On Saturday 26th August you managed to get your first clean sweep,winning all three races at School House MX. You told us you were very happy to achieve your goals as this was your last race on a 65cc. Congratulations,a great achievement.
How can a mouse have a longer shadow than a cat?
In Science we have been investigating lights and shadows. The P5’s were tasked to investigate how a mouse could have a longer shadow than a cat. After creating cat and mouse shadow puppets they set about investigating the changing size of shadows. They discovered that when the light source is at a higher angle, the shadow is shorted. By playing around with the angles of the light source we were able to make the shadow of the mouse longer than the cat’s.
The P3’s and P4’s have been learning about magnets and forces. We have designing our own ‘Magnet Mazes’ for our classmates to try and escape! There were some fantastic designs and some very creative rules to follow!
Mascot for the day!
What a great Saturday this must have been…..except for the score. Mascot for the day at Livingston FC. As the Mascot you got to meet the Livingston players in the home dressing room and have a tour of the stadium. You then had the opportunity of a kick about on the park,with a photo shoot with your favourite player. Finally, you waited in the tunnel for the players and got to run out with the team. What an amazing experience!
UNCRC in P3/2
We are learning about the UNCRC – United Nations Convention on the Rights of Every Child as our Topic this term. At the beginning of the term, we learned about the Rights to help us create our Class Charter and we have been exploring what the rights mean to us. We used play dough to create a Right of our choice. We watched a video about the Rights of the Child and identified the Rights we already knew. We enjoyed learning some new Rights too.
This amazing learner is showing Article 27: We have the right to a safe place to live.
Article 31: We have the right to relax and play.
We were very focused on our learning and we identified this as one of the skills we had to use to be successful learners.
Literacy Bump It Up Wall in P3/2
We are working hard in Writing and we are using our Bump It Up Wall to support our learning. We have been learning to peer-assess our writing and we all know our targets. We are using our Bump It Up Wall to create individual targets too. We are so proud of all our hard work so far! Stay tuned to see some more excellent examples of our writing.
We have also been practising writing a description on our desks with white board pens. We are working hard to make sure we include each section of a descriptive text and we are becoming more independent. In this writing, we were describing “Tidy Teddy.” This amazing learner used some fantastic adjectives to bump her writing up.
This is the beginning of Ellie’s writing. We are learning to write a description and this piece of writing was describing one of our positive behaviour class animals “Positive Penguin.” Ellie has included a title, an introduction and she has started using adjectives to describe “Positive Penguin.” We cannot to see what she writes next!
We have been working so hard that we have forgotten to take more photos of our fantastic writing. We will share more of our writing with you next week and we are very excited to show our progress.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
Primary 3
Although it has been a short week we have still learned lots. We looked at a picture and had to predict what we thought was happening. Then we wrote sentences about it.
We continued to work with money and started giving each other different amounts. Some people could work with coins to 10 pence while others could give amounts up to £10. We will keep challenging ourselves with our learning.
Last week was International Dot Day. We read the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds. We were then given a black dot sticker to put anywhere on our piece of paper. Then we had to use our imagination to create a picture using the dot. We came up with lots of different ideas. Come look at our Art Board to see some of our creations.
Primary 4A Learning
Primary 4 have been working with NYCOS on Wednesday afternoons to develop their music and singing skills. This week we were learning about rhythm and pulse.
In maths we have been learning about money and using coins. Learners have been converting pounds to pence and deciding which combination of coins would be the most efficient to pay for items.
Team 2 cleaned out Salt this week. Making sure to save some of her bedding to make it smell familiar. We hid some treats and chews around her gerbilarium to keep her busy and happy. We have been writing descriptions of her in class this week.
P3 Skills
We have been working hard to focus on our work. We often work in random partnerships so communication is important as is working as a team. We take part part in a Friday Challenge most weeks and have to use our creativity and problem solving skills. We also use lots of different skills when we play. In these pictures you can see use problem solving, focusing, creating, communicating and working as part of a team.
Learning in Primary 4A
This week we have been learning about descriptive language and planning to write our own descriptions. We started by writing descriptive vocabulary to describe our class pet. We then organised descriptive words into groups. In teams we made a description bubble for our class writing wall. We used words to describe the colour, size, number, texture and shape of a person or thing. We tried to be as creative as we could using words, pictures, photographs or play dough to present our ideas.
Both Primary 4 classes had their first session with NYCOS on Wednesday. We were learning about pitch, temp and pulse when singing.
We have been thinking about the well-being indicator’s in class. We worked in pairs to make models that represent what each indicator means to us.
Primary 4A Number Talks
Primary 4 have been working on identifying patterns in our choral counting this week. We counted in 2s and 3s and identified interesting patterns as a class. We also worked on finding different calculations to create our target number in our ‘broken calculator’ challenge. Learners tried to find the most efficient ways to create a number with a selected range of digits and symbols. We shared some creative and interesting strategies and overcame some challenges.
