Class Learning – Page 20 – East Calder Primary School Blog

Goodbye Mr McDermott

Our lovely Education Officer is leaving to take up a new post. The boys and girls in The Hive always enjoyed his visits so we made him a card and he popped down to see us on Wednesday. Good luck in your new job Mr McDermott! We’ll miss you.

Sky Academy P7B

P7B were fortunate enough to visit Sky Academy this week. Sky Academy Studios uses the power of TV and innovation to open young minds and develop young people’s Creativity, Collaboration and Communication. Our day out included

A hands-on learning experience in which
the class will create their own TV content
A chance to work with team of experts
and cutting-edge technology
A screening of our video on the day and
the chance to watch and share the video after our trip
A behind-the-scenes tour of Sky

As you can see from the images below we have some budding Producers,Editors,Directors,Scriptwriters and there should be an Oscar nominations for our Presenters and Experts! Well done to our fantasic Cameramen/women who filmed the whole experience.

P3 Silent Disco

On Wednesday morning we were entertained with a silent disco. We danced and sang along in the playground. It was great fun!

Primary 1

Welcome back Primary 1! It was lovely to see you back and hear all about your holidays.

We’ve had a busy start to Term 4. On Wednesday we all took part in a ‘Silent Disco’. It was great fun listening and dancing to the music.

On Friday we learned about Earth Day in our Assembly and then went outside for word hunt. We had to find pictures and then sound out and write the words. Everyone had fun and worked well as a team.

Primary 1 & Buddies

Primary 1 had a great time in our new library with their Buddies. This week our job was to try and recognise tricky words in the books being read together.

P3 Art

We have been learning about Artists called Miro and Mondrian. We talked about the shapes they made and colours they used. We then created our own picture in their style. Some of us even tried to draw animals using the same idea. We then talked about what we thought about their artwork. Most of us preferred Miro, especially if we were creating our own, as his lines are wiggly so easier to draw than Mondrian’s straight lines. We then took our learning outdoors and created chalk drawings in their styles.

P1 News

Thank you to all who donated to our Red Nose Day collection. We looked amazing all dressed up in our PJ’s.

This week in literacy, we have been practising our sh, ch, th and wh sounds. We have also enjoyed new stories and learned four more Word Boost words to extend our vocabulary. We’re getting very quick at spotting the words in our everyday speech and in other stories too!

We loved meeting our P7 buddies this week in our brand new library and shared lots of interesting books and texts.

We have been practising telling the time to the half hour and also working with numbers to 20. Meanwhile, in science, we had lots of fun finding out about forces when experimenting with cars and ramps.

A Busy Week for P5/4

In P5/4, we have had a very busy week with all our learning. On Thursday, it was World Book Day and we celebrated by starting the day with “Relax and Read.” Our favourite thing about this is choosing where in the classroom we would like to read (as long as we choose a safe place.) As you will see from our photos, we chose some interesting places to enjoy a book.

We have been learning how to see ourselves as readers and we know that we enjoy reading more when we get to choose books we like. One of the highlights of our week was our first visit to the library. Unfortunately, Miss Marra forgot to pictures as she was enjoying it so much too. Caitlin proudly cut the ribbon and we were so excited to enjoy our new space. It was hard to choose from so many comfortable and exciting places to read. The choice of books was amazing too. Some of us even chose to read some nostalgic books from when we were younger. One of our favourites was Stick Man and Elmer. We can’t wait to go back for our next visit.

Another highlight in our learning this week was when we engaged in Drama to clarify our understanding of a text. In class, we have been reading the Harry Potter series as our class novels. We are currently reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We engaged in a “Hot Seat” learning activity in which we chose to be in role as a character from the series and everyone had to ask us questions. Miss Marra modelled our learning first by being “in role” as Draco Malfoy which everyone found hilarious. Our Drama skills were very impressive and we used our knowledge of our chosen character well to engage in this learning activity.

We engage in Mental Maths daily and we have been working hard on using division to solve problems. We are developing our confidence using the “Bus Stop Method” and this is helping us apply our knowledge to word problems.

Our new Maths Topic is “Time.” We started our topic by having a great class discussion about why we need to learn to tell the time. We use time so much in our daily lives! We have been practising some of the different times we already know e.g. o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. We engage in outdoor Maths and Numeracy every Thursday, and this week we practised telling the time in the playground. Struan did the honours, drawing a large analogue clock with our chalk. We then practised different times with some of us representing the hands. We had to jump to the correct number and we were able to talk about why this was the correct number, using the Numeracy skills we know and our prior knowledge of time. Our next step is to move on to five minute intervals.

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