This week we came back to school on Tuesday for the start of term 2 . We have  started our small block of fitness for PE before we start our Christmas dancing.  We did a fitness program with Joe Wicks, it was so tiring ,it was at least 30 mins. After PE we did number talks,  we started to order decimals,   it was  a bit tricky  for some of us. We have also started our new topic, it is an enterprise topic called ”Make £5 grow”.

On Wednesday we learned lots of different skills to do with skipping to help with our fitness, for example: 180 spins, beat our high score on how long we could skip for, ect. After we went in pairs and as one of us would be skipping for thirty secs, the other would be doing bench related exercises. We also started our writing which where we had to write about the most favourite day of our life.

On Thursday we did some reading questions, from our reading books. There was ten questions that would give you 1, 2, 3 or 6 marks. You had to use evidence from the text. We also did RE, researching lots of different saints and talking about peace, justice and how to help victims of war, poverty etc. Mrs McDonald also came in for maths.

On Friday we started off our day finishing our writing. Then we did firework safety powerpoint. They were some pretty gruesome pictures but we learn to stay safe on bonfire night.

We were also very excited to start reading buddies with primary one this week. Each week we will visit P1 on Thursday morning to read and help with boost words and spelling.

 

By Chi Chi and Isla

It has been great being back this week.

We have started our new class topic – Our Community.

Within this topic we are going to be learning about the jobs and skills of people in our community.  The children have identified the areas they would like to learn more about;

Yasmin – Learn about vets

Amelia – Sports in Livingston

Evie – Dentists

Ibad – what are the jobs of a police officer?

Kayla – hairdressers

Amelia – working in hotels

Oliver – what kind of scientist jobs are there?

Abigail – working in the Vue cinema

Cooper – Universities and West Lothian College

Eve – Learn about St John’s Hospital

This week in Literacy we have started to use our new writing resource called Mighty Writer.  Here is photograph of what it looks like.

We use the pictures, punctuation and sentence starters to build up a sentence.  This will really help us with our learning about how to extend our stories to include a beginning, middle and end.  It will also highlight clearly when to use punctuation in our stories.  One of the main areas of focus this term in our writing is imaginary stories.  Next week we are going to write about a little alien who comes to our planet for the very first time just in time to see fireworks.  Have a chat with your child about what they might include in their story.

In our numeracy learning this week we have been practising our addition skills.  We have been using all the concrete material in class to help us prove our answers!  We then became the teachers and showed others in class how we could prove our answer.  In our Number Talks we have started to use the interactive Rekenrek.  Our focus for this is doubles/near doubles (within 20).  Here is an example of one of our Number Talks from this week.

In PE we are focusing on Fitness.  This will include core strength, stamina and flexibility.  We can’t wait to see what new ideas Mr McCurdy has for us to develop these skills.  Our PE days will remain the same for this term; Tuesday and Thursday.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie

We have had a busy week in P5D!

I maths, we have been learning about money as this term we will be doing an enterprise topic so felt that learning about money would fit in. We have been learning about adding and subtracting total amounts.

In PE we have been focussing on fitness. We have been improving our stamina by all over body workouts and have been developing our skipping skills with Mr McCurdy.

In writing this week, we wrote book reviews about our old class novel. Most of us rated it 5* and would highly recommend it to others.

We have tried to set up our online profiles this week. It has proved to be very tricky but keep your eyes peeled for progress and updates.

We had our class visit to the library this week and some of us are keen to participate in the reading challenge but this requires our families to take us along and to join the library at the Lanthorn.

 

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D!

 

Writing

On Tuesday, we were writing a recount about what we were doing during our October break. Here is some of the things we wrote about:

Carter: “I went to lego land. I went to Dubai.”

Rojin: “I was in the swimming pool. I was in Spain.”

Luke: “I went to the shops.”

Anna: “I went on my bike.”

Carter: “me and Rojin got the golden ticket.”

Rojin: “Mrs Purdie liked our writing.”

 

Phonics

We have learned 2 new sounds this week. The sounds we learned were:

Pati: “o sound.”

Paul: “e sound.”

Shea: “the song is about the lights going off and on.”

Please see the links below for the songs.

Roma: “o is a bouncy sound.”

Carter: “they book live in the vowel house.”

Jane: “I liked learning the ‘o’ sound.”

Layla: “I liked the ‘o’ sound. It is a black sound.”

Michelle: “I liked learning the ‘e’ sound. Egg begins with an ‘e’ sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BQhF8Rj9JI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvajNViVs38

Sight Words

We have been learning some new sight words this week. Your child will be given the next set of sight words when they are able to spell and read all of the sight words on their current list. Mrs Davenport checks how we get on with our sight words every 2 weeks.

This week we were also playing sight word bowling to help us read our sight words. We have some sight words written on the skittles, the skittles that we knock down, we read which sight word is on them when we pick them up again.

Olivier: “I liked bowling and reading words.”

Amelia: “I was writing sight words.”

 

Numeracy

We have started to learn about addition. We know that when you add things together, the amount gets bigger. We have also looked at the mathematical symbols and talked about the language for add and equals.

Roma: “We coloured in minnie pictures. We had to look at the board for the numbers to colour in properly.”

Shea: “find a number on the tuff table and do finger paints to show how much the number was.”

Freya: “with bowling you had to count how many you knocked over.”

Paul: “make the hopscotch all the way up to 20.”

Scott: “I liked playing with the bowling.”

Celine: “I liked played with the hopscotch.”

Igor: “I liked bowling. I knocked and counted 5.”

Logan: “I liked playing with adding bowling game on the iPads.”

We played a new game on the iPads this week, called counting and addition! In this game, you can practise adding skittles – just like in our bowling we have been doing in class. You could download this on a device at home too. This is a great free app.

 

Maths

We have been looking at data handling and collecting and interpreting bar graphs this week. We visited different classes to do our survey and find out what other people’s favourite Disney character is.

Anna: “you had to pick your favourite character in Disney and asked different classes their favourite.”

In our class, Cinderella was the favourite and Buzz Lightyear was the 2^nd favourite.

Mara: “I picked Pluto as my favourite.”

 

IDL – Topic

Luke: “we made an aeroplane and painted it.”

Lucas: “we need the aeroplane to get to Disney World.”

Carter: “you can dress up and take photos and get people to sign their name on the autograph book.”

This week our lead learners Cole and Joshua took charge of our blog post and gathered pupil voice to help them.

On Wednesday and Thursday Mrs Roy was teaching us about decimals and made it fun. We watched a video as our starter activity and then some of us used tenth strips or did written tasks. We can now read, identify and sequence decimal fractions.

The P7’s went to meet their buddies this week for some paired reading, it was nice to catch up with them all. We helped them with reading and spelling.

This week Mrs Roy was teaching us how to use GLOW and we learned how to email. We all had to email Mrs Roy and then choose someone else in the class to email. We entered the WLC Name a Gritter Competition via our emails. We know we have to be sensible when using GLOW. It is important that we bring our devices to school each day to allow us to log on and use the different tools, we are also going to be starting our GLOW profiles.

In writing we wrote letters to NASA applying for a job to work there. We had to write about our skills, achievements, talents, etc.

In PE we are focusing on fitness with Mr McCurdy and Mrs Roy.

Today our school basketball team are playing another school – good luck to everyone!!