We have had a lovely festive week in Rannoch class…We have enjoyed making festive baubles with our photo on them and we are looking forward to taking them home!
We have also enjoyed some time outside in the crisp air and time in the Sensory Room.
We have also continued with our studies of initial sounds and revised our understanding of 3-D shapes.
We have also enjoyed listening to Christmas music and songs as the festive season gets underway.
Primary 6 have been very busy this week
We presented our Solo Talks this week on various topics that we find interesting, we were also given the opportunity to peer assess. We noted the things that worked well and provided feedback on things they could do even better for future talks.
On Tuesday we got to watch a movie with the whole school. We really enjoyed it.
We started our whole school rehearsals for our carol service, we are feeling quite confident that we know our reading and songs. “We Three Kings” is the favourite.
We led Advent Mass today (Friday) and welcomed parishioners to our school. Many students had a part to play in the mass – welcoming our parishioners, bidding prayers and offertory procession.
After our mass we participated in a Christmas themed Daily Mile with the whole school, 14 laps of our playground to be exact!
We have a great first week of advent.
We had a special visitor arrive on Monday, a class elf called Sparkles. Sparkles has added a extra bit of fun to our week. He delivered us a real Christmas 🎄 tree which we are going to look after and plant in the garden in spring time. We decorated the tree together. He has also delivered us lots of Christmas 🎅🏻 books to read before Christmas holidays as well as some chocolate puddings.
We have been learning all about the nativity story and what we do in the build up to Christmas. In class we made advent wreaths and spoke about the significance of the candles.
On Friday we joined the whole school to celebrate an advent mass. We were all very respectful and tried our very best at singing.
The whole school joined in on the Daily mile today, this was the first time we have done it but we are looking forward to doing it regularly 🏃
Have a lovely weekend.
This week we have enjoyed decorating the classroom…we have our own tree and lights and tinsel!! We have even painted pictures on the windows!
We have also enjoyed making Christmas cards with our pictures on to give to our families.
We have also taken part in the Santa run…wearing coats and wellies to keep warm and dry…with Santa hats on to keep our heads warm too!
In class we have finished our studies of 3-D shapes and are moving on to displaying data next week.
We have continued our phonics studies too…looking at the initial sound ‘d’.
It’s been a super week!
Some of our responsible Primary 7 children has an exciting trip to St Margaret’s High School for some transitions lessons. We left his morning and spend half a day at the high school. We were very excited when we returned and even came back to school with some tasty treats. Have a look at our photos. 
We have had a super week….Our Read, Write, Inc. studies are progressing well and in our Maths we have moved on to Addition and Subtraction within 20.
With December round the corner we have also been really excited to begin our rehearsals for the Christmas play in a few weeks. Our singing is coming on really well and we are learning all the actions too!
For the Christmas fayre we enjoyed designing our own elf door hangers and Christmas tree decorations – we hope you like them!
We have had a lovely week in Rannoch class…we enjoyed ‘super crunchy’ time on the Trim Trail with the frost early in the week. We found it surprisingly warm in the early winter sun.
We have also progressed in our learning of the initial sound ‘s’.
In our Beyond Number studies we looked to 3D shapes in the world around us…next week we are moving onto learning about displaying data through tally charts and block diagrams.
We also had a lovely time in the sensory room and enjoyed listening to relaxing music in class.
We are also really proud of our gifts for sale at the Christmas Fayre,,,we made glitter painted glass tea lights holders with Christmas ribbons…we think they look lovely!
Its amazing how Ness Class can lead their own learning! Stumbling upon an article during our Afternoon Group, the pupils were keen to learn about Fondue- what is it and where did it originate. We used our Floorbook to plan and organise our very own Fondue tasting session.
As you can see from the pictures, we found it…
‘interesting’ -Lochlan
‘super crunchy tasty’- Dominic
‘lots of tasty bites’- Laura
‘I put sprinkles on my fondue’- Hunter
‘I like the orange’- Shay
‘Thumbs Up’ – Nathan.
We were lucky to have our P7 Prefects in to help us with our tasting session- we found they enjoyed the event too!
This week we have moved no in our Literacy studies to focus on the initial sounds…we have enjoyed forming this letter in foam and practicing our find motor skills in writing it with our pencils – also practicing our ‘pinch’ grip.
In our ‘Beyond Number’ studies we have also moved on in our learning…from 2D shapes to 3D shapes…In our learning we have looked at recognising which 3D shapes are to be found in everyday objects around us.
In our creative work this week we started our gifts for our stall on the Christmas Fayre…What we have made…..Is a surprise!
We have also enjoyed time in the Sensory Room and lunches with our friends.
We had an amazing time visiting West Calder Library on Wednesday. It was a beautiful day and we saw lots of exciting things on the short walk up to the Library. Dominic and Hunter were very excited about the many road signs and warning signs we spotted- these keep people safe. Lochlan was hoping to see a train in the Train Station but we were unlucky- we did see lots of diggers though! When we got to the library, Shay and Laura had the best of times looking through all the books. We were even allowed to borrow a book using our class ticket! We plan to making this a regular outing and return our books after Christmas.
