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!
In our Literacy lessons we are looking at the features and layout of a Procedure. We discussed the 4 parts to a set of Instructions
Title
Goal
Materials
Steps
We also looked at adding a Top Tip and diagrams to help our reader!
Using these skills in an everyday context we had a fantastic melted snowman sugar cookie made by a member of our class.She told us how she carefully followed a procedure,a recipe in this case to make this yummy creation. Well done! It looked amazing.
In Numeracy, we have been using our new geo boards to help us learn multiplication. We always use a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach and we talk about the groups we make to show a calculation.
We have been using the geo boards to make arrays. Last week, we worked hard to make groups of 10 and we could talk confidently about the arrays we made. The photo at the bottom shows Finlay’s creativity with the geo boards. He used the elastic bands to show a calculation in a different way and he enjoyed sharing his strategy. This started a new trend in class as his peers started using the boards in the same way. Well done everyone!
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
“10 x 3 = 30.”
We have been working hard to develop ball control skills in P.E. We enjoyed taking our P.E outside on Wednesday for the first time in a while. We used the basketballs to bounce to a partner and the aim of the game was to try and make sure the ball only bounced in the hoop once.
We had a discussion about the skills we were using and we all agreed that teamwork was one of the most important skills. We also identified “adapting” as a skill we used as we had to use a growth mind-set, especially if our partner won more points than us. We are excited to use our skills to play team games.
Article 24: We have the right to be healthy.
Every Friday we work on our handwriting. We practice our letters lots of different ways – white boards, smart board, jotters and wipe clean boards. We work on our letter formation so that we do it correctly in all of our work. Later on this year we will start to join letters so really need to be writing them the correct way.
Congratulations to a member of our class who earned this ribbon for a fancy Dress Halloween Competition in Peebles. Not only was she dressed as a Spider in a web but her horse,Harley also came dressed up in tiny webs too. Sounds Amazing! Well done. Pictures please!!!!
