Monthly Archives: October 2018

General Information

All about assembly

Wow! What a great assembly from P7 today. It was very informative about Japan and what it’s like to live there. From details like population, volcanoes, islands and where in the world it is, to what houses are like inside and manga artwork. There was also a lot of self-evaluation regarding what went well and what could have gone better. Pupils shared their writing and artwork too.

I just want to confirm that P7 arranged the whole assembly themselves. My only job was to merge all the different presentations into one. I am so proud of everyone for their input. Well done!

You can look at a pdf of the PowerPoint here: Assembly

 

General Information, Primary 3/2

P2 This Week

In Number Talks the children have been using their knowledge of doubles to solve addition problems. They went outdoors to start our learning about measure. In phonics they have continued their learning about magic ‘e’ words with a focus on the u-e sound. The children enjoyed sharing their news about their October holidays in Circle Time. In PE we played ball games. We have started practicing our parts for the class assembly on Friday 2nd November at 9:15. Come and join us if you can.

General Information, Primary 3

P3 Weekly Reflection 26.10.18

This week saw the children enjoying their new reading area, we hope we can use this area to increase personal enjoyment in reading.  We also started our Book of the Week presentations and Darcy shared Diary of a Wimpy Kid Double Down by Jeff Kinney.  She thought this was a good choice as it is a book that is funny and will appeal to everyone.

Kayden enjoyed number work this week. Luke N enjoyed learning about the Wellbeing Indicators and having to thinking of his own images to represent these.  The children will be learning more about the Wellbeing Wheel over the coming weeks.  Finn says an easy way to remember it is by remembering the word SHANARRI which stands for Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included.

Joe said his highlight was when we wrote summaries of our learning about the Food and Farming topic.  All of the children were impressed by how much we had could remember.

Lakshya particularly enjoyed our spelling task this week when we worked with a partner to practise our words using beanbags.  The children had to pass the beanbag as they said a letter to spell out the word.  This week we have been revising rules about plurals.

Next week we will begin our new topic on Inventors and we will be thinking about some spooky writing for Halloween.

Have a lovely weekend.

General Information

This week in Primary 6…

This is the first time P6 have done the blog themselves so Miss Marnie and Miss Greig could have a break. (Just kidding!) We all enjoyed it. We also enjoyed learning how to use speech marks.

 

The basketball team have a tournament later today and I’m looking forward to it. – Logan F

In maths this week we had to multiply 2 digit and 3 digit numbers by a single digit.

“I liked the strategy we used to work it out.  We partitioned the number then multiplied the hundreds, tens and units by the single digit and added them together.” – Katy

In Spanish this week we were learning about food. We had to design our own Spanish menus.

“It was good to learn lots of different foods in Spanish!” – Lewis
“I really enjoyed it, because in my restaurant I want it to be a nice posh one.” – Katy
“I really liked designing the menu because it was challenging!” – Logan F
“I loved how we got to choose the prices, because we could make ham 6.50!” – Ainslie
“I enjoyed it because it was hard to make a name up for your restaurant!” – Calum
“I enjoyed making the Spanish menu!” – Sri

In PE we started Badminton this week.

“I liked doing the rally because it was fun!” – Zoe

Some of us went to the handball club on Wednesday.

“I liked the racing part.”-Finlay

“It was fun.”-Cade

“I liked doing the dribbling race.”-Calum

“I liked the dribbling up and down.”-Callan

“I liked dribbling backwards.”-Logan F

 

At bikeability we had to go up to roundabouts and make sure that we knew when to give way.

“We also learned how to go round the roundabout and me and Silvester went last”-Rowan

“At the roundabout we had to signal. It was really hard.”-Charlie

“At the roundabout it was really hard because there was a van behind me and a motorbike to my right and a car to my left”-Silvester

We started redrafting our letters for our penpals.

“I really enjoyed drawing my picture for my penpal.”-Natalie

“I really enjoyed writing to my penpal and getting better at joined up writing.”-Callum L

“It was really fun and I made a few mistakes once or twice.”-Ellie

 

 

 

Primary 1

P1a Learning Reflection W/E 26/10/18

Welcome back! We hope you had a relaxing holiday. We are very lucky  as this week we have been joined by Miss Fraser. Miss Fraser will be with us for five weeks. This week we have been revising the sounds already learned and in particular the sounds u and b. In writing,  we wrote about our family. Our target was copying an adult’s writing from a white board. In Maths, we have been investigating shapes. We identified 2D shapes and 3D shapes. “2D shape is a flat shape.”says Isaac. “3D shapes are not flat.” says Ayden. Some of us went on a shape walk around the school. When we found a shape we took a photo of it.  We also sorted shapes as to whether they had round sides or straight sides. In music we were playing instruments along to the story of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. We used instruments to make the sounds of the grass, water, mud, wind and forest. In art, we created our own planet by printing with paint and bubble wrap. We also coloured in a space rocket. Pictures of our planets to follow when they are finished.

Here are some of the children’s reflections:

Ayden: “I enjoyed revising our sounds.”

Euan: ” I also enjoyed revising our sounds.”

Ziva: ” I liked practising the sounds already learned.”

Leighton: ” I enjoyed making my planet in art.”

Leo: ” I found it tricky when copying my sentence  about my family.”

Ch: ” I found number talks tricky.”

Isaac: ” I found tricky the numbers in our dot patterns this week.”

Primary 4

This Week In P4

The highlights this week for the children have been Tuesday’s outdoor classroom, number talks, story writing and this week’s question challenge.

On Tuesday in the rain the children worked in groups and found a way to make a picture / diagram to illustrate the water cycle.  They had to answer the question as to how the water gets in the cloud and gets out, and what happens in between.  All groups were successful in piecing their knowledge together to find the answer, working collaboratively to discuss, plan and find the resources they needed to make the picture.  There were a few extra additions to their pictures for artistic effect such as speed boats in the river, however they did an amazing job and were able to effectively explain their learning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a great number talks session on Wednesday, and the children went on to extend their knowledge of multiplication strategies.  they particularly liked the x10 and the challenge of ten times a 2, 3, or 4 digit number.

For a number of weeks we have been exploring legends and this week the class finished their planning and began to write their own legend stories. They are very excited and worked well.  Later we will edit and proofread before we publish them.

This week the class were challenged to answer the question Is Livingston Village a town or a village?  It was an interesting debate and the class found it hard to come to a conclusion.

Finally, I would like to share a picture of our learning about the colour wheel which is now on display.  The children really enjoyed the challenge and exploring the different mediums. They really did some amazing work. 

 

Class Posts, Primary 6

This week in Primary 6…

This week we learned how to set up a fish tank.  We had to research to find out what equipment we needed and what steps we had to take to set it up successfully.  After that we wrote instructions for how to set up the tank.  In the afternoon we followed these instructions.

“We washed out the gravel and put it in the tank carefully.” – Leon

“I really enjoyed washing the gravel and liked learning about all the different types of goldfish.” – Rowan

“Then we added tap water and dechlorinator. ” – Cameron

“We had to measure the length, width and height of the tank.  Then we multiplied them.  We used 5 whiteboards to work out the answer.  This was to calculate the volume of the tank.  We then knew we had to put in 3 capfuls of dechlorinator.” – Cameron & Leon

“I actually really enjoyed the maths!” – Leon

“It was hard but we both did it together and that made it better.” – Cameron

“Next we attached the filter.” – Logan F

“I had to attach the flow director and then stick the filter to the side of the tank.” – Logan Y & Callum

“The filter cleans the tank.  It takes in the dirty water and puts out clean water.” – Charlie

“I attached the tubing to the air pump and Cade and Silvester helped to put it in the tank.” – Kyle

“The air pump puts little bubbles into the tank to put oxygen into the water which the fish need to breathe.” – Murray

“The fish have gills to breathe.” – Zoe

Our tank is now ready to be decorated.

“You can’t just dump fish in the tank though.  You have to float the bag on the top of the water so that it gets up the right temperature.” – Charlie

We’ll be visiting a pet shop soon after the holidays and we can’t wait!

 

Our penpal letters finally arrived from Raleigh, North Carolina!  We have started our first draft of replies and will finish them after the holiday.

“I enjoyed writing back to my penpal, Samiyah.  I really like her personality!” – Katy

“My penpal moved school after the teacher posted our letters.  But a new pupil has joined the class so I will be writing to her.” – Zoe

“My penpal’s birthday is on New Year’s Day!” – Murray

“I enjoyed writing to my penpal, Damico, because he’s into tech like me!” – Calum

“I really liked writing to my penpal because it means we’ll get to know someone else!” – Hayley B

“My penpal asked if I liked biscuits.  We thought it was a weird question but then we realised that they have been learning English words!” – Logan Y

“My penpal says he likes to play softball and he likes fizzy drinks!” – Eesa

“I really liked writing back to my penpal, Giovanna, because I had to answer lots of questions that she’d asked me.  I also had to ask her lots of questions because she didn’t tell me much about herself!” – Natalie

“I enjoyed writing back to my penpal.  She asked me if we have a restaurant called Chick-Fil-A.” – Sri

“I can’t wait to write to my penpal!” – Lewis

“I enjoyed writing to my penpal.  She asked why we had to recesses because they only get one.  She also used the word ‘biscuits’ instead of ‘cookies’.” – Ainslie

“I can’t wait to write to my penpal.  I’m going to tell them more about me and Scotland.” – Luke

Class Posts, Primary 2/1

P1 & Ms King

Learning Reflection for W/E 12.10.18

This week we learned the sound u and b and tricky word he. Our writing focus this week was about things I am thankful for. Here are some of the children’s comments:

Kaelan – I am thankful for cocoa

Lewis – I am thankful for mum’s healthy food

James – I am thankful for apples

Poppy – I am thankful for food

Christian – I am thankful for potatoes

The children have really enjoyed playing shops this week. There has been lots of money talk, coin identification, sorting, counting and giving change!

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Learning Highlights

Charley – playing the money games and sorting them out

Nicholas – playing the clapping game

James – counting the coins in the shop. I got a wee postcard because I was counting my numbers in the shop. I was counting the numbers on the coins.

Alister – We made hedgehogs, I coloured in all of mine I put leaves on it for spikes.

Hiba – leaning the sound b

Roshan – singing

Poppy – I liked the homework doing the number after and before, two more.

Lewis – playing shop keeper

Learning Challenges

Lewis – counting the pennies

Nicholas– writing b

Charley – clapping our hands and stomping our feet , it’s tricky because you need to listen.

 

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 3

P3 Weekly Reflection 12.10.18

I can’t quite believe we’re at the end of term already, what a busy term it’s been.  This week has been no exception!  We baked bannocks and butter on Monday, had a visitor on Tuesday who was watching our Number Talks lesson, we played some great games with Miss Donald in PE on Thursday and then celebrated Harvest at the Church service.  Here are some of the children’s highlights this week:-

Kaitlyn “Making the bread on Monday and the picture we did in Art”

William “I enjoyed doing symmetry in Art when we drew the other half of our faces.”

Elisha “Making the bread and the line drawing to complete my portrait.”

Emma F “I enjoyed filling in the missing numbers on the number lines.”

Finn “I liked drawing the other part of the face and I liked Sebastian’s, it was really good.”

Harris St “Making the rest of the tractors.”

Luke N “I enjoyed going to church.”

Lakshya “I liked the symmetry.”

Joe “I liked when we were sharing our learning.”

Olly enjoyed when Emma gave out sweets to celebrate her birthday.  He thought this was a good example of compassion.

This week Anna lost her tooth and the children were interested to find out what would happen if we left it in some coke.  After three days the children were horrified with the affect the coke had on the tooth.  We discussed why we should only drink fizzy drinks occasionally and why it is important to brush our teeth properly when we’ve been drinking them.  William’s tooth is getting ready to fall out and he would like to see what happens to it if we put it in iron bru.  Perhaps we can pick up on this learning after the holiday.

Thanks to everyone for their continued support in their child’s learning and for attending learning consultations this week.  I wish you all a safe and happy October break and look forward to hearing all about it when the children return on Tuesday 23rd October.

General Information, Primary 3/2

P2 – this week

In Literacy we continued our work on magic e with a focus on o-e words. We also wrote poems about our senses. In numeracy we were learning the strategy of counting on from a given number in addition. Also making links in our learning. If 7 and 2 makes 9 then 17 and 2 makes 19 and so on. We had fun creating 3D shapes.

The children also enjoyed a  yoga session in PE using Cosmic Kids yoga.  We tested our taste buds to see how good we were at detecting sweet, sour, bitter and salty flavours. On Thursday we went to the church for the Harvest Service and Arya, Poppy and Holly read the poem beautifully, while we all enjoyed singing.

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