We have had another busy week and have even managed to enjoy PE outside with Miss Mair in the warm, dry weather.

We have been continuing to investigate how we measure weight. We looked at the displays on scales, found out a bit about grams (g) and kilograms (kg) and carefully handled some metal kilogram weights which we thought were quite heavy. Next week we will begin to investigate how we measure capacity.

Following up on our fantastic persuasive letters last week, to encourage Miss Ashmore to buy local or seasonal produce, we discovered more about which fruit and vegetables can be grown in the Scotland or the UK and how far away some other items come from to our shops.

The best bit was tasting the fresh fruit and vegetables the next day.

On Wednesday morning we watched an “Authors Live” broadcast as part of Bookbug week. The author was Alex T. Smith,  a well known children’s book author and illustrator. He shared with the audience a little about how he became interested in drawing and then writing from an early age and then decided that was what he wanted to do when he grew up.  A few of the children in class had already read some of his “Claude” stories and we were all delighted when he showed us how to draw Claude. I think you will agree we all did very well!

 

Have a look at our pictures in our Claude Gallery page above.

Then you could have a go too by watching the BBC clip from the webcast on the link below!

Drawing Claude with Alex T. Smith

 

 

Our  Scotland wide Sumdog contest finished on Thursday.

Well done to everyone who played some games and helped us do so well.

1139 schools from all over Scotland took part and we came a fantastic 439th. Mark managed to answer an amazing 1000 questions, which is the maximum total you can have count towards a contest score.

Next contest (last for p2) runs from 2nd – 8th June and is an Aberdeen only contest.

 

Next week and coming up

We are looking forward to our trip to Easter Anguston Farm on Thursday morning. This will bring us to near the end of our “Farm to Fork” topic. We will be starting on a new short topic for the rest of this term all about “Our Community” and will be out and about looking at things that are important to us in the Cults area.

Letters will go home soon about two short outings we have planned already. If any parents are able to come with us to help on either of our walks please let us know on the reply slip or speak to us at the end of a day. As always your help is very much appreciated in making these things happen for the children.

Monday 29th May 9.30am

A walk around our community looking at houses, other buildings and amenities. We will be  recording what we see by making notes and taking photos. It will be a lot of walking so we will stop down near the Hub to have our snack!

Tuesday 13th June 1.30pm

Visit to Cults Library