In nursery this week we have been learning about Scottish Culture.
We have been creating tartan patterns using cars, weaving gummed paper and with paint. We have learned lots of Scottish songs and listening to Scottish stories. The children have enjoyed our Scottish music and dancing. To finish our Burns celebration we enjoyed haggis, neeps and tatties for our Burns Supper.
In Primary 6 we have been so busy this week!
Here are some of our reflections.
Aimee has enjoyed learning about Queen Victoria. She especially liked the family tree activity and finding out that Queen Victoria had nine (!) children and Aimee was quite surprised by this!
In Maths Katie has been learning about angles. She is proud that she can identify different types, measure and even draw different angles. Katie found the Kandinsky angle art particularly interesting. Kyle totally agrees. He thought he wouldn’t be able to do it but he could!
Kai liked learning Mandarin this week because he got to make a Chinese dragon to celebrate the new year. He was very surprised to learn they do not have wings!
Billy would like to find more about the Queen Victoria’s family. Jaymie wants to investigate more about Victorian life especially the late Victorians. Ben wants to know more about the inventions created in Victorian times.
Ewan wants to try harder in Maths when using compassess as he found this really tricky this week. Steph B wants to work on keeping her decimal points in the right place. Emma M wants to getting better at creating calligrams.
One top fact from this week is…
Steven : Queen Victoria became queen aged only 18!
We have just started our Vikings topic and P4 enjoyed working on developing mapping skills last week. We used our atlases and marked the countries that the Vikings came from on a map; Armand really enjoyed this work. Did you know that Denmark, Sweden and Norway are Scandinavian countries? Another Viking favourite this week was researching the different types of jewellery that they wore and finding out about the different types of materials used to make them. Ailsa brought in a model of a Viking boat and that is now forming part of our display.
In maths, we have been working on the 6xtable. Xander says that the 6X table song has really helped him to learn it. It’s very catchy!!! 5xtable song, here we come!!!!
Euan McCreadie, P.5, is preparing to take part in Project Stedfast in Kenya in February. The Project began through the local Boys Brigade in Livingston in 2006 and has already helped to fund and build a unit for children with disabilities in a school within the Oloolua Parish in Kenya. During the visit in February, the group will complete a final 7th classroom in the school. They will also help to paint the classrooms, complete the landscaping and develop the vegetable garden to help provide fresh produce for school meals. Many other former pupils have also been involved in this worthwhile project over the years so we take great pride in all of their achievements. In order to support Euan and the Boys’ Brigade Group with materials to help in this mission, we are organising a ‘dress down’ day on Friday, 30th January. Pupils should wear black / red /green if they can to show their support for Project Stedfast. This valuable mission will be the focus of a school assembly in March. Good Luck Euan! We will all be thinking of you in your important work and look forward to hearing all about your adventures when you return!
P1a had a shock on Thursday morning when they came into the classroom to find some big, green glittery footprints leading from near the window over to the library corner. After closer inspection, Jason found a letter sitting on a chair in the library and upon reading the letter we found that it was from a friendly dragon. He has asked for P1a’s help in turning our classroom into Fairyland as his home has disappeared. P1a have already written back to the dragon to explain that they would love to help and we have begun thinking about how to turn our classroom into Fairyland!
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a lovely Christmas. Many thanks for all my lovely Christmas cards and gifts. This term our gym days will be Monday and Wednesday. Our library day will be Thursday. Homework will handed out on a Tuesday and due back the following Monday. Please remember to bring your reading book and diary to school every day.
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