Happy New Year! We all had a great time over the Christmas holidays. We have been working very hard since coming back to school. This week we have been learning all about Scotland. We made our own Scottish flags and weaved our own tartan patterns. We have also been practising some Scottish poems for the Burns poetry competition. Miss Elliot thinks it is going to be very hard to choose a winner!

  We have also started rehearsing our class assembly which will be on the 24th of January. We are all excited about our parts in the assembly and are very good at performing our songs.

We look forward to learning more about Scotland over the next few weeks!

Our thoughts:

Evie: “I really enjoyed p.e this week with Mr Jeffires.”

Charlie: “I enjoyed the Big Balbardie Blether today.”

Rachael:”I like learning about money.”

Awards:

Table of the Week: Brain Boxes

We have enjoyed being back at school and everybody has been excited to share all of their holiday news.

We are working hard to learn new sounds and tell the time on digital and analogue clocks.

We have started a new topic all about Mairi Hedderwick’s Katie Morag, which will help us to learn more about the country that we live in. 

Today we enjoyed reading about island life in Katie Morag and the New Pier.  We are very glad that Bathgate isn’t quite as stormy as the island of Struay!

We are looking forward to welcoming our parents into the classroom for Shared Start tomorrow.

Last week we had our Nativity performances.  We worked extremely hard to learn our lines, sing our songs and remember our actions etc.  We looked super in our costumes and loved performing for our family and friends.

 Last Thursday, we went to the theatre to watch the panto Alladin.  We thought it was really good and gave it a big thumbs up.  Isabella liked it when the dragon was hiding from Wishy Washy.  Isaac thought it was funny when the Super heros came out and Ailah said it was scary when the baddie appeared!

 This week, in class, we made penguin figures to eat.   We made them with olives, cheese and carrots and used cocktail sticks to hold the peguin in place.  Most of us enjoyed tasting the treats! We also tasted some of the gingerbread house that Jaime-Lee made-it was yummy.

 Yesterday we had our Christmas party.  We played games including; pass the parcel, musical bumps, corners and had a dancing competition.  We enjoyed party food and even had a visit from Santa! 

Have a lovely Christmas,

P1b

It’s the last blog of 2013!

We have had a good week in p5d learning about solids, liquids and gasses. We carried out lots of fun experiments. We are now able to identify and categorise solids, liquids and gasses using our knowledge of matter to help us. We did a fun activity where the class split into three groups and each group had to be a solid, liquid or gas and they had to travel around the room in their group. This really helped us to understand the properties of each state.

We made a potion using bicarbonate of soda, water and vinegar. Adding vinegar to bicarbonate of soda causes a chemical reaction to take place and produce carbon dioxide which made the mixture fizz up and over the container.

We had great fun learning in science!

We have finished our class novel, Billionaire Boy and eagerly await the choices for our next novel starting in January 2014.

We have used Christmas as a theme for our symmetry work in maths and everyone agrees it’s much more fun.

Well that’s it for our last week of term. I would like to say a huge thankyou to all the pupils for their hard work and I look forward to hearing all their stories of Christmas when they return in January.

Merry Christmas everyone !!

Mrs D

We hope everyone has a fantastic time over the holidays.

Remember Mr Welsh’s Christmas message:

“At Christmas time, make sure those special to you know how much you love them.”

We have been having lots of Festive Fun!

At the Christmas Party Santa came to visit us.  We each got a present, Mark received a football themed book which he thought was great….thanks Santa.  Michelle enjoyed getting her dancing shoes on!

Colin enjoyed making his reindeer puppet to sell at the school fayre.  Miss holwill thought we all did an excellent job and didn’t get too m any grey hairs J

We have been busy decorating our classroom.  We were lucky enough to have family and friends come in and visit, together we made robins, reindeers, snowmen or puddings.  They make our classroom look fabulous.  We have also been making lots of crafts.  Robyn liked making an angel…will it appear on the top of her tree next year?  Archie liked making a calendar for next year.  We painted using our hands.  We had a chicken for Spring, a sunflower for Summer, a tree for Autumn and a snowman for Winter….I wonder who will be lucky enough to receive Archie’s calendar as a present?  Aidan enjoyed making his 3d Christmas tree card, I really liked all the stars.  Lewis liked making a Santa character.

We had a very yummy Christmas lunch!

We have even been having Christmas themed French.  We decorated stockings, Gary liked added all the sparkles.  Joyeux Noel everyone!

We had a big treat and went to the panto.  It was Aladin.  Harry thought it was very funny.  Stacey liked it when the genie was freed from his lamp.  We would all like to say a huge well done to Kamron and Zoe who were members of the cast, we are very proud of you both!

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

This week we have been finding out about the different types of rocks. There are three types of rocks – igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. Sounds tricky but we have our secret weapon to help us remember them – chocolate! The holes in a Crunchie bar remind us of the lava cooling and leaving gas bubbles in igneous rocks. The layers of the Caramel Wafer remind us of the layers of sediment building up in sedimentary rocks. The Curly Wurly (which we held in our hand throughout our Chocolate Geology lesson) reminds us how metamorphic rocks are formed by heat and pressure.
We studied the characteristics found in the different types of rocks and are becoming quite good at identifying them. Many of us have been quite surprised by how interesting rocks can be. A few of us are keen to start building our very own collections.
From the Blog Post Box:

This week I discovered…..

…that there is a rock cycle where rocks can change from one type of rock to another.        Cameron
…how to add Thousands, Hundreds, Tens and Units.       Erin M
…that if I concentrate hard I get my work done quicker.       Craig
…how to recognise the different rocks.      Liam
…that obsidian is an igneous rock.      Robbie