We had great fun on Monday visiting Summerlee Museum. We enjoyed the workshop where we learnt about some items from the past, got to try on some old clothes and role play scenarios from the olden days.

We were able to explore the museum and were blown away with how big some of the machinery was.

We were able to play outside with some toys from today and from when granny was a girl.

After lunch, we took a walk round to the cottages where we could go inside each house to see a room from across the decades.

To finish the trip off, we headed to the play park to play with our friends.

I hope you all have a lovely bank holiday weekend!
Mrs Denholm x

We were very lucky to have a visit from our local fire station this week. They talked to us all about fire safety and answered some questions we had. We had the best time spraying the hose and climbing in the back of the fire engine to see the equipment inside and imagine what it’s like to be a firefighter being called out to an emergency. We even got to try on some of the uniform which was far too big for us!

We have been busy exploring living things. We took our learning into the garden to see what we could find that was growing and described to our peers what we could see and smell.

we investigated how living things grow and what they need to survive. To help deepen our understanding we planted our own sunflower seeds which have been growing in the classroom.

We have had lots of great discussion around what is happening in our plant pots and used this to help us with our writing where we described what we could see and made a prediction of what will happen next.

We have been so inspired with our learning that we now have our very own garden centre in our classroom for all our gardening needs!

I hope you all have a great long weekend and I will look forward to hearing about everyone’s adventures on Tuesday!

Mrs Denholm x

This week we visited the woodland together with a focus of balance on our minds. The children were asked to think about ways they could show balance with their bodies, how to hold a balance when moving and to create smaller and higher areas for balance.

Have a lovely and well deserved Easter holiday!
Mrs Denholm x

Today we enjoyed learning more about Eid in the classroom and listening to some of our friends sharing their experiences from home. We looked at some pictures of mosques and after chatting about the features of the building tried to build our own in the block area. We used tissue paper to collage designs on crescent moon and stars and tried our first attempt at henna designs by drawing around our own hands.

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you all for the last week of term on Monday (not that I’m counting down) 🙂

Mrs Denholm x

This week we had so much fun playing in the garden and enjoying the sunshine.  We read stories together trying to spot magic e words, used bright spring colours to draw collaboratively on the ground and made some delicious recipes in the mud kitchen. Hopefully the weather will continue into next week so we can enjoy some more outdoor learning.

Enjoy your weekend,

Mrs Denholm x

This week we enjoyed tasting some Scottish traditional foods including shortbread, vegetarian haggis, oatcakes, porridge and potato scones. It was a great opportunity to share our own experiences of foods we enjoy at home and to try some new foods.

Have a great weekend!
Mrs Denholm x

This week we had great fun reading new and old stories, sharing our favourite stories with each other, creating our own characters in our writing and retelling the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ using our acting skills.

‘We’re definitely going on a bear hunt again”.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Denholm x

This week we enjoyed making characters from clay based on our story of the week ‘The Gruffalo’. The children showed creativity and perseverance to get their character into the shape they wanted. They used the tools well to add intricate details and learnt about patience waiting for them to fully dry to take them home.

Last week our classroom smelled like a bakery as we attempted to make our very own shortbread after learning about Scottish food and drinks.

Working together, we looked carefully at the recipe to ensure our measurements were just right. We took turns to make sure everyone had a chance to lead and tried to mix and knead the dough until it became the perfect consistency.

Our first batch was a bit of a learning curve (little crumbly) but that didn’t stop us. We tried to work out what went wrong, adjusted our technique and our second batch turned out golden, crumbly and resembled shortbread much to Mrs Denholm’s relief and delight.
Here are some pictures of the bakers in action.

Enjoy the weekend! It sounds like there are lots of lovely plans and some birthdays being celebrated. Can’t wait to hear all about them on Monday.
Mrs Denholm x