June 2021 – Page 2 – East Calder Primary School Blog

This week in P4!

This week P4 have been super busy working on lots of learning! We have been looking at our explanation texts in writing and creating our own art to go along with these. We have looked at rounding, probability and chance and symmetry this week in numeracy and maths. We enjoyed working on probability and chance and completing an investigation. We have continued to look at land use and settlements and learned about how towns and cities are linked. We have discussed how change may affect us moving forward and what the positive and negative impacts of changes may be.

A great week P4, have a lovely weekend.

Meet My Class

Next week – week beginning Monday 14th June – is our transition week! We will all meet our new classes and new class teachers. Very exciting times!

Classes Session 2021-22

Problem solving in P6

Today, P6 were given a length of string and a piece of chalk, they were then asked to figure out how to draw a perfect circle. Have a look at what they came up with!

We discovered the relationship between the radius and diameter, whilst having some fun outdoors at the same time.

P2/1 Learning this week

Primary 2/1 have been working hard this week.

We have taken a small break from our Romans topic and introduced a mini-topic about Pandas in response to questions the children had about the Red Pandas coming to the Five Sisters Zoo. The children were very interested to learn that Red Pandas and Giant Pandas are not related and this made them more curious. We made a list of what questions the children had about Pandas and then decided to watch factual videos to find our answers then make a Fact File about them. The children also enjoyed following an artist to learn how to draw Giant Pandas. So far we have been learning lots about Giant Pandas.

In numeracy Primary 2s are learning about money and Primary 1s are having more practise with addition.

In literacy Primary 1s are making great progress in their reading and our Primary 2s are learning about reading with fluency and expression as well as comprehension techniques.

At the start of the day before Register, the children have also enjoyed finishing off our Roman Colosseum display picture by adding Romans, gladiators and wild animals in the arena.

I hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend,

Mrs Meikle

Learning in P1

This week in P1 we have been very busy learning more about our senses. Some of us have been discussing our favourite meals and what foods are sweet, sour, salty and bitter. And some of us have been talking about our eyesight and making some super glasses!

In maths, we’ve been continuing to skip count in twos.

During RME, we listened to the story of ‘The Prodigal Son’ and then looked at pictures to try to retell the story.

The teachers have been assessing our tricky words in class.

A little reminder to parents- please return book bags every FRIDAY so that books can quarantine and be passed to another group the following Tuesday. Many thanks.

This week in P4!

This week in P4 we have been busy working on fractions in numeracy and looked at symmetry during our active maths lesson. We discussed our explanation text this week and wrote about how gliders and hang-gliders fly. We worked together on our learner agency activities where children chose to show their learning in a variety of ways. We looked at the features of PowerPoint and created presentations using the different features about a topic of our choice.

What a great week P4, well done!