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Dinosaur Den
Symmetry
1.4 have been busy creating beautiful symmetrical designs using our 2D shapes and rulers as lines of symmetry.
Easter Egg Competition
Dear Parents/Carers,
On 29th March 2018 we will be hosting our third House Challenge. The Challenge was decided by House and Vice Captains and will involve children designing a hard-boiled egg in keeping with the theme chosen for their house.
Children should wear an accessory of their house colour on the day but remain in full school uniform for the Easter service.
The chosen themes by house and vice captains are:
- Oak: Film Stars
- Cedar: Book Characters
- Poplar: Superheroes
- Beech: TV Stars (Cartoons, reality, presenters etc…)
- Maple: Pop Stars/ Musicians
Eggs should be designed at home, by children for homework throughout the week of 26th March 2018 and brought into school on 29th March for the House Challenge. Eggs will be shown within the class and children will have the opportunity to discuss their design process. There will be one winner selected from each house, per stage. A winner will be selected per house for both nursery am and pm children. All winners from this round will earn 5 points for their house and a special treat!
These winning designs will then be looked at more closely by our judges who will decide on an overall first, second, third, fourth and fifth place house who will win 100, 75, 50, 25 and 10 points respectively. Our judging process and revealing of the winners will be live-tweeted so that pupils can watch from their classrooms, nursery am children can watch from home and parents can find out the results all at the same time!
This challenge should be a lot of fun and we cannot wait to see all of the designs!
Happy egg-decorating!
Miss Thomson & Miss Barr
(House Coordinators)
Homework
This week’s homework is a whole school activity to celebrate STEM fortnight. Please ask your child to comment on how the photographs and statement make them feel and what changes could they make to help planet earth.
Percy the Park Keeper
This term we are looking at parks and our local environment. So far we have talked about all the different parks we have visited, what we can see and do there and what animals might live in the park. This will help us when we come to designing and making our own mini parks!
We have also been reading Percy the Park Keeper stories and have created our very own Percy Hut! However, silly Mrs Hamilton forgot to leave mugs and a kettle in the hut! Apparently Percy and the park animals need their hot cocoa!
Writing
We are always on the go in 1.4. Even during early entry, 1.4 are wide awake, busy writing words we already know, tricky words and attempting to write new words to make our sentences more exciting! Watch this space!
Eightsome Reel
Our Ceilidh dancing is coming along nicely. Now we know the whole routine, we just need a little more practise before we perform in front of an audience. Dancing experts, Peter and Frank, said we were better than the Primary 7s!
(Please excuse my bellowing voice!)
3 Pigs Home Construction™
After reading the “Three Little Pigs,” we attempted our own pigs inspired home construction. Could we build similar homes that could withstand the huffing and puffing from the big bad wolf? (Aka Mrs Hamilton and her Airzooka!)
We experimented with straw, sticks and wooden blocks. It was great fun and we managed to prove that, yes, the fairytale was in fact ‘very’ accurate. Our wolf could blow down the house made of straw and sticks, but the house of bricks stood firm.
Mystery Reader Number 3
This week’s “Mystery Reader” was our Head Teacher, Miss Hunter. She read “Aliens in Underpants Save the World” by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort. It was very funny. Afterwards, we drew lovely pictures of aliens wearing colourful, patterned pants!
