P4B have enjoyed learning social dancing. So far they have learned the Dashing White Sargent, Gay Gordons, Canadian Barn Dance and Strip the Willow.
Hamish McHaggis Clan Banners in P4B
P4B showed off their artistic skills designing a table banner for their groups and worked well together.
Outdoor Learning Display
Thanks for all the fabulous work the children have made and brought in for our outdoor learning display!
Feeling Christmassy…
Christmas Countdown…
St Michael’s Day Care Centre
What a proud moment singing to St Michael’s Day Care Centre. We all sang beautifully and Mrs McCartney and Mrs Matos were delighted with our singing. Adam and Oliver filmed us singing, we will share with you soon! We all felt very Christmassy!!!
We wish the Day Care Centre a very, very Merry Christmas!
Nativity
We thoroughly enjoyed ‘The Inkeeper’s Breakfast’ Nativity play on Tuesday. Lots of us had siblings that were in the performance. We thought it was very funny and amusing! Well done to all involved!
Tesco
Primary 5 all made wonderful Christmas tree art for Tesco. We wanted to add lots of detail and considered how we would achieve this task. Mrs Mellon is going to send our art work to Tesco and hopefully it will be in their windows soon!!
Bubblegum and Fluff
We all had a fantastic time at St Michel’s Church on Thursday morning. It was jam packed with lots of fun activities to do!! We made candle mosaic tiles, we learned that it is all about giving at Christmas time, not about what is inside the present.
Science
Mrs Tulloch was amazing and let us have our Science lesson on Wednesday rather than our usual Thursday because we had a trip. We made prototypes for our parachutes that we are going to make next week. We had to consider how it would float, if Santa would stay in it and what materials we would use to make it.
Twelve Days of Christmas Problem Solving Challenge
We had a sing-along to the Christmas Carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas’ then Mrs McCartney gave us a challenge! We had to think about the different characters that appear in the carol and then calculate how many legs are there ALTOGETHER in the carol. We also had to calculate how many gifts. Mrs McCartney asked us for our suggestions, if there was a method to how we calculated the answer and how we chose to record the results. We all worked really well in our teams!
Things to remember:
*Wednesday 14th December- Handball Festival at Linlithgow Academy *Wednesday 14th December- School Christmas lunch
Have a lovely Christmassy weekend and a good rest!
P5A and Mrs McCartney x
Outdoor Learning
We created Christmas trees.
Tesco Football Skills P2/3 and P3
We went to the Leisure Centre on Tuesday to practise more skills and played mini football games.
P2 and 3 Orienteering
On Thursday, James from P6, our orienteering expert, organised starter activities for P2 and P3 . The children worked in pairs to find the controls using individual map cards.
WB 5.12.16
Dear All
This week we started the Christmas post, collecting, stamping and delivering letters to the other classes. This week we had fun doing the advent calendar.
In PE Mrs. Reid sadly hurt her leg so instead we learnt how to keep a balanced diet over Christmas. We designed healthy menus and if you were finished you drew a pie chart of the food categories. In social dancing we learned the ‘Gay Gordons’. Niamh said it was quite easy when you got the hang of it. Rebecca said it was quite tricky turning round. Harry said it was really fast.
In music we sang Christmas songs. We all enjoyed singing Rudolf the red nosed reindeer and super Santa Claus.
In maths we learned fractions. We played tree frog treasure game on the computer. We made a fraction wall to show the difference in sizes of fractions. We had a circuit of different fraction games including loop cards and matching fraction games. We also learned remainders. James Hammond (Rebecca’s brother) and Ben Waldron (Amelie’s brother) and Ross Donald came into our class to help us to understand division better. Thank you very much! In CLIC Big Maths we were learning decimals.
In literacy we were writing Scottish stories. We learned how to write a formal letter. We wrote a letter to Santa. Some people wrote a list of things they would like for Christmas and some people wrote Santa complaint letters!
In French we were learning to tell the time!
Have a good weekend!
Typed by Una
Xmas Fayre-A Huge ‘Thank You!’
Thank you so much to all staff, pupils and the fabulous PTA who made our Christmas Fayre such a success today. It was a real joy to be in School and there was such a happy atmosphere in the air with people buying gifts for Christmas and chatting over a cup of tea. Thank you also to Santa, who paid his annual visit to Springfield to meet some of our girls and boys. All of your wonderful help and support is truly appreciated.
Have a great weekend.
Miss Baillie. X
A busy start to December in P1A!
We can’t quite believe that it’s December and that Christmas is on it’s way!
We have been working very hard this week to make our salt dough Christmas trees for the Christmas Fair. Mrs Rae (our Parent Helper) helped us to make our trees and then we painted the baubles in class. Miss Harrison put on the red ribbon and we wrote our names on the trees using a special pen! Thank you to everyone that bought our trees!
It was lovely to invite guests into our classroom for the Family Learning Growth Mindset afternoon. We listened to a story called ‘The Most Magnificent Thing’ about a girl who kept on trying and didn’t give up and then we took part in different challenges. Some were quite tricky but we worked hard and kept on trying like the girl in the story.
This week, we have been using all the sounds we have learned so far to make words. We have also been revising all of our common words. In numeracy, we have been learning different addition facts and looking at doubles and near doubles to 10.
We look forward to performing our nativity, ‘The Innkeeper’s Breakfast’ next week.
Have a lovely weekend,
P1A 🙂
