What a busy and exciting week we have had! We have been learning about different materials, making ramps for cars, designing a chair for a bear, building models, making electrical circuits, discussing floating and sinking, learning about absorption, making windmills and lots more. We had a visit from the Science Centre and had a presentation called ‘Go, Oxygen , Go!’ which was very interactive. We also shared our learning with Primary 3B on Friday. We did some exciting experiments with P3B organised by Miss Kinnaird. We learned how to make a fantastic lava lamp and how to make a balloon move along a thread at top speed. Our class has completed some fabulous homework linked to STEM week and we presented this to P3B. (If you haven’t brought anything in to school there is still time to bring  it in next week). We had some fabulous boats, rockets, robots, Lego and K’nex models and even some Maths games. Lots of recycling was going on! We have also learned about lots of things that are powered by electricity. Some of us even did some baking at home. The banana bread sounded really yummy! Mrs Campbell was very impressed and proud of the way in which the children talked about their learning to an older class of children. A great way to end STEM week!

As part of our topic on Scotland the children in P1C have been learning the poem ‘The Heron’ by J K Annand. Mrs Campbell is absolutely amazed and delighted that every single child has learned all the words of the poem and is keen to perform in front of the class. A first in her teaching career! There will be a competition to select a winner which will be very difficult for the judges as Mrs Campbell thinks they all deserve to  be winners. Well done to P1C and thanks to their parents who have helped learn the words at home. What an enthusiastic class!

We will be having a Hallowe’en activity day on  Friday.  Pupils can wear their Hallowe’en costume all day (if they wish).

Please remember to log in to Bug Club as often as possible. Log in details are on a label inside the front cover of your child’s yellow book. Remind your child to click on the bugs when they are reading the books. Books can be read over and over from  the virtual library.

Sharing other books at home is also vitally important for your child at this stage in their development as a reader. Bedtime stories are great for this or snuggling up with a book on a wet weekend.

This week’s Kilmarnock Standard has a lovely photograph of our class on page 34.  We all look very smart in our uniforms.

If you haven’t already replied to the blog post about the Parents’ Meetings on Wednesday 10th October please do so as soon as possible.

Jigsaw sheet P1C- term 1 2018 -19

As you are probably aware from the children we are making scarecrows in Base 1. If anyone has anything suitable at home for stuffing the scarecrows or for decorating them we would be very grateful if they could be brought in next Tuesday 25th Spetember.

In a change to our timetable after the holiday weekend our P.E. days will be Mondays and Fridays. This is a permanent arrangement for the rest of the year.

As part of our Rights Respecting Schools programme we created our own class charter. We picked three articles which we feel are  important to us.

Article 28 – We have a right to an education.

Article 31 – We have the right to relax and play.

Article 36 – We have the right to be safe.