Please come to school in your party clothes on Tuesday. You may also bring in one game or toy from home on Tuesday.

All other homework is optional:

• Bake/cook a Christmas/winter recipe
• Think about Papa Panov and do something kind
• Tidy up your toys and make space for new ones that Santa might bring
• Safely look at the moon and think about which phase it is in
• Play Education City or Sumdog
• Listen to or sing some Christmas songs
• Read a book about Christmas or winter
• Follow these links:

http://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/starter_December18.asp

http://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Index_Christmas.asp

http://more2.starfall.com/n/holiday/snowman/load.htm?f&n=main

Thank you for your continued support. Wishing you all a fun family holiday with plenty of time to rest and relax too. 

Like seasoned professionals we performed our Nativity play “It’s a Miracle” four times! After all our hard work and enjoyment we are now a little sad that we won’t get to come together again to sing and perform with P1 and P2.

• I thought we all spoke clearly
• We got much better at listening to our partners and speaking together
• It was fun to do it in front of the audience
• I liked wearing colourful clothes
• We were really confident singers

In RME we have been using the story of Papa Panov to think about shared values that are important to us all.

https://youtu.be/u8Y3e1oiJ6Q

Please click on the link below for this week’s homework and other info.

Homework11.12.17

This has been a brilliant Book Week for us!

We’ve really enjoyed talking about our reading targets, likes and dislikes as well as hearing visitors share some of their favourite books and stories. Special thanks to PC Trainer, Mrs Noble, P6 and our parent readers.

Some of us also shared our own short stories we had written in our Read, Write, Count books.

We have learned about equipment that weather watchers and meteorolgists use and we have started to record the weather each day.

We have been describing the weather with different technical vocabulary and we have used a thermometer too. Our next challenge will be to build a rain gauge to measure precipitation. Do you know what that means? You can ask us to clarify.

We have also used the recent weather as inspiration for art + design, improving our drawing and collage skills as well as learning more about colour. What do you think?

Homework04.12.17

Please click on the link above to access this week’s homework.

We enjoyed playing with beat and tempo when Arlo’s mum skilfully played her fiddle.

• It was good fun
• I liked listening then moving
• I liked singing together
• I’d like to play the violin one day

We were excited to dip into our bags provided by the Scottish Book Trust! We talked about fiction and non-fiction texts before reading a story. Our bags had everyone engaged and we especially enjoyed using the story cubes to make stories together as well as playing different number games. We will do more activities linked to ‘A Beginner’s Guide to BEAR SPOTTING’ later this week.

There are lots of activity ideas inside to help you use the contents in creative ways at home to further develop literacy and numeracy skills.

Thank you for supporting us before and during our learning assembly last week.

Here are some of our thoughts:

• We have already learned lots this year.
• I liked planning what we talked about in the assembly.
• I think I’m better at using expression in my voice.
• Next time we could maybe do more acting and drama.
• I am proud of our good teamwork.
• I’m looking forward to doing the Nativity now

This week we are launching the First Minister’s Reading Challenge in Braidbar Primary. Various activities will take place throughout the challenge including the gifting of…..

Bookbug bags to Primary 1

Read, Write, Count bags to P2 and 3

‘My Reading Passport’ will be gifted to P1-7

Throughout the coming months, there will be events such as library and author visits, donate a book and the celebration of World Book Day.

The Library Committee will officially launch this challenge on Wednesday 29^th November and then it will be up to you to READ, READ, READ!!

Each month, a homework task will be issued based around reading, encouraging ‘reading for fun’ and the chance to explore different types of books.

For more information click on the links below:

http://scottishbooktrust.com/reading/book-week-scotland/about

http://scottishbooktrust.com/reading/parents/read-write-count-bags

https://www.readingchallenge.scot/about/first-ministers-reading-challenge