EWHCF Class of 2023

Primary 1b have been learning all about the New Year. We made promises that we will try to follow in 2017.

Cameron “I’m going to learn to play football and join a team with my friends Lucas and Kyle”.

Charlotte “I’m going to clean my room everyday and my mum’s going to help me”.

Aisha-“I’m going to learn gymnastics”.

We have been very busy working with our numbers and have learned how to add three numbers together. We have also been looking at analogue and digital clocks and now know how to read o’clock times.

Today, we read the story ‘Not Now, Bernard’ and completed our first book review together.

 

This week we have been using Polydron to build 3D models with 2D shapes. Ryan created a house which…

“…has a pentagon floor, square walls and a triangle roof.”

He was rightly proud of his house and wanted to share it with his family.

It looks like Santa has been checking the “Santa Cam” as he sent a special letter to Primary 1 this week.

Santa says he is very happy with the children’s behaviour and has granted their wish of their own class elf. However, Santa did not say in his letter where the elf would be.

We searched thoroughly in our classroom and even took the hunt outdoors into our playground but no elf could be found. We asked the builders, the office staff and even Mrs. Loudon but nobody saw our elf.

Then we remembered about the hut in our old playground and look who we found.

Santa asked us to name the elf, so we decided to call him Mischief because Santa told us he can be naughty sometimes.

This week we took our learning outdoors.

We used the space to investigate 2D shapes. Using wool we created as many shapes as we could think.

Afterwards, we used what we learned outdoors to create 2D pictures back in our classroom.

 

This week a mysterious parcel was delivered to Primary 1.

 

It came all the way from the North Pole from Santa. Santa sent a special “Santa Cam” badge for Miss Lawrence to wear so that he can check that the children are working hard in class and being kind to one another on the run-up to Christmas day.

 

Today, we listened and watched author/illustrator Alison Murray read her Bookbug award shortlisted book ‘Hare and Tortoise’.

It was great to hear the actual author reading her book.

Inspired by her book, we decided to draw our own self portraits including descriptions of our features.

 

As part of Book Week Scotland 2016, all P1’s received a Bookbug Family Bag. This Bag contains three brilliant picture books, all shortlisted for The Bookbug Picture Book Prize 2017.

The bag also includes

• an activity booklet filled with games and activities for you and your child to enjoy.
• Colouring pencils to use with the activity book or on their own.
• A magnetic whiteboard with a set of magnetic numbers and a whiteboard pen.
• A voting slip so your child can choose and vote for their favourite book in The Bookbug Picture Book Prize.

To receive our book bags and listen to the three picture books being read, we took a trip to Mearns library.

We also helped the librarian to sing some of our favourite Bookbug songs.

 

As part of our Book Week Scotland celebration, the children were asked to bring into school their favourite books.

In the afternoon, they were given the opportunity to share their stories with the rest of the class and tell them just why they love them so much.

The children were also encouraged to work with a partner to read and retell their stories to each other.

 

 

 

Book Week Scotland 2016 got off to a great start this week.

On Monday we came to school with our favourite book and got dressed up as a character from it.

 

Everyone looked great and made a big effort, including the teachers.

We had a great time and look forward to the rest of Book week.

 

Inspired by the characters in the Funnybones book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, we decided to go outside and create some art.

Using natural materials that we found in the playground such as leaves, twigs, stones and even apples, we created our own skeleton characters.

We worked in groups, pairs and individually to make our skeletons, giving them names and personalities.