On Tuesday, we went to St Cadoc’s Talent Show.  We saw lots of great acts on the stage including Maria and Ellis from our class.  They did magic tricks.  We were very proud of them! Miss Nisanci was one of the judges.

We had a visitor on Wednesday. He was a parent from Miss McCrorie’s class.  He came in to speak to us about where he was from.  He told us all about India; the culture and traditions.  We learned that cricket and chess were very popular sports in India.  We also learned that India is the 7^th largest country in the world.  We now know some of the different languages people speak in India too!

We worked with Mrs Mooney’s class to complete calculations outside using chalk. We challenged one another to complete vertical and horizontal calculations.

This afternoon Miss Nisanci has a special treat for us as it is her birthday tomorrow. We wonder what it will be… Mrs McBride has given everyone Friday off of school for her birthday! (21 again…)

We hope you have a lovely long weekend and hope the sun comes out!

On Monday at Muddy Movers, we made mud masks! We had to collect wet soil from the stream and put it on a tree.  Then, we had to collect flowers, rocks, grass and sticks to make our faces.  We tried to make them symmetrical.  Have a look at our funny/scary mud masks!

On Wednesday we practised our calculations outside using chalk. We worked in pairs and challenged our peers.

On Thursday, we took part in an Authors Live event with the BBC. An author called Ross Collins read his book to us and then showed us how to illustrate the main character.

For writing, we wrote special prayers to Mary. We told her why she is so important to us, who we wanted to pray for during the month of May and why we chose this person.  Mary must have heard our prayers as the sun was shining as we wrote them.  We finished our day by saying the Rosary.

We have started learning about different cities and towns within Scotland.  We also learned about the landmarks in each of these places.  Here are some fun facts:

Highest mountain: Ben Nevis

Longest river: River Tay

Largest loch: Loch Lomond

Capital city: Edinburgh

This week we have been continuing praying to Mary.

We made beautiful stained glass pictures which we have hung above our statue of Mary and Ben brought in beautiful flowers for her altar.  Fergus made an amazing Bible which we have placed on our altar also.
We also learned the story of St Bernadette and wrote summaries in our jotter.  Yesterday we had a Mass to celebrate Ascension Thursday.  Monsignor came to school and explained what the ascension was.

Talia returned from an amazing holiday in Japan and told us all about the Japanese food, culture and taught us some Japanese words!

We had a short week but a busy one!

This week we started to pray to Mary as May is the month of May.  We will be saying a Hail Mary everyday and praying for our family and friends.  We are hoping to get some nice flowers for our altar for Mary.

Yesterday, we started learning about our new topic – Scotland. Miss Nisanci let us choose what we wanted to learn about.  We gave her lots of ideas.  Our first lesson was about locating Scotalnd on a map.  Then we researched different cities within Scotland.

In writing, we wrote about what we wanted to be when we are older. Here are some of our dream jobs;

footballer
astronaut
shop keeper
vet
teacher
engineer
athlete
swimming teacher
author

We discussed why it is important to have a job and the skills we would need to have for each of these jobs.

In ICT, we were developing our typing skills and learning how to open documents and save them in the correct place. Next week, we will insert some images.

This afternoon, we will be doing our mini talent show in class and vote for who will represent P2b in the whole school talent show. We are very excited to watch one another perform.

We are excited for our long weekend and we hope you have fun too! 🙂