Families Reading Together – 10/05/18
Lay a little egg for me!
P1 had a fantastic suprise when they arrived at school this morning. A mummy hen has left us 10 little eggs to look after. Two of the eggs had already hatched before we got in and there was another arrival after school today! They are desperate to say hello but Hopefully we get to see some pipping and hatching tomorrow. We have a boy and two girls so far. P1 had lots of super questions about the chicks.
More from ‘Chick Cam’ tomorrow …
Primary 5 STEM learning
Our STEM topic this term is to design and create a new healthy dish for school lunches. We have been learning about Scottish and local produce. We have interviewed staff from the lunch hall to find out the most popular types of lunches as well as collecting data from all the classes in school. We are using this information to help us design new dishes.
Learning Intention
We are learning to design a new, healthy school lunch dish with Scottish produce.
Success Criteria
I can use Scottish/local produce in my design
I can use my knowledge of healthy foods to help me in my design
I can make my dish interesting
We have been researching ingredients and different produce found locally/around Scotland – we even found chillies being grown in Dumfries. All the children are really keen to test their dishes to see how they taste. I can’t wait either.
Mrs Andison and P5
Primary 7 – Rookie Rockstars
Learning Intention:
To participate in whole school presentations and performances.
Success Criteria:
I can listen and respond appropriately to instructions and directions.
This week we have participated in ‘Rookie Rockstars’. We have learned songs about important topics such as bullying, being yourself, not discriminating, never giving up, forgiveness and respecting one another. Glynn and Chloe taught us the words and actions and included some fun challenges for staff and pupils. We recorded our songs and are looking forward to going to the concert next week.
“Very inspiring” – Ella
“The best week ever” – Hallie
“A fun way to learn about bullying” – Jessica
“Extremely fun” – Katie
“Important messages and teamwork” – Lewis
“Lots of fun and crazy dance moves” – Ewen
Primary 2 Listening & Talking Homework
Last week, Primary 2 were set a listening and talking task (to be completed for Thursday 17th May).
Just in case your child has lost, misplaced or wasn’t given their letter, please find a copy below. It has all the details you need, but if there is anything you would like to know, please come and ask!
Enjoy the long weekend!
Miss M 🙂
P1 – Let’s all be Friends!
We are learning to … be confident and build good friendships through singing.
I can … talk about forgiving and friendship.
I can … perform for others.
I can … work together with my class.
Here is what P1 had to say about their ‘Rookie Rockstars’ week:
The songs were teaching us how to be friends.
We learned rock songs.
They were about happiness and sadness.
I liked when we were singing – Bullies are not cool!
I liked the penguin dance.
I liked putting our arms round each other and showing we are friends
I liked the song about not giving up, like in a race!
I liked challenge time when people rapped or had a marshmallow challenge!
We were recording our songs for a CD.
We are looking forward to dressing up for the concert!
Contractions in P4
We are learning to understand and use apostrophes for contractions.
I can use apostrophe when writing contracted words.
Primary Four have been busy this week looking at apostrophes for contractions. We had different stations set up to practise this and all found it really engaging and fun. Firstly, we were asked for help by Shrek! He had written a letter to Puss in Boots and Donkey and wondered if we would read it for him to check for any mistakes. We were all up to the task!
So Station 1 was working in pairs to check Shrek’s letter. We spotted apostrophes used incorrectly for contractions and lots of other silly mistakes too like capital letters and spellings!
Station 2 was where we had to work as a group to complete a contractions loop cards game. We had lots of cards with which we shared evenly and had to match with its other half. The aim is to create one large circle together (a bit like dominoes). All our groups managed to complete it and noticed that a couple of the cards were in there to trick them!
Our final Station was number 3 and this was contraction surgery! We had lots of expanded phrases like ‘cannot’ and ‘you have’ and we had to cut them up correctly and insert a plaster apostrophe in the correct place. This was very messy but we were all able to justify why we had placed our plaster apostrophe in the place we did and why it was correct.
We now have a much more solid understanding of the use of contractions and were able to come back together as a class and share our learning. We have fixed Shrek’s letter now so hopefully he will get a response back from Donkey and Puss soon!
Primary 2
What were we learning?
New songs about things like forgiveness, friendship and differences.
How will we know if we were successful?
- We can listen carefully to the song instructions.
- We can sing in a loud, clear voice.
- We can perform the actions.
What did we do?
Chloe and Glyn have been working with us all week! We learned lots of different songs (‘I’m so Glad’, ‘Never Give Up’, ‘Bullies ain’t Big’, ‘Hey, Hey, I’m OK!’ and ‘Let’s all be Friends!’). These songs gave us lots of different messages, such as to be kind to others, to be forgiving, that it’s good to be us and to keep trying. They try to makes us more confident. Every day, there was a different challenge, including the ‘Chubby Bunny’ challenge and the Rap Battle wih Mrs Campbell and Miss Mulhern. Yesterday, we got to be like real rockstars and record our own CD! Next week, we even get to dress up and star in our own concert! We hope to see you there!
Check in with us next week to see what we are learning!
Until next time…
Primary 2 & Miss M 🙂
P6 Blog Letter Writing
Learning Intention:
We are learning to write a letter
Success Criteria:
I can have a reason for writing as an introduction
I can write in first person
I can include a date
I can open and close with an appropriate greeting
For our topic of ‘Local Community’ we visited the nearby construction site, building new houses. The pupils prepared questions for the Builders, West Lothian Council and for our Head Teacher on what they were curious about the changing area.
In our writing lesson, the pupils drafted letters to be sent to the Builders and the Council containing these questions so that they might get some answers.
I am happy to say that the whole class managed to accomplish all the success criteria and made some very professional looking letters.
“I learned you need a comma after ‘Dear Sir or Madam’ otherwise it won’t be laid out properly” -Andrew
“I learned you need to write directly below the comma of our opening” -Katie
“I learned you need to end with ‘Yours Faithfully’ to close it properly” -Oliwia
Triathlon Coaching Session
Today, we welcomed a coach from Triathlon Scotland/West Lothian Tri to come into school and coach some of the children in P5-7 who have expressed an interest in the upcoming West Lothian Schools Triathlon. They learned about what to expect on the day and had a chance to practise some transition drills. The children taking part all really enjoyed the session and we have had a message from the coach to say how well-behaved the children were. Well done to all that took part!
