This week we have been planning our own stories.  We shared our ideas with a partner and created story maps on A3 paper. The next day we began creating our own images on Adobe Express. We will finish these next week before actually writing our stories in jotters.  Each story needs to have a character,…

This week we painted pointillism pictures inspired by The Galloway Chilli, as well creating puppet shows using Shalla’s characters.  We also created animations on Purple Mash and, finally, wrote our own narrative of the story.  We were lucky enough to see Shalla on Wednesday and she kindly got her photograph taken with us.  Next week…

This week we have enjoyed reading the story of The Galloway Chilli, by Shalla Gray.  It fits nicely with our Fam to Fork topic and so far we have had fun retelling the story in pictures.  We have broken the pictures down into an introduction/ orientation, problem, sequence of events and resolution, which are the…

This week we have enjoyed learning about the Easter Story.  We have sequenced the pictures and text, as well as completing a Response activity during our Big Writing lesson.  We also completed Easter maths mosaic challenges and made Easter cards (finger painting!).

As part of Keep Scotland Beautiful’s Litter League, P1-4 enthusiastically did their bit by carefully scouting for and collecting rubbish found close to the school.  With the help of Mr McCornick, they went as far as the bottom of Hamilton Crescent.  Everyone did and excellent job keeping Kirkcowan tidy and had some fun as they…

This week at assembly the P1-4s did a wonderful job of sharing with the school some of the terrific work they have been doing in maths.  They shared strategies they have been using and gave some demonstrations on the Promethean Board.