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This week, P1 have been learning about electricity. We talked about what electricity can do and discussed its importance in our daily lives. We were able to list lots of items that use electricity.
Today we worked with a partner to sort electrical items to show whether they are powered by batteries or by mains electricity. We know that electricity and batteries can also be dangerous and talked about how to stay safe around them.
This week in Primary 2 we have been successful learners practising our addition and subtraction within 20. We learned about fact families and how to use these to help us find missing numbers in a sum. Here are some pictures of our maths stations.
Primary 2/1 have been successful learners during phonics time. We have been building, reading and writing words with our new sounds. We are also becoming more confident at reading and spelling our common words.
This week in Primary 2 we have continued to work through our science topic sun, moon and stars. We explored star constellations and looked at the constellations linked to our star signs. We used our data gethering skills to find out everyones star signs. We had to be confident on our before and after number sequences to 30 to work out everyones signs depending on what date their birthday is, before creating a pictogram to display our results.
We continued to focus on our birthdays in french when practising our months of the year. We learned how to ask someone when their birthday is and how to reply saying my birthday is, before using our data gathering skills to put this into a table. Our birthday pictograms from last week helped us to check our answers! Here are some pictures of our work:
This week Primary 2 had great fun taking part in the winter sports day. Here are some pictures of us in action
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In maths we started to look at data handling and had a go at collecting our own data. We recapped how to use tally marks and then created a few pictograms to display our data. Super Work Primary 2!!!
We have been rounding off our Scottish topic by writing information reports on Scottish animals, the life of Robert Burns and Scottish musicians from the past. Mrs Andison has been impressed by our report writing skills and how they have progressed over the weeks. We are becoming more confident.
In Numercy we have been recapping measuring in millimetres, centimetres and metres. We were outside measuring as well as inside, and are improving our accuracy. We have also been converting a variety of measurements.
In art we have been using oil pastels to mix the colours we saw in some thistles. The results were very good.
In Science we have investigated echolocation and its purpose for different animals.
As well as all our learning, we have been planning a winter sports event for the whole school to take part in.
It’s certainly been a bust week in P7 and it’s about to get busier as we are stating to get Teams meetings and visits from staff at Broxburn Academy as the start of our transition. Exciting times.
Have a great week ahead.
Mrs Andison and Primary 7
Primary 1 have been learning how to create information texts during writing time. This week we wrote about animals living on Katie Morag’s island including a sheep and a seal. We had to include a title, an illustration with labels, and a fact about them. We are becoming more confident at sounding out words.
We have also been learning French with our teddy, Camembear, practising greetings, how to say yes and no, and how we are.
This week we completed our Scottish Contexts topic. We recited our Scottish poems in front of our peers, where two winners were chosen to perform in front of the whole school. We all did a great job and are so proud of our representatives!
In Numeracy, we have been working on adding and subtracting decimals using mental calculations and column sums/chimney sums/formal written method. We have grown in confidence in this across the week, where we were then able to answer and create our own word problem examples for our peers.
We began our new topic for the remainder of the term, where we will investigate Body Systems. We began this through sharing what we know as a whole class and coming up with questions we wanted to investigate across the coming weeks.
In Health and Wellbeing, we looked into what a friendship and/or a relationship is, what makes us a good friend and how to maintain each of these. We collectively created a ‘P6 Friendship Soup’ which incorporated all of our ideas for maintaining positive relationships and friendships. This is now on display in our classroom as a daily reminder.
Have a lovely weekend!
A big well done this week to Tyler and Nikola who recited their Scots poems to the whole school during our virtual Scots assembly. You were both fantastic!
This week, we have been successful learners looking at the work of Scottish Artist, Steven Brown. We shared our opinions on his famous ‘Mcoo’ artwork. We created our own Mcoo’s using pastels to layer our colours. We have also been learning about who Robert Burns was and why we celebrate Burns Day. We listened to his most famous song, “Auld Lang Syne” and talked about the time of year that people all over the world sing this song.
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