We found out lots of facts about Canada and USA. We used these facts to create posters and label host cities. Emily researched the USA at home and shared these facts with the class and Alfie in p5/6 showed us his ice hockey equipment.
Mr Armstrong, our chanter and bagpipes instructor gave a demonstration to our current P4-6 pupils and explained about the chanter lessons/trial. A chanter would be available for pupils who express an interest for after the summer holidays.
I have asked pupils to have a chat with their grown-ups at home, if this would be something they were in interested in trialling next session.
If you child is interested, I’ve asked the class to let me know tomorrow and I will pass the names to Mr Armstrong. There is no obligation, this is simply an expression of interest at the moment.
Our Rights Respecting Committee have created activities and days on the run to the World Cup to celebrate and learn about the host countries and the countries in the same group as Scotland.
Today was Mexico Day!
Look at the sombreros we made today.
We have started learning about coding and how code is like a set of instructions. We explored identifying errors in code and debugging them.
We have created an image on Adobe Express using simple shapes and colours and created code for partners to recreate the same image. We hope we haven’t errors in our code or our partners will have to debug it and find the a fix. Wish us luck!
We have been learning about balances – solo, partner balances, and counter balances. We had to focus on holding our bodies still and communicating carefully with our partner.
Our day was very different today as we transformed our classroom into a Victorian school room. We took on Victorian roles as pupils and teacher to re-enact a typical Victorian day.
9.15 Line up: Boys and Girls lines- single file
9.20 Inspection: uniform and hands
9.25 Drill: marching
9.30 Victorian Proverbs: Practice makes perfect
9.40 Handwriting: cursive script
9.55 Arithmetic : chanting times tables, addition and subtraction
10.15 Singing: My Bonnie lies over the ocean
10.25 Study of an object: A clothes peg
10.35 Break
10.55 Playground games: hop skotch, marbles, skipping, hoops
11. 45 Posture and Alignment
12 Copy writing of proverbs: Waste not, want not
12.15 Create peg dolls
The excitement levels were hit today when P4/5 found out that Haribo were going to help us learn about calculating fractions of a quantity!! The best bit was halving them with our partner and eating them!!
We also used our skills in multiplication and division to help us too.
We were lucky to have Claire from Mini First Aid deliver First aid training on Monday. We learnt how to put someone in the recovery position, CPR, how to deal with a cut, a burn and if someone is choking.
Today we had a great visit to Dumfries House organised by RHET. We learnt about pigs, bees and honey, keeping livestock safe, countryside and dogs, yarn and felt making, Highland meat, rapeseed oil, being an auctioneer and dairy farming. We also saw and met pigs, cows, lambs, calves, geese, chickens, horses and chicks. A great fun packed learning experience.
We have been focusing on dynamic jumps and landing. We focused on the 4 phases of a jump – preparation, take off, flight and landing from different heights.
