Class Learning – Page 21 – East Calder Primary School Blog

P3 Creativity

This week, as part of our ‘Jobs in the Community’ topic, we have been channeling our creativity to become interior designers and decorate our mini rooms. We have been very imaginative and included lots of different things like wallpaper on walls, cutting out windows and hanging curtains and even a chandelier!!

Learning in P4

We have been continuing to look at The War Years as part of our new topic in class and we have been having some great discussions from this. We looked at photos from around the time of World War 1 and discussed in groups what we thought they were and what was happening in them. We have been looking at how to write a discussion text in literacy and practising the skills that we need to write them correctly. We have been working on fractions and time in numeracy and enjoying using ICT to help develop our learning. We also enjoy playing number skills games each week to use what we have learned in numeracy.

Direction work in P3

We have been learning about directional language and using it to lead a partner on a short journey. We did this in the classroom and then took our learning outside.

Then we moved onto learning about the 4 points of a compass. We made our own compass and marked on the points. Some of us could even name 8 points of a compass.

We took this learning outside too and even have a task for homework to give directions for a short journey for an adult to follow.

This week in P4

This week has been busy looking more at Scot’s language through poems by different authors and enjoying listening to stories in Scot’s. We created our own Scot’s dictionary using some online resources and got more familiar with Class Notebook through Microsoft Teams. We enjoyed listening to the online lesson from 2 authors this week all about Robert Burns and their books which involve him. Well done to everyone for learning a Scot’s poem, it was great getting to hear everyone recite theirs to the class.

We have also been working on fractions in numeracy and looking at how to use Carroll diagrams in maths to sort data. We look at using our number skills in different ways for problem-solving and try out different games as well.

Literacy in P5/4

In P5/4, we have been getting ready to recite our Scottish poems. We have been working hard to deconstruct the poems to help us learn some new words in Scot’s language and we had great time trying to read them out loud. We wrote down the meaning of Scottish words we found in the poems and used ipads and laptops to help us. We also did the same learning activity with “The Jeely Piece Song” and it was interesting to find out how many words we could remember.

We are excited to recite our Scottish poems in class this week. If we work hard to practise we may be chosen to represent our class at our Scottish Assembly on Teams.

Article 30: We have the right to practice our own religion, language and culture.

This week in P4

This week in P4 we have been looking more in detail at Scottish poetry and stories and looking at the differences in language between Scots and English. We even had a go at creating a Scot’s dictionary using Teams.

We have also continued looking at Venn diagrams in maths and began looking at fractions in numeracy this week also. We also as part of Scottish learning looked at the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and had a go at recreating his famous rose pattern.

This week in P4

We have had a great time being back in school after the holiday and are fully back to our learning. We have been busy updating our art gallery wall with a variety of art types. We have looked at a variety of artists and tried to recreate our own version of their famous artworks. This has been a topic that we have loved doing in P4!

In Numeracy, we have continued to look at multiplication and division and in maths this week we have started working on Venn diagrams as part of data handling.

Primary 1

Primary 1 had a very exciting end to the term. We have listened to lots of Christmas stories this week and engaged with different craft activities related to them.

On Tuesday it was our party in the hall and it was great fun!

Mrs Murdoch and Mrs Forbes would like to thank you very much for your kind gifts.

Happy holidays to everyone!

‘Leg It To Lapland’ Challenge

Well done to all our P1-7 pupils who took part in the Sustrans ‘Leg It To Lapland’ challenge. East Calder Primary came 2^nd place overall and will receive a ‘pedal cinema’ for pupils (and staff) to enjoy in January 2022.