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Month: February 2024
This week in P2
We have had a busy week this week in P2. We continued learning about money in our numeracy lessons where we created coin caterpillars and added the amounts to make a total. We also looked at making the same amount but using different coins. We finished looking at information reports in writing and we are moving on to looking at procedures from next week. We created castles from a range of materials and made sure it had some of the parts of a castle that we had been learning about. We are enjoying looking at the history of Scotland and look forward to learning more about the Loch Ness Monster next week.
P3 Learning
Lots of fun learning in Primary 3 this week. We have continued to learn to use arrays to help us divide. We were trying harder calculations and working out the family sums that go with each array.
we are learning to write an explanation. This week’s title was ‘How to look after a dog. We planned our writing on Wednesday and then used our plan to write our full explanation on Thursday. We are getting much better at writing interesting sentences and some of us have started learning to write in paragraphs.
In Maths we have continued to learn about fractions. This week we used 8 cubes in two colours to make creatures and then had to record it on squared paper and come up with a fraction sentence about it ie My creature is half green and half pink. We also learned about how many cubes one quarter and three quarters are.
In topic we were learning about Roman houses. We found out about how the rich and poor Romans lived. We learned that very rich Romans had massive villas with lots of rooms, they even had slaves to look after them. We found out that some villas had a room called a ‘vomitarium’? Ask your children what that was used for!!!!!!
Celebrating Scots Language
We have been celebrating all things Scottish over the last few weeks and classes have had fun learning about Scottish culture as well as reading and writing in Scots. They have enjoyed listening to Scottish poems, stories and songs.
Primary 1 have been using Scots words to describe the weather. Some classes have included Scots words in their WordBoost lists. Primary 5 created their own ‘scunners’, Scottish horror characters and also wrote examples of alliteration in Scots.
Many thanks to our wonderful Secret Readers who read some stories in Scots this week. Classes always love have a visitor and it is so important for learners to hear adults reading aloud. This is especially appreciated when we are encouraging and celebrating the diversity of languages at East Calder Primary.
We would love to hear from any parent or carer who would like to read to a class in a language other than English. Although pupils might not understand the words we would love to widen their experience of listening to other languages being spoken.
If you are interested please get in touch by emailing our school office.
Rights Article 30: I have the right to learn and use the language of my family.
P3 Learning
We are growing in confidence in using arrays to help with our division. We looked at different arrays and were able to write the 4 family calculations that go with them. Two multiplication and 2 division. ie. 5 x 4 = 20, 4 x 5 = 20, 20 / 4 = 5 & 20 / 5 = 4.
As part of our learning to understand what we read, this week we started to work on clarifying what we read. We worked with random partners to work out what an ‘alien’ word in a sentence could be replaced with. For example if our sentence was Mark looked at the gkdoiaful flower. Some of us replaced the ‘alien’ word with wonderful or beautiful. We had to think of the whole sentence and make sure it still made sense.
Expositions – Persuasive Writing in P7
Our pupils have been completing their writing journeys by pairing appropriate graphics with their writing, then they moved on to checking their writing targets. After this they record and read their writing to try and persuade us even more. I am sure a few of us will be persuaded on this one!
Have a look at one journey here:
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French Tasting in P6 & P7
This morning we had a French tasting session between Primary 6 and Primary 7.
We had the opportunity to taste a variety of some French themed foods including: brie, camembert, croissants, brioche and baguettes. The pupils then had to record their views about the foods and research how to say them in French. We had a challenge activity to find out why certain foods exist.
Who knew that it was rumoured that the French baguette was created for soldiers. The long shape apparently meant that it was easier for the soldiers to carry bread during a war!
I’m not so sure that we were all a fan of the pungent French cheeses though, well done to everyone who had a go at tasting them!
Ethical Living in Primary 7
In Primary 7 we have gathered our questions and curiosities about our Ethical Living context. Have a look at some of the questions we have come up with.
We have already started to explore ethical branding, toilet rolls and how our eggs are produced and farmed. We are planning our questions around what might affect our future and we are having some rich discussions about how we are influenced in the media.
Learning in P2/1
During languages week we taught each other how to say ‘hello’ in different languages. In our class, we can say hello, in Urdu, Polish, French, Portuguese, Spanish and British Sign Language!
We are really enjoying our music lessons with Dave. We have been playing shakers to tell a story about a train ride. We were singing and playing our instruments loudly and quietly. We had good fun dancing and stopping to the beat of the drum.
Primary 1
It was great to see so many parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles who came to our ‘Sharing the Learning’!
Primary 1 were so excited to share some of their Scots Week activities. We made kilts, a model Nessie (using our push, pull and twist forces), built castles and discussed and ate some Scottish food. We were super detectives trying to ‘I Spy’ a picture of a Burns Supper.
Shortbread was the favourite food in both classes.
We ended with a ‘Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes’ song!
Have a lovely weekend!
