Click on the link below to watch a short video which may help you with this week’s measure task as described on the home learning sheet.
https://vimeo.com/408145743
This task is for all children in P2a, P2b and P2/1.
Remember if you are able to, you can take photos of the things you measure or your home learning jotter page and send these to your class teacher.
This week in P1a we have been learning about staying safe near electricity. We made posters to show things that you plug in to the mains and things that use batteries and then we talked about staying safe. We looked at a special safety website and tried to spot all the things that might be dangerous in the different rooms of the house – here is the link so that you can have a look too.
http://www.switchedonkids.org.uk/
As well as learning about money in maths we are still practising addition. We are getting so good that we are now doing mental maths and playing bingo using the whiteboards. The prize is a dojo point and getting to do the funky chicken!
Wednesday is our day for visiting the school library so we were very excited to finally go and do this. We need to try hard and remember to bring the books back next Wednesday so that we can choose a different one.
You might have read on last week’s blog that we are learning all about emotions and feeling this term. Our first team challenge of 2018 was to make posters with faces showing different emotions and here are the results…
We had another fantastic evening at the court house in Edinburgh this evening. Both classes performed brilliantly with charisma, confidence and enthusiasm. Here are some pics of P7A in action. JP
Well done to all the P7 pupils who took part in their mock trials this evening. They were confident, well-prepared, well-behaved and enthusiastic. We were impressed by their persuasive arguments and their cool, calm and collected approach under pressure. Here are a few snaps of P7A in their case against St Mary’s (Leith). JP
Please find a link below to what’s happening during Scottish Maths Week here at LPS.
Look out for photos and news on Twitter and on our Blog.
My apologies for not posting this last week but here is a little update of a few of the things that we have been doing even though it is just about holiday time!
As you may have seen on Twitter we have enjoyed learning about the Scottish artist Steven Brown and were even more delighted that he retweeted our post and obviously some pictures of our art work too. I’m sure you’ll agree that there could well be some famous artists in P2/1 some day soon! Here a few more of the finished McCoos.
As the weather was nice last week we went outside to do some “wild writing”. This is part of the outdoor classroom initiative and we were able to write about anything we chose although spiders did seem to feature in quite a lot of the stories.
One of the reading groups was recently reading about a book about World Instruments which included the didgeridoo. MissMcDermott just happened to have a didgeridoo in her loft so she gave it a good clean and we all had a go at trying to play it. However, it was not as easy as it looked so we did some internet research ( which also said it was fun and easy!!!) and gave it another go. With a lot of perseverance we finally managed – well, some of us did!
On Thursday some of the P6a buddies game to our classroom to join us in playing a variety of maths games. We have been practising telling the time and money skills throughout the year and these are something that ideally we need to keep practising over the holidays. We would like to say a big thank you to the buddies for all their help this year!
Thanks to everyone who brought in their Active Kids vouchers to help the school buy more equipment for sports, games and activities outdoors. P7 are in the middle of counting them now…
Thank you to the parents who made it along to the Multiplication & Division Family Learning Event. Please find the Powerpoint and Booklet used during the event below. We hope you find these resources helpful.
This afternoon P2/1 and P6a celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day by taking part in a joint scavenger hunt around the school grounds. The theme was weight and measure which is the focus for P2/1 maths learning at the moment. The children had a long list of things to find and do – some of them much trickier than others! Here are just some of the photographs.
This week we have been practising counting and recognising numbers up to 100 and to help us, we have been playing our new snakes and ladders games. Here is a link to an online version of snakes and ladders that you can play at home. You can either play against the computer or an opponent.
http://www.counton.org/games/virtualmathfest/snakesladders.html
Some children have also been doing some measuring in the hall. We need to know how much bunting to make for the front of the stage for the red nose day assembly. Obviously as an eco-school we don’t want to waste resources and make too much!
