As it was Book Week Scotland this week, we enjoyed sharing favourite stories from home and also explored the lovely books and activities in the Read, Write, Count bags that came for P.1, P.2 and P.3. Cactus Joe was all about friendship and tied in perfectly after our anti-bullying focus and friendship posters from last…

This week we have been researching Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot.  We created our own bonfires using a technique called blow-painting and shall finish them next week with the addition of real twigs and a sprinkle of gold glitter.  We also created fireworks in milk, using food colouring and fairy liquid.  This was a…

This week we have had lots of fun creating potions with water, food colouring, bicarbonate soda, vinegar and washing up liquid! We also added glitter and some herbs/spices to create different smells and textures.  At construction we created pumpkins, ghosts and haunted houses with lego and multi-link cubes.  For craft, we designed our own pumpkins…

Over the past two weeks we have been learning  about 2D and 3D shape. We have had fun sorting and matching new shapes, creating patterns on the lightboards and drawing round shapes to make people, houses and vehicles.  We also investigated which shapes can tile and created some pretty impressive tessellations.  P.3/4 tried their hand…

This week we have been exploring 2D shapes, including pentagons, hexagons and octagons.  P.4s have also been getting to grips with regular and irregular polygons. We have been sorting and matching shapes, creating shapes with matchsticks and rods, as well as creating pictures on the lightboard.