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Learning in P6

An Explanation

We have been looking at the Explanation Genre. This genre explains how or why something happens. We decided to link our Literacy to our current IDL context of Natural Disasters.

We also used our ICT skills by researching a Natural Disaster of our choice. We created notes in our first draft. We then looked at the features and layout of an Explanation and used this and the genre targets to improve our final draft, ensuring it included all the elements of the genre such as

Title

Identifying Statement

Explanation Sequence

Summary Statement

Congratulations!

Well done Jaysiel,you shared with us your haul of medals! Astro Gymnastics for both participation and 1st place in your competition. You also shared your Edinburgh Marathon Festival medal for completing 1.5 K,very impressive. We enjoyed hearing about your achievements!

P6 Halloween Fun!

A brilliant night with some amazing costumes! Thanks P6 and all the volunteers who gave up their Wednesday night,we all had great fun.

P3A Learning

This week we’re learning to tell the time. Some of us used Play Dough to create the hands of a clock to tell o’clock & half past times. Others tested each other telling quarter past & quarter to using the clock faces. Some were working on changing between analogue & digital times. We also used the laptops to test our knowledge.

This week we started learning to use questions marks. First we practiced writing them, then we had to think about question words. Next we looked at a picture and worked with a random partner to come up and write down questions about it. Lastly we became Question Mark Detectives and hunted for question marks in our reading books.

In Art we thought about the colours of leaves we see just now and then created Autumn pictures.

Book Bag Events P1-3

Read, write and Count and Book Bug bags are gifted by the Scottish Book Trust to all Scottish children in Primary 1 to Primary 3

By providing access to books this helps to develop language, communication and literacy ; and children’s development as readers, as well as providing opportunities for bonding and attachment; relaxation; and comfort in difficult times.

During Book Week Scotland we would be delighted if parents and carers would like to join us to share the stories, books and activities in the bags.

Friday 15th Nov 11.40-12.25 Primary 2 Read, Write and Count bags
Thursday 21st Nov 2.40-3.15pm Primary 1 Book Bug bags
Thursday 28th Nov 2.40-3.15pm Primary 3 Read,Write and Count bags

Please enter by the breakfast club door.

For more information about the Scottish Book Trust please look at their web site.

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-scotland

Happy reading everyone!

P3A Learning

Last week we were learning to use the element of line to draw what we see. We looked closely at a leaf and thought about the shape of it and the lines of the veins. We then drew its outline and tried and copy where all the lines were. Next we looked at the leaf again to see what colours were needed. We thought about light and shadow and shaded our leaf picture so it looked as close the real one as possible.

Calling all Secret Readers … can you help?

During Book Week Scotland (which begins on 18th November) we celebrate reading for enjoyment and aim to show our pupils that adults enjoy sharing books and stories too.

We love to welcome in adults as Secret Readers who come along to read a short story or chapter aloud to classes.

We would be delighted to hear from you if you would like to volunteer as a Secret Reader during the following dates and time.

Week 1

Wednesday 20th Nov 1.30-2.20 pm
Thursday 21st Nov 9.45 – 10.30 am

Week 2

Wednesday 27th Nov 1.30-2.20 pm
Thursday 28th Nov 11.00-12.00 OR 1.30-2.15 pm

Please contact our school office by email and include the following information

your name
which day / time slot you can attend
which age group you prefer and if you would you like to read to your child’s class.

We provide a wide selection of books but are happy if you have a favourite of your own that you enjoy reading.

We would also love to celebrate the number of different languages that we have here in East Calder Primary and would appreciate it if anyone would like to read a short story in a language other than English.

Many thanks for your continued support.

Happy Reading Everyone!

P3A Learning

We have had another busy week with our learning. We are continuing to work with giving exact amounts of money and giving change. We also keep extending our knowledge of times tables. As we have been learning about Farming, we decided to write a description of a tractor. We used our plan to inform our writing. In Art we used different media to create fluffy sheep.

The Clan Merob! P6

Wow,how amazing is this! Emmy and Victoria have made up a game inspired by our class novel Light on Dumyat by Rennie McOwan. The name of their clan is a mix of their two surnames and the game involves all the skills you would need for an adventure in the Scottish hills,just like Gavin,Clare,Michael and Mot! I was so impressed with the game and the bow and arrows you constructed were great! Fantastic to see you having such enthusiasm for the story……we will have to wait and see if our predictions of how it may end are right!

Maths Week in P3A

We were very lucky during Maths Week to have two visitors come in to tell us how they use Maths in their daily work. Mr Malik is a software engineer and uses Maths all the time when he is writing code. He even created a game to show us how the software worked. Then we heard from Callum who runs a company involving small animals. He uses Maths each day for things like measuring how much food or water to give the animals and record the temperatures in the cages.

In class we worked on our times tables with a random partner, using arrays to help us.

We were also very lucky to go on a trip to Almond Valley Heritage Centre to take part in a Maths Trail. Here we found out how the farm used Maths in the past. We met the Miller who used to water wheel to power the wheel to grind the flour. Then the baker had to weigh the flour to make bread. We walked round the farm counting lots of different animals. This helped us gain knowledge for our Topic on Food and Farming.