This has certainly been a busy and slightly unusual week for all of us. On Friday it was Comic Relief which we have been calling it Red Nose Day. The main thing that made it strange is that we all came to school either dressed in our pajamas, onesies or red clothes… even the teachers!!! We all thhought this was very funny. Then we had a special day of things ahead. First of all we got to go to the special ‘red’ tuck. We got to buy lots of sweets, cakes, treats, jelly, juice and other lovely things- it was fab! We were all very happy because we were helping a charity and we were getting to eat treats! YUM. Primary 6/7 were organising it and they did a super job!
After that we got to go to a special zumba session. We all got very red in the face because it was so hard but it was lots of fun too.
We watched a video and talked about why we were doing all these fun things and we watched a video about a little boy in Kenya, Africa called Robert who is 8. We discovered that some things in his life were the same as ours. He liked football, playing with his kitten, and playing games like hide and seek and we all agreed that we like doing those things too. We found out that some parts of his life were very different though. His house was very different and the way his family lived was different too. We felt a bit sad at the start but we realised that the money we were raising would help people like Robert and lots of other boys, girls, men, women and families in the UK and in Africa. We felt really happy that we were helping and very proud of ourselves. The video is below if you want to watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMBu4xr_wvk&feature=player_embedded
At the creating table some of us made our own red noses and red nose pictures.
In the afternoon the people who had made it through the class talent show performed in the Comic Relief Talent Show Final! We had lots of different acts during our class performers. We had karate shows, dancing, singing, magic, and lots. lots more. In the end there could only be three perfomances for the final and from P1 we had;
The Primary One Dance Troupe (dancing and singing to Starships)
Becca, Wren, Maddison, Billy and Jamie Lee
The Jokers (telling jokes)
Josh, Chamseddine and Leyan
The Amazing Hula Hoopers (accompanied by the very bendy Erin)
Kyra and Carys
The show was in front of the whole school and we wowed and amazed and we all did very well.
There were 29 acts altogether and in the end the winner was the P5 dancers , and in 3rd place it was Casey from p3/4 but in a superb 2nd place it was…..
The Primary One Dance Troupe (dancing and singing to Starships)
Becca, Wren, Maddison, Billy and Jamie Lee
We are all really proud of them and they are going to recieve a special award at assembly. Some of the comments about our performances were “amazing”, “they are so talented”, “wow” and ” brilliant”. Lots of people told us we could be on the TV we were so good!!!
We got surprise on Monday because we did know that we had monsters in our class. They had come to help us learn well and and to follow our class and school rules
Everybody got their own monster and they are all different. When we are doing something well we give our monster a point this can be if we are being sensible, well behaved, hard working, being polite, being respectful, creative or lots more. If we are not following the class or school rules we have took take a point away from our monster.
Everyday we see who has the most points and that person wears the special points champion rossette for the day and they get a special sticker from Mrs MacDonald.
We have been set a challenge by Mrs Mackay and if we can log on at home, in the library or on our grown ups phones we can change our monster to whatever design we want and we can share how we have been getting on at school with our families. Mrs Mackay sent a sheet home to show everyone what the page looks like and we even get a point if we log on ( don’t worry if you can’t though!).
Mrs Mackay set us the challenge of getting at least 15 points each by Friday but we all did so well that we earned a whopping 548 green points (they are the fab ones!) and just (21 red points (they are the not so good ones!). She is VERY proud of us and we are all enjoying using it that we showed Mrs MacDonald. She was so impressed we are going to give a little presentation at assesmbly and tell the rest of the school about it and the skills it is giving us! If you want to know more or see what we are talking about here is a link to a video telling you all about it! If anyone is having any problems getting onto their page just write a not your green books and Mrs Mackay will try to sort it out for you.
This week with Ms Gauld we learned all about the Green Protector Food Group. This is the groups which is made up of fruit and vegetables. We had to taste different foods and then write about the food we were trying. We tasted peas, grape juice , mango juice, tomato juice, lemon juice, bananas, oranges, and lots more. We learnt that we grow fuit and vegetables from seeds and we saw a model to help us understand. We learned that they are really good for you but they do contain sugar so we shouldnt eat loads of them but we mu8st try to eat at least five portions every day.
In numeracy we are learning all about the half past time. We can tell it on a digital clock and on an analogue clock. We played a matching game with cards on clocks. It was easy because we worked as a team. We have also had to draw the hands on analogue clocks to show what the time was. It was a bit tricky because we had to read the digital time first!
In literacy we are continuing to write our stories about our pet penguin. There are some amazing ideas and we are all being super creative! We had to use our thinking triangle again and also our thinking flowers. Here is what we got written down this week.
As part of our yellow book homework challenges we have been thinking about what we do in a day and when we do it, looking for signs of spring ( although the snow this week made that a wee bit tricky, and playing a game with our families. We all did really well Kyra played hungry hippos and ‘let’ her dad win 3 times! Kaitlyn played a gingerbread man with her brothers and Sameer played the sounds game with his mum and brother. Here are some of the other pieces of fab homework completed this week!
In the Active Learning Zone we have been practising time. We have been investigating this on the Numeracy table looking at watches, clocks and stop watches. We have been playing a game on the iPad called What’s the Time Mr Wolf. We have to match the correct time to the clock. At the end of the game we have to save our score.
We have been continuing to learn about Nature and habitats and are still exploring our Nature Table.
Week Beginning Monday 18th March 2013
