Today we have been learning about books! Mrs Sutherland and Mrs Stevenson brought in their favourite books. Mrs Sutherland showed us a book on how to look after babies, which she read lots when her children were little. Mrs Stevenson brought in her daughters’ books which we recognised as they included Diary of a Wimpy Kid. She also brought in a book about Romans which we know is a fact book, or non fiction.

Next week we have two trips to look forward to. We are going to Broxburn Library, so to prepare for this, Mrs Stevenson pretended to be a librarian and we had to ask to borrow books from her!

We are also going to Waterstones in Livingston, and we will be able to buy books there for our school. Mrs Patience has organised for us to have a drink of hot chocolate too. We have looked at photographs of Waterstones so that we know what to expect when we get there.

Mrs Sutherland likes the look of one of the books here so she is going to take some money to spend.

Broxburn Library have some events on next week – details here. There is a party and a treasure hunt!

Updates from next week to follow.

Here is some information we have shared about what is the same and what is different about book shops and libraries.

Happy reading everyone!

Mrs Sutherland’s groups were very pleased this morning to host Cara from RBS Moneysense. She came in to talk to us about different ways of spending money, such as things we need and things we want.

We know that we

need

money for food and clothes and a house. We would

like to

spend money on treats like toys, games and holidays.

We learned about what we would need to buy for a pet dog and had to guess how much things might cost. We used the smartboard to look at the website of a shop in Edinburgh where Mrs Sutherland goes to buy treats, jumpers and other things for Poppy.

We asked Cara lots of sensible questions and our behaviour was wonderful according to Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Sutherland!

Here we are being busy learners. We were very happy with our goody bags which each have a little piggy bank keyring, a notebook and a great sharp pencil!

Here is some information about Moneysense.

Last week The Cool Kids and The Fantastics started to learn about money. We shared what we already know about money. Mrs Sutherland was impressed by some of the facts we know already.

In shops there are labels to tell
you the cost or the price.

You can get money at the bank.

If something is expensive
you might not have enough money to
buy it.

You can get a loan from the bank
but you have to give the money back.

You can tell real money
from fake money by using an
invisible pen.

You get paid for coming to work.

This week we are having a visitor who is going to help us understand a little bit more about saving money, and different ways of spending money. We have our questions ready for our visitor!

We shared our learning with the children from Mrs McKay’s class, as we made up our own shops in the Rainbow Room. We played the part of shopkeepers, and we had a Teddy Bear Shop, a Book Shop and a General Shop where our customers could buy food and toys. We had to welcome our customers and talk to them about how much things cost in our shops. Here are some photographs of us being super shopkeepers with our happy customers!

We have been very busy in The Cool Kids and The Fantastics during the last two weeks! The children have been learning about Robert Burns and planned a small celebration for 25th January.

The highlight was making shortbread with Mrs Stevenson, and I have to say that they made a great job of this! The children learned lots of new vocabulary to do with following instructions (a recipe), measuring and using different utensils – sieve, rolling pin, baking tray.

The children each chose a guest to invite along and they were excellent hosts. We talked about how to offer drinks and food to the friend they had invited. Here are some words used by the children to describe the shortbread – “delicious”, “really tasty”, “awesome”.

Mrs Stevenson and I are really proud of the children – this was something new for them and I think that you can see from the pictures how much they and their guests enjoyed their morning!

This morning The Fantastics and The Cool Kids made cards and tree decorations. We needed to listen to the teacher and follow the instructions. We had to count out how many of each thing we needed. We listened to Christmas music and the Cool Kids played gingerbread man counting games on the smartboard as well.

Mikey also told his group about The Waggy Dog Project which sounds really exciting!

By Rubyanne, Caitlin, Mayson and Jamie.