Our Mearns Masters sewing block came to an end & our showcase was a fantastic Fashion Show. We showed off our new P.E bibs that we had whip stitched & used running stitch for seams & applique. We had also made a felt travel noughts & crosses board, so we challenged the parents to a few games. We have learned so many new skills & have persevered even though it was a bit difficult at times! 
We are all very pleased with the results & can now wear the P.E bibs at gym time.
We had lots of fun this week playing maths games outside. We also learnt all about famous mathematician Escher & his fascinating tesselations. We then created our own tiling designs.
Using our literacy skills to skim & scan the First News to find an interesting newpaper article. Then we summarised the article & presented it. 
We had a special memorial assembly looking at Queen Elizabeth’s long life & reign. We shared stories of our memories of the Queen whilst sampling cucumber sandwiches & shortbread courtesy of the kitchen staff.
5.16 have each chosen a tree to visit this year & observe through the changing seasons. We had a lovely time looking at the texture and shape of our trees while sketching them out. 
What a marvellous afternoon of learning, revision and consolidation we had today! The list of everything we covered is almost endless!
From multiplication tables, patterns in numbers, place value, problem solving, addition, subtraction to exchanging….and then there was the health and well-being element! There was lots of laughing, encouragement, support and general fun. Very well done Primary 3.9 
What a beautiful day for our outdoor learning session today. It started off a little chilly, and the rain threatened but it brightened up and warmed up as the afternoon progressed.
We played some games to help us get thinking about colours then spent some time searching for colours that matched all the colours we had on our old supermarket brochures. What a surprise to find just how many different shades of green we have outside!
Once we completed that we then studied daisies and how they were constructed before creating paintings of our very own daisies. After that we went on to create our own flower designs using leaves, twigs and weeds as paintbrushes and stamps.
Despite the cold and damp weather on Friday, we managed to spend plenty of time outdoors exploring, discussing, collecting, analysing and recording information on some really interesting mini beasts.
We struggled to find some of the things we expected to find, like flies and ants and millipedes, but there were lots of slugs and snails, so we decided that they must enjoy the damp and the cold more than the others who must prefer it slightly warmer and not quite as wet.
Watching how these little animals move and explore their surroundings was fascinating and the discussions we had while watching them were brilliant. We also came to some interesting conclusions after studying them.
Once we had found enough, we took them indoors for more analysing and recorded some important information on a diagram. This proved a little tricky as the magnifying glasses and tubs steamed up after being out in the cold…..another science lesson for another day. 
What a lot of learning went on today during our outdoor learning session with Mrs Kelly.
Using our new ‘hi-tech’ clipboards, we collected lots of nouns and came up with adjectives to describe them.
After that we used sticks to spell out interesting and exciting adjectives.
And finally we searched for adjective stones and worked on finding alliterative nouns to match them.
What a magnificent afternoon of outdoor learning!
