P4 Learn It! Log It! Blog It!

P4hs have been very busy making and decorating cake pops to sell at the Christmas Fayre as part of our Enterprise project.  It was so much fun and we sold every last one at the Christmas Fayre last Friday.  A big thank you to everyone who bought a cake pop.

We also made our Christmas banner with a gingerbread house theme.  We each made a snowflake and we put a photograph of ourselves on our snowflakes!

We have finished our Egyptians topic which we all enjoyed and we are now focusing on our Farm to Fork topic.

In writing, we have been focusing on poetry and we wrote some amazing shape poems and acrostic poems. To help us with writing poems we learned about alliteration, similes and metaphors and lastly onomatopoeias, WOW!

In PE we were learning to play bench ball as we attended a Bench ball Festival at Armadale Community Centre with Southdale Primary and Blackridge Primary.  We really enjoyed our bench ball festival and scored lots of goals.

In RME we have been learning about different bible stories and this week we focused on the Nativity story.

We have also been learning the words for our favourite pets and animals in French.

Our class novel is The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch which we are hoping to finish before we break up for Christmas.

P7me 6th Dec 2022

Literacy:

In literacy this week we have been learning how to structure and write an exposition.  We have been looking at persuasive language and vocabulary that we can use to persuade our reader.  In comprehension we have been looking at similar texts and answering evaluative questions.  We have finished our class novel – The Christmasaurus Cracker which we really enjoyed and we are hoping to start our new one after the holidays.

Numeracy:

In numeracy, we are finishing up a block of integers as part of our Academy transition.  In class, we are focussing on decimals and using the four operations.  We continue to practise our mental maths every day and our times tables especially the 7,8 and 12.

Topic/IDL:

We have completed another whole school STEAM challenge with lots of exciting activities such as designing and building our own snowball launcher, building the Tallest Christmas tree that we can and designing, building and testing an elf trap!  We have also started our Kindness Project where we are making Christmas cards and chocolate coins to say Thank You to people in our community.  Next week we plan to visit and deliver our Thank You gifts to spread some Christmas cheer!

Other Achievements:

Our coasters have sold well as part of our Enterprise project, if you did not have time to come to the Christmas Fayre, they are still on sale if you wish to purchase.  Just send in money with your child who can buy them at the tuck shop.

We had a successful transition morning on Friday at Armadale Academy where we took part in various activities with the S6 leadership team.  Our favourite activity was the scavenger hunt!

 

J – I enjoyed our Enterprise project and helping out at the Christmas Fayre.  It was so busy!

R – I liked the ending to the Christmasaurus cracker.

L – I can’t believe we are nearly halfway through P7.  The Academy looks good through, we had pizza for snack!

WB Monday 5th December 2022

Our big adventure to Bathgate Early Years Centre.

First of all, we would like to thank all the children and families for making our relocation to BEYC as smooth as possible. We appreciate the extra effort to get children to nursery this last week and we have been delighted to see so many of our children make the move. They have been absolute superstars and taken the big change in their stride, we couldn’t be more proud of them.

We have had a lovely week at our ‘Holiday nursery’ the children have particularly enjoyed playing out in the garden and watching the world go by from “the big hill” – we are going to have to find a way to bring this home to Windknowe with us!!

We are also enjoying the beginning of all our festive celebrations, we put up our Nursery Christmas tree and practicing our writing skills by writing Christmas cards and letters to Santa.

We continue to make the most of our ‘holiday’ and share this magical time of year with our new friends at BEYC.

The Nursery Team