We have been writing lots of poems in P4 over the last month or so. Topics have included: Water, Remembrance Day and Fireworks. We have used lots of “Wow” words and onomatopoeic words to help describe different aspects in our poems.
Category Archives: Literacy
Money week in nursery
During money week, our role play area has become a grocers/cafe. Our children have enjoyed dressing up in our chefs outfit and setting a table for customers or being a sales assistant, scanning through customers purchases. We have also offered fresh fruit/veg to purchase in the grocers, this has helped the children explore textures and smells of real produce. Within numeracy Grouptime and at our math table, we have investigated and grouped different types of coins. We have identified coin characteristics by size, colour and value. Some of our children have started to for the beginnings of a graph to help analyse the information.
‘Williamston Remembers’ Book Launch
Yesterday at our Parent helpers Coffee morning we launched our World War 1 book- ‘Williamston Remembers’
This is a diverse collection of drawings, poetry, photographs and stories from our children and poignant memoirs from some of our families. It is a collection of facts from the past, and personal thoughts of individuals. it is a journey through learning where we can see World War 1 through the eyes of children. It is our act of commemoration ‘Lest we forget’
The book is on sale for all to buy. Any profit made will go to Poppy Scotland. Books cost £7.00 and are available from the school office.
Williamston Young Writer Winners
A great night was had by all at the Young Writer Award Ceremony, at Howden Park Centre, on Thursday 11th June. Mac A Story thoroughly entertained us and we were very proud when Ryan and Grace went on stage to receive their awards. Unfortunately Abbie couldn’t join us on the evening but she still got a big round of applause when her name was mentioned. A book containing the stories from all the winners is available in school. Very well done to all of you!
Solve it blocks
Solve it Blocks
Our nursery children are beginning to work with Solve it Blocks. This set of 12 large blocks, are designed to support and enhance children’s teamwork, numeracy, literacy, problem solving and health and well being skills. The blocks display a selection of colours, pictures, letters and numbers. Children then have to work together to match a pattern on a card. The patterns get more challenging as the children develop their abilities. Pictures to follow.
Traditional tales and nursery rhymes
In the nursery, we have been busy exploring traditional tales and nursery rhymes. We have been making the houses of the 3 little pigs, we thought carefully about the type of material we would use. We have also looked at sequencing the story of the 3 little pigs, most of us were able to discuss the order of events and put the pictures in order. We have also worked together to perform some stories with our puppets. Additionally, some children chose to design a castle display. We thought to include towers, windows and horses, the horses were the most important part! Along with our castle we designed lots of sparkly crowns and wands. We have enjoyed singing along to lots of nursery rhymes at the end of the day.
Life of a butterfly
As part of our Scottish wildlife challenge, we have been exploring the wonderful life of the butterfly. We have been able to watch our caterpillars grow and grow and are watching out for them making their cocoon. In our group time we watched a video on the lifecycle and tried to remember lots of facts to put into a book. We shared our ideas, drew our own symmetrical butterflies and decided on a design for our page. We have also read ‘The very hungry caterpillar’. We saw the caterpillar munch through lots of food so it can grow big and strong to turn into a butterfly.
Scottish Wildlife
This week in Primary 2 and Primary 2/1 we have enjoyed learning about our Scottish animals. Primary 2a were learning about the otter, Primary 2b were discovering facts about the gull and Primary 2/1 enjoyed learning about the red deer. We have learned many facts using our research skills and were able to tell them to the class and then use them to create a fact-file. This was the first fact-file we had ever written and we think we did a splendid job! This has taught us more about non-fiction writing and reading, note taking as well as using bullet points. Why do you not quiz us the next time you see us, as we are full of facts and enjoy sharing them!
Fame at last!
We have a double page article this week in the local press about our visitors from India and our P4 book. Please see the latest West Lothian Courier for the full press release. An online version is also available.
