Congratulations to the 25 Primary 7 pupils that have been selected to represent our school at the West Lothian ‘East Conference’ Sportshall Athletics Event. The event will take during the school day at Craigswood Sports Centre on the 16th of November.
More specific information, consent forms and EE2’s will be sent home soon.
Each week we take part in lots of different Numeracy activities to help us develop our skills. We share our strategies and help each other try them out. This week in our Number of the Day task we had to work out sums with the answer 39. We came up with addition subtraction, multiplication and someone even came up with a sum involving division.
Our primary one pupils have had a great time pretending to make pancakes in PE! The children have been using the tennis rackets and beanbags to develop their hand-eye coordination, gross and fine motor skills. Our little chefs were shaking, flipping and catching their pancakes.
We take part in Number Talks every day. We have been learning to count forwards and backwards in decades using a 100 square. We know that the most efficient strategy is to count in tens.
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
This was our Learning Intention for Number Talks. We always link our learning to the UNCRC.
“30 less than 102 is 72. I counted back in tens.”
“40 less than 101 is 61. I counted back four which is the same as counting back four tens.”
“60 less than 88 is 28. I wouldn’t count back in ones because that would take ages. I counted back in tens. I counted back six tens.”
During our last week of Term 1, we engaged in Art which provided us with the opportunity to unleash our creativity. We each received a piece of paper with a black round sticker places somewhere on the page. We had a great discussion about what the sticker could represent and we used our ideas to create our own pictures. Have a look at some of our wonderful creations.
This week in literacy Primary 1 have been learning two new sounds; e and h. We have been practising sounding out and blending to read small words too.
In numeracy we have been learning all about number 10. What it looks like in tally marks, in a 10 frame and finding it on a number track.
We have also been learning about how important electricity is. We drew pictures about how we use electricity everyday and have been learning how to stay safe around electricity.
We met with our buddies in their classroom today and had great fun together making models with playdough.
This week we were given a black dot on paper and had to use our creativity to draw a picture using it. We came up with lots of different ways.
We had a very busy week in P3B. It was Maths Week and we were excited to find another surprise in our mystery box. This time, we opened our box to find some 2D shapes. This started a discussion about the names of the shapes and we started discussing their properties.
We then watched a video of a shape story which led to another discussion about the features of 2D and 3D shapes. Then we took part in four stations over several days and we really enjoyed our learning. We had the opportunity to consolidate addition and subtraction by playing Sumdog on the ipads. We are developing our independence logging in using our usernames and passwords. We also practised adding coins at another station. We used the till, labels and money to set up a “shop” to consolidate adding coins to make different amounts of money.
The other two stations involved exploring 2D and 3D shapes. We used 2D shapes to make pictures and we also used the shape construction to make 3D models. This initiated discussion about all the different shapes we used.
“We are making a house and we’re using rectangles and squares.” Emmi and Sofia
“I didn’t make a picture, I traced the shapes. I used triangles, squares and rectangles. I learned the name of a new shape too. I learned the word rhombus.” Sophie B
“I made £3.5o with 50p coins.” Struan
“I love Sumdog. The questions are getting harder and it’s a good challenge.” Lucas
We also delivered our class assembly this week. It was amazing and we got so many compliments from other children and adults in the school. Miss Marra is very proud of us. We all read fluently and with confidence. We organised everything ourselves before the assembly started and we remembered when to say our parts. We also sat so quietly during the assembly to show respect towards the person who was speaking. One of our favourite parts was performing when I Grow Up from Matilda the Musical. We sang so well and used fantastic facial expressions. We got extra play as a special treat for all our hard work. Thank you to Miss Baldacci for helping us with the sound.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
It’s been Maths Week and Primary 1 were lucky to have 2 visitors in class to talk about how they use numbers in their jobs.
We also took part in a different outdoor numeracy activity every afternoon. We made paper plate pictures and counted or ordered all the items we found and used to make our pictures. We had lots of balls to count! We had to try different strategies because it was difficult to count so many and they kept moving! We had a number trail, to count and show numbers in a ten frame. We even tried to count bubbles.
It was great to meet and talk to so many parents this week. Seesaw activities have now started with a revision of our first set of phonics, enjoy! New activities will be added on Mondays (unless it’s a holiday).
This week has been maths week.
P2/1 were lucky to have three visitors!
Abby’s Mum is the owner of Abby J cakes and she told us how she uses maths in her job.
We had great fun learning about using money to buy the ingredients to make a cake, counting the ingredients into the bowl, turning the oven on, and lastly, making sure we shared the cake equally with all our friends! We came up with some fantastic flavours too!
Nola’s Mum worked as an environmental scientist. She told us all about ‘data’ and the numbers she looked at to make sure the water was clean. We loved her diagram to show how it worked and used our mental maths to see if our water would pass the test! If our number was too big, then the water wasn’t clean enough. We had good fun playing the game.
Norma visited us from the library. She told us how she used numbers in her work-spending money for the library and telling the time. We loved the story she read to us too.
We have had lots of fun learning maths outside. We learned about counting items and showing the numbers in different ways. Our favourite was the maths trail. We worked with partners to find the clues.
We have enjoyed learning new Maths and Numeracy skills in a variety of ways during Maths Week! Some of the activities we did are :
Making 2d shapes using our geoboards and describing each shapes properties.
Using 3d shapes to make a rocket.
Making shapes using sticks in the woods.
Counting each bubble as we pop them.
Counting in 2’s, 5’s or 10’s as we pop each bubble.
Using jigsaw puzzles and Smartboard games to learn about shape and numbers.
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