We were also lucky to have a visit from Sarah’s day to talk about electricity. We enjoyed looking at and touching all of the props that he brought in. We also loved the mini windmills that he gave us.
Star of the Week
Paul (photo) to follow
Class Dojo Champion
Ryan (photo to follow)
In literacy this week we learned the sounds b, h and u. We have been trying hard to form our sounds correctly and have been blending some sounds together to read and make some simple words. We’ve also made some things that begin with each of our sounds – bats, hats and umbrellas!
In maths, we have been counting groups of objects and combining them to count how many altogether. We are getting really good at this and have been using lots of different resources to help us.
In art, we have been using a variety of media to create super seasons pictures. We are very proud of our fantastic work.
Primary Four have been lucky enough to have a visit from Sarah’s dad to talk about electricity! Sarah’s dad talked about what electricity is, how electricity is made and different types of electricity! We really enjoyed the talk about learnt lots! We loved all the demos!!
Primary 4 also won the Goblet of Good Manners this week as a bonus!
Olivia: I wrote a book review about Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs in my reading passport.
Here is Caleb’s book report:
Ollie: we’ve been learning about food chains. Food chains are all the different animals that eat other things. In a food chain the arrow means ‘is eaten by’.
Conor: We’ve been sorting out animals into habitats. We put the polar bears in the Arctic, the elephants in the African Plain and the whale into the Sea.
Brooklyn: We played a game on the board and it was a quiz. We had to hold up our fingers for answer 1, 2 or 3 to vote for the right answer. The quiz was about the habitats that humans and animals live in. Humans can’t live in the Rainforest because there are poisonous animals and trees there. Humans can live on farmlands because they can get food they need from the farm animals.
Brandon: We’ve been learning some sounds: ‘ee’ and ‘oo’. We are very good at it now.
Peter Pan have been working hard to spell CVC words!
Mason: We used playdough and buttons to make sums like 5+5=10 (doubles).
Sarah and Ruaridh: We are matching the car numbers to the right word.
Caleb: We had numicon and we were adding from numbers that end in 0. We rolled one dice that went up to 90 and matched it with a normal dice that went up to 6 and added them together.
This week we completed our Human Body assessment. As a class, we were amazing at coming up with ideas to stay healthy, matching the names of bones with where they are in the body and naming some of our organs. Below are some examples of our excellent work! We also learned about how our blood travels in our body and what it does with the muscles. For writing this week we wrote about animals as characters. We had lots of fun and are starting to develop our descriptive language.
This week in P1b we have been learning some new sounds – o, e and f. We’ve been making the shape of the sounds with plasticine, writing the sounds, spelling words using our mouthpart boards and making things that begin with the sound.
In maths, we have been learning to recognise the number names to 10 and have been matching these with their numerals. We have also been learning about all the coins up to £2 and have been counting out money as well as ordering numbers in different ways.
In art ,we used different techniques to begin making fabulous seasons pictures. We are looking forward to finishing these off next week.
Finally, we enjoyed our time out in the structured play area. We practised our literacy and numeracy skills by writing some of our sounds in the right colours and spelling out some simple words using our magnetic letters. We also played some fun games on the iPads to reinforce our maths skills and we drew pictures of living things at the art table.
On Thursday it was National Poetry Day and to celebrate this we wrote our own poems based on Autumn. We had of rhyming couplets which linked to Autumn.
In our topic work, we were learning about the light bulb. We found out that Thomas Edison didn’t invent it but he improved it.
In maths, we were learning how to layout out column addition and how to carry the tens and units. Mrs Stewart and Mrs Ferguson came to see what we were doing and they were very impressed with our knowledge.
Also, it was National Language Day on Wednesday and we learnt how to say ‘hello’ in different languages. We also learnt how to count up to 20 in French.
Chloe: today we were movie stars. We were filmed doing super maths.
Logan: we made number bond chains by adding 2 chains together and we wrote the sum on the chain.
Well done to P2/3 for being fantastic super stars when West Lothian Council were filming us today for the COSLA awards.
Caleb: we read ‘Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus’ and we wrote our own poems to finish the story.
Brooklyn: we coloured in dinosaurs from the Dinosaurumpus story. Some were colourful and some had zig zags on them.
Taiba: we painted a large T-rex and Brachiosaurus for our dinosaur wall.
Conor: we wrote a book review about a book from our library.
Connor: We were spelling out our words and we wrote them on the boards. I spelt cat, mat, man and mum.
We made our healthy heart posters telling us different things we can do to keep our hearts healthy. Things like dancing, trampolining, jogging and eating fruits and vegetables. WE continued to practice our number bonds to ten and some of us even tried number bonds to 20 or 100! We had a visitor on Monday, Mrs. Davidson, who told us how different parts of the body help with speech. In writing we did poems about our senses, making little riddles about where we were. We played an exciting game of domes and dishes in PE.
Over the past couple of weeks we have been practising continuing and creating patterns. We have been using lots of different resources to help us and are getting better at making our own repeating patterns independently.
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