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World Book Week

This week was World Book Week and Calderwood marked the occasion with a whole bunch of activities, including speed reading, a book swap, treasure hunts and a whole school assembly.

The first thing we did was read to the nursery class. We were each paired up with one or two kids from the nursery and we chose books that we could read to them. Some people gave comments on how good the nursery kids were and some nursery kids gave feedback as to whether they liked the book that they had read to them. The next day, it was time for the book swap. Every pupil had brought in one or two books that they had already read or had finished with. They were all collected and separated into groups, genres and age ranges. We all then got the chance to go and select another book from the collection, that we could now keep. Thursday was also Purim and that meant that we linked World Book Day with our Calderwood Purim traditions and all dressed up as characters from a book. On our final day of World Book Week, we took part in speed reading activities and treasure hunts. These were great fun!

For the school assembly, each class performed in a different way, all celebrating books and reading. The Primary 5 class performed a poem. Have a wee look at it…

I love to read, I really do, it’s a favourite hobby of mine.
And when I find a book I love, my chair feels like Cloud 9.

I love to read all sorts of things, some fiction and some real.
They speak to me in all lots of ways, with such a great appeal.

As we get older the books we read, can get tricky from time to time.
But to give up before the end of the book would truly be such a crime!

When I get stuck on a tricky word, I know what I should do.
To help me work out what it says, there are rules that I stick to.

Sometimes I’ll look at the picture, that will always give me a clue.
And sometimes I’ll sound the word out, and wish that problem ‘adieu’.

If the word is a little bit longer, I will break it up into its parts.
Or find smaller words within it, I’ve now got this down to a fine art!

If I had to replace the tricky word, I think of a word in its place.
Would the sentence still make sense now? I ask myself if this is the case.

Once I have tried each of these tricks, I might try one or two things.
I could reach for a dictionary or thesaurus perhaps + see what joy this might bring.

Last but not least there is always, an option for help I could use .
Ask my teachers, parents or friends, from which I have so many to choose.

There is nothing quite like a really good book, I will read every day if I can.
I will read as many books before I’m 16, that’s my brand new World Book Day plan.

Thanks for reading our World Book Day Blog!
Oliver and Zainab

Primary 5 Swimming

Swimming class!

 

Primary 5 have been attending a 6 week block of swimming lessons at Eastwood Swimming Pool. Some of us were more confident swimmers than others, but by the end of the 6 weeks, we were all a lot more confident in the pool. We learnt front crawl, back crawl and breaststroke. We were able to race each other a lot and we were even allowed to swim with flippers. One of the things we all loved about our lessons, was the end of each session when we were allowed to jump into the pool. This week was our final week and that means that we all got to play on the floats. There were small floats and big floats and there was lots of jumping into the pool this week. It was such great fun! Our instructors were really helpful and they taught us a lot over our 6 sessions. We hope we get them again next year! We had a great time and we can’t wait to go swimming again soon.

 

By Cayla and Leah

 

Swimming

Knicker Bocker Glory Delights

This week, in art class, we have been creating a collage. We each made our very own ice-cream sundae collages.

We were able to choose colours to represent our ice-cream flavours. Then we drew our Knicker Bocker Glory glasses. They were special glasses that had long thin stems with wide tops to hold the ice cream.

After our glasses were complete, we ripped up the coloured paper because if you cut it, it won’t look like real ice cream scoops (bet you didn’t know that!). The green paper represented mint flavour with brown spots for the mint choc chips. We used brown paper for the chocolate ice-cream, light pink for strawberry, dark pink for raspberry and white for vanilla. It was like a real life ice-cream shop! We glued the ripped up paper inside the glass. When we were finished gluing, we drew whipped cream, sprinkles, added a cherry and a spoon. All finished!

 

knickerbocker glory

Our magnificent sundae creations were ready. It was just a shame that we didn’t get to taste them!

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