This week primary 1a were continuing to develop their symmetry skills by designing symmetrical pizzas and butterflies.

Writing had them creating instructions for cleaning their teeth. They began by drawing pictures to demonstrate the actions and followed this by writing a sentence to explain what to do. Everyone should now have lovely clean teeth.

We continued to learn about our emotions and were able to assign colours to a variety of emotions such as yellow for happy, blue for sad and green for jealous. We used the story Elmer, about a patchwork elephant, as inspiration and used some of the colours we discussed to create our own animals and jungle picture.

We had a visit from our music tutor who brought a range of instruments for the children to play along with the tunes Carwash and Under the Sea. This was fun and exciting.

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Over the past couple of weeks we have been working on our comprehension skills in reading and working on being able to take inferences from the texts.  We have completed report writing and will now be moving on to procedural writing.  In maths we are applying our maths knowledge to solve word problems using the 4 operations (+, -, x, ÷ ). In the Creative play area some children were working hard to create information leaflets about a Scottish Castle. They showed fantastic enthusiasm and lots of effort went into to this.  Finally we have been creating posters on a topic of our choice for our talks that we will be doing next week.

Primary 2a have been learning about things in the past and this week we focussed on silent movies.

The class loved watching old movies and learned some important skills to transfer into their own movie.

The class then made their own pigs and wolves to use in a silent movie about The Three Little Pigs story. They then split into groups and assigned roles then rehearsed their routine before acting in front of the class.

The kids had a lot of fun and showed amazing enthusiasm for every part of the tasks.

This week we have been focussing on data handling in maths, collecting and presenting information. We particularly enjoyed conducting our own surveys using tallies and presenting our findings on a bar chart. We begun our new theme in creative enquiry focussing on ‘construction’ .  We were very engaged in constructing our own island and building all the things needed within base camp. Other people made their own kites or constructed a model of the Eiffel Tower.
In topic we have been exploring the impact of pollution in the ocean.

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What a busy week we have had in P6a, our fantastic Showcase on Wednesday was the highlight of the week.  Great singing, clear speaking of our parts, representing our own languages and confident showing of our talents, our hobbies and national clothing.  We hope our families enjoyed it too!

We have looked at the seashells we placed in lemon juice a few weeks ago and were amazed by the changes.  The lemon juice acidity made the shells soft, chalky and very fragile.  It demonstrated to us how the oceans and wildlife are affected by the pollution that is in the worlds oceans.