Category: Whole School

Please either save your work to dojo, print it out or email me it and we can share all your activities in class. I look forward to seeing the most imaginative snow structure. Let’s see who has the most imaginative work. I’m sure we could do our spelling in the snow!

jean.tulloch@westlothian.org.uk

Unfortunately we will miss Book Day too. If you had already made a costume please take a photo dressed up and we can do a competition with your photos in class.

In preparation for our bridges visit, do have a look at different types of bridges as we will be making them in class.

We have been discussing the importance of science vocabulary so if you would like to make a poster about forces , separation, bridge building etc that would be great.

Enjoy the time off but please keep practicing your multiplication tables!

Happy Snow Day everyone! Today marks the first council school closure due to snow for a long time, so I hope everyone has an enjoyable day ahead of them; whether it be playing in the snow, sledging, building snow sculptures or enjoying family time. I look forward to hearing how P6B pupils spent their snow day!

If the wild weather continues and children are at a loose end below are some examples of what children might chose to do.

-Build a snow design or sculpture, take a photograph of it and bring into school when we return to discuss the design or sculpture

– Enjoy a Fairtrade snack- Since it is Fairtrade Fortnight, it is a perfect excuse to cosy up with a hot chocolate and banana. You could use the Fairtrade website to find out further Fairtrade facts.

– Continue to practice lines, songs and dances for the Lion King production.

-Practise division and money work using BBC bitesize and Woodlands maths websites.  Use a restaurant menu and give yourself a budget for a family of four, go ‘shopping’ and calculate what your change would be.

I hope everyone has a fantastic day and enjoys the snow!

Mrs Hogg

Hello,  I hope you’re all either snuggled up warm or out enjoying the snow.  If you are looking for some activities to do here are some suggestions:

You could do a little of your homework, maybe look through all your sounds and common words and revise them, can you remember the actions too?  All children were given a new reading book yesterday, you could read this together.

See your maths homework sheet for suggestions of activities that can be done at home.

Here are some other activities that might keep you busy today:

• Bake a cake
• Build a snowman, can you build a snow car or train?  what else could you make?
• Go sledging
• Play a boardgame – one where you have to count spaces or follow numbers would be good!
• If you fancy some indoor exercise ‘Cosmic Kids Yoga’ on youtube is easy to follow and there are lots of different stories to choose from.
• Build a den using clothes horses and material – or anything else you can find
• Make a junk model – design a new form of transport.
• www.oxfordowl.co.uk is free to sign up and has free online books – some of our reading books are on there too.
• https://www.topmarks.co.uk and www.doorwayonline.org.uk have some good literacy and numeracy games.

Have fun in the snow and stay safe.

Please message me if you want any more information.

Mrs Kennedy  

Hi

That’s Historic Scotland confirmed the new date of 22nd March to the Peel for Animal Tracks Outdoor Learning

Kind Regards

Louise

Our Victorian Peg Dolls!!

Sorry for the delay. Last week we continued with our work on Time. We looked at intervals of time going forward and backward then we learnt quarter past the hour and some went on to quarter to.

We learnt about the Victorian workhouse and how people lived during that period of time. We also dressed peg dolls and will use these in our puppet theatre.

Chinese lanterns had been made the week before last and last week we wrote instructions on how we made them. This week we are going to take our instructions into P2A and help them to make them. So let’s hope that our instructions are clear.

We continue to do Futsal and will do so until the end of term.

Photos to follow later.

Firstly we just need to catch up on last week.  We began to learn about Time, looking at months of the year and sequencing them then we moved onto o’clock and half past. This week we have worked on durations of time and digital times.

We’ve continued our Victorian studies by looking at Victorian toys and comparing them to our toys today.  Jack in the box pictures have been constructed using a variety of paper with super results. This week we have been looking at Victorian schools and how they differ from  today’s schools.

Last week we began to write instructions and our first piece of work was to write instructions for marmalade sandwiches for Paddington Bear. We made them ourselves then were able to write the instructions very clearly.

In P.E we played Victorian  games which we all enjoyed. The children have painted a Victorian cobbled street and have drawn pictures of Victorian transport and people in clothes from that time.