This week, we had our Celtic time-travelling assembly! We were FANTASTIC and Miss McLaughlin was very proud of our hard work. Thanks to the staff (Mrs Hull, Mrs Ross, Miss Young and Mrs Stanton) and P7s who helped us (Yasmin, Liam, Finlay and Aleisha) and to the family members who came to see us.
On our learning this week…
Lauren: ‘This week, I did well with gym because I kept the ball near to me.’
Matthew: ‘I found Big Maths tricky this week because of some of the times tables.’
Ula: ‘I did well at gym because I was good at controlling the tennis racquet.’
Hallie: ‘I did well at science this week because I was able to talk about pitch and frequency.’
Freya: ‘I found ‘th’ words tricky. Next time I will practise more at home.’
Primary 3 have been discussing the artist Paul Klee in class. We used his same line drawing technique to create our own piece of art. In science we have found out about the different things electricity is used for and where it comes from. We also connected our own circuit which was great fun!
It’s been another busy week in Primary 6 – here is a summary of some of our learning.
Maths
We have continued to learn about area this week. We have drawn rectangles of specific sizes, using times tables to calculate the area. We really need to know our times tables and Miss Anderson has found a few songs to help us remember. We will be listening to them next week as well. One of our tasks was to design a zoo. Brandon’s work was chosen as our WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like) as he had remembered to include an entrance, exit and car park. All the enclosures were a good size for the type of animal that would live in them. Well done Brandon.
Literacy
We have been writing imaginative stories, set in a school. We had a few stories set in our school but lots were set elsewhere (including a school that can teleport!). We were all trying to include speech marks this week (with partner punctuation) and we were all working towards our personal targets. Miss Anderson is really enjoying reading all our stories.
Social Studies
We are still learning about Livingston – this week we started to work in groups to research housing, work, leisure and tourism. Hope fully we will be able to update you with more info next week. In the meantime, here is a photo of the class map we created last week.
Class Map of Livingston
Science
This week we started to learn more about eyes and sight. We learned that out retina actually sees things upside down and our brain turns it around. We talked about how clever our brains are!
Other
Children in Need was great fun – the school raised lots of money to help this great cause. Emma C is still our Dojo high scorer (with 50 points) and it was a tie for our weekly high scorers; Ann, Ellie and Emma S. Keep up all the hard work!
This week we had a very sad letter from Mr Hedgehog telling us about his friend Mr Robin and his family who are having a problem getting food to feed them now that the weather is getting colder.  We have been thinking about how we can help  him.  We worked in small groups to talk about what we know about what birds eat and recorded our ideas to share with the class.  We have decided to try and help by finding a recipe for bird food and making some bird feeders.  We are going to be very busy.
Other comments about our learning this week:
I loved painting the poppies to help us remember the soldiers that died – Jessica
I’m really enjoying my new reading book this week about baby animals – Abbie
(Abbie enjoyed it so much she drew the animals and their babies from the book and shared it with her group)
Next week we are looking forward to learning more about how we can help Mr Hedgehog and his friends.
Last week we finished our large map of Livingston for our wall display. We used printed a large map and cut it into 12 sections. Then we worked with a partner to recreate the map, on a much larger scale. We will add a photo of this for you all to see.
We also continued to learn about area. We are beginning to make the link between times tables and finding the area of rectangles and squares. We will continue to work on this and hope to get really speedy with our recall of times tables.
In Science we are going to be learning more about the human body. Last term we learned about the auditory system as part of our learning about sound. This term we will be learning about the digestive system and micro-organisms.
Emma C is our current Class Dojo champion with 44 points and Oktawia was our high scorer last week with 5.
I enjoyed playing badminton in PE because I was getting much better at hitting the shuttlecock with the racket.
Sophie M.
I enjoyed writing the story about the ‘Haunted House’ because it was nice and quiet and I could concentrate on my writing and this helped me to work towards my writing target. Lydia
I enjoyed playing tennis with Mrs Pender because I was learning how to control the ball on the racket. Jack H
I enjoyed maths because we were doubling three digit and four digit numbers. Lewis C
We have had a busy time since we came back from our October break. Â We are excited because we have now learned all the sounds of the alphabet letters and are able to build and write words using them. Â In maths we are learning to read the time on clock faces and digital clocks. Â We made fantastic firework pictures in art after watching a firework display. Â We are looking forward to our marble treat as we filled the jar again. Â We are also looking forward to learning about our topic “Rescue Rangers” and what we can do to help keep local animals safe. Â We have had great ideas so far.
This week we have been finishing off our art work by completing the last stage of the creative process by making our masks. Â We had to select the material for our masks, use glue to stick different things to the mask and finally paint our masks.
First we had to make a plan of our masks.We had to select our materials for our masks.Here are all of our masks!More finished masks.Here are some of our finished masks!
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