Category: Calderwood Curriculum
Book Week (Friday Celebrations) Social Story
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Book Week Scotland Sumdog Competition – Results So Far!
Leader board so far …
Mull, Shetland & Orkney
1 – Dylan S
2 – Max
3 – Leah
Bluebell & Bramble
1 – Rachel
2 – Euan
3 – Poppy S
3- Amel
Ness, Rannoch, Tay
1 – Cameron Fe
2 – Max
3 – Ananya
Bens
1 – Belle
2 – Mateo
3 – Jaxon
Book Week in Calderwood Nursery
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Book Week Scotland @ Calderwood
Calderwood Tackles Climate Change
Ness, Rannoch and Tay clan have been learning about COP26 together, finding out what it stands for, what it is, why it is happening, and what it means for us and have been learning about climate change with Miss Christie in our STEM lessons. Through our learning, we wanted to explore climate change even further.
Today, Ness, Rannoch and Tay clan were visited by Miss Connor, our RAISE Primary Science Development Officer in West Lothian, who gave us an introduction to the science behind climate change.
We discussed what the words climate and climate change meant and why climate change is happening. We then looked more deeply into greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide, learning about the links between CO2 and climate change.
Following this discussion, we all carried out an experiment to see if we ‘could see CO2’. After making predictions of what we might see happening in the experiment, we added sugar to a test tube of warm water and mixed it till the sugar had dissolved. We then added some yeast to the mixture before, finally, placing a balloon over the top of the test tube. We waited for approximately 10 minutes to see what might happen. We found that the balloon inflated, showing that a gas had been created. This helped us to understand how carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere and trapped, causing the planet to become warmer. We really enjoyed carrying out the experiment and checking our predictions.
After completing the experiment, we discussed why climate change matters to us and what we can do to help. We look forward to looking deeper into this in the coming weeks. Thank you so much to Miss Connor for allowing us to learn and think more about climate change.
#WL_STEM
Calderwood Connects: 05/11/21
Our First 2 Weeks In Calderwood Nursery
Running Week at Calderwood
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This week is WL Running Week. Our partner Active Schools have set us a challenge to complete a running race of various distances. Our results will be shared across West Lothian up against the other schools.
We’ve also been working on these 3 challenge questions to stimulate our interest in running and its benefits.
- How can we promote our Running Event?
- How can we record / measure our runs – any digital ideas?
- What makes an effective runner?
Click the Sway below to see the launch of Running Week. We will update this Sway throughout the week with any action!
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Mull October Update
In Mull, we have been continuing to explore and practise our letter and number formations. This week, we have focused on a and 4.
With our letter ‘a’ we have practised the formation and investigated the short and long vowel sounds. The short ‘a’ appearing in words such as: ant, apple, alligator where as the long ‘a’ sound appears in: apron, angel, ace. It can be tricky to get our heads around this but this helps build those initial literacy foundations which will be built on.
We have also investigated the number 4. We practised how to form the number 4 and had our friends choose our best formation. We also learned all about collecting and counting groups of 4 item. We noticed that on our number 4 hunt, the number can appear a little bit different, sometimes it looks more like a triangle shape. We also noticed the written word for 4 FOUR and what a 4 looked like on a dot pattern or on a tens frame. Starting to build on to our number bonds and knowledge of addition, we used our bunny ears to show different ways of making a 4. This may be 3 fingers on one bunny ear and 1 finger on another bunny ear or using double 2.
Sparking some curiosity this week was the item in our curiosity box. Lots of questions posed:
What is it?
How does it feel?
Where does it come from?
It must be from a hot country because it is so big!
How heavy is it?
Is it a cucumber?
Can you eat it?
The item was a gigantic courgette that Mrs Robertson grew in her garden. It was the only piece of veg in her vegetable patch that wasn’t eating by the wild bunny rabbits.
We are really looking forward to our Halloween themed week next week with some extra special spooky learning!
