This week I enjoyed…

Big Start:

Megan – I liked Big Start this morning making our Christmas trees!

Rowan – I enjoyed decorating the Christmas tree in my own style.

Cole – I liked putting baubles on the tree. It is really fun decorating our own Christmas trees.

Alanna – I liked decorating the tree.

Brooklyn – We are going to add all our trees together and make a huge class Christmas tree on the wall!

Maths:

Ty – I liked doing Maths. Maths is good because I found it easy and I really want to move up a level!

Tom – I am excited because I’d like to move up a level too!

Magnetic Games:

Kirsten – I liked creating a magnetic game. It was lots of fun!

Harvey – Our game is called ‘Fishes in the net’ and I liked making the fishes and it was fun making them.

Samantha – Caitlin and I’s game was called ‘Fish collector’ and whoever can collect the most fish in 30 seconds wins!

Rhia – Me and Kirsten’s game is called ‘Fishy Fun’ and if you get the most fish you win.

Jack – Me and Rory’s game is called ‘Temple Run 2’ and to win you have to race to the cave and you only get 5 seconds.

Jennie – Me and Ty’s game is called ‘Super Racers’ and the first one to get to the magnet wins!

This week we found out that Loch Ness was formed by a huge glacier. We looked at how glaciers have changed the landscape around them by eroding rocks and transporting them within the glacier. When a glacier melts these rocks are deposited to create new hills and mountains.

In our Chocolate Geology lesson we used porridge to create our own glacier. We drew stripes on the porridge with chocolate sauce and watched carefully as it slid slowly down a half pipe. We noticed that the sauce was forming a V shape. This was because our glacier was travelling more quickly in the middle. Aaron worked out that this was happening because the sides were slowing down the glacier. Well done, Aaron!

We were wondering what Nessie thought of all that ice!

Hope you enjoy this little sample of our animations:

by Emma C, Sophie and Travis

by Craig, Cameron, Leon and Ross

by Scott, Ali and Adam

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This week I enjoyed…

…my Christmas dinner and learning to add Tens and Units with regrouping.            Abigale

…doing the animations with Ava because we made really cool backgrounds. We had fun. Thank you for letting us watch all the Loch Ness animations.      Eva

…maths because I’m getting better at calculating the missing number.          Lisa

…using the ‘Animate It’ app because it was like making a movie. It was really good fun.  Ali

Today all of Primary 1 visited Bathgate Library.  When we got there we listened to the 3 stories which are shortlisted for the Scottish Book Trust book awards. There was Jumblebum, Paper Dolls and What’s the Time Mr Wolf.  Everyone did really well walking there and back and our listening skills were superb. 

After hearing the stories we voted for which was our favourite.  Jumblebum came out on top and Jason said he liked the story because it reminded him of his room which can also be a mess.  Thank you to the library for asking us to visit and to everyone that helped us today.

We have been busy making items to sell at the Christmas fayre.  We decorated tea light holders by painting them, making patterns with glitter glue and sticking on gems.  We also made star Christmas tree decorations with coloured lolly pop sticks.  We decorated them with gems and sparkly glitter. They all look beautiful!  Hope you can come along tomorrow!

 This week some of us have been exploring somersault sums.  Euan explained that 2+3 is the same as 3 + 2.  We really enjoyed going on a treasure hunt to find the matching somersault sum and making up our own somersault sums.

 We would like to remind parents/carers that you are invited to come along to our shared start on Wednesday morning between 8:55-9:30am.  We will be completing some nice Chritmas crafts!

 Have a nice weekend,

P1b

The floor is covered in sequins and glitter so it must be Christmas Fayre time! We have been busy making Christmas tree decorations to sell on Saturday. We also made posters to advertise what we are selling and we talked about how to make the posters more exciting and encourage people to come over to our stall.

In our topic we have been learning about the sense of smell. We know that the nose sends messages to the brain about different smells and the brain remembers lots of different smells. Our noses also help to keep us safe. They can can smell signs of danger, for example, smoke from a fire.  We know that sometimes we can’t smell very well when we have a cold. We held our noses and tasted some different flavours of crisps to see if they tasted different. We definitely need our nose to help us taste too! Also, we had to guess different things by their smell. Some didn’t smell very nice. We are looking forward to finding out if our guesses were right!

We have been learning how to draw faces. We were looking carefully at our faces to see where the different features sit on our face. We found this quite tricky but we are getting better at sketching. We will let you see them once we are finished.

In writing we have been writing thank you letters to our drumming teacher Daniel. We have our last drumming class on Wednesday. We have really enjoyed using the drums and we are glad Miss Elliot has been learning how to teach us to play them.

What we think:

Keira: I enjoyed guessing the smells.

Grace: I liked learning how to draw a face.

Evie: I liked writing the thank you letters to Daniel.

Awards:

Class Dojo: Evie

Table of the Week: Whizz Kids

Have a good weekend!

This has been a challenging but fun week in P4b.

In maths we were learning about capacity; how much something can hold. We had great fun measuring out and working out if different containers held about a litre, less than a litre or more than a liitre. We did not spill any water!

We have started looking at how plays are structured and used highlighters to pick out different parts of a play.

In French we held a carousel and every body spoke French! We had to include saying hello/goodbye, our name and asking somebody else their name and also to ask someone how they were and say how we were feeling. It was great fun.

Apart from this we had a big challenge – we made pom poms for the Fayre. Mrs Ghafoor thought we would be finished in 20 minutes but it was far trickier and actually took a lot longer!  We have also made bracelets and cards but they were so good, most of us have already bought our own items. We do have a selection of fab items left so come along tomorrow to buy them!

The Fayre will be on from 10am – 12pm. See you there!

Our Rocket is called Blazing Blooms. We use it to help us understand what we are reading.

Our week:

Alistair: “We learned about how to use apostrophes in grammar. You use them when you are squishing two words together like must have into one word like must’ve. You also use them when it is someone’s property like mum’s shop or dad’s farm. You never use them for plurals like carrots or dogs. We played apostrophe pairs to help us learn the rules.” 

Sophie M: “I enjoyed writing the thank you letters to the fallen soldiers this week. It felt like you were actually talking to them and it was enjoyable because I liked sharing what I had learned with them and I was able to tell them I remember them.”

Rabeea: “This week I enjoyed doing our new times table Big Maths Beat That. I enjoyed it because I like doing my times tables. I scored 65 out of 80.”

Christopher A: “I enjoyed drama this week because we did a full run through of all our songs and it meant that when we come back to it we can do the whole thing because we’ve done it before.”

Dean: “We learned about the end of WW2. I found it quite sad that the Americans dropped the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that so many people died and that America resorted to that.”

Isla: “I also found the nuclear bombs in Japan really scary. When the bombs hit people died instantly and were turned to ash. I don’t think they should have done it because America should have thought about how they would have felt if Japan dropped a bomb on them.”

 Eve: “We made Christmas tree decorations out of salt dough cookies but they aren’t edible! We painted them with acrylic paint and there are stockings, snowmen, stars and trees. You can buy them at our stall at the Christmas fayre tomorrow and they are 50p each.”

Who has impressed?

Sam: “Rabeea impressed me by getting pupil of the week and being the first person in our class to get onto step 5.”

Sophie M: “Emma has impressed me by doing well with her work.”

Eve: “The whole class has impressed me by getting their best ever score on the new Big Maths Beat That (because it was their first ever score!) Everyone has also been doing really well with Cinderella Rockerfella.”

Dean: “Callum, Christopher, Amber and Alistair all impressed me by reaching step 4.”

Jane: “I’m proud of Sam this week because he was really good at being the teacher in Literature Circles because he was firm but fair and telling us what to do.”

Zenaib: “I’m impressed by Sophie M because she is always a really good friend to everybody.”

Christopher A: “Jane has impressed me this week because for the past two weeks she has done the door monitoring and taken her responsibility seriously.”

Mr Berginis: “I’m proud of the letters everybody wrote this week to the fallen soldiers. You showed how much you have all learned and you expressed how grateful you are for the sacrifices they made.”

 It’s almost December !!!!

WE are feeling really Christmassy in P5d this week. Making tree decorations to sell at the Christmas fayre has been great fun and a little messy.

Outdoor P.E.

This week we were developing our dribbling skills while travelling with the ball. Some of us found it tricky to move around and keep the ball under control. 

I like getting out for fresh air – Shaun H

I am getting better at keeping the ball bouncing when I move around -Sophie W

Topic-                                                                                                                             We had great fun learning about how to make a good headline for the Battle of Stirling Bridge. . We used a game on the smartboard to identify what a good headline is and then made some of our own for display.

How we are developing as learners-    We are pretty good at discussing how we know what we know (metacognition) so now we are looking at how we manage ourselves to help our learning (self regulated learning). We are all able to follow basic class routines so that we are ready to learn, now comes the hard part …..managing impulsive behaviour! We will let you know soon how we are doing.

That’s it for this week. Have a great weekend !

Primary 1l have been getting glittertastic making things for the Christmas Fayre tomorrow.  Pre-orders for the candle holders have been very strong and tomorrow there will also be beautiful christmas tree decorations at 50p each.

In maths this week we have been looking at the number facts of 4, looking at the different ways to make 4.  Everyone is getting the hang of it and next week we will look at the number facts for 5.

We have been up to the hall to practise our Nativity and things are really starting to take shape.  Please remember costumes are to be in for Monday.

Hopefully see you all at the Fayre tomorrow.