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We had a brilliant time at the Science Centre today.

We left school first thing this morning.

We spent time exploring all the different experiments when we arrived. The whole class enjoyed the Science play area but we also looked around the other activities.

Then we had our lunch which was a highlight for many of us!

In the afternoon we visited the planetarium and learned all about the stars and some of our planets. It was amazing to travel to Venus, Saturn and Pluto!

This has been a very short week for us in class but we were still very busy!

On Tuesday, we enjoyed having our PE lesson outside together with the P3/4 class. We practised our batting and aiming skills, worked in a team and improved our balance and movements.

Even though we didn’t get any homework this week, we still worked hard on our spelling and maths. We started looking at numbers to 20 in P1 and multiplication in P2. We are also still practising telling the time and did time activities on Friday.

We also got the chance to play in our play area every day (as usual). We are developing social skills, as well as creativity, communication and problem solving skills when we play with others.

 

This week we have continued to look at our book The Snail and the Whale. We also practised our spelling with different activities. In Maths, we practised telling the time.

In Art, we made beautiful sunflowers using drawing and colouring techniques. We then used tissue paper to add texture to the sunflowers.

We enjoyed practising different Badminton games.

We also had lots of play opportunities inside and outside.

We ended the week with a special story time with our P6/7 buddies who had written a book for us. We got to take the books home with us, too!

We have had a brilliant week back at school after our Easter holidays. Our highlight this week was definitely our Cattle Show visit but we have also done lots and lots of learning.

We were lucky to have had fantastic weather for our Cattle Show visit on Wednesday. Our crafts winners are: 3rd place – Harley; 2nd place – Amber; 1st place – Niamh. Congratulations!

In Literacy, we practised our phonics, compared a sea snail and a humpback whale as part of our book study on The Snail and the Whale, wrote postcards to the snails on the rock (free writing) and labelled the body parts of a snail.

Our maths focused on finding missing numbers in subtraction calculations. We used number lines to help us. We also looked at o’clock times and explored different coins for our money topic.

We also did lots of activities linked to The Snail and the Whale but also developing our maths, art, literacy and find motor skills:

In PE we started to learn Basketball with Mrs Cunningham and Badminton with Mrs Kane. Badminton is definitely trickier but everyone did a super job.

I hope that everyone has a fantastic weekend and that you can get to enjoy the lovely weather. See you on Monday!

We are all excited for our Easter break to start and have been doing lots of Easter activities as well as our “normal” hard work.

I hope that everyone has a lovely holiday!

But first – Here are some pictures of what we have been doing:

We have had such a busy week! Luckily, the weather has been nice which meant we enjoyed our 3 day visit from Archaeology Scotland even more!

We played “I Spy” to find differences and similarities between our school and the old school. We found out that the old school has a bell tower that our school doesn’t have and that the old school is made from stone, while our school is build with bricks. The next day, we went into our school pitch and did some archaeological digs in some of our many mole hills. We found lots of “treasures”, some of which were shards from a 200 year old plate! On Friday, we did some time travelling and found out that 200 years is not that old after all! We made a timeline in the playground and travelled along it.

We have started to put together a lap book of our time travel adventures. Here is what we have created so far:

 

In between our archaeological work, we also continued working hard on our literacy and numeracy skills. We practised subtraction, our new sounds and graphemes, and wrote super news stories on Monday morning.

We really have been busy and doing a super job! I hope that everyone will have a wonderful weekend and will be able to enjoy the lovely sunshine.

We have had a great time celebrating World Book Day today. Thank you to everyone for putting in so much effort with all the wonderful costumes!

We showed off our costumes and discussed our characters in class this morning, then we showed them off in front of the whole school. We did a quiz in our School Houses and then shared our favourite books with reading buddies from Primary 5/6.

We have been looking at The Rainbow Fish in class over the last week. We wrote our own Rainbow Fish book and looked at the setting, characters and re-telling the story. We also made Rainbow name plates which the children brought home today. We ended the day with fruit and a story.

It has been a very exciting week in our newly painted classroom. We have settled back into our space well and are excited to get our hard work back up on our walls. I will share our “new” classroom with you once it has been properly tidied and organised.

On Tuesday, PC Shirkie visited our class to talk to us about the job a police officer does. This was as part of our learning about “People who Help Us”. We learned all about police officers’ uniforms, had our finger prints taken and even got handcuffs (though we all managed to escape PC Shirkie’s arrest). A big thank you to PC Shirkie for visiting our class!

On Wednesday, we went into our community garden and did some bulb planting for the spring. We were lucky with the weather and even though it had been frozen in the morning, the sun was lovely and warm and had thawed the ground by the afternoon. Thank you to Margaret for coming into school to help us with our planting!

This week, P1s learned two new sounds – <e> and <u>. We practised letter formation, reading and writing simple sentences. P2s looked at <or> and <ur> and worked on different activities to help with their spelling. In maths, P1s were practising writing sums using + and =; P2s are now comparing numbers up to 100. We are also continuing to practise making patterns by copying them or making our own. We are getting better at creating repeating patterns. We have been very busy and have been working hard!