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Math Week in P3A

As part of Maths Week Scotland, we engaged in a wide range of activities designed to make learning fun and meaningful. Pupils participated in the Sumdog Competition, created pictures using a variety of shapes, and designed hundreds square art pieces. They also explored construction by building shapes with magnetic cubes and used star shapes in the tuff tray to build, create pictures, and sort by colour. In addition, pupils experimented with 3D shapes and developed pattern-making skills using the drill set. It was a week full of rich learning experiences through play.

P3A Learning

We discussed our school rules and what they mean for us. To show our agreement of keeping to the rules – Ready, Respect, Safe we created our superhero selves. Look carefully and you may even see a Super Teacher!!

We have started off the year well and to help us we have been playing different listening games. We are remembering that at East Calder Primary we show respect by listening. This looks like sitting still, looking at the person who is talking, listening to all the words, following instructions, staying quiet when someone is talking and using kind words to reply.

We have been learning about place value using hundreds, tens, and ones. We had to use them to create a place value monster then work out what its number was. We also cut and stuck a paper copy in our jotters. A very fun way to learn!!

We have been learning to find and use adjectives in sentences. We worked together to highlight adjectives in a passage and have started writing our own descriptions following PM Writing Scheme. So far we have written about Lions and elephants.

We are learning to develop our knowledge of telling the time. We have worked on o’clock, half past, quarter past and some of us are beginning to use quarter to. We are learning to swap between analogue and digital. We made these clocks to help us in our learning.

 

P3A Hubs Week 2

This we we were working on the Meta Skill Social Intelligence. This meant we were communicating, collaborating and leading. We listened to the story Jack and the Beanstalk and thought about the characters and main points. We discussed how the characters would act, what they say and talked about how the story would be better with sound effects. We then split into smaller groups, each with a different character or main point noise to make. We worked together to think how best to create the sounds required. We then came back together and went through the story this time adding in our own sound effects. We had lots of tapping on tables for characters walking or running and the Giant’s footsteps made with slaps on the floor. We had some really good hens clucking around and the harp was made by someone hitting their water bottle. Our Giant’s voice was very good when he bellowed ‘Fee, fi fo, fum’. We had good fun collaborating together to create all these sound effects and it all came together to make the story come to life for us.

P3A Hubs Week 1

We were working on Meta Skill of INNOVATION. We had to use our creativity to come up with a new wild animal, thinking about how it moved, where it lived, how and what it ate and how it defended itself. We got to choose if we worked on it individually, in a pair or in a small group (and for once we got to choose out partners!). Once we had drawn and annotated our creature we then used any resource in the classroom to build it. Lots of us used Lego while others tried making it from card. We then recorded ourselves or took a picture, to be added to our Seesaw accounts, explaining how our creature moved, where it lived, how and what it ate and how it defended itself. Next week we will use our creature in our story writing. A great fun filled afternoon!

P3A Learning

This week we have been completing lots of work inspired by the story Ruby’s Worry.  It will be used for a West Lothian Council Creativity in Literacy Competition.  Please see Sway to find out about our learning.

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Future Oscar Winning Actors in East Calder Primary!

We have started the term with a very busy few weeks in Drama. It has been lovely working with every class and the children should be so proud of how much they have embraced their new learning opportunities in Drama, with a positive attitude and eagerness to learn. Well done everyone! Below are a few examples of some of the learning in Drama so far this term. We always start every Drama lesson with a game to get us warmed up and ready to learn.

Primary 6 pupils worked hard to create a short improvised drama using role-play cards and performing it for the class. We have been working on using a variety of facial expressions, projecting our voice and diction. We gave feedback on each performance linked to our co-created Success Criteria. 

Primary 5 have also been working on short improvised dramas using Improv cards. Well done to these two fantastic learners who presented their short drama to the class using facial expressions and voice. In Primary 5 we are working on diction to make sure we speak clearly.

We have also started exploring the features of a script and we are learning to analyse scripted language. We are also practising reading from a script and we are excited to perform for the class using the Drama techniques we have been learning.

In Primary 3, we are learning to take on roles and use facial expressions, voice and movement in role-play. We have recently been engaging in “hot seating” in characters from stories. We have also been using freeze frames to act out chapters from “I Don’t Want To” by Bel Mooney. We have been in character and have been learning to use fantastic facial expressions to show different emotions.

In Primary 1, we have been playing games to practise using our voice, actions and facial expressions. We are starting to use our learning to act out stories. We have particularly enjoyed re-telling stories using puppets.

Watch this space for more regular updates about our learning in Drama! There are definitely some future performers in our school. Well done for all your hard work so far everyone!

Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.

P3 Learning

We are growing in confidence in using arrays to help with our division. We looked at different arrays and were able to write the 4 family calculations that go with them. Two multiplication and 2 division. ie. 5 x 4 = 20, 4 x 5 = 20, 20 / 4 = 5 & 20 / 5 = 4.

As part of our learning to understand what we read, this week we started to work on clarifying what we read. We worked with random partners to work out what an ‘alien’ word in a sentence could be replaced with. For example if our sentence was Mark looked at the gkdoiaful flower. Some of us replaced the ‘alien’ word with wonderful or beautiful. We had to think of the whole sentence and make sure it still made sense.

 

P3 Learning

We have been developing our core stability and balance. We have highlighted key points for balancing effectively and efficiently with control. We have been also been learning how to travel safely in a variety of ways across equipment.

This week we were using our body to create different shapes. We have learned how to make pike,tuck,straddle and many more! Exploring these shapes helps to develop our flexibility, strength and balance.

We have been learning and practicing our French. Today we counted to 20 using the mini bean bags. We also coloured in a French Flag for the Language Hub’s competition.

P3 Scot’s Week

This week we took part in lots of different learning. We engaged with Fischy Music Scot’s concert and even got a ‘shout out’ from the presenters. We listened to some short stories in Scot’s, including The Boy in the Bunnet, and thought about all the Scot’s words we knew. We thought about and drew what the Loch Ness Monster might look like. We learned and recited a Scot’s poem to the class. We learned about Scot’s words for different parts of the body and sang Heid, shoulders, knaps & taes.

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