This week in P3c.

Maths/Numeracy: This week we have been learning to count on to add and part and whole.

Jess: I liked part and whole because we used number lines

Harris: I liked maths tig

Isla: I enjoyed doing addition

Archie: I enjoyed doing counting on

Liam: I liked doing maths

Lily: I liked counting on with the poker chips

Grace: I enjoyed drawing the number lines on our whiteboards

Sophie M: I enjoyed maths tig as well

Sophie S: I enjoyed maths tig again.

English/Literacy: We have learned about verbs and written instructions.

Eden: I liked writing instructions

Isla: I learned about verbs

Grace: I enjoyed getting revenge on Mr and Mrs Twit

Sophie M: I enjoyed our instructions for Mr and Mrs Twit

Lily: Writing instructions was good

LAC:

Sophie S, Emily, Isla, Marley, Brandon, Grace, Nina, Max and Kayden: enjoyed painting Mr Twit for the school library

Lily: I liked sticking the jaggy bits of paper on Mr Twits beard

Sophie M: I enjoyed cutting parts for Mr Twit

You have all worked really hard this week and written great instructions to get back at those ghastly Twits!

Star Writer – Sophie Smith

Mr C.

Here are some of the things we enjoyed this week in P2b..

Zara- I enjoyed golden time!

Marcus- I enjoyed making my castle colourful in art!

Kaiden- I enjoyed playing dodgeball in P.E.

Emma- I enjoyed learning all about ‘Zog’.

Reiss- I enjoyed learning to count in two’s using flashcards and putting them in order.

Caitlin- I enjoyed writing an acrostic poem!

Jacob- I enjoyed reading.

Josh- I enjoyed playing tig at P.E.

Matthias- I enjoyed playing with my friends.

Hamish- I enjoyed working on my team skills in outdoor P.E.

We all enjoyed the coffee morning and had lots of cakes, we are so happy to take part in such a good cause and hope to raise lots of money for MacMillan Cancer Research.

Table of the week- Terrific Tigers

Star of the week- Lily

Dojo winners- Kaiden, Josh and Evie.

Star writers- Jacob, Evie, Kyle and Reiss.

Secret walkers- Caitlin and Gracie.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and hope to see you at our shared start on Tuesday!

We have had a very exciting and busy week in our class. Here are some of our favourite learning moments from this week…

Kyle – My favourite thing was going with the Art teacher.

Archie – My favourite thng was writing about “Cycling in the snow” and I was a star writer!

Hollie – I liked the coffee morning!

Jude – I liked doing the story “The almighty loaf”!

Sarah – I really enjoyed Golden Time because you get to play and do fun stuff.

Artjom – I liked making the lollipops for our Roald Dahl display.

Luke – I enjoyed P.E. this week.

Rowan – I enjoyed when the fire alarm went off!

Elena – I am excited for our new reading book next week.

Maddison – I enjoy reading!

Daniel – I enjoyed making the paper bag buildings with our Art teacher.

Charlotte – I liked when we made the giant candies.

Teigan – I liked when the fire alarm went off because it was cool. We did push-ups to keep warm.

Jack – We’ve been learning about hundreds, tens and units.

Rheagan – I liked doing the paper mache with the Art teacher.

This week at Balbardie has been inspirational maths week! We have done lots of challenges and learned how to have a growth mindset in maths! As well as that we have been working very hard.

Maths

Nina: I enjoyed outdoor maths. We counted wooden thing with a roof and gave them the value of a thousand and then we counted bins for ten, benches for 100 and plant pots for units. It was hard to start with but then I found out the answer eventually

Jess: I liked the three block challenge this week. We could make lots of different shapes and I managed to make 14!

Isla: when we went outside when we were counting the answer was 5044 and Mr. C never said not even a word.

Sophie S: I enjoyed the three block challenge and team with other people

Literacy

Grace: I liked the doing my rotten to the core restaurant menu

Luis: I liked when I was writing Mrs. Twits disgusting restaurant

Harris: I liked planning my menu for the restaurant

Isla: I enjoyed doing Mrs. Twit’s Bubblepop restaurant

Emily: I liked doing Mrs. Twits Restaurant

Archie: I liked finishing off the first play in my reading book

Sophie M: I liked doing Mrs Twits Restaurant

Keegan: I liked writing my rotten restaurant

Liam: I liked doing the restaurant

Lily: I liked doing the restaurant too

LAC

Emily: I liked PE this week

Nina: I liked PE this week

Lily: I liked doing the line drawing of Bathgate academy

Grace: I loved doing my review jotter this morning

Marley: I liked outdoor PE games

Sophie M: I liked creating my line art of the academy

Isla: I liked doing my line drawing of the Academy

Keegan: I liked the line drawing too

Thank you for such a great effort this week!

Mr C

Star Writer – Nina

Marbles – The intelligent table

Pupil of the week – Eden

In maths we have learned how to count in 10’s and how to work out if a number is larger or smaller.  We have learned how to add 10 more and 10 less to any number within 100.

For inspirational maths week we worked in pairs and sorted emoji’s into categories- this was really fun because we love emoji’s.  Have a look at some of our pictures!

Literacy

We have been working on using our recognition of sounds to help read words.

As part of our topic Castles we have learned about describing words and used this in our writing this week which was all about Jesters.

LAC

We learned about Jesters and what their role is in a castle.  We found out that they entertain the King and all the castle guests.  We imagined we were all Jesters by making our very own Jester hats.

Other news

Table of week- Clever Crocodiles

Star of the week- Kaiden

Dojo winner- Gracie

Secret walker- Taylor

Star writers- Hamish, Rose, Marcus, and Gracie.

We have been very busy in P2b this week.  Here are some of the things we got up to…

Maths

We have been learning the language of before, after and between and have been working on this for numbers up to 100!

We have been counting up in tens and even sang and danced along to a fun song to help us learn.

Literacy

We created a wanted poster for our dragons and used describing words to help us find them! We can’t wait to put these up on display for everyone to see.

LAC

With Mrs Thomson we made fire blowers for our dragons – these are very cool!

We also learned what jobs people used to have in castles and designed our very own character from castle times.  Some of these included knights, soldiers, and servants.

We hope you all have a relaxing weekend.

This week in P3c.

Maths

This week in maths.

Sophie M: I liked using angry birds to help me with place value.

Grace: I loved making the poster for the What A Good One Looks Like book.

Eden, Jess, Marley, Nina and Isla: I liked the maths song.

Archie: I liked being nearly finished place value.

Lily: I liked playing the angry birds game.

Luis: I liked the angry birds game as well

Max: I liked working on my textbook this week

Literacy

This week we have learned about script writing. We all wrote a new trick for the Twit’s to play on each other and then acted out our favourites by working in groups to turn a story board into a play. Check out our pictures!

Kayden: I liked doing the play about Mr and Mrs Twit

Grace: I liked falling from the chair in my play

Lily: I liked when Grace screamed because she had spiders in her shoes

Sophie M: I liked when Grace screamed too.

Keegan: I liked Mr Twit put spiders in Mrs Twits shoes in one group’s play

Emily: I liked when Isla ate the cardboard pizza as Mrs Twit.

Isla: I liked when I spat out the cardboard pizza in the bin

Liam: I liked putting Mrs Twit getting spiders in her shoes

Marley: I liked Mrs Twit stuck on the toilet

LAC

This week we have also continued our learning about our community focusing on Bathgate and its place in the world and investigating maps.

Grace: I liked doing the bird’s eye view drawing

Emily: I liked doing the bird’s eye view drawing as well

Kayden: I liked PE with Mr. Jefferies

Thank you for all your hard work P3. Have a great weekend!

Table Champions – The Rainbow Table

It was a busy week.We even had time for Cosmic Yoga on Monday.

We prepared the classroom for Meet the teacher on Wednesday. It was a great success.

We learned lots this week in all subjects. Here are out comments:-

We have been writing an imaginative story.The Title was ” The Key” and there were adventures with it!-Paul,Ross,Eva,Caitlin,Sam,Cole

We have been working on Problem Solving with Mrs Rodger

We were finishing our butterfly wings in Art this morning-Kate,Scott,Ty,Zoe,Samantha,Holly

We were working in teams today in PE. It was team dodge ball-Alanna,Lennox,Jack

We were using the Maths workbook this week.It was on subtraction. It was easy! -Naomi,Rhia, Dyllan

We worked on Maths sheets this week too-Abbie

We had a Spelling test this week.We liked doing that-Ciaran,Kirsten,Brooklyn,Sophie

We liked buddy time this week.We spent time in their P1 classrooms playing games-Tom,Liam

In French we were making posters about classroom items eg la gomme, la regle, le crayon-Rowan,Lucy

We had Cosmic Yoga on Monday instead of Outdoor PE as it was raining-Lucie, Jennie, Yasmin, Harvey

Have a super weekend,P7a

Look out for me on the news when I walk over the new bridge on Sunday afternoon!