Welcome to our P5D weekly blog. In PE we have been trying to improve our stamina by participating in timed running activities and have been playing capture the flag with P5R!
In art, we have been learning about tone and how we can use dark, mid, light and highlight tones to create a 3D picture. We used our skills to create landscapes.
This week we have been celebrating ‘Cool to be Kind’ and anti-bullying week. We have been learning about Jessie J and Dolly Parton and how they wrote songs about a time when they were bullied at school. We had to analyse the song lyrics to work out the messages being given. We then used emotion works to explore the emotion that both of these ladies were going through.
We worked in groups to read and learn about different forms of bullying and leaned that there can be cyber, physical, verbal and emotional bullying and all are just as important as each other.
In maths, we have been trying to solve more challenging money problems that had at least 2 steps to them. We used calculators to help us.
In writing, we were being visual authors and had to create a fantasy story through drawing. Next week we will be using our drawings to then write a story.
Congratulations to Hasan this week for being awarded our praise postcard. He has demonstrated a mature attitude towards learning and has tried very hard in all tasks this week. Well done Hasan.
A busy week in the nursery this week. In early years we observe using the Curriculum for Excellence framework. Four of the capacities in the early level are Health and Well-being, Language and Literacy, Mathematics and Numeracy and Technology. The children are learning through play and here are some wonderful examples of literacy, math and well-being in pictures. Using sticks and beads to recreate shapes, using different media to write or create their names, counting using conkers and using a cardboard box to make a bed to read and make friends in. We are so pleased to announce our EXCELLENT grading from the Care Inspectorate!!! Thank you to each and every one of you for your continued support.
Have a great weekend from the EXCELLENT nursery team !!!
NEXT WEEK IN NURSERY
Monday – The school road safety officers coming in to talk to children.
Tuesday – Some children will be visiting our local care home. Parent council meeting 6.30.
This week in nursery began with firework pictures drawn with chalk and rockets made from boxes. Tuesday saw us walking to the local Library where the children chose a book to read. The AM children heard ‘The Queens Knickers’ while the PM chose ‘ Fairytales’. Parents joined us for a Breakfast blether and a Noon natter on Wednesday to decide what values are important to us as a nursery. We will announce the decision soon! We ended the week making a cake for Mrs Stewart’s birthday 🙂
Emilie- “The h sound is yellow because we make it at the back of our mouth and we need a torch to see it.”
Joshua- “We made words with the h sound. I can make the word hot.”
Connor- “We coloured in pictures that had h at the start. I coloured in the horse.”
Emileigh- Rose “We learned the u sound this week.”
Liam- “The u sound lives in the vowel house.”
Lily- “The picture for u is an umbrella because we need to put our umbrella up so inky’s ink does not drip on us.”
Adam-“The u sound is usually in the middle of a (cvc) word.”
Lewis- “I made words with u in the middle using the magnetic letters. I can make the word hut.”
Here are our songs…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLHLwPK_068
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoVrsX6P-W8
For writing this week we wrote about our experience of seeing fireworks. We used our mighty writer board for the first time.
We were able to use our mighty writer board to help us structure a sentence. It showed us where to put our capital letter and it had picture reminders for what to write.
Khyla- “ I wrote about sparkly fireworks.”
Isla- “The star on the board meant you had to use a wow word.”
Ethan- “I wrote about the loud fireworks.”
Emilie- “I wrote about colourful, rainbow fireworks.”
Numeracy
We continued to learn how to add numbers this week. We have been completing written calculations. We have been counting on and trying to do this in our heads.
We enjoyed reading the number sentences and then using the numicon to identify the total amount.
We also completed addition challenges using the cubes this week. We had to read the cards and add the correct number of cubes together.
We have been using our ten frames to add 2 amounts within 10.
In number talks using our addition knowledge we have been finding the best strategies to make a total.
Can you find different ways to make 3?
Can you find different ways to make 4?
Can you find different ways to make 5?
Can you find different ways to make 6?
We used our bunny ears (fingers) to show Miss Boyes different ways of making an amount.
We have started practising for our nativity, this week we have been learning about the nativity story. We have been learning who was in the story, where it took place and what happened.
In music we have started practising our nativity songs. We are loving our songs and are going to practise lots.
This week our learning has been sparkling, as we rocket our way through our lessons, glowing as bright as the stars!
In numeracy this week we have started to look at subtraction. We learned that there are different words that mean take away; subtraction, less than and fewer. We have been using cubes, counting beads, number lines and our heads and fingers to help us solve calculations. We noticed that if you are using the number line you have to count in the opposite direction (to the left) because taking away makes a number smaller! Great learning everyone.
Use the above link to go the game Hit The Button, and choose subtraction within 20 to practise some more.
For our spelling this week we have revised our vowel house story and focused on three of the patterns, oo, ee and ai (ay at the end of a word) and we learned the following words – book, look, shook, sheep, keep, seek, rain, pain, gain (play + day). We completed a range of practical activities to help us learn these patterns.
In our “Our Community” topic learning we have been creating a Map Of Me where we learned about our place in our world.
These flip books start with a picture of ourselves, then a picture of our house, then a picture of our community Livingston, then a picture of Scotland and finally a picture of the Earth. Thank you Mrs Burchill for helping us produce these. They have really helped us to understand where our community Livingston is and how it is part of the community of the world.
Next week we will be visiting the cinema on Tuesday, please remember to complete the permission slip and return it to school. Our writing next week will be all about this trip and the film we see.
This week we did writing about the end of the world war one and I really enjoyed it because we got to use netbooks : Brooke.
This week, we did EAL with primary 1,2,&3:Ivana.
I fell on my nose at the relay race: Cole.
We did maths and it was very fun: jay.
This week some P7 got chosen to be in a fitness competition I got chosen. I am proud of my team and myself because I was the farthest girl in javelin :Toni.
I went to the festival and we did athletics.On Thursday we did enterprise we had to go in groups of 3 and we had to write down stuff about product and device :Mirren.
This week some P7’s got to go to an athletics event .:Thomas.
This week we wrote a newspaper report as if it was Armistice day. :Beth.
Every class got 6 netbooks each :Joshua.
The P7’s went to a sports event at Craigswood on Thursday: tEthan.
On Thursday we got to get in a team of 3 and on the jigsaw we had to think of words that describe teamwork.
I went to the festival and we did athletics we won it and I am really proud of my team. I came 2nd in 2 relay and 2nd in 2 laps: Lorena.
In P.E we did fitness and it was hard :Abi.
This week 9 girls and 9 boys got selected to go to a fitness event and I got chosen I really enjoyed it.
Teacher Voice
Another busy week here in P6/7 as you can see. The children continue to work hard in class and are challenging themselves to use their higher order thinking skills across learning.
Armistice Day has a been a recurring theme this week during reading, writing and art. Ask your child or have a look at the lovely display we have created, here’s a sneaky peek! Remember to have a 1 minute silence at 11am on 11/11/18.
All children have now started their OneNote Profiles using GLOW. They have typed up their goals and community profile for this term. Please encourage them to use this profile at home to add any wider achievements. Well done to some of our class for putting their homework on OneNote for me.
Well done to some of our P7 pupils for representing our school this week at the Sportshall festival – Miss Burns was very impressed with their attitude, effort and behaviour!
Well done to AIlie from P6 who represented our school at the JRSO meeting this morning, she will be sharing this with us next week in class.
Well done to our lead learner Ambra this week who received the praise postcard home!
This week we visited the library for the first time this year and got books to read in school.
We had a sports event in Craigswood sport hall. The people who went were Paige, Lukasz, Chi-Chi, Kalin, Vanessa, Maxx, Chloe, Matt, Lorena, Beth and Cole. Some of the activities were Soft Javelin, High jump, Long jump, Obstacle Course, up and under, Relay Races, Chest push and an all boy and all girl races. We all had a great time.
Taylor and Preston went to Linlithgow on Thursday for the early Remembrance Day Mass Celebration to represent St. Ninian’s Primary! It was the same place that last year’s P6’s had their camp for a day. They had lots of fun!
For P.E this week we did a massive workout of our choice, the choices being legs, abs or upper body which was really fun!
We also had a fitness challenge and will try to beat our score next week.
In RE we made and presented dramas. They were about The Wedding at Cana some were really thought out and others…were NOT!
In math we made poppies out of a number grid and we had to find the coordinates. It was tricky but they looked great when finished.
In writing we wrote a news report about the end of WW1. We also analysed the poem For the Fallen and learned about the Poppy.
In Art we made pinwheel poppies it was really fun and every one enjoyed it.
Freya: your mouth makes the same shape for ‘u’ and ‘o’ – a long tunnel.
Carter: ‘u’ is black sound.
Amelia: ‘h’ sound.
Anna: it is a yellow sound.
Pati: it is a quiet sound.
Shea: we were writing the ‘h’ sound in the tuff tray.
One of the activities we were doing this week was to listen for the beginning sound in a word and sort objects into groups based on the beginning sound of the word.
Roma: we needed to put hat and hangers in the yellow tray because ‘h’ for hat and ‘h’ is a yellow sound. The bear went in the red tray because ‘b’ for bear and ‘b’ is a red sound.
We played this game too to help us read 3 letter words:
We have been listening to the big numbers song too to count past 20!
Nativity
Our nativity is called ‘Stargazers’.
Rojin: we started to practise our nativity.
Carter: I am King Herod.
Celine: I’m going to the party.
Shea: I’m going to tell the party what to do.
Roma: I’m a star.
Freya: I’m Mary.
Jane: I’m Herod’s girlfriend.
Carter: She’s my wife.
Writing
We have been writing about fireworks in our writing lesson.
Anna: my story said “the fireworks are pink and red. They go bang.”
Roma: “the fireworks were gold. They go boom.”
Lucas: we were drawing pictures of the fireworks in the tuff tray.
Mara: paint was in the bag and we made fireworks pictures. Fireworks are loud.
Outdoor Learning Walk
We created a bar graph to show what transport we saw whilst on our walk. We also spoke about transport that wasn’t on our graph. We saw a mobility scotter, prams, bicycles, cars and taxis.
Michelle: we needed to find aeroplanes and buses. When we found them we drew a tick.
Luke: I saw an aeroplane.
Shea: I saw vans.
Carter: I saw 8 buses. I filled the whole column up.
Roma: I saw 1 aeroplane. Just 1 and that’s it.
Pati: we went to the park too.
Michelle: I liked going on the big silde.
Rojin: I liked sliding down the slide with Roma.
Paul: I liked swinging on the wheel.
Our highlights of the week
Igor: I liked number work. I can make 3 bunny ears.
Luke: I liked bunny ears. I can make 5. 3 and 2 is 5.
Layla: I liked bunny ears too. 6 is with 5 and 1 it makes 6.
Logan: I liked number work. I made 6 with 5 on one side and 1 on the other.
