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We have had a fabulous week learning all about different cultures with a special focus on Eid.

On Monday we learned about how families celebrate Eid and we designed special outfits that we would wear to an Eid Celebration. We dressed wooden spoons to create little Eid mini-me’s.

On Tuesday we dipped strawberries and bananas in chocolate and talked about how during Ramadan, the fast is broken with special treats.

On Wednesday, some of us had henna decorations painted onto our hands.

On Thursday we learned how to Bollywood Dance to the song Jai Ho (a video of our fabulous dancing has been posted onto our google classroom) and we painted our names in Arabic.

On Friday we shared all or our fantastic learning at assembly, wore cultural clothes to school and we had a Spanish Lesson from Mr Crawford who is a teacher at Williamwood High School.

Here are some more pictures of this week’s learning.

It has been a really busy and fun start to the new term!

We have been marking Neurodiversity Week in school this week and the children have listened to stories and completed tasks to help them gain a better understanding that brains work in different ways. I was so impressed with their level of understanding and empathy.

In Numeracy we have been learning about ordinal numbers, number bonds, subitising and number words.

Our problem solving task this week involved building and measuring robots while working in small groups.

There has also been a lot of discussion in class about why the days of the week are named. So, if anyone is calling Saturday, Saturnday and looking forward to Moonday then ask them to explain about Wednesday, Thursday and Friday because the class decided that they are much cooler names than the planet ones.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

                                      This week was East Renfrewshire Stem Week and every class in the authority has been set a series of challenges to complete. We have used Explorify resources throughout the year to promote discussion and critical thinking in class and we were very engaged with the Lego Six Brick Challenges.   We really had to concentrate and listen to one another to ensure that we successfully completed the challenges.                                                                   

Our phonics focus this week was to distinguish between the ch and tr sounds.

We have also been developing our alphabet skills.

We have been learning about where our food comes from

And our maths problem solving this week involved some really tricky shape manipulation to make a camel.

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend.

We have had such a busy Book Week.  Mr Flood was our Mystery Reader, he read us Oi Frog which is one of our favourite books.

We all chose books at the eco book swap.

We did a book Scavenger Hunt and an online quiz.

Our author for the whole school author study was Nick Sharratt. We read lots of his books and created our own versions of You Choose using the illustration draw-alongs.

We met with our p6 buddies and they read to us in the hall.

We also completed literacy tasks using the ipads

Lots of lots of fantastic literacy learning!

My apologies for the short blog this week, we have been so busy learning about dragons and creating dragon eyes, that we forgot to take photos of our learning!

In literacy, we have been reading our new books, working on our rhyming and writing about dragons.

In numeracy, we have been developing rapid recall of our number bonds and finding missing numbers in our number stories.

We further developed our local area mapping with the addition of some local landmarks – Patterton Station, Capelrig House, The Tower in the Woods and The Capelrig Standing Stone.  The  children have all worked together to place the landmarks and then create the roads and rail tracks around them. The maps that have been created are so detailed that Mrs Doyle thought some older children had been in to help us!

Congratulations to our classmates in the Tiree House who enjoyed their movie afternoon.

Here are a few photos of us exploring the areas.

Last week, we were writing about going on a journey in a bubble – we watched the bubbles floating around the classroom while we thought about where our bubbles might take us.

In Technology we have been learning about the parts of a computer.

We could identify all of the parts, but we needed a bit of help finding the memory stick.

We are so lucky to have the Quiet Room just off our classroom – we borrowed a light box from P3 and have been finding all of the coloured clear plastic items in the classroom to investigate the  ways that the light box changes their colours.

We mapped the area around the school using pictures of houses that we recognised. There was lots of discussion around position and direction and then road safety as the children decided to add their own speed limit signs!

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

This week Mrs Doyle was here on Monday and so she took us outdoors to the garden where we built Teepees. Mrs Doyle explained the importance of the triangular structure for strength and then we work in teams to create a stable, strong structure that we could sit inside.

On Tuesday, we took our maths lesson outdoors where we were investigating volume.

In number we have been developing our addition and subtraction skills and building numbers using the numicon.

We haver been extending out storytelling through drama and helicopter stories. Using our reading books in a range of activities and working with our new sounds qu, ou and oi and our Common Words.

Here are a few more pictures of this week’s learning.

I hope everyone has a great weekend and look forward to the Open Afternoons next week.

This week in P1a, we have celebrated Burns’ Night and Australia Day. We learned about the life and poetry of Robert Burns, learned some Scots language words, created timorous beastie pictures and created tartan. Please check out our fabulous ceilidh dancing on our Google Classroom.

We read the story Neeps and Tatties in Scots and then re enacted parts of the story.

Today we celebrated Australia Day, we have learned about Australian animals and culture. Thank you so much to Mrs Agnew for bringing in some of her Australian artefacts for us to investigate.

In maths we have been learning about ordinal numbers by completing a whole  class challenge, we had to listen really carefully and follow the instructions.

We have been working on our subitising skills by sharing how we look for patterns in collections.

In literacy, we have been working on reading fluency and information gathering.

We continue to learn about local birds and complete our surveys.

It has been such a busy week, but we have still had lots of time to explore the play areas with our friends.

Have a great weekend.

We started this week by Going on a bear Hunt in our drama lesson!

And then we made houses for the Three Little Pigs in our Science lesson with Mrs Doyle.

The we retold our reading book story in the classroom.

We have been using our knowledge of single sounds and digraphs in a range of activities.

And in Maths we have been further investigating 3D shape.

And working with numbers in lots of different ways.

We have created seascapes using blue and yellow paint in our art lessons.

We took all of our hard earned house points up to the collection tubes.

And we have still had time to play!

I hope everyone has a great weekend.