This term in Maths we have been exploring 3D shapes.  Recently we have spent some time building their skeletons out of straws and drawing cubes and cuboids using isometric (dotty) paper.  Have a look below:

This week we moved our Maths outside. We had fun measuring with long sticks, that we had chosen. We all measured the same things, but we ended up with different answers. We decided that to measure accurately, we all had to measure with the same size of thing, we decided we could used rulers or metre sticks! It was fun.

We are still working on our French, now we can count up to 20. We also are practising our colours.

“I like learning French, we played a game of corners to help us with our colours, I hope we learn more numbers” – Hannah

As well as measuring we are working on our tables and number bonds.

“I know my 2,3,4, and 10 times table, I hope we do the x5 next I like doing maths” – Phoebe.

The highlight of our week was definitely our trip to the Ecology Centre in Fife. We were split into two groups – P4 and P3. The children from Greenrigg joined us there too. P4  were taken by Louis who told us all about recycling and the effects that our waste, if not disposed of sensibly, had on the wildlife around us.

The Primary 3s were with Claire. She was telling us all about water, how important it is to us and how and why we should look after it. We played lots of games , they were fun but they also taught us something too. Did you know that our throwaway stuff can cause animals to be sick, or even die? We were amazed at the length of time that it takes some thing to  disintegrate (Brodie’s brilliant word) and disappear back into the earth. A plastic bottle if recycled can be melted down and used for something else, but if it thrown away into landfill it will last for a million years!!

Roots of Empathy this week was a visit from Allie and her Mum. She was laughing with us this week. Every time Allie comes there is something different about her and she can do something new. At last she can roll over, but she wouldn’t do it for us. She has more hair now and pays us a lot more attention to us rather than just her toys.

“Baby Allie looked at me and started laughing” – Katie

In Science we are learning about food chains and food webs as part of our Topic about islands. We made food chains from pictures we had. Some were short but others had more steps in them.

“We learned that Food Chains are a cycle that can never stop and are very important for balancing life” – Brodie

Our week finished with World Book Day, we were allowed to come to school in our pyjamas. We also had to bring in our favourite book to tell the others about it and explain why it is our favourite

Greenrigg Primary Six pupils came up to Stoneyburn Primary today to do some more work on our transition project- Bridges.

We spent the day looking at Scottish bridges and where they are in Scotland, how they are built, what they look like and finally we created some bridges of our own- inspired by the bridges we had looked at in the morning.

The children all worked together very well, in mixed groups and all had a lot of fun.

Take a look at our Twitter pages for more pictures of our activities from today @greenriggps @stoneyburnps