Another very busy week in class.  We have been working really hard to learn our lines and songs for the harvest assembly on Tuesday 3rd October,  Breich Valley Parish Church at 10 am.  Hope you can join us.

” I have enjoyed writing this week, I love writing poems about harvest”  Shay said.

“Numeracy has been hard this week but I have been using a rekenrek to help me with my sums.”  Says Bayliss.

Adam cant wait to find out what adventures Biff and Chip are going on now they have a magic key.

Mini-kickers in school this week has meant that P3/2 have been keeping extra fit.

“I love doing the daily mile this keeps us fit all the time and gets my body ready to do lots of work in class.”  Said Jada

We might only have been in school 3 days this week, but they have been very busy ones. We went to gym on Wednesday with Mrs Loosemore. It was different to what we do with Mrs Warden but we had lots of fun.

Wednesday night was the evening that the Rookie Rockstars team (Nick and Aine) came back for an evening performance to show our parents what we had been doing with them last week. It was great fun, and the challenge this time was for our parents! Sarah’s Mum, Emma’s Dad, Robbie’s Gran and Jessica’s Pappy were volunteered by their family and they all agreed to take on the challenge. That was before they discovered it was a rapping challenge! They all turned out to be brilliant rappers, with Emma’s Dad being the overall winner!

We all worked hard in groups for our STEM challenge this week, we had to make a car that could move using wind power! We were given the resources and a planning sheet and had to come up with our own designs. Then we built our prototype and tested it! Our first challenge was obviously to make it move, then we tested each of them to see which teams could go the furtherest, then last of all we raced them to see which design was the overall winner! The winning car was designed and built by Robbie G, Natasha, Kieran McG and Alexandra. Now we will look at our protypes and see if we can make any improvements to make an even better model!

On Thursday we were delighted to welcome Mr Tennant and baby Olivia into our class. She is so tiny and beautiful, it was lovely to see her. Mr Tennant looked very happy as he introduced her to us. In the afternoon we again worked with Mrs Robley and Izac9.

“I loved singing with Rookie Rockstars on Wednesday night, but my favourite part was my pappy rapping “I’m a little teapot!!” – Jessica

“I really liked working with Izac9. We were doing eliminator challenges this time, they were difficult but fun to do. We then made up our own elimation questions, and we are going to try doing each otheres during a Maths Smart Start next week” – Robbie G

“I loved singing with Mrs Ewing. We are practising a song called “Stormy Weather” for when Sean Batty comes to school” –  Natasha

“I enjoyed the wind powered challenge! It was good working in a team and I was pleased with the car we made! We worked well together and were the first team to have a completed car” – Katie

“We heard the story of Cronos. He was the chief Greek God but a prophecy  said that he would be overthown by his son, so when the babies were born he ate them!! Yuk! But eventually his wife hid baby Zeus and fed Cronos a stone. He ate that thinking it was a baby. Then he was sick and trew up all the babies he had eaten who were still alive!! Yuk! I am looking forward to haring more about the Greek Gods!” – Erin

“I liked going to the gym with Mrs Loosemore and playing different games, especially benchball” – Matthew

“It was great doing Maths – we completed the Treasure Hunt that we started last week. Robbie McC, Leah and Madyson were in my team” – Sarah

“It was great that Katie won the competion to design the CD cover for the CD we made with Rookie Rockstars”- Erin

What a hectic week we have had, but every bit of it has been fun. We haven’t stopped all week!

Monday started it all when Rookie Rockstars entered our lives! We had no idea what to expect, but we enjoyed every minute of it from the brilliant songs, the head banging, the air guitar playing and the challenges! Every day just got better and better till we were recorded on Thursday . Now we are all waiting excitedly for the finished CD, which will be on sale at our grand performance concert  on Wednesday night!

Maths week has been fun too with lots of different challenges for us to complete. We all enjoyed Sumdog,and worked hard to complete the challenges! We started at position 196th but finished much much higher!! We also had a Maths Treasure hunt, and worked with Mrs Robley with the Izac9 cubes.

It has been a hectic week and we are all ready for a nice relaxing weekend…well Mrs Loosemore is!!!

“I am happy that every day this week I have improved my daily mile run. ” Keiran Mc

“Recording the CD with Rookie Rockstars was awesome” – Kuba

” Mrs Loosemore did us proud winning the Rookie Rockstars Fluffy Bunny challenge!” Natasha

“It’s been the funnest week in school so far” – Sarah

“I liked doing the Izzac9 challenges with Mrs Robley” – Robbie G

“Great fun with Rookie Rockstars, cant wait for the show” – Shayne

” I enjoyed the maths treasure hunt, it was challenging but fun!”-Erin

“I liked hearing Mr Tennant’s news about his new baby daughter Olivia” – Natasha

“I enjoyed the Sumdog challenges! I completed them all!”-L eon

All the children and staff at Stoneyburn have proved that they are real stars this week. great work with Rookie Rockstars and a successful Open Evening.

Well Done all!

Mrs Craig

P6/5joined P3/2 as their lead learners for reading time and they are also working together at break

time as playground pals.

to be their

After hearing snippets and blurbs from a variety of books to help us choose our class novel, we had a vote and decided the one that we wanted to hear was “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan. (It fits in with our topic too!)

On Monday we had a visit from the SSPCA. Dawn told us about wild animals that are native to Scotland and what we should do if we see an animal in trouble. She also explained the work that the SSPCA do.

We had a good discussion about holidays, and for our first piece of writing, we used our imagination to take us ANYWHERE (real or imaginative) for the holiday of a lifetime!

Working on our class charter was hard work, time consuming but fun! We chose Disney Characters for our theme.

“I really enjoyed writing because I got to go on tour with Little Mix!” – Sarah

“I liked my writing because I got to ride on Unicorns!” – Madyson

“I liked writing because I got to be a pupil at Hogwarts” – Katie

“I enjoyed the SSPCA visit because I got to learn about new animals” – Kieran McG

“I liked doing the class charter because we got to chose and colour Disney characters”- Brad

“I liked Gym on Wednesday with Mrs Warden because we got to go outside” – Natasha

“I enjoyed writing because I got to eat Donald Trump!” – Shayne

We have been learning lots of things in class this week.
We have enjoyed listening to Jack and the Beanstalk and making new beanstalks through STEM.

Jada:I found it tricky because we only had two peices of paper and we had to make leaves as well.
Kasey-lee: It was quite hard to cut small leaves.
Leon: I found it tricky because it had to stand up and not get knocked down by the wind.

We have new numercay and literacy boxes that we can choose activites from and some of the activites are very challenging.

Lewis: I love the matching game using addition and subtraction with big numbers.

Jordan and Adam: We love playing the picture number dominoes game.

Through writing this week we have been learning about Robin the Robot and describing him.
Lucas: I found it good sharing my ideas about his adventure.