Tadpoles, summer sun, outdoor play and as always play dough……

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Musa and Kareem working together after selecting their own colour of play dough.

Tadpoles in the early stages.

Must attempting to pick up and push the tyre outside.

Ivo exploring the kinetic sand.

Khadija showing how proud she is of her writing work.

Miss Hunter and the boys at Kelburn Park.

Kareem running thorough the saloon play park.

Khadijah’s family at Kelburn Park.

Enjoying exploring Kelburn park and completing a nature trail.

Khadija enjoying a story with Miss O’Hagan.

Kareem hanging the toys on a washing line.

Kit and Khadija making their own sensory play dough.

Kareem adding his own colouring to his sensory play dough.

Kayden helping Khadija up the “big hill”.

Musa exploring the kinetic sand.

Ivo, Subhan and Kayden playing a common word matching game.

Khadija and Kayden working together to cook spicy salmon noodles.

Khadija and Kareem working together on their drawing.

Khadija post outdoor learning.

We all enjoyed our story telling session with Ben.

We celebrated Miss Forteath’s birthday with her favourite cake.

Ivo reading the bear hunt book to his friends.

Kit was very proud of his large lego tower.

Making cheese on toast for a snack.

Kayden and Subhan working together to write a shopping list.

Khadija working hard.

Kayden cutting his birthday cake.

Khadija mixing icing.

Kareem playing with the train set.

Kayden supporting Musa to mix the cake batter.

Kit winning a certificate at assembly.

Kit and Kayden enjoying the Mars trip to the cinema.

Kareem observing the tadpoles.

Kayden and Subhan creating a nice home for the tadpoles.

Khadija and Kayden enjoying exploring Queen’s park.

Musa exploring the outdoor space at adventure.

Khadija completing the money game.

Kareem being creative during play with the toy animals.

Kit using the smart board to create artwork.

Kayden decorating biscuits.

Odd socks, coloured cookies, sand monsters and friendship pictures…..

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Musa and Kayden making multi coloured cookies with Mr Orr.

Working together to cook Kit’s family recipe of tuna rice.

After school yoga club in full swing.

Khadija using her fingers to communicate the date from our dairy board.

Kayden and Kit working together to build a lego city.

Khadija displaying how proud she is of her achievement at assembly.

Must playing the coin monkey game.

Kayoed working carefully to add paint to his canvas art work.

Khadija and Kareem painting at the table.

Musa and Kareem enjoying the sensory experience of the sand.

Khadija enjoying the sensory experience of our orbies.

Kayden and Subhan working together to plant potatoes for us to grow in class.

Kayden and Subhan collaborating again to follow a recipe for cooking healthy chow mein.

Khadija and Kayden enjoying our trip to a local cafe. We read menus, ordered our cake independently and paid by ourselves even collecting change.

Class 1 raising awareness and money for Down Syndrome awareness day by wearing odd socks.

Kayden displaying his artwork with a spotlight.

Ivo using his new story board to read about his visit to a fast food restaurant.

Kit building a shape tower.

Khadijah showing everyone her “mask”.

Must very proud of his achievements in our matching activity.

Khadijah using her new Moana story board.

Class 1 hard at work.

Kareem’s drawing of him holding hands with a friend.

Kit’s sand creature.

Shadows, playdough, tea parties and tacos….

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Shadow manipulation with our new projector.

Kit enjoyed making play dough trains.

Khadijah enjoyed making hands to high five.

Musa exploring the sensory elements of kinetic sand.

Khadija and Ivo drawing and colouring in.

Kayden using our new magnet board to make pictures.

Ivo playing the time on the Starfall website.

Kayden building lego houses.

Khadija was very proud of her “K for Khadija”.

Ivo and Kayden working collaboratively at the drawing table.

Ivo enjoying our visit from the beekeeper and asking lots of questions.

Kareem and Kayden enjoying the swings at adventure.

Miss Fortieth leading the way at the shops, picking up ingredients for our cooking experiences.

Kayden helping Khadia with her tricky maths work.

Ivo and Kareem working together to finish the washing up.

Khadija and Ivo trying on the beekeeping suit.

When he visited we asked the beekeeper lots of questions, saw some real honeycomb, studied a dead bee and tasted honey.

Kayden and Khadija worked very hard to prepare all the food stuffs for our taco party, they invited teachers along to join us.

Kit taking care of the plants in class 1.

Kareem mark making on the drawing board.

Kit playing in our class shop.

Teachers, Kayden and Khadija enjoying tasting the tacos.

Kit and Kayden working well together drawing on the mirror board.

Ivo enjoying reading the same story in different books, experimenting with text.

Kayden and Khadija waiting in the queue at the shops.

Kareem copying the writing on the board with the smart board pen.

Khadija watching and reading the snail on the whale.

Kit’s complex track design.

All of us enjoying a Michael Rosen story in the morning.

Kayoed brought in Miss Bunny to join us for breakfast.

Working together to make red velvet cupcakes.

Primary one children sharing their learning in science with Kayden.

Ivo celebrating his 8th birthday in class.

Kit is very proud of his complex train track.

Khadija and Kayden having a tea party with all the animals.

Kayden and Khadija making cards for loved ones.

Ivo and Khadija exploring shadow and light using the projector.

Snow Day Update….

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Hello everyone, Hope you’re enjoying your snow day!

Look forward to hearing all about what you’ve been up to as soon as we get back to school. In the meantime try and keep up with all the challenges being posted on St Alberts Twitter page! If possible please send in any photographs of snow man building, sledging, book reading etc. so we can use to compliment the children’s news writing. Thank you!

Look forward to seeing you all at Parents evening on Wednesday 7th, in the meantime as usual here’s a photo update from class 1.

Khadija made a character for her reading game look just like her, including the blue glasses!

Mariam & Gopal brought us pancakes with chocolate spread and strawberry’s for our breakfast.

Kayden and Ivo mark making with our new threading boards.

Kareem making and copying patterns.

Our new archaeology station.

Kit creatively using our new Nexus boards to spell out his name.

Some excellent independent writing work from Kayden.

Kareem playing with our colour sorters.

Musa discovering hidden bones.

Khadija baking pasta and pizza for her friends.

Khadijah being creative with the resources at Adventure Linn Park. Using a hockey stick to dribble a basket ball.

Having fun challenging ourselves and exploring the outdoors.

Must colour mixing on the light board.

Ivo building an extremely high tower.

Khadija enjoying our new kitchen.

Kayden and Khadija using their favourite page from one of our story books this week to inspire their own drawings.

Miss Forteath helping Khadija identify her dominoes numbers.

Kayden and Kit receiving their certificates at assembly.

Khadijah reading one of her favourite stories to her friends and teacher in the story corner.

Ivo and Kayden collaborating to build lego.

Animations, birthday celebrations and Valentine’s crafts…..

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Please click on the link above to see Kayden’s construction animation.

Khadija celebrating her 7th birthday with the class.

Khadijah using our new gross motor skill boards.

Kayden playing with the airport.

Khadija and Kareem playing with our new water space exploring a variety of science concepts.

Khadija getting her certificate at assembly.

Mrs Harker enjoying yoga with class 1.

Khadija and Gopal listening intently to the visiting storyteller.

Everyone hard at work.

Miss Forteith helping Musa roll out his dough.

Making chocolate twists.

Kayden using a calendar to plan out his month of February.

Khadija matching fruits with Mari.

Kit and Ivo baking cakes together.

Ivo and Kareem using problem solving skills to undo all of the locks.

Kayden listening for the sea.

Valentines painting.

Kareem, Khadija and Kayden hiding under Miss Hunter’s desk.

Ivo relaxing whilst mark making.

We really enjoyed having our P7 storytellers visit our class.

Valentine’s flower bouquets.

Playing in dinosaur world.

Kayden showing us how he feels with the help of a melon skin.

Haggis tasting, news reading, film making fun….

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Ivo and Miss Hunter tasting veggie haggis on Robert Burn’s Day, Ivo said it was “yummy”.

Musa reflecting on his weekend playing in the snow.

Musa completing his number work followed by number correspondence work.

Ivo enjoying playing with our new ukulele.

Khadija enjoying our construction space.

We enjoyed reading the bear hunt so much we followed it up by watching Michael Rosen’s version on the smart board.

“I use the snake to tell me the colours to use” Kayden.

Khadija and Subhan playing snap.

Khadija enjoying a puppet show she’d made on the iPad.

Ivo strengthening his fine motor skills using the ‘bubber’.

Ivo colouring in his work.

Ivo and Khadija enjoying playing with their prize balloons.

Kareem doing his maths work.

Kareem and Kayden working collaboratively to build train tracks.

Kayden making a honey and lemon drink as he had a sore throat.

Khadija’s model for our new digital literacy project.

Ivo using his fine motor skills and inspiration from the smart board to inform his character design.

Kareem reflecting on his family holiday to Sudan using photographs during news writing time.

Khadijah using cotton balls and tweezers to develop her fine motor skills.

Ivo receiving star of the week certificate at assembly.

Kareem colouring in very carefully.

Musa using his purple folder to reflect on his learning.

Kayoed reading the construction book stories we have in our play space.

Kayden and Musa wearing their medals with pride, they won these for gaining ten stars on their charts.

Kayden’s titanic.

Ivo, Kareem and Musa playing outside at adventure in the rain.

Subhan was very proud of the minions cakes he baked and took back to Class 2.

Kayden making cheese toasties for his friends.

Ivo celebrating his wonderful piece of art work.

Kareem and Kayden swinging in the rain.

Kayden jumping from a height.

Kareem having fun splashing in puddles.

New year…. same us….

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Musa & Khadija experimenting with our new ukulele.

Must working hard to develop his knowledge of number correspondence.

Ivo using his reading book ‘the pancake’ to make pancakes for his friends.

We enjoyed some hot chocolate with our snack to warm up after playing in the cold.

All wrapped up in our waterproofs for playing outside in the snow.

Hayden’s representation of a rainbow.

Kayden presenting our turner prize art piece ‘Faster Food’ to the classes around the school.

Musa developing his fine motor skills by making marks with paint.

Khadija using play dough to develop strength in her muscles.

Ivo and Kayden working together to make “healthy chow mien just like the chinese”. The boys used the BBC Good Food website to source their recipe.

Musa smelling one of our ingredients for the chow mein, garlic.

Khadijah warming up for her day of learning with her favourite book ‘Yoga Babies’.

Our water play set up inspired by one of our favourite books.

Ivo and Kayden pretending to be “the biggest men, like grown ups” with their moustache tattoos.

Kayden and Khadija enjoying some home made soup before their lunch. A few of us in class had bad colds and Kayden suggested we make noodle soup to make us feel better.

Ivo putting himself in the baby bath.

Class 2 visited us to play in our shop.

Khadija using yoga cards to make a ‘tree’.

Khadija tucking her doll into bed for a nap.

Ivo building a tower of shapes and colours.

Kayden cradling our baby to sleep.

Ivo placing the babies dummy in it’s mouth to “stop crying no crying”.

Kayden’s drawing of himself and his brother Kenzie.

Khadija revising her number correspondence to 5.

December in pictures…..

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Musa enjoying mixing our chilli noodles.

Must using his sounds to spell out common words.

Khadija enjoying her new Moana doll.

Ivo coming up with a variety of bridge designs for his train set.

Mari and Musa enjoying his new reading book.

Kareem practicing his counting with our teddy bear game.

Musa exploring mark making.

“It’s my town, a little town” Ivo.

Musa enjoying our sensory pots.

Kayden and Khadija working together on our space ship maths game.

Our new favourite book ‘Bear Spotting’.

Khadija enjoying lunch with her friends.

Must working with Miss Brooks to identify parts of a plant during science.

Ivo and Kayden playing with dinosaurs on our mirror table.

Developing our fine motor skills with pippets.

Must counting the fish to feed the bird.

Khadijah making patterns with natural counting resources.

Developing our gross motor skills whilst making pizza dough.

Khadija and Kareem making music together.

Khadijah with her helmet on at adventure.

Ivo and Kayden playing outdoors at adventure.

Kareem being pushed by Mrs Bennett.

Khadija enjoying the ball pool.

Kareem using a roller to roll out our pizza dough.

Khadija and Miss Hunter designing our turner prize poster together.

Kareem enjoying his trip to Glasgow Green with his house Neptune.

Kayden and Khadija having a great time at the christmas fair meeting Anna and Elsa.

Selling our pine cone tree decorations at the christmas fair.

Kareem and Kayden putting together our soup bags including recipes for the christmas fair.

Khadija and Mr Mcormack singing christmas songs.

Ivo the sheep ready for the nativity performance.

Ivo enjoying experimenting with kinetic sand.

Khadijah selling pine cones to her family.

Khadija and her sister’s dressed for the christmas party celebrations.

Mr Orr, Ivo and Musa making lots of meaningful marks on our mirror table.

Khadija enjoying playing hairdresser.

Visiting our reindeer friends at adventure.

Dancing with our friends from class 2 during our christmas party.

Ivo reading santa a story.

Khadija receiving a book from santa claus.

Our christmas party on the last day of term alongside class 2.

Wishing you all a happy christmas and a wonderful new year.

Christmas preparation, mirror table fun and lots of learning in between….

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Ivo and Musa using a variety of resources to mix and transfer liquid.

Khadija exploring our new mirror table.

Khadijah warming up for the day using our favourite book Yoga Babies saying “look look all by myself”.

“Mix mix mix” Kareem.

Kareem and Khadija drawing on the mirror table together.

“I’m a catterpillar” Ivo.

Ivo sharing his knowledge of his favourite character Bunnykins.

Khadijah using our sound game to spell words independently.

Class 1 working hard together.

Khadija using the iPad to draw glow in the dark pictures with her finger.

“C C C for crown” Khadija.

Musa developing his fine motor skills using the iPad.

“Hello, bye bye” Musa.

Khadija playing a shape game on the iPad.

Ivo playing with our visitor Leanne (Kareem’s sister).

Khadijah reading one of her reading books to the class.

Class 1 collaborating, mark making and expressing themselves on our new mirror table.

We have started to prepare for christmas…. watch this space.

Ivo extending his water play using sieves, tea pots and strainers.

Khadija and Musa swinging together and looking at the sky “so blue” described Khadija.

Musa has really enjoyed playing with the kinetic sand this week.

“Eggs, Elephant, Ear” Ivo.

Kareem using our game to spell out common words independently.

Kareem and Ivo collaborating together on a piece of lego construction.

Class 1 enjoying seeing their pictures on screen and reflecting on their learning using the blog.

Kayden using cookie cutters to make a variety of shapes including a bird.

Musa and Khadija matched the photographs of animals with their x-ray, this activity develops matching skills and encourages development of new language.