As always Primary 1 have had another amazing week of learning.

They have been learning about halves in maths and put this knowledge into practice when they were cutting their Jeely pieces.

To celebrate the 850th birthday of Glasgow, the children created art work based on the Glasgow City Tour bus. They sang along to the Jeely Piece Song after making a Jeely sandwich. It was messy and sticky but there was a lot of smiles and laughter.

As a homework task following our reading for the story Stuck, the children were asked to design and build a kite. Some fantastic kites were brought to school and we were lucky to have a breezy afternoon on Friday so we were able to test them. Lots of running around and teamwork managed to get the kites in the air. Thank you everyone for supporting the children with this activity, the children had a great time flying them and I am sure also making them. The creativity and variety of ideas for the kites was brilliant.

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In literacy this week we have all been reading non fiction books and been learning about the features of the book and how to use them to find information.  We have also began a class novel about a centipede called Harry.  This inspired our writing this week as we wrote information reports about centipedes.  In Maths we were comparing fractions to identify which were bigger or smaller.  Our Creative Play area now has a focus on castles as that is our new topic.  We had some great art work as well as some fab Lego castles.  We took advantage of the beautiful weather and practised our athletics skills outside.  Finally we finished the week celebrate the 850th year since Glasgow became a burgh.  We went on a virtual tour of Glasgow then made a persuasive poster to encourage others to visit Glasgow.  We then listened to the Glasgow song and the Jeely piece song before ending the week making jeely pieces which were very popular.

This week primary 2a continued learning about the past. In the playroom the class were drawing video game characters, watching old cartoons, exploring the museum and watching old music videos then creating their own dances.

In maths they were learning about sequences, they completed and created their own creative sequences.

We celebrated Glasgow day by first creating excellent instructions on how to make a jeely piece. The children later got to make their own to enjoy. The class also looked at famous Glasgow landmarks and drew their own.

This week we have been exploring strategies for more complex division calculations, we have been learning about sustainability and conservation and thinking of ways that we can help in our school grounds and were able to use this for our writing planning. We have continued with our active stations linked to this in creative enquiry too. We have been working hard to look after our plants this week, and used them as inspiration for art where we created realistic sunflowers using different media. On Glasgow day we listened to a Glaswegian poem called The coming o the wee Malkies , we had to work out the Glasgow dialect to work out what it all meant! We then wrote our own replies ‘revenge on the wee Malkies’ in the same style. We also made  Jeely pieces and had a picnic outside with them, we then researched famous Glasgow landmarks and made a postcard about them. What a busy week!