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.
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!
This week has been out of this world! Literally! We’ve been very fortunate to have some real meteorite samples loaned to us from the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. What an amazing opportunity to hold, feel and look at some incredible rocks that have been travelling through space for millions (and even billions) of years.
Everyone was so engaged and respectful when handling these very precious materials. Hopefully you have heard all about it at home.
Last week we were visited by a lady from The Dogs Trust.
‘We learned how to be safe around dogs’ Mia.
‘We should be quiet around dogs and if they have taken one of your socks or toys tell and adult. Be gentle, they don’t want cuddles, they want a wee stroke. Leave dogs alone when they are eating.’ Kayla.
‘We were seeing what kinds of buildings were in Main Street’ Mia.
‘We drew pictures of the buildings in Main Street. We made a pictogram to show the information.’ Alexus.
‘We were playing with the parachute in PE. We had to run underneath. We made a tent and sat underneath. We sat on it to hold it down.’ Fawn.
We had fun.
‘This week we have been learning about Barbara Hepworth. She made sculptures.’ Alfie.
‘We used clay to make shape sculptures.’ Kayla.
‘Mine was called the Tunnel Tree’ Leonor.
It was Science Week this week. Mrs Beattie set us all a challenge.
‘We had to stretch a curly wurly’ Mia.
‘We had to warm it up first’ Maris.
‘If we didn’t warm it up it would break’ Jenson.
Our longest curly wurly was 110 cm!
Yesterday was World Book Day.
‘We watched Emily MacKenzie. She was reading ‘Broccoli Ice Cream’.’ Alexus
‘We had to listen to all the words so that we could copy her drawing of Granville the Dog’ Kayla.
All the pictures looked amazing.
‘Today was PJ day. We had a comfy reading day.’ Leonor.
‘We were reading books in the library with our Buddies’ Tymon.
We also made little books so we could write our own stories.
‘My favourite part was making the little books because it was good fun’ Finlay.
‘My favourite part was when we read with our Buddies in the library’ Fawn and Myah.
It has been a very busy few weeks in P2/1. Before the holidays we chose to learn more about Scotland. We started by finding Scotland on a World map, then a European map and then, the P2s found East Calder on a map of Scotland.
After that we thought about what we wanted to focus on. Finlay said he wanted to learn more about the bridges and rivers of Scotland. Nearly the whole class wanted to learn more about the castles of Scotland.
We had great fun using our ‘teamwork’ skills to build bridges from different materials. We presented our bridges to the class.
Our bridges had to be sturdy enough to span the two tables.
The P2s wrote information reports about bridges and the P1s wrote some sentences about the bridges we had made.
We thought it would be great to try building castles and to compare the materials we used.
We thought the Lego and the junk modelling was the best to make our castles.
In maths we have been learning about fractions. P1 were cutting items into halves and P2 were exploring halves and quarters of numbers.
We have all been learning about tally marks.
“I made ten with the pencils!”.
During languages week we taught each other how to say ‘hello’ in different languages. In our class, we can say hello, in Urdu, Polish, French, Portuguese, Spanish and British Sign Language!
We are really enjoying our music lessons with Dave. We have been playing shakers to tell a story about a train ride. We were singing and playing our instruments loudly and quietly. We had good fun dancing and stopping to the beat of the drum.
It was great to see so many parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles who came to our ‘Sharing the Learning’!
Primary 1 were so excited to share some of their Scots Week activities. We made kilts, a model Nessie (using our push, pull and twist forces), built castles and discussed and ate some Scottish food. We were super detectives trying to ‘I Spy’ a picture of a Burns Supper.
Shortbread was the favourite food in both classes.
We ended with a ‘Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes’ song!
Have a lovely weekend!
It’s been a busy week back to school in P2/1. We have been using numicon to investigate number bonds and have had fun listening to the months of the year song in maths.
We are continuing to build and blend letters to read words in our reading books and have been practising Fry’s words along with our handwriting.
This week we listened to information about two planets: Jupiter and Saturn. We enjoyed watching The Space Explorers on CBeebies and could tell the class some facts we learned.
