Calderwood Chronicle 3 – 29_10_21

Today all the Clans had the opportunity to get outdoors, braving the rain, and plant bulbs. We were really excited to spend time with different Clans – Ben Lawers and Ben Lomond should be so proud of the support they gave to younger children in our community.
We did this to play our part in the nationwide Edina Bulb Project – you can find out a little more about this by clicking here. We were really excited to explore our learning about the needs of a plant even further and cannot wait to see these bulbs begin to sprout in spring!
We have loved welcoming our Nursery Children over the past 2 weeks. Next week from Monday 1st November – Thursday 4th November Calderwood Nursery will take part in Calderwood Nursery Pioneer Celebrations.

AM Neon Disco – 10am-11am Monday 1st November
PM Neon Disco – 2pm-3pm Tuesday 2nd November
Full day children will have the opportunity to attend one of the Neon Disco slots
Opening Celebrations will take place over Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th throughout the days
Click Here for our Promo Video!
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.
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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We will create a definition of this role together, however in the first instance, they would support with communication and represent the clan at Parent Council meetings, etc. If you are interested in this role, can you please complete this form: https://forms.office.com/r/SbX94uzftK
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!
