On Thursday P2S visited the Orchard Care home to sing some Christmas Songs! The children really enjoyed doing the performance and are already asking to go back and do it again!
P2S Christmas Party
The boys and girls had an amazing time at their Christmas party on Friday! Thank you Mr Roberts for teaching us some Scottish country dances. Here’s a clip of us doing the Virginia Reel –
We really love the Hokey Cokey dance! Here is a video of us in action:
Winter Stories
P1M wrote some excellent stories about winter. They had some fabulous ideas for their stories, for example, some children wrote about sledging, snowball fights and building snowmen. P1 talked about what they might wear in the winter weather too. They used this information to ensure that they added detail to their pictures. The boys and girls are trying really hard to form their letters carefully following the Read, Write Inc rhymes.
Jingle Bell Challenge
P2S were faced with another challenge from Elvis on Thursday! We had to try and find a way to stop Santa’s bells from making a jingling noise!
The children came up with some wonderful and creative ideas to tackle this challenge and they had lots of fun doing it!
Buddies
P1 love their big buddies. On Friday afternoons the P1 children get to spend some time with their big buddies. Â Each week the children participate in a different activity and the P7 children support the P1 pupils.
Thank you to our super P7 buddies!
Paper Chain Challenge
Today Elvis the Elf set us another challenge! We each had to make a paper chain using only one piece of paper. The person who could make the longest chain was the winner!
 
The children brainstormed with a partner trying to think of different ways they could make their paper chain longer than everyone else’s.
In the end, our winner was Lacey!
All About Italy!
Primary 4 have recently been learning about Italy as part of our Context for Learning.
As part of our homework, we were asked to create an information poster or PowerPoint on Italy with lots of interesting facts about the country. We then presented our work to our classmates, who took the challenge of being the teacher and gave us feedback!
Scottish Book Week
As part of Scottish Book Week P2S and P6M worked with their literacy buddies to produce some fantastic Kelpie stories! A book full of all our wonderful work is available to look at in the school foyer.
LEGO Marble Maze!
Elvis set the class a design challenge today! We had to plan and create a Lego marble maze. The children worked very well with their partners and took their time to solve the design problem. The results were fantastic and the children were able to identify their own areas for improvement! Hopefully Elvis tells Santa what a wonderful job we all did!
Molly and Murron created a super tricky maze! Even Miss Stark took a long time to complete it!
Special Delivery!
P2S had an extra special delivery this morning all the way from the North Pole! We are super excited to welcome one of Santa’s elves into our classroom!
We have been learning about tally marks in our numeracy lessons and we used this knowledge to decide upon a name for our Elf!
