This week in P6 we have done lots of different things. We had visitors to talk to us about something called the Shail Trail and we will be working with them to make a trail. It goes all over West Lothian, starting at Winchburgh and ending at West Calder .
In pe we played handball because the P6 handball league starts next week- it was really fun to practice.
We made clay pots as we were learning about Diwali.
In maths we learned about polygons.
Owen and Amaya
Finn – I liked doing the posters about Taking a Moment. It is good to know what to do when you are stressed out. It is good to draw.
Rohan – I liked when we were doing the assembly about Clachan Wullie because I was proud of our school for making the Clachan Wullie.
Olly – I liked doing writing in our writing lesson. I wrote about a fierce lion.
Elisha – I liked today’s assembly. I liked the new idea of Wonderful Walking because it will save a lot of bumps in the corridor.
Luke N – I like the new idea about the library and how you can get a card and scan it any time you want a new book to read.
Joe – I liked maths yesterday. I liked the fact families.
Sebastian – I like to do maths and learning adding.
Blake – I liked thinking about Taking a Moment because you can be creative and it gets you happy.
Kalista – I enjoyed doing the maths because it was extremely fun and tested your thinking skills.
Alexander – I liked the assembly today because it was fun. I liked the comment that said the more you read the more you’ll know, the more you learn the more places you’ll go.
Good afternoon families of Primary 3.
What a wonderful Term 1!
Thank you all for such a kind welcoming into the School, parents, families and Staff at Livingston Village Primary School.
Here are some snippets from this weeks learning…
In PE this week, we continued to focus on ball skills. This time we used different sized balls and how you would throw them. We practised our overarm and underarm throws in teams. Then used targets to throw them into. We then dribbled with a basketball around a obstacle and back in our teams.
We had our first library time this term this week. This is something we are hoping to keep up in the next term.
I was super impressed with Primary 3’s homework that instead of choosing one pupil to get the pupil of the week award, I gave it to the whole class! What superb model making of the faraway tree and home learning. Well done class, keep up the hard work for the next term!
As an added bonus, we managed to fill up Mrs Loves clouds of joy for the end of term! We went out for an extra 15 minutes playtime where we played ‘Whats the time Mr Wolf?’. Lets see if we can fill it up faster next term!
With the new term starts a new Topic of ‘Farm to Fork’. We have a trip organised to Almond Valley (Mill Farm). If any parent volunteers could help out, please contact the office.
I hope everyone enjoys their October break. I look forward to seeing you all in the new term. Happy holidays!
Mrs Love
Another busy week for P2/1. In Literacy P2 have been revising the ‘air’ or ‘are’ sounds. We made and read words such as care, fair etc., played roll and read and looked for words in a word search. P1 have learned the ‘b’,’f’ and ‘e’ sounds and the tricky word he. We played roll and read, practised our letter formation, made a butterfly and rainbow fish and found words that began with the letter f. In numeracy and maths this week P1 have been exploring friends of 10. We used gems to put spots on the ladybird showing friends of 10, we used ten frames to make the dot patterns for 10 and we sorted 10 cars into friends of 10. P2 have been continuing to learn about subtraction. We spent more time looking at fact families and writing the 8 facts. We also explored subtraction using a number line. In Wee Story Big Sound this week we went to space. We listened and responded appropriately to music and a few of us got to play the symbols or a drum and make as much noise as we could for the engines of the rocket. With Miss Whigham we were focusing on our sense of touch. We sorted items as to how they felt using words such as smooth, soft etc. On Thursday we went to church for our harvest festival. We hope you have a lovely holiday. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:
Ayden: “I enjoyed assembly and learning about our three rules of being safe, ready and respectful.”
Lucia: “I liked learning the sound e this week.”
H: “I enjoyed learning the letter e like Lucia.”
Gabriel: “I enjoyed learning the air and are sound.”
Teria: “I enjoyed learning with Miss Maclachlan and being with my friends.”
Lucas: “I found it hard writing the letter b.”
Olly: “I liked learning our three new letters b, f and e.”
Hamish: “I enjoyed learning about e and it was tricky to write e.”
Sam: “I enjoyed learning about and writing the 8 fact families.”
Murdo: “I enjoyed finding words that had air or are in them in a story and a word search.”
This week Primary 6 have been learning about World War 2. We have been writing a piece of work about the Impact World War 2 had on Scotland. We used a website called Sath.org.uk for our research. We wrote our research on a plan sheet before we wrote it in our jotters. Some people have started to type their piece of work on a laptop. In Maths we have been learning about perimeter. Most of us have been doing common shapes like squares and rectangles but for a challenge some people have been doing irregular shapes like shapes that look like stairs. For science we have been learning about Micro-organisms. For some fun, we made bread with Mr Keast and got to eat it later. Most people liked it but others didn’t. At assembly we celebrated because Miss Marnie is getting married during the October holidays. When she comes back she’ll be known as Mrs Brodie. We have also been learning about the new school rules. They are Ready, Respectful and Safe. In PE we have been playing handball. We did a few drills before moving into matches. We played 2 minute games. We continued our blitz art and most of us are finished now. Mrs Fraser has been reading a book called Welcome to Nowhere. It is set in Syria. it is about boy called Omar who is trying to save his cousin’s postcard business.
By Noel and Ben
There has been a huge amount of learning in P4 this week. The holiday is well-deserved.
Ethan – I enjoyed doing Futsal in PE. I liked the game when you had a tail.
Rhys – I enjoyed learning that Miss Marnie is getting married.
William – I enjoyed the songs at assembly.
Freya – I liked when we were doing the maths with the Base 10 this week.
Darcy – I liked when we were doing the different types of animals poster in science. i liked the spelling too.
Joe – I liked when we were doing the Fun 31 choices for next term. It was hard to decide what to choose.
Rohan – I like doing the BIG Maths.
Oops, I didn’t get round to posting these on Friday. Here are the children’s highlights from last week!
Austin – I liked listening to music with Dave. There was happy music and scary music. The scary music was fast and it got louder it was like something was getting closer.
Leighton – I liked when we were doing big noises and little noises with Dave.
Sevinc – We were learning about the five senses. This week we were doing smelling. We smelled coffee, vinegar, onion, orange and soap. I liked the orange smell it was nice and sweet. The one I didn’t like was the vinegar it was really strong.
Sushanth – we learned about the smells. we smell with our nose. The five senses are: sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste.
Poppy – I liked when we were learning about smell. We smelled five different things. They were orange, a coffee smell, an onion smell, soap smell and a vinegar smell. I didn’t really like the vinegar and the onion but I liked the orange, soap and coffee. The vinegar and onion were a really strong smell.
Nicholas – I loved the cake.
Charley – I liked the cakes from the cake sale. The cake sale is for a charity.
Euan – when I was through with Dave, I was right next to Leighton. Then when Dave played the piano it was terrifying because of the danger music.
Emma – I enjoyed the little assembly that happened yesterday, because I like the songs that we sing in assembly.
Leo – Doing my reading cause it is fun.
Ziva – I enjoyed science when we were smelling. My favourite was the soap and my less favourite was the vinegar.
Roshan – I enjoyed numeracy. We used 3, 2 and 5. 5 was the whole 3 and 2 were the parts.
James – I liked PE because we were doing some ball skills. We were controlling the ball and we had to go to the colours. We say the colours in French, rouge, bleu, jaune, vert and violet.
Lewis – I liked about the chimp story. We learned that your brain helps you remember, seeing, balance, thinking, movement and feeling.
This week in Literacy P2 have been revising the ‘aw’, ‘au’ or ‘or’ sounds. We made words, read words, played snakes and ladders and looked for real and nonsense words. P1 have learned the ‘k’ and ‘u’ sounds and the tricky word said. We played roll and read, practised our letter formation, made kangaroo and koala puppets and umbrellas. In numeracy and maths this week P1 have been exploring pattern. We have looked at colour, shape and picture patterns. We made patterns with the pegs and beads. We also made patterned scarves. P2 have been learning about subtraction. We have made subtraction stories, used the part whole model and written the subtraction facts. We also explored fact families which include addition facts. In RME, we learned about what harvest is and how it is a time to be thankful for the things we have. In Wee Story Big Sound this week we listened to different sounds on the piano and we told the story of the Lion and the mouse by playing instruments such as bells and the guitar. With Miss Whigham we were focusing on our sense of smell. We drew pictures of things we like the smell of and things we don’t like the smell of. On Thursday we had a song practice to practice the songs for our Harvest church service next week. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:
Solomia: “I found it tricky drawing pictures of the things I like the smell of.”
Christian: “I found writing the fact families in numeracy tricky.”
Hiba: “I liked the story with the instruments with Dave.”
Charlotte: “I liked learning about the sounds ‘k’ and ‘u’.”
Connie: “I enjoyed learning everything with Miss Maclachlan.”
Lucas: “I enjoyed learning everything just like Connie.”
Ch: “I enjoyed learning the Harvest songs.”
Alister: “ I liked doing the songs in the hall.”
This week we celebrated Maths Week Scotland.
“I thought the 5 questions we got were really good because they were challenging to start off with but then they got really easy and fun.” Katy
“I liked doing the coloured cube challenge because it was very tricky and I learned a lot from it.” Natalie
“I learned something new doing the cube cuts question.” Finlay
“I really enjoyed the maths this week because it was challenging and it was very fun.” Logan F
“I learned how to calculate the area of a circle this week and it was very fun and challenging.” Matthew
“I enjoyed the maths because I learned that finding a common multiple of ten numbers takes a lot of hard work and effort.” Ainslie
“I enjoyed going to take pictures of things on the way and at Eliburn Park because it was challenging and we got to enter a competition.” Kyle
“I liked using the Cuisenaire Rods. We went through so many whiteboards because it was so hard and fun.” Silvester
“I liked trying to figure out the cube cuts question because it was difficult and we had to try so many questions when the answer was right in front of us but we got there in the end.” Aiden
“I liked going on the walk to Eliburn Park because we got to take nice photos and then work out what was mathematical about them.” Murray
“I loved the walk to Eliburn Park because we got to play at the park and then take pictures and find out how those things are related to maths.” Callan
“I enjoyed Maths Wi Nae Borders because we got to learn lots of great new things.” Jamie
“I really like the walk to Eliburn Park because we got to play around for about ten minutes and take photos then when we got back to school we did maths and entered into a competition.”
“I liked doing the Cuisenaire Rod problem it was fun and challenging.” Leon
“I think maths week was fun and we got to learn new things and it was challenging!”
“We went to Eliburn Park and found maths in nature, it was challenging but fun.” Calum W
“I liked going out on a walk to take pictures for a competition because I like going on walks.” Charlie
This has been another busy week as we learned the sounds k, u and b. We began to use the school’s newly purchased PM Writing resource to support our writing. We were looking at a picture of Peep, the Pet Bird and talking about what we could see then naming these things. We looked at the sounds in the words and then talked about why saying the words on their own did not make sense. We then talked about making sentences and the children worked together to create the following:-
The girl has a pet bird. The bird drinks water. The bird eats seeds. The bird is yellow. The cage is white. The bird is cute. The bird looks beautiful.
The children were so proud of their efforts and we talked about the capital letter at the start of a sentence and the full stop at the end. Perhaps you could look for some capital letters and full stops in books at home?
In numeracy and maths this week we have been looking at patterns with colours and numbers. The children were very good at creating their own patterns with colour and thinking about the patterns on the bodies of zoo animals too. We have also been working on counting forwards and backwards within 20 and thinking about the number before and after. Please continue to practise this at home.
In PE this week the children have continued to develop their listening skills and ability to follow instructions by playing Traffic Lights.
Here are some of the children’s comments about their learning this week:-
Georgie “I learned the sound b. Bat starts with b.”
Lucia “I like the sound b too.”
Elloise “With Dave we did songs that are similar to the movies.”
Cole “I liked making 10 to 20 in my numbers.”
Albert “I remember number 8 and I got stickers for my writing.”
Isla “Learning b, bat, bed, book and bell”
Zac “I liked writing the story about Peep the pet bird. It was terrific.”
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
