Thank you so much to everyone who came along and attended our Smart Start Open Morning. We were delighted to see so many people there and the children were excited to be able to share their learning with you. WE have attacehd the Power Point shown this morning here. 2016_01_20 Numeracy at Home Stoneyburn
Basketball Club is in full swing again this term, on Wednesdays after school- led by our experienced basketball coach and volunteer Jennifer Witcombe. We are very lucky that she will be with us all term. The children are loving the club!
We all really enjoyed Roots of Empathy this week because Baby Allie visited with her Mum. We haven’t seen her since November, so we were excited to see if she had changed. She had!! She is much bigger now. When Allie was put on her mat, she tried to roll over by herself but she didn’t quite manage it. We all really loved seeing Allie, she made us all smile and she was smiling too!
“I like watching Allie playing with her toys, she is more interested in them now” – Katie
“I was surprised at how much bigger she was and at the new things she was trying. She is able to hold things now and is starting to grab for things.” – Hannah
“Last time Allie was here when she was on her mat she didn’t do much but this time she tried to roll over. It was funny, she only rolled half way, she got stuck on her hip. I think she’ll do it the next time we see her.” – Eve
Primary 1/2 have jumped straight back into their learning after the Christmas holidays. We are beginning a brand new project all about ‘Pirates’ and have listened to a story called ‘The Pirates Next Door’. We will be using this story to help us learn all about Pirates over the next term.
One of the characters from the story is called Jim Lad. On Thursday, we all wrote a letter to Jim Lad to tell him about ourselves.
“I liked writing about what I like to play. I was really good at reading my story to the rest of the class.” – Michael
“I liked drawing my pictures in the plan for my letter.” – Aiden
“I enjoyed doing my plan and writing my letter.” – Darryl
We also learned about two different types of pirate ship. We were able to label the different parts of the ship. We are excited because we are going to be making our own model pirate ships.
In Maths, we have been learning about ‘Time’. Primary 1 have been learning ‘o’clock’ times and Primary 2 have been learning how to tell o’clock and half past times on an analogue and digital clock.
“I have enjoyed learning about half past” – Jack
“I enjoyed learning about digital clocks” – Michael
“I liked playing the games about Time because they help us learn more about Time” – Alesha
“I liked playing the Class Clock game. Mrs Sibbald was trying to beat us but she didn’t and we won all the points” – Alex
“I liked learning about o’clock times” – Jordan
“I liked learning about o’clock and half past times on an analogue and digital clock” – Aiden
We are also very lucky this term to have two new people working in our class. Mrs Lind and Miss Eunson have been helping us with our learning.
Although we have only been in school for 3 days this week we have been busy!! It was exciting to hear all the news from the Christmas holidays and to share with each other what we were given as presents. We were all very happy with what we got, Santa has been VERY generous, his sleigh must have been very heavy as he flew over Stoneyburn.
In Maths we started a new topic – 3D shapes, we have been learning about their properties and the difference between 2D and 3D shapes. We have started trying to make 3D shapes using nets. It’s great fun!?
In our writing we wrote a personal recount of events that have already happened. We chose to write about how each of us spent Christmas Day.
Primary 1 and 2 have been enjoying Numeracy focused Smart Starts on Monday Wednesday and Friday mornings over the past couple of weeks. They come straight in to class after changing their shoes and choose an activity they would like to do. We have had some visitors in from the West Lothian Numeracy Development Team to see what we are up to and they have been joining in too!
We will be doing Numeracy focused Smart Starts three days a week in the new year- and these will run in to our Maths lessons. Towards the end of January, we will be inviting parents in too to join in with our smart starts so they can see what we are doing….look out for your invitation!
We have had lots of challenges this week! On Tuesday, for the first time, P3 and 4 took part in transition activities with Greenrigg. P4 were with Mrs Gibson and the P4s of Greenrigg in the hall. We were looking at Waste Minimisation. We made a Christmas Wreath from the rubbish that was left at dinner time.
P3 stayed in the classroom with Mrs Loosemore, the Greenrigg P3s didn’t join us, but we are both looking at the same topic and doing the same things. We were learning about the water cycle. Did you know that there is no new water on Earth? We did an experiment, following all the safety rules, to change water from a liquid to a vapour, then back to liquid. It was fun!
Our other challenges come from the Challenge Elf that Santa sent us! Each morning when we come in he is in a different place and he brings us a challenge to do each day! So far we have had to draw and name Santa’s reindeer, work out how many different pies we can make for the elves from apples, strawberries and blackberries and today we had to find words to do with Christmas from as many letters of the alphabet that we could!! We look forward to finding where he is hiding and what his challenge is for us!
Primary 5 had a very successful day at Greenrigg on Tuesday learning all about healthy eating. Firstly they explored the different food groups then had to sort a shopping bag of food into the correct groups. They explored which foods helped them stay active and which food helped them to grow.
They all enjoyed the afternoon session where they made a 3D mouth with teeth using papier mache – it was very sticky and messy but by the end of the day every group had a completed model, ready to be painted the next time we meet up, when they will be learning all about their teeth and the important role milk plays in this.
This term in French we have been learning vocabulary relating to birthdays. We can ask and answer questions about when our birthdays are and can sing Happy Birthday too!
Have a look at some of the birthday cards we made:
By Brooke and Madyson
Our Stoneyburn Netball Team did themselves and Stoneyburn Primary proud this afternoon when they came 4th out of 6 teams playing in the Whitburn Cluster Netball Tournament. They won one game and drew two out of the five that they played and they worked together brilliantly as a team!
They are now on a well deserved break from training until after Christmas but this was a great way to finish our Winter term training. A big thank you goes to Mrs McKay for helping us out each week at our training sessions and also to Mr McKay who drove the minibus for us today and allowed us to get to the tournament! We are really lucky to have such great parents support in our school and really appreciate all that they do for us.
Congratulations again team- you we are very proud of you!
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