This week we have been feeling very creative! We were very excited when we got a parcel from Prirate Pete. He had heard that we have been learning all about Pirates and he thought we were very clever to be able to label in our writing activities so he sent us a present. He posted us a real life treasure chest all the way from his pirate ship. He even gave us some pirate treasure!  We were fascinated to find out more about him and so he sent us a model of himself for us! We think that it was so kind of him.

   

We have been learning a pirate song about the adventures of a young  pirate. We thought it was funny because our teachers said that they learnt it when they were at school! You can watch it by clicking on the link. http://youtu.be/_qAngsMJD3I

In number work we have been learning all about subtraction and we are getting rather good at it! We can now do some pretty tricky take away sums with our cubes and we even managed to do some in our heads. Our teachers found a special pirate who is very good at taking away and he sang us a song to help us practise. http://youtu.be/v9dx2o7m6GI

We have been enjoying playing in our role play areas and have made some beautiful art work and displays. Our teachers have also been reading us some fabulous pirate stories about children at school who have pirate adventures but with some very unusual pirates- THEY’RE PIRATE DINOSAURS! We like them and think it is great that the main character is called Captain Flinn and we have a Flynn in our class!  

  

                  

These have really got our imaginations going and we have put some of  our ideas into our own pirate stories. First of all we wrote our ideas out on a white board. Then we wrote them on a sheet so that we could make a pirate adventure story book. We had fun illustrating our stories.

                       

 

We have been creating some amazing homework from  our Challenge Grids. Here are some images of what people have made so far!

  

  

Week Starting Tuesday 8th  May 2012

THERE IS NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY AS IT IS A HOLIDAY

• We all have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
• We will have a new way of doing homework this term. All homework will be given out on a Thurdsay and is due back on a 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.
• There will be no homework for Primary 1 on Tuesday or Wednesday.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they returned their clean shorts, t-shirts and gym shoes (some of us have grown a little so please check that they still fit) and have no jewellery on. Also, please tie up long hair. Thank you.

Please remember to return your child’s summer trip as soon as a possible.

Our topic is all about the Creation Story.