A great first netball meet tonight after school. Fab wee team. We’re all excited about our first competition of the year on Wednesday. Team kits organised, permission slips for the competition will go home tomorrow- Go Stoneyburn go!!
Spelling with playdough!
Some of the Primary 2s were working with Mrs Gardinier this week and were going over the sounds we know from Colourful Consonants and Vowel House. We were spelling words using playdough and using the right colours for the right letters- it was lots of fun and we were very good at spelling the words- next week we will be challenging ourselves to spell more difficult words but we’d still like to use the playdough! 
Number Hunt with P1s and P2s
Mrs Gardinier took some Primary 1s and Primary 2s out around the school grounds this morning. We had a card that gave us things to look for and the number of each thing we had to find. We had to find 1 flower, 2 sticks, 3 leaves, 4 stones and 5 nuts or seeds. We worked in teams of two and three to find the objects and then check our cards at the end to make sure we had everything. We had to practice our counting and organise the things we had in our baskets in to groups when we were checking things off on our list. It was a sunny morning and we had a great time- as you can see form our pictures!
Maths Magic!
This week we met two new friends – Odd Todd and Even Steven. They help us to work out whether a number is even or odd. Even Steven’s numbers end in a 0,2,4,6 or 8. Odd Todd’s numbers end in a 1,3,5,7 or 9.
We also learned all about Tens and Units. The biggest number we can have in the Units is 9, after that we have a family of Ten.
In R.M.E. we found out all about the boy David and how with God’s help, he beat the giant Goliath.
Our busy week
At the beginning of the week we learned about the different parts of a castle. We learned about towers, battlements, turrets, drawbridges, moats and the portcullis. We built and drew castles and Carla did a mini-project at home about her visit to Niddry Castle. She brought in lots of photographs and told us all about them.
Later on in the week, we wrote a personal story about ‘When I was little’. We had to think back to when we were a baby and think of something we did then that we don’t do now. We had some very funny stories. We had stories about nappies, dummies and rubber ducks in the bath!
Michael also brought in a magnifying glass for his news time. He told us all about it and what it can be used for. We decided we would like to go outside and go ‘mini-beast hunting’. We found lots of insects including earwigs, ladybirds, worms and beetles. They looked much bigger when we looked at them through the magnifying glass.
Written by P1/2
P1/2 PE Days
A reminder that PE days for Primary 1/2 are Monday and Thursday. Please could all pupils bring in a full indoor gym kit on these days. Thank you.
Bonjour!
We are enjoying learning French. We started by learning how to say Hello to adults – bonjour, then to our friends – Salut. we also learned how to say good evening – bon soir . For the first time we watched the French DVD – Salut cava. On Friday we really enjoyed the Travelling by Tuba concert, we thought P5 and P6/7 were very good doing their bits, and then some of were chosen to take part too.
Travelling by Tuba Workshop – P5
On Friday, we took part in a music workshop where we learned about music from Mexico – Salsa. We all learned different rhythms and were split into groups to play these on different musical instruments along to some Salsa music. We also learned to sing a Salsa song. After break, we had the chance to showcase our talents to the rest of the school by performing our instrumental piece as well as our song. We all worked really hard to learn our parts in a short space of time and enjoyed the excitement of our live performance:
Solid Shape Volume – P5
As part of our maths work this week, we have been finding the volume of solid shapes in cubic cm. We started off building shapes using cm cubes, for our partners to find the volume of by counting the individual cubes used. We then moved onto pictorial representation of 3D shapes, where we still had to count the cubes, but this was trickier as sometimes some of the cubes were hidden behind or under other ones and we couldn’t always see them, but had to remember they were there!
P5 Wildlife Detectives
On Wednesday, we had a visit from the SSPCA and learned all about our native Scottish wildlife. We had to become wildlife detectives and identify different animals from the clues we were given. Here are some pictures of our investigations:
