It was great to start making links with our local community once again. With it being the festive season P6 were keen to visit Manse Court in East Calder and share some Christmas Joy. We exchanged christmas cards, some Christmas goodies and even a rendition of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer! We hope that this will be just the beginning of developing our links with the community with a planned visit to the Partnership Centre already in the diary. Many thanks to our parent helpers.
Continuing on from last week’s learning on place value we have been working on Hundred’s, Ten’s & One’s. We had to find our partners by working out how many HTO’s a number had, then we had to get into order smallest to biggest. We had checkers to make sure we had completed it correctly. Then we got into our groups and worked on different activities. One group work on Seesaw and had to put numbers in order and say which were greater than & less than while another worked with the concrete material. Another group were given a 3 digit challenge to work out all the numbers that could be made from the 3 digits. They then had to work out which were odd and which were even and then put them in order. They were then challenged further by using 4 digits.
It has been a very exciting week in school!
We loved the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk and took part in lots of activities in class. We even built our own beanstalk!
We have been busy practising our Nativity and trying on our costumes too!
Our new sound this week was ‘w’ and we have been learning to copy patterns, play pattern games and have started making our own patterns.
On Monday please return all reading books and book bags. Also please send in clothes as requested for the nativity.
Many thanks
This week we have been learning about the value of numbers. We used the 100 square on the smart board and had to click on the correct number. If the number had 5 tens and 3 ones we would click on 53. Once we were confident in this we moved onto numbers to 1000. For this we used the place value flip chart. If the number had 3 hundreds, 4 tens and 3 ones we had to make the chart read 348. We are going to keep working on this next week.
The children (and staff!!) have been getting ready for Christmas. Mr Fazakerley made an amazing Christmas tree for the Hive which the children helped to decorate.
We have also designed our own Christmas jumpers whilst wearing our Christmas jumpers! We wrote letters to Santa and made Christmas pictures using different 2d shape. Super learning and fun!
We had another informative visit from Alan Hamilton. We looked at what it was like for children during WWII, covering: jobs, accommodation, evacuees, toys, rationing and sweets! It was useful to link our findings with the UNCRC and our rights today.
The pupils felt inspired by Alan’s information on WWII games, so we decided to go outside and try some of them out, we even came up with some of our own.
Congratulations to our P7 Sportshall Athletics Team who won the WLC East Conference competition. The team will now represent West Lothian at the East of Scotland Regional event on the 1st of March 2023. Well done to everyone involved and good luck at regionals!
We have been learning about money and have had a great time playing in our class shop. We are beginning to recognise different coins and starting to add coins together. We also love to play the ‘topmarks toy shop’ game in the iPads.
We have been extending our vocabulary during our learning about the weather. We learned the words ‘condensation’, ‘evaporation’ and ‘precipitation’. We played one of our favourite games in class (corners) to help us remember the different words.
This week Primary 1 have been very busy learning about measure. We used a balance scale and have been using the words heavier and lighter to describe the objects we weighed. We then estimated what we thought some classroom items might weigh then recorded how many cubes it took to make the scale balance. We used measuring cups to make reindeer food to sell tomorrow at the Christmas Fayre.
In Literacy we have been learning the new sound ‘j’. Some of us have been identifying and writing beginning sounds and others have been writing small words; stretching out the words to write the beginning, ending and middle sound.
We have started going onto the stage to practise our nativity and were very excited when the tickets went home!
We have always been discussing how to stay safe near roads and have learnt Super Cat’s rules; Stop! Look both ways. Listen. Think!
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