Category: Primary 1

Learning in P2/1 and P2.

P2 and P2/1 had a super time at The Scottish Owl Centre in Polkemet.
We took part in a ‘Hoots for Dinner’ game, where we learned about what some owls eat and saw an owl fly from perch to perch. One of our highlights was seeing a baby owl. We all thought it looked very fluffy, small and cute!

After lunch we had a go on the Owl slide and had great fun at the park.
We’ve been outside in this lovely weather. We worked in pairs to draw analogue clocks. We’ve been working on o’clock, half past and quarter past times.

 Article 28: I have the right to learn
Article 31: I have the right to play

P1a News

We’ve had a really busy week in P1a.

In Maths we have been continuing to learn about time and have been reading o’clock and half past times on digital and analogue clocks.

Our new sound this week was ‘ai’ and we made a list of ‘ai’ words, but soon realised that this sound can be written differently e.g bear, whale etc. We also tried to make words that rhyme and used magnets and flip charts to make rhyming word families.

On Wednesday we had our sharing the learning afternoon. Thank you to all the parents and carers who were able to come along. We had a great time trying out all of the senses activities. We had smelling pots to guess the smell, tasting activities to identify sweet, sour, bitter and salty, shakers to make for the sense of hearing, fun glasses to design for sight and lots of different textures to stick onto a huge hand for the sense of touch. It was agreed afterwards that the tasting one was the best!

 

Working and Playing hard in and around The Hive

We have had another very busy and successful term in The Hive.  The children have been working hard on their Literacy, Numeracy and social skills in a variety of different ways.

Henry enjoyed using our numicon materials to help him enhance his addition and subtraction skills.

Kayden and Aria were focusing on times tables.  They asked each other a times tables question and the answer was hidden in the sand!

Eoin was very focussed when learning his tricky words, as they were hidden in a wordsearch.

Alex and Glen were developing their fine and gross motor skills by using bikes and scooters in the playground.  They were learning how to balance as well as sharing and taking turns.


Happy Red Nose Day! P2/1 had a great time dressing in red for Comic Relief today.

This week we have been learning to use tally marks to record information. We found out about our favourite animals and favourite toys. P2 have been dividing by 2 and P1 have been learning to ‘share equally’.

We read our reading books to our reading buddies in the library and P2 learned five new Word Boost words from The Tobermory Cat by Debi Gliori.

Learning in P2/1

P2/1 had a really great time in their Judo taster session last week. Everyone was tired out at the end of it! The pupils enjoyed working together.


We were very excited to share our learning about Scotland with our parents and carers this week. We showed our jotter work, built Scottish castles, designed a Nessie and created tartans. We thought the tasting table with the shortbread and oatcakes was the most popular activity!

Yesterday was World Book Day. We could come to school dressed as a character from a book. We liked sharing our favourite stories with our classmates. We made our own mini books and could say that a front cover needs a title, the name of the author and the name of the illustrator. Some of us copied our favourite book.

Learning In and Around The Hive

We were looking at different ways to learn some new numeracy and maths skills.  We took our learning outdoors and Henry was looking for different shapes in the woods.  Kayden and Aria were doing a times tables challenge.  They were asking each other a times tables question then looking for the answer in the sand.  Eoin was looking at different shapes, sizes, lengths and widths to make some fabulous creations in the Block play.

Glen and Alex were working on their fine and gross motor skills and enjoyed using the new outdoor toys!

Learning in P2/1

Last week was story-telling week and we had great fun listening to stories in our class library. We scanned QR codes to watch our choice of story on the iPads.

We’ve been learning about Scotland and used our problem solving and teamwork skills to design a Scottish castle. We had a choice of junk modelling with boxes, iPads or Lego. We presented our designs to the class. One our castles even had a hot tub!

We are looking forward to sharing our learning with parents/carers on 2nd March.

RRS Article 28: We have the right to learn. Article 29: We have the right to develop our skills and abilities.

Learning inP2/1

This week has been Scots Week at East Calder. P2/1 have enjoyed listening to stories about Katie Morag. We were really surprised and excited to receive a letter from her! She was asking us to design a new tartan skirt. Her one had been ruined when she was trying to deliver the mail. We used our fine motor skills to use a ruler and created these fantastic tartans.
In music we’ve been learning to keep a steady beat by clapping and dancing along to Scottish music. This is our favourite song:

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rhymes/katie-bairdie-audio

We did a brilliant job of reciting our poems in Scots and are really looking forward to hearing all the winners at our Scots school assembly next Friday.

(Article 28: We have the right to learn. Article 29: We have the right to develop our skills and abilities.)

 

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