Well that’s our 1st term in P1 complete, we cannot believe how quick the time has gone! We have had lots of fun learning new things and meeting new friends.
Thank you to everyone who handed in their homework jotters, we have thoroughly enjoyed looking at all the fantastic work you have been doing at home!
During Maths Week Scotland we were all very busy with a variety of different maths and numeracy activities. The children all had fun expanding on their mathematical knowledge and they enjoyed the challenge and the fun of learning both indoors and outdoors.
Primary One went hunting outdoors for natural materials to make a Gruffalo Pie and Owl Ice-cream. They used their fabulous counting skills to collect all of the ingredients and mixed them together to make their creations. What fantastic links to both Literacy and Numeracy in one activity 🙂
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In primary six, they focused on an assortment of numeracy activities every morning in their Smart Start time and Miss Lynch really gave their brains a workout with questions of the day focused on Maths and Numeracy.
All of the P6 children also took part in the Maths Week Scotland Sumdog competition and were very pleased with their knowledge, efforts and positive attitude.
In primary seven, they have been researching and comparing Scotland with Japan in their interdisciplinary topic this term, so they were excited when they had the opportunity to take part in a Maths Week Scotland origami session focusing on 3D shapes and their properties. Lots of other schools joined in with this live session and all of the children had a great time trying to create their own Jackson Cubes using the Japanese art of paper folding. Some of the children also tried a hexahedron.
If you would like to try it for yourself then you can copy the link below:
Each year the main aim of Maths Week Scotland is to celebrate the importance of maths in our everyday lives.
Over the week, lots of maths related themes and activities were shared across all levels from nursery to primary seven and we hope that by engaging the children in these activities, we can inspire a more positive attitude towards maths!
Future mathematicians in the making………. we will wait and see 🙂
I have been unable to upload photos to the blog today and have taken so many lovely pictures that it seems a shame not to share them. So, I have put them in a Sway instead.
Click on the link below to see what we have been up to in Literacy and Beyond Number this morning.
We have been learning about the letters ‘i’ and ‘k’ this week. Look at our lovely keys, kites and icy igloos!
We also had great fun in our topic work learning about the people in our community who help us like the lollipop man/woman and the dentist.
To celebrate maths week, we used a natural materials recipe to make Gruffalo pie and Owl ice-cream, we loved foraging and getting muddy!
As the term approaches, we are looking forward to seeing all the wonderful homework you have been completing. Please bring in your homework jotters by Thursday 8th October.
Here is your next homework activities for the week beginning 28th of September. Hope you enjoy and remember to send them to wlfallahill-ps@westlothian.org.uk
I have also attached the common fry’s words to practise reading and writing. Try to practise between 5 and 10 per week.
There is a brief overview included in the Sway that should explain how we plan to use it and what you can expect. However, if you have any questions at all, please do get in touch!
P2 went on a wonderful ‘w’ walk today to see what ‘w’ words we could spot. Have a look at the photos and see if you can can work out the words we discovered!
What a fantastic week we had in P1 ! We were working on our co-ordination and listening skills in PE, it was great fun but a little bit tricky! We also made marvellous mice and witches potions to celebrate Roald Dahl day, we enjoyed mixing lots of things together!
This week we have been learning the sounds ‘a’ and ‘t’ and we have been practising new words! We were using the sounds we have learned to write ‘All About Me’.
Please follow the link below for this weeks new homework.
