Day: January 24, 2019

We have been learning all about Scotland this week. Tomorrow we have a special Burns Day assembly and we have worked really hard to learn a Scottish song called ‘Coulters Candy’.

Ethan- It has been difficult, there are lots of Scottish words and they are a bit tricky.                                                                                                                                    Mrs Stevenson learned some words too, she thought they were really hard to say but she didn’t give up!

We all want to say a BIG thank you to Mrs Buntin who helped us by playing the piano.

We were invited to be a quality audience for P3. We watched them dancing a Scottish dance.

Lucy- They had to do lots of turns, clapping and skipping.

We read the story of ‘Hamish the Highland Cow’ by Natalie Russell.

Roman was able to retell the whole story to the class.

Today we were visited by the dental team.

Scarlet- We were getting our teeth checked by the dental team.

Kayleigh- They were counting how many teeth we had.

Calvin- It was kind of weird …..we had to wear sunglasses….inside!!!!

Finlay- They had a mirror to see if our teeth were clean or not. They needed the mirror to see to the back.

Lexie- We all got stickers. I really like the colours on mine.

We have been learning number patterns of 5.                                                        Aayan- We were really good  and we found lots and lots of patterns.

We learned all about the add sign + .                                                                         Harrison was able to make it with his fingers.

We had an exciting morning today. When we came into school we got a big surprise. Our cloakroom has changed! Thank you Tom for all your hard word it looks fab!

Ashley- I like it because we have more room.

Brendan- It looks very colourful.

There will be more exciting changes coming soon….so watch this space.

This week we have started work on our new topic ‘Mystery tour of Scotland’. We have been identifying what we already know about Scotland and what we would like to find out. So far we have completed some map work and have been learning some Scottish poetry for the assembly on Friday. Next week we will be looking at how Livingston used to be  and watching some historical videos of the area. We will be learning about shale mining in West Lothian and why it was such an important industry at the time. Pupils are looking forward to creating art work in the style of famous Scottish artists and will be doing Scottish country dancing with Mrs Moyes.

In ICT we have been learning about coding and using Blockly to create simple instructions. The games we have worked on so far have proved very popular and the class are really keen to learn more.

Since the start of term we have had a big focus on learning / revising key spelling words and have been working on them for Smart Start every day. We have also been trying to improve fluency when reading aloud and pupils have been encouraged to apply their decoding strategies for tricky words. It would be really helpful if pupils could continue to work on this at home. Our next target area will be to focus on handwriting to improve written presentation.

In literacy the focus has been on developing persuasive writing skills. Our first theme for the writing was homework and our subject for next Monday will be whether pupils should have to wear uniforms. We have also been learning to peer and self assess our writing which the class find quite challenging and we will continue to work on.

In maths we have been working on time. Everyone should now feel quite confident about o clock, quarter past and to and half past times. Our focus just now is telling the time using minutes past and to. Next we will be converting between analogue and digital time. Finally we will be interpreting simple timetables such as train and bus times and programme schedules.

This term gym time with Mrs Moyes is on a Tuesday afternoon and the class will also have futsal on a Friday so pupils will need gym kit on those days.