There is only 20 points between all four houses but Almondell has taken the lead!
Your house needs you!
Category: Class Learning
NURSERY – Fun Learning at Home
Hello Everyone,
We hope you had a good weekend and enjoyed reuniting safely outdoors with family and friends.
Here are some new idea’s to share with the your child at home. Please continue to let us know how they get on through their Learning Journal. Enjoy!
New Life
The nursery ladies have been out walking and cycling and they have seen lots of new baby animals at Mill Farm and Lanthorne Pond. They have taken these photo’s to share with you.
Encourage your child to watch out for new animal life when outdoors and share your photo’s through Home Learning on your child’s Learning Journal. This activity encourages lots of discussion about animals, babies, families and new life as well as exercising outdoors and learning about technology. Give your child a camera or device to take photos and help them to upload them onto their Learning Journal’s.
You can extend this further by helping your child to search online for the names of animals e.g. Cygnet, Calf, Foal.
Can you name all the animals you find?
Do you know what a female cow, horse or swan is called?
Can you count how many babies the animals have had?
L.1. I am learning about where living things come from and about how they grow, develop and are nurtured.
Literacy
Access these links to further extend your child’s learning with baby animals.
Baby Animals Song click here
Farm Animals and their Babies Book click here
Fun with Fruit
Involve your child in choosing fruit/vegetables to make a nutritious smoothie or milkshake or keep the animal theme going and make a fruit dolphin!
L.1. Together we enjoy handling, tasting, talking and learning about different foods, discovering ways in which eating and drinking may help us to grow and keep healthy.
Salt Dough Decorations
The children enjoy baking and cooking at nursery and independently follow step by step instructions through picture and photo books.
Try this easy pictorial recipe to make salt dough decorations with your child, allowing their creativity to flourish when decorating them.
L.1. Inspired by a range of stimuli, I can express and communicate my ideas, thoughts and feelings through activities within art and design
Remember to have a look at http://blogs.glowscotland.org,uk/wl/snonursery for more learning at home ideas.
We look forward to seeing your photos and learning on your child’s Learning Journal’s.
EC Nursery Team
Sports Day Update – Tuesday Morning
Oakbank still has a very small lead over Almondell, Calderhall and Langton. You have until Thursday at noon to participate in Sports Day.
You house needs you! Let’s go!
NURSERY – Sharing Home Learning
We would like to thank our families who are posting photo’s and keeping in touch through Home Learning on Learning Journals. It’s lovely to hear what our children and families have been doing during lockdown. East Calder Nursery Team are missing each and every one of our fabulous children and seeing little snippets of their learning and fun at home keeps us smiling! It keeps us interacting and building our shared partnership and it’s an effective way of communicating and asking for advice if you need it. Our Team will continue to be here to share advice, support and fun learning to all our families. Our Fun Learning at Home ideas and suggestions are posted on our Nursery Blog every week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
If you are having difficulty using Home Learning please follow the instructions below
How to keep in touch on Learning Journal’s
There is a ‘Home Learning’ button on your child’s Learning Journal. This means you can share all your fun and learning with the nursery staff while recording it on their personal profile.
This button is located on the left hand side of your child’s profile. It is a blue button called Home Learning, click on it and you will be able to add posts and pictures.
Keep up the great work P3R!
Thank you to everyone for sending me photos of all your fantastic work!
I was so impressed with those of you who joined in with the Great East Calder Primary school Run on Friday.
It was a hot day for running! Super effort!
What a great start to Health Week and I hope you will try out some of Mr Millar’s activities this week!
I am missing you all and love to see and hear about what you are doing at home.
Stay safe,
Mrs Robertson P3R
Sports Day and Health Week!
It’s our School Health Week which includes our Sports Day – today and tomorrow! The focus for this week is to promote healthy lifestyles and enjoyment. Linked to this message is a range of activities, explanations and information on how to submit scores. The Health Week Pack has an activity log, Health and Wellbeing focused learning grid, links to active videos and simple recipe ideas. You can also participate in the daily PE challenges from the West Lothian Primary PE specialists on Twitter at @WLPENetwork.
Please share your learning on Teams or by emailing the school office with the subject of ‘FAO: Health Week – Mr Millar’.
Let’s have a great Health Week everyone!
Mr. Millar
The Great Science Share – Week 5
What did you investigate last week? Did you try to re-grow any vegetables? Did you track the journey of your banana from tree to fruit bowl? Did you make something out of your household waste?
This week our theme is UN World Environment Day
Have you been inspired by Greta Thunberg?
How clean is the air near to where you live? Has there been a change in air quality around the world since we have been staying at home over the last few months?
How can you make a positive impact on the environment?
How can you clean dirty water?
How do cow burps affect climate change? (This is an interesting one!)
Remember and tag me in your Teams post or email your investigations into school!
Have fun investigating!
Mrs Beattie
https://www.greatscienceshare.org/getinvolved2020#weekly-themes-2020-wk5
Transition Task – Week 3
Week 3 Transition Task – ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle
This week we would like you to watch and listen to, or if you have the book at home read, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle. This book provides lots of learning opportunities to discuss healthy eating, life cycles, counting, colours and days of the week. There is lots to talk about with your child as you enjoy the story together. Please find the link to the story below:
We hope you and your child enjoy this weeks story 🙂 Maybe you can spot some butterflies in your garden or when you are out walking or maybe you would like to draw or make one.
The days of the week are mentioned in the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The link below leads to a Days of the Week song we sing in Primary 1. Your child might like to watch it, learn it or sing along 🙂
http://thesingingwalrus.com/videos-and-songs/general-topics/days-of-the-week-song/
Feel free to share any of your learning with us by emailing laura.donnelly@westlothian.org.uk if you would like or just enjoy the story together 🙂
Home Learning in P2W
Good morning everyone,
I hope you are all well and have been enjoying the sun over the weekend. I am very impressed by all of the pictures I was sent in last week from your home learning. You have all been working extremely hard and it is amazing to see how much progress you are making.
Here is some of our fantastic work!
Missing you all. Keep up all the hard work!
Miss Walkingshaw
P2 Home Learing Grid
Good morning everyone! We hope you have had a lovely weekend enjoying the lovely weather. It is Health Week so you will notice there is a focus on Health and Wellbeing this week. Mr Millar has also included a Health Week grid on the blog so have a look to see some of the fun learning activities he has planned for you.
New Spelling words are attached for each group. The focus this week is magic e with an u and CVC word practice. Remember to practise reading and writing these words in different ways. There is no Collins Literacy on the grid this week, however, feel free to continue to read these texts for enjoyment in your own time. This activity will be back on the grid next week. Here are the levels for each group in both classes again as a reminder.
P2M
Lions – Gold
Giraffes – Orange
Zebras – Yellow
Elephants – Pink/Red
P2W
Crocodiles: Gold
Zebras: Orange
Giraffes: Green
Koalas: Pink/Red
Have a great week and remember to enjoy spending time outside as much as you can. Stay safe everyone.
Miss Marra and Miss Walkingshaw
