Scotland | Dens Road Primary One

This week has been a really fun one in Primary 1 as we have been learning all about Scotland. We started the week printing our own tartan which we think you will agree looks fantastic. We even designed some tartan on the Promethean board.

We enjoyed listening to stories all about Hamish the Highland Cow, Katie Morag and The Loch Ness Monster. We had a go at making Highland cows out of playdough.

We had lots of actvities to do at the writing table. Mr Haggis helped us to learn lots of things.

We have been learning about Robert Burns and we are going to be having a poetry competition. Primary 1a1 are learning a poem called Skatin by J.K. Annand and P1a2 are learning a poem called The Crocodile also by J.K. Annand. Mrs McDonald will have the very tricky job of choosing a Primary 1 poetry competition winner.

On Friday we had a Fit Friday day. In the afternoon the whole school got together to have a Highland Games. Aamir, Bethesda, Abigail and Abdul Malik did us proud by takinhg part in lots of Scottish sports. The hurled the haggis, tossed the wellie, leapt the burn and climbed a munro.

In the Active Learning we have been listening to Scottish music and learning some Scottish dancing. Some of us even played instruments to go along with the dancing and music.

We have been learning how to tell the time this week. We are getting really good at telling the time on analogue clocks and now know what o’clock it is. Some of us even know half past times. We enjoy using the clock fans to help us tell the time.

We are still practising adding up and Nessie helped us this week.

Week Starting 30th January 2012

P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
P1a2 have gym on Thursday afternoon.
Book bags will go out on Friday this week, please read with your child and return it with them on Monday morning.

Friday 27th January will be a Fit Friday so please wear your sporty clothes to school all day.

Please send in your child’s Fruit Money in a named envelope £1 until the Mid February or £2.60 until the Easter Holiday. Thank you to those who have already paid.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be learning about the Moon and Astronauts!

In the Classes

This week we have had a Scottish Week. All our learning has been through lots of things to do with Scotland.

We used the Active Expressions to show our teachers what we know about Scotland. We had to remember what the Scottish flag looked like and Nessie!

At the easels we have been painting Highland Cows.

scottish week 001 — We have been using Nessie the Loch Ness Monster to help us add.

scottish week 002 — For our homework we drew of picutre of Nessie too.

scottish week 003 — We got a story about Heather going on a Nessie Hunt and we had to remember what happened in the story and stick our pictures in the correct order.

scottish week 005 — We had art and painted tartan using cardboard strips to paint the stripes.

scottish week 008 — We made Highland cows by sticking.

scottish week 007 — We listened to stories about Hamish the Highland Cow.

On Thursday afternoon we had Highland Games when we played Hurl the Haggis, Leap the Burn, Pass the Hat, Flip the Claymore and many more! We all watched and some of our classmates were part of the team. We had a great time as we had to cheer on our House.

scottish week 006 — Our Scottish display.

In the Active Learning Zone

We have been continuing to learn about old toys and new toys. We have been having a great time and getting active on the PS2 playing with the eye toy and eye toy sports. We play Football Fever in pairs.

We have been learning about materials in different toys and fabrics. Click on the link to our movie with all the photographs we took with the microscope.

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