This week is Literacy Week. Here is the Redwell Big Book Quiz which you can help your child to complete at home. Write down the answers and bring them back to school by Monday 5th March. There are 5 prizes up for grabs! Best of luck to you all.

Redwell Big Book Quiz

1.What does the giraffe  borrow from the Smartest Giant in Town? (Nursey am)

2.What type of dog is Monty from “Monty the Sad Puppy”? (P3C)

3.Who killed Macbeth at the end of the play? (P7S)

4.In the book “Peace at Last” by Jill Murphy, why did Mr Bear decide to sleep in the car? (P1S)

5. What is the name of the Killer Cat? (P3K)

6. “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” is based on which historical world event? (P6S)

7.“The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” is set in which country (P6H)

8. What is the name of the camp in “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” and what does Bruno call it by mistake? (P6B)

9.In the story “Not Now Bernard”, what does the monster do to Bernard? (P1F)

10. What is the name given to the group of children in the book “The Secret Seven on a Trail”? (P3F)

11. In “The Hodgeheg”, Max the hedgehog has 3 sisters. Name one of his sisters. (P2McL)

12. In the book “How to Train Your Dragon”, what is Hiccup’s full name? (P4S)

13.What are the characters trying to steal in “Gangsta Granny”? (P5T)

14. From The book series, “Claude”, who is Claude’s best friend? (P2McC)

15. In “Hamish and the Worldstoppers”, what letter does Hamish Ellerby have on the front of his jumper? (P5R)

16. What does the fox borrow from the Smartest Giant in Town? (Nursery pm)

17.Why do you think Mr Skip is called Mr Skip? (P4M)
What form (animal) does Harry Potters protronus take? (P5M)

18. In “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, why do Axel and Professor Lidenbrock want to go to the centre of the earth? (P7M)

Write down your answers, your name and class and post them in the quiz box in the Yellow Wing. If you need help, ask someone in the class who set the question. Good luck!

Mr MacDonald, a  fire fighter all the way from Northern Ireland, came to speak to us about his job on Thursday. Abi even got to try on his special uniform!

Today the boys and girls have transformed into ‘travel agents’ and are busy making posters to advertise a visit to The Kelpies, in Falkirk.

We learned all about the Kelpies and decided what would make tourists decide to visit.

Here we are hard at work.

Check back later where we will share our finished posters and hopefully convince you to visit The Kelpies!

Good Morning,

Thank you so much to Kayla’s Mum and Alexis’ Mum for commenting on our Blog!! We LOVED reading your comments! 🙂

Here is an overview of what we have been learning this week.

We have been learning to label our ‘boady’ in Scots. I know een is for eye, I know neb is for nose and lugs are for ears. – Jared

We have been learning about Scottish Highland cows. We even got to paint them in the style of Steven Brown . – Hanna

We performed our Class Assembly last week. It was amazing and I really enjoyed it. – Georgia

In Maths, we have been learning to add sets together. We have been practising adding in our heads. First, you put the biggest number in your head and then add some jumps up to get your answer – Joseph

We have been learning another song in Scots. It’s called the 3 craws. I think we should video it on the iPad and put it on the blog – Beth (We will do this in a few minutes and upload it for you to see).

We have been learning about Scotland – Rhian

At gym we have been doing activities that helps us with our numbers – Natsumi

We have learned another Scottish song. It’s called the Flower of Scotland – Ohad

We learned a new sound. It’s the ‘or’ sound – Rory

We have been learning about lots of numbers. We have been adding numbers together – Abi J

We learned about fluency and expression with our reading book, Six Fish. We loved doing the funny voices – Bryce

In Art, we made Valentine pictures with love hearts – Megan

We have been practising the ‘oo’ sound – Euan

We have been focusing on sharing and being kind – Cameron

We have been using lots of different numbers and adding them together – Kayla

We have been learning about the days of the week in French – Alexis

We have been learning about double numbers. We know double numbers up to 20. Miss Stephens sometimes gives us really challenging questions in maths to help us get quicker- Lena

This week we have been learning our lines for our class assembly. We also learned some Scottish words for parts of our body. We created beautiful Highland Cow pictures, in the style of Scottish Artist, Steven Brown. We also designed our own tartan and learned about how real tartan is made. We looked at the different parts of a kilt and made our own sporran.

Last but not least… we performed brilliantly to a HUGE audience on Friday and shared our learning journey (so far) with our friends and family. We then transformed into little ‘tour guides’ and took our special guests around our classroom and shared area to share in our learning. We all had such tremendous fun!

Blog again soon!