What a busy week we have had in Primary One! It has been our school READ week and so we have been doing lots of work with books and lots of thinking about what we find inside books.
We have focused on two books in our class for READ week. We started the week by looking at a book by Julia Donaldson called Jack and the Flum Flum Tree. We all agreed that it was great and we really enjoyed reading it.
We were all really impressed with how clever Jack, Rose and Stu were to use the items Granny gave them to save them whilst they were on their journey. We had so much fun guessing what Jack and his friends would use the objects for, that we really amazed to discover that Granny had sent us a patchwork bag full of different items to use if we were travelling to the Isle of Blowyernose.
We had no idea what so of the items were and so we had to think very carefully about what each thing in the bag could be used for on our adventure- it was super and we all had really different and creative ideas. Here are some of them;
We used all that we had been learning about the book to write a blurb for the back of the book because we were surprised to see that there wasn’t one. Mrs Mackay was really impressed.
We were even happier when we discovered that we were all given a present from the Book Bug on Wednesday. We all got a bag which had four books in it. We couldnt wait to get home and read them to and with our grown ups. Everyone got very excited when we found out that Jack and The Flum FLum Tree was one of the books in the bag along with Solomon Crocodile (who we think needs to learn to be a bit nicer to his friends so they are nicer with him), The Day Louis Got Eaten and a book which is written in Scots called Jordans New Jaiket. We also got a workbook that we could do at home. It was a super surprise and lots of us told our teachers that it was one of our favourite parts of READ week.
We also took part in P5/6’s Book Swap. We brought in our old books from home and we swapped each of our unwanted books for a new one we hadn’t read yet but would like it. We all agreed that it was a very clever idea! Afterwards, some of the P5/6 boys and girls asked us questions so that they could fill in a questionnaire they had made.
We had lots of lovely visitors this week. On Monday the librarian from Coldside Library came to visit us and read us some stories. She told us that we could all go to the library and borrow some books and that there are computers there that we are allowed to use too. We also had Mrs Baxter from the Nursery who surprised us with a visit to read some of her (and our) favourite books. It was lovely to have Mrs Baxter in our classroom and we really listened carefully to her stories.
Some of the older boys and girls in the school also came to read to us. Primary 3/4 came as our paired readers and read us their reading books. We all enjoyed reading their stories with them. On Friday some boys from Primary 7 came down to tell us some stories. They were brilliant at it and we all loved listening to the stories they had chosen for us to hear.
One of our favourite activities during Read week was our Teddy Bear’s Picnic afternoon. We all brought in a teddy bear from home to join us for a fun afternoon. We made teddy bear bookmarks, had a teddy bear drive, played parachute games, listened to teddy bear stories and did teddy bear dot to dots.
After all the activities we got together in the hall with our teddy bears for a picnic. What a lot of hungry bears! One teddy had a packet of teddy bear crisps!
On Friday we all came to school as our favourite character – it was super fun and we all looked great!!!
As part of our homework challenge we had to draw or create a model of our favourite Roald Dahl character. Mrs Mackay was amazed at the fabulous models and pictures which came in….
We have also been thinking carefully about healthy diets over the last few weeks and some of us made lists of our favourite healthy foods.
Finally, because the weather has turned colder we have been thinking about people who don’t have as much as us and those people who cannot get out of their house because they are poorly or they are ill. We decided to have a harvest collection for them and we were really generous and brought in lots of food to help others.
Week Beginning Monday 3rd December
Dens Road Christmas Fayre is on Friday 7th December from 1.30pm-3pm – you can collect your child from their classroom at 1.30pm and they will guide you around the fayre.
Books, bric a brac, cake and candy, children’s craft, toys, face painting, games etc.
Admission (includes refreshments) Child 50p Adult £1
