This week we were shocked when the weather was so cold. In our playground there was frost and ice on the ground, table and bench.

Some of us were exploring the temperature of the frost by touching it.

We found a great way of scraping the frost off of the table and into a bucket. We found out that it made snowballs.

Our playground has a slope. Cary discovered some frozen frost that got really slippy. It was like an ice slope.

He didn’t fall on the ice. He assessed the risk of going on the ice. He decided that if he was careful and balanced his body correctly he could slide on it. Like ice skating but with his shoes!

The adults supervised as the children took risks in their play. It was a great learning experience that came from the natural environment.

Some children did fall on the ice and we learned that ice can be dangerous at times. Nobody got hurt and it helped us to move on from situations. Over all the frost and ice were great for learning and playing in our playground. It was so fun, even the adults had a turn! 🙂

This week the Junior Choir began to learn songs using the Scots language. We had fun trying to get the timing of ‘Bonnie Wee Jeannie McColl’!  Easily the song the children already knew, and sang well, was ‘The Flower of Scotland’.

We will continue this theme until the end of January, and we will discuss what else we would like to sing about.

The Senior Choir is continuing to support the primary seven performances of, ‘Cinders’.  All were given letters home asking if they are able to sing during the performances.  Parents/friends are also invited.

The group who will go to the Probus on 26th January is practising along with the Junior Choir on Tuesday after school and sometimes at lunch time.  This visit is during school time, and those involved have been given letters already.

We have had another  busy week in school.

Ramsay – In maths we were learning the six times table, and for homework we did a worksheet to help us with our learning.

Isla – This morning we were all involved in the Big Balbardie Blether.  We were talking about how much we know about the eight indicators of Health and Well-being.  Louise’s group said that we were doing really well with the Achieving indicator.

Ben – Yesterday, Bathgate Academy’s drama group came to school and performed its pantomime, ‘Jack and the Not Beanstalk’. It was good and I understood the jokes!

Louisa – In maths, I was counting in tens and twenties and counting backwards in tens.  After the holidays my BIG news was the I am a BIG sister.  Orla is now two weeks old!

Gemma Mc – we had our first after-school character rehearsal for ‘The Rocky Monster Show’ yesterday.  Louise thought it went really well and we had fun.  We worked with others from the other class and we are learning about them as well as learning our parts for the show.

It has been the Christmas holidays. We have been off school for 2 weeks. In Class M on our first day back we had a reflection target to ask someone else a question about their holidays.

Cailtin asked Aiden what he done during his holidays. Aiden said he played his Xbox and that in March he is going to Legoland. In March he will be staying in a hotel in London with his Mum and visiting Legoland on day one of his holiday. He is getting the train to London. He might buy some Lego from Legoland. He will explore London the rest of the time he is there and visit most of the tourist sites.

Aiden asked Dylan about his Christmas holidays. Dylan said he played his PS VITA and his Xbox. Dylan got his PS VITA on Boxing Day. He got a toy cross bow in his stocking at his Dads. He tells us about how it works.

Joe asked Caitlin what she got for Christmas. Caitlin tells us she got a Minecraft top and diamond pick axe. She got a new swimming bag, costume and towel. Her costume has princesses on it. She got a new water bottle. She got a Minecraft Steve with lots of diamond on it.

Adam asks Joe what he done for his Christmas holidays. Joe tells us he done some painting over the holidays. He painted eggs and dipped his hand in to make handprints. He has also been to the park. Joe tells us he got a ski-scooter for his Christmas.

Dylan asks Adam what he got for his Christmas. He says he got a Wii U and Xbox One. He got some games for these. Super Mario maker and Yoshies Wolly World games for the Wii.

The adults are really impressed with all the good sharing of information and listening to each other!

In class M there are 4 birthdays between December and January so on Friday we had a little party for everyone who had a birthday. 🙂

We want to wish everyone a healthy and happy 2016!!!

We are all very happy to be back. Everyone had a fantastic holiday! We have settled back into school and this week we have been learning about recipes. We made chocolate cornflake cakes and had to write a recipe for this. We are making our own recipe book as part of Health and Wellbeing.

David – I liked making some chocolate cornflakes and putting them into paper cases.

Gabriel – I am glad to be back at school so I can play outside with my friends. I like Jayden and Lewis. I taught my class to count to 5 in Korean.

Jayden – I love making chocolate cornflake cakes. We made them to go in our recipe books. I shared my cakes with my brothers.

Logan – I enjoyed Golden Time. I chose the Wii.

Jake – I am glad to be back so that I can play with the power rangers but I like my holidays.

Lewis – Yesterday we learnt all about the Gingerbread Man.

Baillie, Karys, Brodie, James and Grace: We enjoyed doing art inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh this week

Lucy M, Finn and Breanna: We enjoyed learning a Scottish dance this week

Eva and Ava: We liked learning different Scots words this week

Robbie: I like learning about Charles Rennie Mackintosh and doing Scottish dancing

Isla, Olivia and Aidan: We enjoyed doing Charles Rennie Mackintosh art, learning Scots words and doing Scottish dancing

Rachael and Emma : We enjoyed working with a partner this week to solve money problems in maths

Sophie: I enjoyed reading this week

Arran, Kelsey, Keira and Lucy R:  We found art challenging this week but  we enjoyed it!

This term we are looking forward to:
Marley – playing with the ipads.
Nina – buddy time
Liam – learning my phonics.
Sarah – learning my bigger numbers.
Maddison – working in my jotter
Grace – playing with my buddy
Harris – learning my sounds because I like phonics.
Noah – playing outside in the playground.
Daniel – learning my numbers bigger than 20.
Alysheeya – playtime with my friends.
Jess – seeing my buddies again.
Dionne – playing with my buddy
Evie – learning my numbers
Keira – doing work with my buddies, especially games.
Ava – coming to school to learn more numbers
Elise – learning more about numbers.
Esther – buddy time with the Primary 7s
Skye – learning to skip
Leon – learning more sounds in phonics
Alex – playing with my buddy
The children have come back to school with lots of wonderful stories about their holidays and all the special things they have done. They are also really keen to carry on their learning which is fabulous!
Article 28 – The right to an education.