Author: Mrs Robertson

Coming soon…to a school near you!

Book Week Scotland is just round the corner and  we are delighted to welcome the Scholastic Travelling Book Fair to East Calder Primary School.

This is a  pop up book store where pupils and parents/ carers will be able to browse and buy a wide variety of exciting books and also some fun stationary.

The Book Fair will be set up on  Thursday 9th November and will be here until the following week. It will be open at set times after school.

More details to follow.

Hope to see you all soon!

Primary one got a big surprise this week when a friendly dragon visited their classrooms and left a letter.

He asked if we could help rebuild Fairyland. We all agreed we could help by reading more fairy tales and we talked about our favourite ones. Some of us went to the library to look for books and we have coloured  dragon pictures.

We had lots of good ideas about what would make a good home for a dragon. We think the dragon would feel safe and cosy in our class castle or cave. He would be delighted with his new home!

We hope to hear from him again soon!

We have been busy this week in P1b learning how to write a recount.

We looked at a book called ‘Shopping with Dad’ and talked about things we have bought at the shops. We learned that it is important to sequence events in the correct order.

When we were writing we remembered to use a capital letter and a full stop at the start of each sentence. We also used finger spaces. We are learning to create a title for our writing and we are trying hard to write more tricky words by ourselves.

In Maths this week we have been learning to use position words.

We can use words like left, right, above, below, next to, on top  and beside,  to describe the position of objects.

We worked with our buddies to stick things in the correct location on our maps. Then we made some maps of our own.

Great job everyone!

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Today we had a small gathering in the library for our Book Week winners, and the Runners- up. They were all able to bring along a friend to join them. We enjoyed biscuits, juice and some festive cartoons.

We had so many fantastic book marks, drawings and book covers  it was a very difficult decision to choose winners. Thanks to the pupils in the Literacy Hub for  their help with the judging.

We have such a lot of artistic talent at East Calder Primary! Well done everyone!

A very big thank you to all our visitors who have joined us this week to celebrate Book Week Scotland 2022.

It was wonderful to have you all in our library to share the books in the Book  bags with Primary 1, 2 and 3 learners.

All pupils also received their copy of the book ‘Queen Elizabeth’ which celebrates the 70 year reign of the late Queen.

And not forgetting a huge thank you to those parents and carers who volunteered to be secret readers. Classes really enjoy having visitors. It is much appreciated.

We hope you have all enjoyed sharing a story together this week.. remember if you have been reading in some really unusual places we would love to see a photo!

Happy Reading everyone!

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It’s Maths Week! So in Drama this week we listened to ‘The Perfect Fit’  by Naomi and James Jones. We really enjoyed the story and used our bodies to try and make different shapes.

Poor Triangle tries hard to fit in with the other shapes but she  knows  they are not the same. She is searching for a group where she fits in perfectly.

We explored shape, patterns and tiling using lots of different objects.. counters, cubes, dice, pebbles, pompoms and even real tiles!

The story helped us learn about shapes but also about how we are all different and the importance of  being included.

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