys did not topple.

Jamie: I was good at putting monkeys on evenly so the tree did not collapse.

Cameron: I found this quite tricky becase my hand was shaky.

Cody: Callum gave me good tips, but it was still tricky.

Callum: I have played this before so I had ideas and shared them well with Cody, Cameron and Jamie to help us not to topple the tree.

Yolie and Liam enjoyed using the Rainbow Room to investigate push, pull and twist forces. Yolie enjoyed twisting in the rocker. Liam enjoyed pushing the trampoline by jumping.

Callum, Cameron and Cody enjoyed investigating upthrust by tryting to push a balloon down in water. They were all very surprised that they were not able to push it into the water.

This week Class O have been using a variety of materials and technologies to investigate forces and spring.

Yolie: I enjoyed playing Twister with two friends from P5. I used salt dough to make a flower and a gingerbread man too.

Liam: I made a gingerbread girl. I made a paper one and one to eat. She tasted yummy.

Jamie: I enjoyed researching the heart in Rainbow Room using the iPad.

Cody: Making a hot air balloon was a little tricky. I enjoyed making an illusion to make it look like I was in the balloon basket.

Cameron: I was learning about forces by making a hot air balloon. It was quite tricky but really fun.

Callum: Wow! I made a hot air balloon. It was amazing. It really worked. It would be fun travelling in one.

This week Class O have enjoyed a variety of sensory and messy play activities. We are learning about using touch, sight, motion, hearing and motion to talk about how we feel. We discovered that everyone likes different things and has different opninions about things.
We used paint, sand, water, material and music to help us with our learning.

Cody enjoyed the soft feeling of the sand when he touched it.
Cameron liked the fuzzy feeling in his head nd tummy when he was spun around in the material.
Yolie liked painting a picture of a beach becasue the beach makes her happy.
callum loved playing with the creatures in the water becasue he could make up his own story.
Liam’s favourite was the water because the crocodile made bubbles.

We have been busy learing about the things we do well and the things that make us us this week. We have used technology, craft, music and construction to help us. Look at how creative we have been!

We have also been investigating floating and sinking. We used an orange to help us find out more about this.

Liam: I liked using the DS to have some relaxing time.

Jamie: I enjoyed using the marble run. I made a very tall and twisty run. Mrs O’Neill had to hold it steady as it was so big.

Yolie: I enjoyed dancing and dressing up to music. Science was fun. We were seeing if an orange floats or not.

Cameron: I loved using the marble run to build a huge tower. It was so tall Mrs O’Neill had to put the marble in for it to work becasue no one else could reach it. Science was good fun this week. We were trying to find out what happened to an orange in water with and without it’s skin on.

Callum and Cody: We enjoyed working together to make characters and share our ideas.

In functional writing this week we had to be Scientists and carry out an experiment so we could write a report on what happened. We had so much fun. We were learning about staying safe while experimenting and about chemical reactions by ading mints to cola.

Cameron: When we added the mints to the cola the cola came out the bottle like a volcano.
Cody: The mints and the cola reacted but didn’t go as high in the air as we thought.
Yolie: We put mints in cola to see what happens.

To develop our skills and manners we prepared and had a Victorian Tea Party with Class M. Some of us have been learning about the Voctorians so we were able to combine our skills and knowledge. It was fun experiencing a different type of party.

Yolie: I enjoyed making cakes with Mrs Malln and sandwiches with Mrs Spence.
Cody: I liked making the cake but there was chocolate on it and i don’t like some chocolate.
cameron: This was fun. We made cakes, sandwiches and placemats.

We enjoyed trying French Toast for our snack this week.
Here are our opinions of it:
Cody: It was really bad.
Cameron: It was delicious!
Yolie: It was yummy.
Liam: I tried it nut I didn’t like it.
Callum: Very tasty.

Cameron: I was very proud to recievie an award from Mr Welsh for super work!

Cameron: Mrs Mallin and practised my words and sentence building by playing lots of games with my word cards. I really enjoyed silly sentences.

Yolie: I made salt dough and used it to make my spelling words.

Jamie: I worked with Aiden and we were comparing schools in Victorian times with school today. School then was very strict. In the Sensory Room Miss Robertson was a very good Victorian teacher.

Yolie: We joinded with Class m to learn more about the Victorians. I enjoyed learning about toys with Mrs Mallin in the Victorian Toy Shop.

Yolie: I was learning about making different values of money using lots of coins.

Cody: I enjoyed pretending to be the shop keeper and working out how much change people should get.

“We made pizza to help us learn how to write a recipe and follow instructions.” (Yolie)
“I didn’t like the smell or feel or some ingredients. I tried really hard to make the pizza.” (Cody)

“I shared my piazza with my dad. it tasted alrite. The bread as a base was not particularly nice.” (Jamie)

“I learnt that you can use lots of different things to make pizza from your fridge. It was nice.” (Cameron)

Why don’t you try making some. Here’s what you need to do:
1. Spread some passata or tomato puree onto crusty bread or slightly toated bread.
2. Sprinkle on some grated cheese.
3. Place on your topping on – we used ham, pepperoni and chicken.
4. Sprinkle on more cheese.
5. Bake or grill for 5-10 minutes until the cheese has melted.
6. Enjoy eating! 🙂

Post a comment and let us know what toppings you tried and how your pizza tasted!

Callum “Baking was great. It was fun moulding the coconut ice into shapes.”

Liam “I didn’t the taste of the condensed milk, but i like the coconut ice. When I blew the icing sugar made smoke!”

Cody “This was a fun job but I didn’t like some of the smells and the feel of the mixture.”

Yolie “We used cocont and icin sugar to make sweets. They tasted nice.”

Cameron “Baking was very messy. The icing sugar was everywhere. It was fun!”

We enjoyed going Out and About this week to research inventions and the Victorians. We were also able to look at the children’s books.

Callum “I found a few interesting books at the library. My favourite one was one all about the history of gaming.”

Liam ” It was faun at the library. I found a book all about the Victorians.”

Cody” I enjoyed reading a book with cameron and callum.”

Cameron “I was very excitied becasue I found lots of Diary of a Wimpy Kid books!”

Yolie “There was lots of books at the library. I read a Frozen book.”