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A Day of Performing
We had a great day performing our assembly for Primary 1, 2 , 3 and our parents. We also performed our sound story – Goldilocks and the Three Bears with instruments at music. What a talented bunch we are!😀
Sports Day
We struck it lucky with the weather for this years Sports Day. Well done to all who participated and thank you to all who turned up to support – it was a great morning. Here are a few action shots.
A busy day indeed!
We had a very busy end to the week in 1.4. We welcomed visitors from Primary 7 who read us their wonderful stories which they had written and illustrated. The class thought they were wonderful. Then we had a cultural talk from Mrs Ali who told us about Pakistan and traditional food and clothes which was very interesting. We finished the day with our final Mearns Masters of the day where the children in the Design and Manufacture group finished their wonderful puppets and took them outside for a puppet show! We were all very tired after our busy day and are looking forward to the long holiday weekend! Have a great weekend and enjoy the sunshine everyone 😀
Dinosaur fun!
We have had a busy start to the week trialling our task board. We have a range of dinosaur related activities to discover and explore.
Literacy
We have been learning about alphabetical order. We organised our tricky words into alphabetical order and wrote them on our whiteboards. Some of us worked independently to sort some words alphabetically.
We finished S.T.E.M fortnight by taking part in five, fun S.T.E.M activities. We enjoyed our afternoon working together, learning and having fun!
The activities we did were:
3D Shapes – we used matchsticks and play dough to make some 3D shapes like cubes and cuboids.
Lego – we had to make our names using Lego.
Floating Ball – using a straw and a piece of paper we had to create something that would make a tin foil ball float! This was tricky.
Making Bridges – our challenge here was to create bridges for our teddy bears to cross using cups and lollipop sticks. How many teddies will our bridge support?
Marble run – We had to work together and use the pipes and try and get the marbles from one side of the sand pit to the other!
We will get a chance this week to try challenges we haven’t done yet.
Visitors in P1.4
We have had lots of visitors into Primary 1 recently.
Mr Tyler came in as part of STEM fortnight and talked to us about science and did some exciting experiments to inspire us to become interested in science.
Mrs Campbell was our mystery reader last week. We thoroughly enjoyed the story about The Carrot Cake Catastrophe. We are looking for mystery readers for the up and coming weeks so let us know if you would like to come in and read to the class.
As part of STEM week Mrs Heaton came in and told us about her job as an Environmental Health Officer. She talked to us about what she needs to wear when she carries out inspections and she showed us how we can see the dirt and germs on our hands using an ultra violet light machine.
STEM fortnight
This week we have taken part in a range of activities for STEM fortnight.
This is what STEM stands for:
S Science
T Technology
E Engineering
M Mathematics
We had a visit from the Scottish SPCA and an optometrist from Boots Opticians.
Next week we are going to complete more challenges as part of STEM fortnight.
Here we are spelling STEM with our bodies. We had to work as a team. This included problem solving and talking to each other, sharing instructions.
Didn’t we do well!
STEM fortnight
We enjoyed visits from the SSPCA and the opticians as part of STEM fortnight.
