The nursery have enjoyed having a spooky Hallowe’en house corner! The children enjoyed dressing up and making potions with spiders, worms, flies and bats!
“I’m a zombie!”“I’m just making a witch pie for my friends to eat…there’s spiders and a bat in it”
Roo & Neil – musicians
In nursery last week, we were very lucky to be offered a visit from musicians Roo & Neil, from Live Music Now Scotland. They brought their instruments – an accordion and a violin and played some music for us. We played musical games, learned about notes and listened to the fantastic music that they played! We had a great morning with them both.
Snack time!
Friday 25th March – To make the most of the great weather, a few children had asked to have a picnic snack outside. Today was Fruity Friday and it was a perfect chance to enjoy a refreshing rest outside!
Creetown ELC Art Gallery
We had spring flowers (daffodils and snowdrops) in nursery.
We were drawing them at the mark making table.
This brought up a discussion about artists who paint flowers – Van Gogh and Pauline Patterson (local artist), and that you can visit an art gallery to see pictures.
A child asked if they could make their own art gallery.
This led to several children creating pictures to display in the art gallery .
An entrance was made with signs informing customers
: “no candy”
: “no lambs only cats”
: “only 3 people”
World Book Day
P3/4/5 had a fun day celebrating World Book Day on 3rd March. We carried out lots of activities in class including reading and sharing our favourite stories from home, a class quiz and tuned into a live lesson teaching us all about how to structure story writing. After lunch we went on a scavenger hunt around the school to see how many book characters we could find and worked hard to identify which book the character was from and who the author of the book was. We even had one of our class members share a story with us that they had wrote and illustrated all by themselves at home.
Vikings
This week we have been busy in P3/4/5 completing lots of topic work relating to the Vikings. As we have been learning about the Viking longships, we took our learning outdoors and measured how long the average longship was. The children also became reporters and completed a newspaper report all about the Vikings attack on Lindisfarne. To finish off the week, the children carried out some group research all about weapons the Vikings used. They created a Viking fact file sword to remind them about all of the important information.
Waterproofing experiment
As part of our science learning, P3/4/5 have been exploring the properties of different materials and why their different properties make them suitable for different jobs. This week we explored waterproofing and carried out an experiment to find out which materials would protect an item from getting wet. Before the experiment pupils discussed each material and its properties and made predictions about which material would be best for waterproofing. Next, everyone coloured in 6 dinosaurs and then covered these with the six different materials. The same amount of water was then applied to each. It was interesting to see which dinosaurs ink ran the fastest based on which material was protecting it. 
Angles
In maths today P3/4/5 were working with Mrs McClymont to explore angles and identify angles within a full rotation. This linked to our previous learning knowing the cardinal and intercardinal compass points. It was great to see everyone working hard, especially when breaking angles down into smaller parts to work out degree turns.
Topic Time
This week we have been learning about Democracy in Scotland as part of our new topic. We read through a PowerPoint, and then tested our knowledge by playing the Scottish Parliament Democracy board game!
Chinese New Year!
This week we celebrated Chinese New Year by having a special lunch in the hall. Afterwards we learned about the Chinese Lantern Festival then used our research skills to find out more information about Chinese New Year. We found out lots of interesting new facts!
