As part of Literacy Week, Primary Two took part in a speed read!
We all brought in our favourite books to show the class. We had one minute to tell our partner about our favourite book. We read a little bit to them and then moved on to a new partner.
I found lots of new books that I want to read. I liked Leo’s Batman book the best! Freddie
In literacy this week we have been learning all about different characters. We created our own characters and described Katie Morag’s character. We are looking forward to reading about more caracters in the Katie Morag stories.
We have bene celebrating the joy of reading all week in P1 as part of Book Bug week 2017.
Today we took our reading for enjoyment outside into our sunny garden.
We read Shh..we have a plan by Chris Haughton.
“This was a differnt book because there were not many words and you had to really look and listen to the pictures to know the story” – We asked Miss Dunn to share some pictures from the book on the blog so we could discuss these at home.Joshua.
We asked Miss Dunn to share some pictures from the book on the blog so we could discuss these at home.
We have had an exciting week developing our Literacy skills through our class novel study of Clink.
The blue group developed their letter formation by practising handwriting on metal in their jotters.
“This is incredible, we are using our normal pencils but it is writing on the metal, amazing!” – Phoebe
The purple and green group have been exploring characterisation by mind mapping features of our favourite characters in the study. They then went on to create their own characters.
“Blaze and Zippy are my favourite characters, they are cool and brave and not rusty.” – Toby
The red group have been developing their sentence writing skills by writing an observation of Clink independently.
“Clink was so sad then he was happy. I like that he ended up happy” – Freddie
For the next four weeks we will be undertaking a class novel study about Clink the Robot.
Clink is a fictional robot in a picture book written by Kelly DiPucchio and Matthew Myers.
On Wednesday your child will receive a hardback copy of the storybook home to keep for the next four weeks. Please ensure this book is in your child’s bag each day as we will be using these for exploration of the novel in class.
Our homework for the next four week block will be focussed on Clink and will replace the reading books that are normally issued on a Monday.
Can we please ask that you return the books on Thursday 18th May for collection back into school. Please take care of Clink and his story as we want many other children to enjoy his story in future years.
A warm welcome back to all of Primary 1 and our families after the spring break.
We hope you had a restful and fun filled break.
This week we will be developing our writing skills of account writing and logical sequencing of events by writing postcards from our Spring Break.
To help with this can we please ask that if possible a photo or diary note of an exciting event that took place during the holidays can be brought into school to help us with this.
Miss Dunn and Miss Lindsay will also be bringing in a holiday snap to share with the class!
Primary 1 and Primary 2 had a very exciting (and noisy) Fab Friends session today!
Following on from our fantastic trip to Eastwood Theatre to see The Boy Who Cried Wolf we were inspired to create our own production. At the theatre there were three people in the cast who created an atmosphere and added sound effects to tell the story using percussion instruments and their voices.
We decided to do the same with our Fab Friends using percussion instruments and our voices to tell the story of a clip we saw. In the clip there were three main events: a whispering wind, a thundering train and a sad moment.
Miss Lindsay, Miss Dunn, Mrs Hughes and Mrs Mair all though we did a great job of selecting and using instruments to portray an event or feeling in a story.
We all had a fantastic time celebrating world book day today!
As part of our home link challenge, many of us had written an alternative ending to our favourite story book. We had a great time giggling at the funny endings we had all written!
We watched a Dr Seuss story telling together, which was interesting as today Dr Seuss the author would have celebrated his 113th birthday!
http://www.worldbookday.com/videos/dr-seuss-on-the-loose/
Following a class reading of ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ (one of our favourite stories in Primary 1), we all chose a follow up activity to explore the story. Take a look at some of our interesting writing inspired by the story below:
We then finished the day with an exciting paired reading session with our Fab Friends in P2.
We’ve had a great day celebrating World Book Day!
World Book Day is being celebrated on Thursday 2nd March 2017 this year.
As part of our experiences for this event we have a special World Book Day themed homework coming home!
There are suggested activities that you can do together as a family to celebrate world book day.
We have also set a World Book Day challenge! See below for instructions:
As per a request from Primary 1 the words to the Scots poem Ma Wee Rid Motor can be found below.
We have a feeling you will be able to say it off by heart very soon!
