This week was another busy week for us. In number work we have been completing some pages in our new Check Up booklets. These are our new workbooks which are very special because they give us lots of questions and let you teachers know how we are getting on. We have been showing how much we know about subtraction and we know a lot! Mrs Mackay and Mrs Munro are very proud of us!

Everyday we have been practising our addition and subtraction using our Activexpressions and a Self -Paced flipchart. These are lots of fun and we all like to see how well we are doing at the end. It also lets our teachers see how were are getting on and we have gotten so good that we have moved up a level! Two of us have now completed training to become Activexpression Experts. Well done to Corey and Magnus who got their certificates at assembly this week.

In art this week we have been making beautiful cherry blossom art pictures. The skill we were learning was printing. First we got out the paint we needed. We decided that we needed some brown paint for the tree and then we needed pink paint for the cherry blossom but Mrs Mackay said that she didn’t have pink paint and could any of us think what we could do to make some. George and Maddison pulled on their thinking hats and said that they thought we should mix red and white together to make pink so we tried that and it worked! Next, we got some empty water bottles to print with. We got long pieces of paper and made our beautiful pictures.

In ICT we are building on our skills using programmable Beebots. We worked in teams and each had a different activity at each station. At the first station we had to programme the Beebot to go to the letter our name starts with. At the second station we had to programme the Beebot to go the money that out team picked . At the third station we had to programme the Beebot to go the number our team selected on the mat and finally, at the fourth station Mrs Mackay gave us a challenge to move the Beebot to a picture on a Beebot mat and she assessed us. It was lots of fun and we enjoyed moving around and trying to programme the Beebot.

In health we have been learning all about different food groups. This week it was the turn of the Yellow Builders. These foods are things like potatoes, pasta, rice and  bread. We tasted lots of different types of bread ( and none of the ones we tasted were like the bread we get on our sandwiches!) The most popular was the pretzel bread and the garlic bread. We also got to use some of the foods from the yellow builders to create pictures. We were very creative. Kaitlyn made a picture of a sailing boat and Chamseddine created a dinosaur using the pasta, rice and noodles.

On Friday we had two special events. We had our Gym lesson but instead of Mrs Mackay, Miss Davies or Mrs Paton teaching us it was two proper gymnasts. They were really nice and played lots of fun warm up games and cool down games. They wanted to teach us how to move our bodies in lots of different ways and using lots of different equipment. We had to balance, use forward rolls and pencil rolls, jump and hop around a circuit. Billy was very good at balancing, Wren was brilliant and bunny bouncing, Lara was super at leaping on the vault,  and we all amazed Mrs Mackay at doing forward rolls and pencil rolls. The ladies told us about a club they are running and we will take a leaflet home on Monday to show our grown ups.

In the afternoon, we had our Highland Games. It was lots of fun and we all found out what house we were in. Some of us were in the blue house called Baxter, some were in the yellow house called Dudhope, some of us were in the green house called Caird and the rest of us were in the red house called Camperdown. The house we are in will stay the same all the way through to P7 until we leave Dens Road Primary. We had to cheer our team on, most of us were supporting our teams but some us were chosen by our house captains to take part in the races and events. Billy and Edyn were on the Caird (green) team, Leyan was on the Dudhope (yellow) team, Kayla was in the Baxter (blue) team and Michael from P1 in P1/2 was in the Camperdown (red) team. They all did really well at games like toss the caber, hurl the wellies, leap the burn and lots more. In the end the Primary 7’s added up the scores and the Dudhope Team won! They got certificate and a team trophy. All the other teams did so well so they got a certificate too and we all had a great time!

As part of our homework this week we had three challenges to choose from we could write or draw things which make us happy, we could write a dragon story or book just like the Chopsticks story we heard or we could  draw or make our own Chinese dragon. We all really come up with some amazing homework and we wanted to share it with you so here are some samples of what we did with our families.

Week Beginning Monday 25th February

Remember to bring your filled, named water bottle with you every day (no juice please).

HOMEWORK – Please send it to school every day but any tasks should be completed by Wednesday. The teacher will collect in the weeks work on Wednesday. Each week there will be a Yellow Book Challenge to do but you can pick which challenge you want to do from a list of 3 each week. There will be no homework on a Wednesday night.

Gym is on a Monday and Thursday. Please remember long hair will need to be tied back and no jewellery. This means all earrings must be removed. Thank you.

Fruit money for this term is £1.40 please place in a named envelope.

Please return your child’s trip form and money  as soon as possible (these do not have to be sent in together).

This week we will be learning about Time (numeracy), Lost and Found (literacy) and throwing skills (healthy and wellbeing).