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Trees, Bees and a Highland Fling!

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).
  • There is no drag-on our school day! Kung Hei Fat Choi!

    This has been a very funm busy and exciting couple of weeks for us. We had a long weekend and we have been learning all about Chinese New Year! Did you know that the Chinese New Year holiday lasts for two weeks but there is one special day and on that day everyone wishes each other ‘Kung Hei Fat Choi’ which means happy new year and good fortune.

    We decided to make our role play area a Chinese resaurant and we thought about all the different things we would need. We looked in some books to get some ideas. Some were fiction  (which means they are imaginative books) and some were non fiction (which means that they are all about real events, objects and facts which are true). In one of the books we discovered that Chinese people eat with chopsticks instead of cutlery so we put these in our restaurant and we also saw that people ate sitting on the floor at a low table so we put cushion to sit on instead of chairs. We all really love being in the restaurant and practising using the chopstick to eat as well as using the wok to cook in. 

    We learnt that instead of presents Chinese people give each other red envelopes with letters of good luck inside and money ( we all liked that idea!). Sometimes at family meals there would be a decoration covered in red envelopes and people would take one when they when home.  We have been trying our some Chinese writing at our writing table and some of us made our own red envelopes to give to our friends.

        

    Did you know that the Chinese New Year is named after an animal? 2013 is the year of the snake. We wanted to know about why the years were named after animals and how they worked out which order they would come in. We heard a story all about a race which the Emperor’s daughter organised because all the animals wanted to go first. We all really enjoyed the story and lots of us said that we thought that it was a very clever way to solve the problem.

    To try to help us remember the sequence of the animals who won the race by completing a cut and stick worksheet. It was tricky but we all did well.

      

    In literacy we all completed a fact sheet to show what we have been learning about Chinese New Year. Some of the pictures we had to draw were already in our classroom and that really helped us.

               

    In art we all made our own Chinese dragon puppet. We had to design a head design and tail design then fold the paper carefully using the fold and flip method. We all did really well and were so excited about them we all took them straight home to share with our families!

    In music we have been learning about chinese music and rhythm which is the musical word for pattern. We learnt two songs. One was about two tigers and the other song was called Gong Xi which means good fortune. We were really good at singning them so we played some musical instruments following the rhythm. We used a tambourines, indian bells, symbols and wooden blocks. It was really fun and we are looking forward to learning some more songs and trying to play different rhythms.

     We were lucky to work with Ms Gauld this week. She let us taste and smell lots of Chinese foods. We even got to wear some chinese clothes. It was all really good fun and we learnt lots. Almost all of us thought that the smell of ginger was the nicest thing.

    On Tuesday we were all really hungry because it was Pancake Day which is sometimes called Shrove Tuesday.

    Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 1: First Words: Pancake

    Some of us remembered that we had read a reading book where Dad makes pancakes ( but they don’t eat them which we thought was funny). We all talked about the ingredients that Dad needed and we made a list. Then Mrs Mackay showed us a recipe on the promethean board and we talked about what it tells us to do and equipment we would need if were going to make pancakes at home would be. Next, we made our own recipe sheet and made a super job of it!

     

    Before we went home we read a really funny book called Mr Wolf’s Pancakes. Mr Wolf was really trying to be nice to all his neighbours but they are all horrible and use terrible manners. Nobody would help Mr Wolf but he still managed to make his pancakes in the end but then his mean and rude neighbours turn up at his door and demand some pancakes (how rude!)…. don’t worry Mr Wolf soon gets his own back but we don’t want to give away the ending!

    In ICT we have been learning all about using programmable resources like Beebots and controling the turtle by progamming his path. We all to take turns programming the Beebots to travel to our friends then we took part in a Beebot Challenge where we had to work out how to make our Beebot make a pattern on the floor. We made shapes, flowers and went forward and back as well as in a circle.

      

    We are still learning all about subtraction in numeracy. We are all getting much faster and able to answer more questions correctly using the activexpression in self paced challenges in addition and subtraction every day. We are also finding tha cubes really helpful when we are working out our subtraction and addition work in the classroom and ALZ. After we finish our work we self evaluate and then we show it to our teachers and they evalute our work too. It helps us to think carefully about what we can do well, what we need to work on and we are getting so good at it that we normally have the same evaluation as our teachers.

      

    This week we had our Open Afternoons. It was lovely to see so many of our families and we enjoyed showing them around our classroom and Active Learning Zones. We also had fun telling our grown ups about what we have been learning by going through our folios with them. After their visits our grown ups left us a note in our special folder.

    Week Beginning 18th February 2013

  • 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 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.
  • For the pupils who applied for tennis club it will begin on Monday 18th at 3.15pm – 4.15pm. Please check with the office or class teacher if you are unsure of anything or if your child has a place. Thank you.