Play Scotland have a lot of activities for parents and families including a Snow & Ice play section. ☃️ http://www.playscotland.org/parents-families/im-bored/snow-play/
Snow Snow Snow
Good morning everyone,
Here we are all stuck at home and wondering what we can do!
I do not imagine that is the situation at all and you are already very busy. However, boys and girls you could catch up on your spelling homework, read an extra few pages of your reading book or use your Sum-dog log in to complete some maths challenges OR you could get outside build an amazing snow structure, take a picture and e-mail the school with them. I am sure your teacher would love to see what you did on your day off. Take care and keep safe when you are outside, hope to see you tomorrow. Mrs McKenzie
Nursery Eco Warriors!
The nursery children have been exploring the outdoors. While on these outings they noted there was lots of litter in the area. After discussing what we could do about this the children said they would like to help to clean up their environment. Armed with litter pickers and bin bags they set out on their eco warrior adventure. I’m sure you would agree, what a fabulous job they did.
P1P Explore Farms through Digital Technologies
LI: We are learning to use digital technologies to recreate aspects of a farm.
SC: I can work with others
I can share my ideas with others
I can plan and create simple programs/designs
I can use Purple Mash to create a picture of a farm.
I can animate a farm scene using Scratch JR
Today, P1P recalled their learning from last week’s technologies lesson during our IDL ‘On the Farm’. We used what we had learned from tinkering with Scratch JR to recreate and animate a farm scene. We were able to change the movement, size and speed of characters. Some of us even managed to record our own voices and add them to our characters.
We then explored Purple Mash for the first time to recreate a farm using clip art and animations. P1P were able to explore the app and come up with their own ideas.
French PowerPoints ready for Curriculum Evening
P6 were researching about France. When we were researching we were looking for facts that we didn’t really know. One of the facts were that you are not allowed to take snails on a train without there own tickets. Some of
Ooh La La! French Culture Hits Mid Calder.
Come along to our Curriculum Evening on Tuesday to find out how we learn about France, French culture and French vocabulary. The upper school will be there to present their learning with videos, Powerpoints and posters.
Miss Brolls will try to offer ways to support Modern Languages evening using cartoons
OR with a structured lesson as below
Useful Website- Bedtime Math
Bedtime Math is striving to help families introduce maths as a fun part of their daily routine, as common and beloved as the bedtime story. They make it easy to roll maths into the day, whether at bedtime, bathtime, or snacktime.
You can check out the site by clicking the link below:
http://bedtimemath.org/bedtime-math-for-families/
There is also a free app that can be downloaded onto Smartphones and tablets.
Fairtrade Fortnight- Visit from Lush
As part of Fairtrade fortnight, LUSH Livingston will be in school on Thursday 1st March and, after a presentation with the whole school, they will have a LUSH stall, where some products will be available to buy. If children wish to buy anything they should bring money in a purse/wallet/envelope. It would help if the younger children also brought a note of what parents would like them to buy and if the older children knew too. Please note that these products are subject to change depending on their delivery so LUSH can’t guarantee full availability on the day.
Cream Candy Bubble Bar £2.95
Ickle Bot Bath Bomb £1.95
Rocket Bath Bomb £2.95
Cheer Up Buttercup Bath Bomb £2.95
Baa Bar Bubble Bar £4.50
Whoosh Shower Jelly 4.50
Charity Pot Hand and Body Lotion £1
P6 blossom tree art
STEM Competition Preparation!
As part of our Junior Leadership Team, the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) group decided that they would like to learn about the construction of the new Queensferry Crossing. We spent some time in our sessions researching and watching videos around the construction of the bridge.
The children then decided that they would like to organise and run a STEM competition for the whole school as part of the upcoming British Science Week from the 9th to the 18th of March 2018.
Over the past few weeks we have been designing posters and experimenting with different ways and materials to construct bridges. We will now arrange a timetable for each class during British Science week to run the competition with each class, taking on a leadership role.
