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Letter from the Troll

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Today, we received a letter from the Troll!!

He told us that he was very unhappy because he had no friends and was a bit lonely living under a cold, smelly bridge. The Troll asked if the Superstars could give him some advice on how to make some friends. Some of the Superstars felt so sorry for him they decided they would make the Troll their friend.

Here’s a selection of their advice.

“Dear Mr Troll, if you wash your hands and wash your body and cut your nails every day you will be nice and clean and people will like you.” Kyle

“Dear Mrs Troll, if I come trip trapping over your bridge I will give you a sweet and then I will be your friend.” Ellamae

“Dear Mr Troll, you should be a nicer troll and be kind. Do not shout at people and show them respect.” Kaitlyn

“Dear Mr Troll, I think you should come to my class and play with me.” Jack

Here are some pictures of us pondering our advice!

Zumbathon

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Today the whole school took part in a sponsored zumbathon. It ws arranged by the Parent Council to raise funds for the school.

Each class went to the hall at an allotted time to take part in half an hour of zumba. Mrs Cranston, our P.E. teacher took the morning groups and Zumba Instructor Clare took the afternoon groups.

We were the last group of the day, together with the P2/3 class.

It was great fun. We are looking forward to seeing how much money we have raised next week.

Superstar Soup

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We have learned that to keep our Moshi Monsters happy we have to feed them every day and give them healthy food.

We are also learning that to keep ourselves healthy and happy we have to eat the right types and combinations of foods.

Today we had a special visitor. Mrs Fiona Dawson, an Education Catering Advisor from our local authority, came to give us a special workshop on preparing and making our own soup.

Jack and Kristin’s mums came in to help us too.

We had to wash our hands properly and put on special plastic aprons. We knew all about this as we have been learning about the importance of good hygiene when preparing food.

Mrs Dawson showed us how to use a very sharp knife safely to chop up our vegetables. We had to peel and chop carrots, potatoes, turnip and leeks. We all worked in our groups to do this and everyone had turns.

We added water and stock powder and then left the soup to cook. After lunchtime, we were able to taste our soup. It was yummy!

A big thank you to Mrs Dawson for a very enjoyable morning. Thank you too, to Jack and Kristin’s mums for coming in to help us.

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Moshi Monsters

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This term we will be using Moshi Monsters as a context for a cross curricular project focusing on health and wellbeing, ICT and art.

Read this article from Learning and Teaching Scotland about a school in Stirling who carried out their own very successful Moshi Monsters project.

We have all adopted our own monsters online. Today we made a mind map of what out monsters would need to keep them happy and healthy. We are going to use this as basis for our learning over the coming weeks.

Having a discussion in our groups.

Our mind map.

Safety in the Home

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Mrs Menmuir visited our class yesterday to talk about safety at home. We talked about accidents we had had at home and how these could have perhaps been prevented.

We worked together in groups to identify dangers around the house and garden from a special set of pictures that Mrs Menmuir had. We had to be super detectives to also find something that was safe in the picture. Each group then talked to the rest of the class about what we had found out.

Francis the Scaredy Cat

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Today we read this book. Mrs Stewart asked us to predict the title again. At first, we thought the cat looked sad but Mrs Stewart asked us to think about what else it might be feeling. We came really close with a prediction of “The Scared Cat.”

The book is about a cat who is left alone in a house and is scared by a hissing noise it hears from outside. We don’t want to spoil the story for anyone, but it is a really good book to talk about why we are sometimes scared of things that we don’t need to be.

We chatted about the things we are most scared of. Snakes were quite high on our list. If we ever meet a snake we are going to be brave, ignore it or run away!