Wow!  Look how many spelling superstars we have this week.  Well done everyone!

This week in spelling we are learning words where “ea” make an “e” sound as in head and weather.  We made these hats with some of our spelling words written on the feathers.  I think we look pretty cool and we are learning to spell our words at the same time.

This afternoon Mr Tollerton visited our class. Mr Tollerton was the Headteacher at Warddykes before Miss Deans. He now works with the education department at Arbroath Abbey.

He reminded us that not everyone could read and write in the past. We had already learned that Monks were amongst those who did learn to read and write – and that they spent a lot of time practising – just like we do at school!

He showed us how to make a seal like the ones that were used to fasten letters long ago. They would be made of wax and embossed with a picture. We made ours from plasticene! We had a really enjoyable afternoon and Stanley was interested in learning something more about life in the past in Arbroath.

Flat Stanley is staying with Elidh this weekend but he telephoned me last night (I think he sneaked to the telephone while she was asleep) to tell me he thought he should have his own blog!  He would like to put all his pictures and adventures in his own pages.  I thought this was a really good idea so here is the link for Stanley’s blog: 

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/an/FlatStanleyandtheP3SSuperstars/

We will move Stanley’s adventures over to his blog and keep our blog free for the other things that we will be doing in class.