We are looking forward to welcoming our parents/carers to our Primary 1 Reading Event on Wednesday 20th November at 9.00am. Please access the hall via the doors from the quad playground. After a short presentation in the hall with Mrs Donnelly, parents/carers will join their child in their classroom to participate with some literacy activities. Primary 1 children will be gifted with their ‘Bookbug Bag’ on Wednesday also. We hope they enjoy reading the stories at home.
We have had a very busy week in Primary 2M. We have learned more about pirates, designing our own pirate flag for Captain Abigail and finding a real pirate flag in our class. In Phonics, we were excited to use our new overlays and we used our Say, Make, Write boards to help us read, make and write our words.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
This week our writing lesson was great fun. We were given a person card with a job they would do and had to describe their character. Then we were given a setting card and we had to think of adjectives to describe it. Finally we were given a natural disaster card and had to write notes about what would happen. So we might have had a nurse on Mars when a hurricane happens or a farmer in a supermarket during an earthquake. It was hilarious!!! Next week we will be using these notes to write an imaginary story. We can’t wait to share the results.
Article 28: We have the right to learn.
We have been so busy working hard and getting used to our new routines in Primary 2 which means this is our first blog post of the year.
In Literacy and Maths, we have been taking part in learning activities at stations where we are provided with opportunities to say, write, make and do different tasks to help us with our learning.
In Literacy we have learned th, sh and ch words e.g. with, ship, chat. This week, we are learning words that begin with “wh.” Some of us are also practising reading and writing CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant; e.g. cat, mop, bug etc). Please support your child to practise reading and writing these words at home. Your child will also have opportunities to practise their sounds as part of their homework grid. In Maths we have been working on numeral identification and we have been working hard to order and sequence numbers within 100.
Every morning, we take part in Smart Start when we come into the classroom. We work individually, in pairs or groups on different learning activities including games, puzzles, mindfulness colouring, letter formation, quiet reading and making numbers using concrete materials such as cubes, counting sticks or numicon. This helps us to feel calm and ready for the day.
Our new Topic is “The Human Body.” So far, we have learned about the brain, the heart and the skeleton. We even made brain hats to show the sides of our brains and how they are used. We worked hard in groups to make skeletons which was a great challenge and we can’t wait to show them off at Parents’ Evening.
Just a reminder about our P.E days in Primary 2: P2M – Wednesday and Thursday. P2W – Tuesday and Wednesday.
Thanks to all our visitors at our Open Afternoon. We had a great time showing them different Literacy activities to help improve our spelling, writing and reading comprehension. We will be developing these skills throughout the year and look forward to sharing with you again.
Today Primary 5J had a fantastic day in the sun. Last week, we took our learning about instruction writing and created our own new games as part of our Health learning. Today, every child taught a short lesson about their game. We then evaluated their instructions and provided them with Stars and Wishes. We will be putting all of our fantastic ideas into a book to provide pupils and staff with different games that they can play!
Both Primary 4 classes will be visiting East Calder Library on Thursday 16th May. The children will have the chance to swap the library books they have been reading. Adult helpers have already been arranged.
We have had a successful start to the new term in P3R with some super writing!
This week we were listening to Chapter 1 in the story of ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes.
We have been writing about what we think would happen next in the story.
We used our target checklist to peer assess our partner’s work and gave them positive feedback.
We also have been thinking about our next steps in writing for this term. Some of us are working on spelling, punctuation or vocabulary.
We can’t wait to find out what happens next in the story.
We are continuing to work hard in Phonics and we have been learning compound words this week e.g. football, corkscrew etc. We will be moving on to soft c and soft g words over the next few weeks e.g. page, cell. We will engaging in a range of learning activities to practise reading and writing words with these sounds. Please support your child to practise these sounds at home.
Thank you for your continued support.
Miss Marra and Miss Cameron
