Category: Class Learning

P3A Hubs Week 2

This we we were working on the Meta Skill Social Intelligence. This meant we were communicating, collaborating and leading. We listened to the story Jack and the Beanstalk and thought about the characters and main points. We discussed how the characters would act, what they say and talked about how the story would be better with sound effects. We then split into smaller groups, each with a different character or main point noise to make. We worked together to think how best to create the sounds required. We then came back together and went through the story this time adding in our own sound effects. We had lots of tapping on tables for characters walking or running and the Giant’s footsteps made with slaps on the floor. We had some really good hens clucking around and the harp was made by someone hitting their water bottle. Our Giant’s voice was very good when he bellowed ‘Fee, fi fo, fum’. We had good fun collaborating together to create all these sound effects and it all came together to make the story come to life for us.

P1C Innovation Hub

P1C enjoyed their skills hub. We learned about percussion instruments through a listening game. Then we made shakers from recycled materials and rice.  We listened to a piece of music shaking our shakers to the beat.

We had a discussion about critical thinking and creativity skills and everyone was able to identify when they had used them.

P3A Hubs Week 1

We were working on Meta Skill of INNOVATION. We had to use our creativity to come up with a new wild animal, thinking about how it moved, where it lived, how and what it ate and how it defended itself. We got to choose if we worked on it individually, in a pair or in a small group (and for once we got to choose out partners!). Once we had drawn and annotated our creature we then used any resource in the classroom to build it. Lots of us used Lego while others tried making it from card. We then recorded ourselves or took a picture, to be added to our Seesaw accounts, explaining how our creature moved, where it lived, how and what it ate and how it defended itself. Next week we will use our creature in our story writing. A great fun filled afternoon!

P3A Learning

This week we have been completing lots of work inspired by the story Ruby’s Worry.  It will be used for a West Lothian Council Creativity in Literacy Competition.  Please see Sway to find out about our learning.

Go to this Sway

Donate your old Devices!

Donate your old Devices!

Got any old smartphones, tablets, routers, gaming consoles, cameras or laptops and cables that you no longer need?

Don’t know what to do with them and don’t want them going to landfill?

This could be the answer!

As part of our Eco learning on sustainability, East Calder Primary is joining with the Edinburgh Remakery- a registered charity and environmental social enterprise with a mission to reduce e-waste by repairing and refurbishing old tech. Your donations can be given the gift of life, reused, resold or donated to people suffering from digital poverty.

A Tech Donation Box will be arriving in school on January 29th for approximately 4 weeks. This box is designed to help pupils, their families and staff dispose of their old personal tech in an environmentally friendly way. The Edinburgh Remakery will ensure any tech is data wiped.

So if you would like to reduce e-waste and its impact on the environment, while supporting local people and our planet, this could be for you!

P3A Learning

We have started learning about 3D shapes. First we tried to remember their names. Then we looked at them, touched them and thought about their properties. We then had to work with our partner to work out how many edges, faces & vertices they had. We found some like a sphere easy but found working out the properties of a triangular prism much harder. Some of us even found a pentagonal pyramid in the box and worked on finding out it’s properties.

We have been recapping our learning of last term about nouns and adjectives. Now we have moved onto learning about verbs. We watched a video about action verbs and joined in with the movements. Then we worked with a partner to come up with our own action, the rest of the class then had to guess what our action was. Next we worked with our partner to write a sentence on our desks including at least one action verb.

P3A Book Week

We took part in lots of different activities for Book Week. We watched Author’s Live with the illustrator Fiona Lumbers.  She read one of the Luna Loves stories and taught us how to draw Luna.  We had good fun adding our own things that Luna might love to our pictures. We took part in the book week competition creating our own book marks.  We tried to use bright colours to make them stand out. We have been learning to write discussion text this term.  During book week we wrote one with the title Should children read at home?  We also had a Secret Reader who came and read some of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Lastly, we received our Read, Write, Counts bags and welcomed our adults into school to read with us.

P3A Learning

This week we’re learning to tell the time. Some of us used Play Dough to create the hands of a clock to tell o’clock & half past times. Others tested each other telling quarter past & quarter to using the clock faces. Some were working on changing between analogue & digital times. We also used the laptops to test our knowledge.

This week we started learning to use questions marks. First we practiced writing them, then we had to think about question words. Next we looked at a picture and worked with a random partner to come up and write down questions about it. Lastly we became Question Mark Detectives and hunted for question marks in our reading books.

In Art we thought about the colours of leaves we see just now and then created Autumn pictures.

P3A Learning

Last week we were learning to use the element of line to draw what we see. We looked closely at a leaf and thought about the shape of it and the lines of the veins.  We then drew its outline and tried and copy where all the lines were. Next we looked at the leaf again to see what colours were needed.  We thought about light and shadow and shaded our leaf picture so it looked as close the real one as possible.

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