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A fun week in P1a

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This week, P1a have been learning all about the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’.

We found out the Gingerbread man was a bit naughty because he kept running away from everyone!

We talked about our favourite parts of the story …

‘I liked the chicken and the dog’ Pooja

I liked it when the fox ate the gingerbread man’ Jack B

We all made a Gingerbread man and decorated him using buttons, chalk and string.

P1a also wrote a story about the Gingerbread man! Miss Rodford thought that they were super.  We had to remember our fingers spaces, full stops and capital letters.

In maths, we have been learning about our number stories to 7.

Mrs Stewart also came to speak to us about her new baby Grandson! We thought about all the things a baby needs when it is small.

To help Jack from ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ , we planted some beans and over the next few weeks we will be watching them grow !IMG_1336[1] IMG_1393[1] IMG_1370[1]IMG_1393[1]IMG_1378[1]IMG_1371[1]IMG_1388[1]IMG_1396[1]IMG_1365[1]IMG_1337[1]IMG_1374[1]

 

 

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Great Sports Opportunities!

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The following sports clubs are currently running from the James Young H.S for primary aged children.

Athletics Club, P4-P7

Fridays – 2.00-3.30pm

Cost – £3 per session. Payable in blocks.

Gymnastics, P1-P7

Tuesdays – 4.00-5.00pm

Cost – £3 per session. Payable in blocks.

If you are interested in any of these classes please email for further information please email: kim.o’connor@westlothian.gov.uk

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Text Detectives in P1b!

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Today P1b worked in their reading routes groups to explore a piece of text and to highlight the parts that looked different.  The class all co-operated very well in their teams and worked together to take turns when highlighting.  They really were text detectives as they managed to spot different examples of bold and italic text.  We read the text aloud and discussed how these types of text affect how the reader reads aloud the text and thought of some ideas about why they author uses these different types of text.  Can you spot some different types of text in any of your books at home?

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Marvellous Measuring!

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P1b were practising their measuring skills at the beginning of the week when they were using a variety of items to measure different objects and pictures.  We measured with paper clips, lollysticks and even straws.  We learned that you have to make sure that the items are touching and that there are no big gaps in order to measure accurately.  We even practised our estimating skills and were quite close with a lot of our estimates!  Have a look at us in action and why not have a go at using some straws or cubes to estimate and then measure some things around your house.  Let us know how you get on!

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A Busy Week in P1b!

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Well done to all the children in P1b – great work with learning your Scottish poems and we all really enjoyed listening to you saying them using your big loud, clear voices.  Some of you even added in some actions to make your performance even better!

We also had some special visitors in the school this week – ‘Macastory’ who were telling us about Robert Burns and taught us some fun Scottish songs.  We were all really good audience members and thoroughly enjoyed it.

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The children also really impressed Mrs Lloyd with their R.M.E. homework and enjoyed sharing information about who decided on their names, sharing the special gifts that they recieved when they were born and discussing any special celebrations that took place.  Nathan S even brought in his special gift ‘Jingle Bunny’ to show us.  He was very cute!

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The dragon has been back again and even left the children a present this time!  He complimented them on the beanstalk that they have made for the classroom and left them some castle books for them to write in so they can keep him updated on what they are working on.

More fun was had with fairyland related activities in the structured play area.

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I wonder what you’ll be up to next week P1b…………………………

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P1a’s busy week

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This week, P1a have been learning all about doubles.

‘2+2 is 4’ –  Chloe

6 + 6 is 12 – Fraser

We also made doubling lady birds!!! They look super!

P1a have also been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk. We found out that the Giant was a bad character because he steals the hen and the harp.

We made wanted posters to warn others about him.

We have also been practicing our Scottish poems and we learnt all about Robert Burns.  We had visitors from Macastory, who told stories and sang songs about Robert Burns ! They were really funny.IMG_1296[1]IMG_1300[1]IMG_1307[1]IMG_1312[1]IMG_1308[1]IMG_1309[1]IMG_1301[1]

 

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Fairyland Fun!

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P1b have had a very exciting week.  The class were shocked to find that a friendly dragon had visited the class and left a letter and some glittery footprints!  The dragon was asking if we could help him to rebuild fairyland as it has disappeared and the dragon was feeling very sad.

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Luckily, the children were all very happy to help and they wrote back to the dragon to tell him.  After we read ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, Charley suggested that we could begin turning the classroom into by Fairyland by building our own beanstalk.  The children worked with a partner to begin making the stalk and leaves and our beanstalk has been growing!  We still have a few more leaves to add but it is looking great already!

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Our structured play area has been turned into Fairyland and the children have had great fun dressing up, completing fairytale jigsaws, making castles out of construction materials and counting and making patterns with Jack’s magic beans.

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Today we had a think about what we think the friendly dragon looks like.  We discussed our ideas with a partner before we used our black pens to draw detailed pictures. Mrs Ferguson visited our classroom and said they looked fantastic.  Well done everyone.

I wonder what the dragon will be up to next week!  We’ll keep you posted!

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P1a’s learning this week

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We had a special visitor in the night to P1a’s classroom ….  A Friendly Dragon

He left us a note saying that Fairyland has disappeared and that he needs our help!

We wrote letters back saying how we were going to help him.

We have also been working hard on our subtraction within 5 and are getting super confident.

Miss Rodford’s writing group have been working hard at building and writing sentences.

Well dine P1a

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Happy New Year from P1a

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P1a have had a short but busy week!

We enjoyed having a chat about our Christmas and what presents we got!

We have been busy revising our sounds and tricky words that we learnt last year!

P1a loved playing the fly swatter tricky words game.

The aim of the game is to find the word and swot it if we can read it!!!

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Happy New Year

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It was lovely to see all the children back after the Christmas holidays.  P1b were very keen to share all of their holiday news and have been working very hard already this week.  They have impressed me with brilliant sounding out in their writing work, greating adding when playing games in maths and have been trying hard to form their letters correctly in our new lined handwriting jotters.  The boys and girls had great fun in the structured play area where they worked round a variety of different activities including jigsaw building, listening to stories on the new listening centre, building models with the construction materials and role-playing in the ‘toy shop’.  What a busy first few days back!

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