We had lots of fun activities to help in our learning this week. We received new books for our class library and have been reading them each day when the bell rang to tell us to ‘Drop everything & read’. We were read some new stories and created a big display with our ideas from the book Octopus Shocktopus. We used an idea from the book to design and label our perfect house. We took part in ‘design a book mark’ competition. We learned about exclamation marks and found some in books in the class. We listened to David Williams & Julia Donaldson on Author’s Live. We took our books to the playground to read during Outdoor Learning. We found verbs in our reading books, completed some Readingwise and Giglets tasks and we each received our ‘Read, Write, Count’ bags containing two new books and lots of other surprises.
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Distinction in Flute – P7A
Book Week Scotland
It is Book Week Scotland from today until 21st November.
This is annual event by the Scottish Book Trust. You can find more information on their website.
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com
I hope you enjoy reading some of the great new books in your class library.
Happy reading everyone!
Health and Wellbeing P7A/7B
We asked our P7’s what they thought Health and Wellbeing looked like at East Calder Primary. Using the HWB recovery curriculum as a springboard the classes produced individualised posters demonstrating what Health and Wellbeing means to them. Under the headings Recover,Reflect and Re-explore and using the wellbeing indicators,our school rules and our LEARN values they created these child friendly go to reminders. These have been shared with the West Lothian Health and Wellbeing team. I think you will agree they did a great job not only on the artwork but also making relevant and viable links to our Wellbeing Indicators.
West Lothian Museum Services -P7B
Fantastic to welcome Maureen Liddell fromWest Lothian Museum Services to our class today. She shared with us a range of aretefacts and stories relating to our current context of WW2. We learnt about how our country prepared for war,discussing rationning,evacuation and shelters. The class were fortunate enough to handle a range of artefacacts including a gas mask,identity cards,ration coupons and even an ARP warden helmet. This visit links closely to the work we are doing in PM writing at the moment where we are looking closely at the features and layout of a recount.
Competition Winners
Outside School Achievements 7B
Congratulations to these 2 very active members of 7B! On Saturday 6th November they both attended a dance show at Howden Park Theatre. They have not participated in one for over 2 years, due to Covid, and said it was fantastic to be back.They had lots of different outfits,telling me all about the sparkles and glitter! There were lots of different types of dancing involved from cheer,jazz,to hiphop and highland. The girls explained that as the curtain lifts your heart begins to beat so quickly but as soon as the music starts you begin dancing and you have the time of your life! Amazing,wish I could of watched you. Sounds fantastic.