The whole school enjoyed an online Pantomime on Thursday 18th December.
It was called Santa Live. We really enjoyed the songs, jokes and story.
Santa Live Pantomine
ELC Christmas Party
All of the children had great fun at our Christmas Party.
We played lots of games and sang some action songs:
- musical Christmas corners
- musical bumps
- musical Christmas statues (freezing as Santa with a sack on his back, or a tree or a fairy/angel)
- Reindeer Pokey (similar to Hokey Cokey)
- Santa, Santa, Claus (similar to Duck Duck Goose)
- Santa’s in his grotto (to the tune Farmers in his den)
- Christmas tree game (when the music stops, find a tree to stand on)
When we got back in to the nursery we had a tasty party snack!
Reindeer Pokey
(Hands on top of head like antlers)
You put your antlers in,
your antlers out,
in, out, in , out & shake them all about,
You do the reindeer pokey and you turn around,
That’s what it’s all about, SEE!
Oh reindeer pokey cokey,
Oh reindeer pokey cokey,
Oh reindeer pokey cokey,
knees bent, arms stretched,
RA RA RA!
Then: Right hooves in/out
Left hooves in/out
Little tail in/out
Red nose in/out
Primary 1 counting
Primary 1 have been busy counting the forward number sequence to 30. We have to
concentrate really hard to remember the number that comes after 29.
We have also been practising the backward number sequence from 10. We are really confident
with this and have now started practising counting back from 20. This is something we will work
on and by the Christmas holidays we will be much more confident when counting backwards.
Decorating the tree!
Primary 7 have been busy decorating the school Christmas tree. They worked really well as a team
and the tree is looking fantastic – well done, Primary 7!
Elf Juice!
This week Primary 5-7 have been busy taking part in some festive talking and listening activities with Mrs McClymont. The children were given the challenge to make their own Elf Juice. They had to accurately measure out and add the different ingredients to their bottle, then design a label along with a catchy slogan to advertise their Elf Juice. Finally the children presented their juice to the class.
RME
In class we have been exploring the religion Christianity and the true meaning of Christmas. After making our Christmas stories last week, today we carried out some research to find out what different Christmas objects symbolise to Christians at Christmas. It was very interesting to find out what the different items represented and enjoyed discussing what we found out.
Spelling Activities
We have been working very hard on our spelling this week. Each group
completed a different activity to practise their spelling words and common words.
Christmas Crafts
This week we were tasked to create a Christmas display for the school. We worked hard to create the shapes suitable for our carol singing reindeers and had to be very careful when cutting, especially the smaller parts such as the eyes. We think they look great and can’t wait to see them on display. P3-5
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
In November, the children started to think about recycling or reusing things to “make less rubbish”.
This fell in alongside the COP26 summit, and there were some Education Scotland Dug resources that we explored on the computer at group times.
We tried to think of as many things that we could recycle or reuse as possible. There is a special picture we need to look for to say that we can recycle it.
Almost all of the children recognised these bins when some of us went our community walk.
We made some recycling posters to display and some of us practised our writing for the posters too.
We asked families to start collecting ‘rubbish’ so that we could start junk modelling, but we also experimented with what junk would be fun to use in our water tray.
“cardboard melts” “it’s soft”
We can reuse clothing too as spare clothes in nursery.
(Nov 2021)
Construction
We have been using different construction materials to make vehicles.
