On Friday 3rd March we got to dress up or dress down for World Book Day. We also read books and wrote some stories of our own. We then used the spinner which chose three people to read their stories out to the read of the class.
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P3a Book Week
During book week we took part in lots of great activities. We received visits from several secret readers. We went to the library and got our Read, Write, Count bags and a book from the Queen. We also listened to stories and read with each other. We took part in the Book Week bookmark competition by drawing our favourite animals character from a book. It has been a brilliant week.
Coming Soon! Book Week Scotland 2022
Book Week Scotland is almost here!
From Monday 14th November we will be celebrating all kinds of books.
Please look out for this newsletter which has all the information about Book Week Scotland at East Calder Primary School.
We are delighted to be able to invite parents and carers of Primary 1, 2 and 3 pupils into school during Book Week to enjoy some relaxing reading time in our school library.
P1 Monday 14th Nov 2.30pm
P3 Tues 15th Nov 2.30pm
P2 Wed 16th Nov 2.30pm
All classes will have time to read, celebrate books and authors and take part in a competition.
We will also take this opportunity to issue all pupils with their copy of the late Queen’s Jubilee book.
If you would like to to find out more about Book Week Scotland please visit the Scottish Book Trust online.
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-scotland
Looking forward to a fantastic, fun-filled Book Week!
A Busy Week for P5/4
In P5/4, we have had a very busy week with all our learning. On Thursday, it was World Book Day and we celebrated by starting the day with “Relax and Read.” Our favourite thing about this is choosing where in the classroom we would like to read (as long as we choose a safe place.) As you will see from our photos, we chose some interesting places to enjoy a book.
We have been learning how to see ourselves as readers and we know that we enjoy reading more when we get to choose books we like. One of the highlights of our week was our first visit to the library. Unfortunately, Miss Marra forgot to pictures as she was enjoying it so much too. Caitlin proudly cut the ribbon and we were so excited to enjoy our new space. It was hard to choose from so many comfortable and exciting places to read. The choice of books was amazing too. Some of us even chose to read some nostalgic books from when we were younger. One of our favourites was Stick Man and Elmer. We can’t wait to go back for our next visit.
Another highlight in our learning this week was when we engaged in Drama to clarify our understanding of a text. In class, we have been reading the Harry Potter series as our class novels. We are currently reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We engaged in a “Hot Seat” learning activity in which we chose to be in role as a character from the series and everyone had to ask us questions. Miss Marra modelled our learning first by being “in role” as Draco Malfoy which everyone found hilarious. Our Drama skills were very impressive and we used our knowledge of our chosen character well to engage in this learning activity.
We engage in Mental Maths daily and we have been working hard on using division to solve problems. We are developing our confidence using the “Bus Stop Method” and this is helping us apply our knowledge to word problems.
Our new Maths Topic is “Time.” We started our topic by having a great class discussion about why we need to learn to tell the time. We use time so much in our daily lives! We have been practising some of the different times we already know e.g. o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. We engage in outdoor Maths and Numeracy every Thursday, and this week we practised telling the time in the playground. Struan did the honours, drawing a large analogue clock with our chalk. We then practised different times with some of us representing the hands. We had to jump to the correct number and we were able to talk about why this was the correct number, using the Numeracy skills we know and our prior knowledge of time. Our next step is to move on to five minute intervals.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
Coming soon .. our Library opening event ..and World Book Day!
As part of our Reading Schools Award we are working to promote reading for pleasure and enjoyment.
A growing number of studies show reading can have a major impact on on children and young people’s attainment, self-confidence and well-being.
Next week we will be opening our long awaited, refurbished library (just in time for World Book Day on Thursday 4th March) We hope everyone will enjoy reading and exploring all the fantastic books we have. Classes will be invited along for an opening event and then will have an allocated time each week to spend in the library.
This is what our library looked like before..
Each pupil has been given a token for World Book Day which can be exchanged at participating retailers (Waterstones book shop in Livingston is one) for a selection of short, free books or used to discount other books by £1. The tokens can be used from now until 27th March.
NEXT FRIDAY 4th March we will be celebrating World Book Day by dressing up ..or down .. if you wish. We would really love to see some characters from books!
We are looking forward to a fun…and book-filled week ahead!
Article 31 (leisure, play and culture): Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
P3 Book Week
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.
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!
This week in P3B!
It’s so good to be back P3B! You are all enjoying being in school again and playing with your friends.
This week we have been working hard on our 3 and 4 times tables. We love to use animated clips or videos to help us skip count in 3s and 4s. We are learning how to work out multiplication word problems and we wrote the 4 times table in the playground using chalk.
We have used word boost this week to help us learn new words and understand what they mean.
We started our Ancient Egypt topic and we wrote down what we know already. Most of us know they have pyramids there but we are not sure why. As a class we came up with three big questions that we want to find the answers to.
In Science we have been experimenting with magnets which was good fun!
On Thursday we had a great World Book Day. We looked at the books in our school library and we are trying to find out what the best book in the world is. We also found out about working in publishing. The jobs of editor and illustrator sound really interesting.
We love lots of different books. What is your favourite book?
P2/1 Learning
Primary 2/1 have been working very hard this week for Mrs Turner.
Literacy
Primary 1 have been revising their phonics this week and Primary 2 have been learning the sound ‘oo’ with words such as look and book. Primary 1 have also been practising their blending of sounds to sound out words. The hula hoop jumping activity for this was much enjoyed.
Numeracy and Mathematics
Primary 2 have been doing more work on learning their doubles and near doubles. They are also learning to count in twos. Primary 1 have been learning more about Number Bonds to 10, for example, different ways to make 10. 6+4, 7+3 etc. They have also been introduced to 2D shapes.
Road Safety and Book Week
It’s been a fun week for P2/1 with lots of fun activities to learn about Road Safety and reading opportunities for Book Week. Primary 1 took home their BookBug gift bag and Primary 2 took home their Read Write Count gift bag. We hope that children and parents enjoy these gifts from the Scottish Book Trust.
Pirate Topic
The children enjoyed painting parrots as part of their learning about pirates and these have been displayed on the wall.
Mrs Meikle
Book Week Scotland P3B
It’s Book Week!
On Monday everyone was excited to see all the super things in our Read, Write, Count bags.
We have looked at the books called ‘Look Up!’ and ‘Wow! Animals’ and we discussed fiction and non- fiction books.
We really loved the tape measure and used it to measure things in the class and out in the playground at playtime. This will help us to learn how to estimate accurately.
We played with card sets and made up some games of our own.
There are lots of great ideas and activities in the Parent Club booklet to help children extend their learning. You may also like to look at the Scottish Book Trust website.
Happy Reading Everyone!
www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookbug
