Some of The Hive boys and girls were practising motor skills and getting a sensory break by playing on the bikes and scooters. Aria was super at teaching the little ones how to play safely. 
Month: November 2023
Five Sisters Zoo
Some of The Hive children are taking part in a project with Five sisters Zoo.
On our first week we got to walk round and become familiar with the zoo. On the second week we got to feed the birds. Last week we got to handle some reptiles!
We are looking forward to meeting the monkeys next week!
Nursery Newsletter – October/November
The children in our Nursery have been very busy playing and learning in their different indoor and outdoor spaces. Please find a link below to our Nursery Newsletter for October-November which has all our updates and captures some of our recent experiences in Nursery.
This week in P2
This week we began looking at arrays in multiplication and using them to help count in groups. We made arrays out of play doh to show how to make them. We had a visit from P6 to talk to us about road safety this week as well and we designed posters to show why road safety is so important. We are continuing to learn how to write information reports in literacy with the support of Mrs Robertson. We began our new topic looking at space and thinking about what we wanted to learn about. We have lots to look forward to over the next few weeks. 
P3 Learning
We are continuing our learning about using question marks. This week we worked with random partners to come up with questions about a picture. We wrote them on sticky notes so we could display them and remind ourselves what to do.
In Numeracy we have been learning about Fact families. A fact family is made up of three numbers and can be made up of at least four math facts. For example, if a child knows that 3 + 4 = 7 then they can also deduce that 4 + 3 = 7 and 7 – 4 = 3 and 7 – 3 = 4.
In Literacy we worked on the discussion, “Should children be allowed screen time?”. We had a great discussion about it and came up with lots of arguments for and against. Ask your child what they think about it.
P7/6 Class Trip
P7/6 went on a class trip to East Calder cemetery with our war veteran helper Alan Hamilton. We found the WW1 graves that related to our IDL context and discussed the other war graves from WW2. we discussed the way the cemetery was set up to catch the sunrise and sunset and why that was important.
We took time to be reflective and respectful to those who laid won their lives for us. We laid poppies by the graves for remembrance day.
Book Week P7/6
We celebrated book week by making book covers for our competition, enjoyed our DEAR time (Drop Everything And Read) and were lucky enough to get a visit to our local East Calder library. We enjoyed being able to use our library space and learn how to find the books that interest us!
We would like to thank our secret readers for coming in to read to us!
Book Week P2/1
We’ve had a super time during Book Week. One of our favourite things was the book mark competition.
Congratulations to Leonor who won a certificate from our class!
We were all excited to receive our Bookbug bags in P1 and our Read, Write, Count bags in P2. We loved listening to one of the stories in the library with Mrs Robertson and our families! We were really pleased to share our learning with our families back in our classroom, and especially enjoyed the juice and biscuits!
We wrote book reviews during our writing lesson. Lots of our books got 5 stars.
We designed book covers for our favourite stories and made sure we had a title, author and illustrator written on them.
We were also very lucky to have a secret reader (thanks to Jude’s Mum in P2!) who came to read one of our favourite Julia Donaldson stories ‘Zog’ and ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl.
This week in P2
This week has been an amazing week in P2. We have taken part in lots of book week activities such as Drop Everything And Read time, making book covers and bookmarks, creating finger puppets, having a secret reader in our class, watching a live reading session with Julia Donaldson and James Robertson (who translates Julia Donaldsons’ books into Scots language) and also receiving our new Bookbug reading bags.
We were also very lucky to be joined by our family and friends this week for our sharing the learning afternoon where we joined in with lots of other reading activities. Then we also had the chance to visit the book fair this week and read lots of books. It has been a super busy week but it has been brilliant!
P6 Book Week
Using our class novel, Light on Dumyat we applied a range of reading strategies to read and understand texts, for example, skimming, scanning, predicting and summarising. We read in a range of styles from paired to choral to echo and individual. We tried to read with increasing fluency, understanding and expression, using appropriate pace and tone.
We also visited the school library where we identified Non Fiction texts associated with our IDL context, Natural Disasters. Also in the library we pair read with our P2 buddies, so using the skills of reading to a different audience. We welcomed Mrs Stewart to our class as our Secret Reader who read a very interesting version of Little Red Riding Hood!
On Thursday we made community links with our local Library and enjoyed an afternoon of a variety of tasks all linked to our reading benchmarks and outcomes.
Finally, as part of the Book Week competition we all chose a book to either create our own version of the cover, blurb and spine or replicate it as closely as possible. As you can see from the photos we have some amazing artists!
