Author: Ms Anderson

This morning Primary 6 enjoyed taking part in celebrating the solar eclipse. Because it wasn’t safe to look at the sun we decided to make a sound recording. When we listened back it was definitely quieter, with fewer birds chirping. We also set up a stop motion recording to see how the light changed from start to end of the eclipse. We hope to upload this video soon.

We spent quite a bit of time learning more about solar eclipses. We worked with a partner to create a poster or leaflet with more information. These are on display on our classroom window so please take a look next time you are passing by.

Next  week we are going to start learning about staying safe and we will complete the Keeping Myself Safe programme. The following week we are going to learn more about babies and growing up.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Anderson & P6

“ItWe can’t believe that it has been almost a fortnight since our class assembly. We had such a great time writing and performing our assembly to the audience. The class enjoyed performing our song about the Amazon called The River is Moving. We hope our audience enjoyed all the songs.

Today we should be at Broxburn Academy for a STEM day. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Because of the snow this event has been cancelled so we have been having fun with our own STEM day in class. So far we have created layered images using computer technologies and built machines using K’Nex. So far the day has been a big thumbs up. We still have a few more activities to complete.

In Maths news the Blue and Green groups have been learning about BODMAS. We know that we look for brackets first and then multiplication and division. If you don’t follow the BODMAS rules then you will get the WRONG answer most of the time. The Red group have been working on rounding. We are all very good at rounding down to the nearest 10 and will be working on rounding up.

With Mrs McCulloch we have been learning about drawing, painting and using ink. Miss Anderson can’t believe what talented artists we are. Here are a few examples of our beautiful work.

Photography by Nia and Oktawia

The Jaguars are now reading Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson. Some of the group thought that this is a book for girls only but now someone in the group is desperate to read ahead! It just goes to show that you should never judge a book by its cover!
“It’s too good!” review by Ryan

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Miss Anderson and P6

Last week Primary 5 were very busy learning about lots of different things.

We combined Topic, Art and Technologies to design and draw our own landscape pictures. We had to search for images taken in Sierra Leone and then use our skills in drawing. Most of us enjoyed using curved and straight lines to recreate our chosen scene.

In PE with Mrs Pender we have been learning a new dance and we think that the music is really good. Unfortunately we are not allowed to share the name of the song but it is a very upbeat song and  we have lots of great moves. One of our moves is to stop with our hands pressed against a wall, another is to drop down to the floor. We can’t give away any more clues! We are looking forward to starting African Dance with Mrs Campbell.

Our Maths theme is division and each group is learning to divide numbers. It can be quite tricky to divide and learning times tables off by heart really helps to make dividing easier. We have been learning different strategies to help (but will keep learning our tables).

We all have a Didbook diary that we can add our reflections to. This means that we do not need to write in our Reflection Jotters anymore.We also have a profile that we can update to show what we want to learn in the future.

It is not long until we head off to camp. Kingswing here we come…

Until next week,

Primary 5

This week and last we have had a Class Meeting. This is an opportunity for everyone in the class to get together and discuss issues that have been raised throughout the week. We discussed different ways to make sure that we stay on track, in terms of behaviour and work. As a class we decided to start Behaviour Buddies. Everyone will have a Behaviour Buddy and everyone will be a Behaviour Buddy. On Thursday we plan to take part in a few trust building exercises.

In Maths the Red group have been working with 3 and 4 times tables. We have been using concrete materials to help but are becoming much more able to remember out times tables facts. The Blue and Green group have been learning about Prime Numbers and Factors. So far we are all able to identify factors and we know how to explain if a number is Prime. We are nearly ready to move on to our next topic so watch this space.

We have started our Rivers topic. Each of our activity groups has chosen a river to research in preparation for our assembly (19th Feb – save the date!). We have already rewritten famous songs and have started planning and writing our Dramas. We don’t expect to need too many costumes for our assembly but will let you know if this changes.

We are really enjoying Art and are demonstrating excellent skills with paint and pencil. We will be moving onto printing next.

That’s all for now – we hope to give another update later on this week.

Miss Anderson and P6

PS Because it is our Assembly fortnight and we have  a few days off, the homework handed out tomorrow will be for the following Friday (20th Feb). This will allow all children to enjoy their time off and have a bit of spare time to learn words for our assembly.

Literacy

This week we have taken home our Scots Poems to learn for the whole school recital. We chose from a selection of 3 poems and Miss Anderson is really looking forward to our class performances next week.

We also learned more about similes and metaphors, writing a few of our own. Some of these were very effective and others were funny!

Our spelling words this week were Scots words, some of which we already knew and some which we had to learn the English translations.

Numeracy

This week the Red group have been learning more about multiplying by 3. Next steps will be to learn more about multiplying by 6 and then 9.

The Blue and Green groups have been dividing, learning a new strategy (repeated subtraction using a number line). This has proven to be very successful and next steps will be to use the same process for numbers that are not multiples (ie numbers that will leave a remainder).

Our Maths Talk was fun this week – we had a quick reminder of the different ways we could share our learning.

Science

Do you know how food is digested? Primary 6 do because we learned more about the digestive system this week.
Fun Fact – Sloths have a very slow digestive process and they can go a whole week without going to the toilet!

We also learned more about the process of breathing.

Expressive Arts

Our focus for Scots week is the Scottish Colourists. We have learned a little about Samuel Peploe but are going to learn much more next week.

We still enjoy learning Indian dancing and will have two more weeks of dance before moving on.

We have a new Class Dojo high scorer – well done Ellie. Last term we enjoyed a games day (thanks to Emma C) and are looking forward to an Anne Frank day (Nia), extra Art (Ellie) and Football day (Emma S).  Nia is our high scorer of the week.

Fingers crossed for calmer weather next week.

Miss Anderson and P6

Mr Eagleson has set special homework for Primary 6 and 7 pupils. This homework is to find out what the Scots words in Auld Lang Syne mean in English. Some of the words are trickier because they are rarely used these days.

Good luck (or should that be guid luck!).