Primary B wish everybody a Happy New Year! We’ve had a very busy start to the term so far. After exchanging all our festive news this week, we decided to make snow. We had great fun throwing snowballs at each other and across the classroom!

Jessica trying to avoid flying snowballs!

Jaime waiting for the snowballs!

We have also been busy creating artwork for the Show Racism the Red Card competition. This year’s theme was Nelson Mandela 27. The children all helped to choose  a quote and then we made the artwork using all our favourite colours.

Harry with his favourite colour handprints

Jessica enjoying squidging the paint with her hands

Jaime was very focused on making his prints

Our finished entry

This week we have commemorated Remembrance Sunday and made a Poppy to remember all those who gave their lives in conflict.  We used it to represent the memorial in Saltcoats as part of ‘Oor Toon’ topic.

We also had great fun this week making ‘Clean Mud’ with soap and tissue paper. It smelt lovely and we really enjoyed moulding shapes with it and spreading it all over our trays!

Harry enjoyed smelling our mud!

Lucy really enjoyed our mud!

This week Primary B had fun with Halloween Craft. We decorated pumpkins to look like doughnuts. We had a great time messing with paint and scattering sprinkles! We hope our families enjoyed looking at them as much as we enjoyed making them.

Harry choosing his pumpkin

Lucy watching the sprinkles fall

Jaime helping to paint his pumpkin

Harry decorating his pumpkin

Some of our finished pumpkins

A bonus post this week as it’s the October Holidays next week! This week during our Action in the Community walk. Our challenge was to catch autumn leaves from under the trees and to gather them from the ground.

Harry finding leaves

Jaime playing with leaves

Lucy looking at leaves

Jamie watching the leaves fall

Harry waiting for a leaf to fall

Lucy exploring the leaves

This week, Primary B have explored different ways of being active. We had great fun creating artwork for our topic ‘Oor Town’, we used the former explosives factory in Stevenston as an inspiration for making Exploding Balloon pictures. We covered balloons in paint and popped them with a pencil – it got very messy! We also made our own active volcanoes in science and enjoyed watching the lava flow. Harry has made fantastic progress being active on his bike this week and went zooming around the school cycle track!

Harry popping balloons

Jaime getting ready to pop his balloon

Lucy smelling the vinegar before mixing it with the bicarb

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This week Primary B mixed our paint with different spices to make textured and aromatic paint, our classroom smelt like a spice shop! We used lots of autumn colours and next week when we Access the Community we are going to collect leaves to create a collage.

Harry using a balloon to paint

Lucy feeling and spreading the paint

Jaime admiring his work

Our finished work

This week Primary B have been exploring science using bicarbonate of soda and water to make fizzing rocks. We had great fun squirting vinegar on our rocks to turn them into mini volcanoes! #jamesmac

Harry making rocks

Lucy squirting vinegar

Jaime exploring his volcano

Welcome to Primary B’s first Glow blog! This week in class we have been exploring maths outside by using colour to create an art backdrop to display our work. We had great fun throwing paint soaked tea bags at the wall and really enjoyed choosing our colours!

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We’re enjoying exploring the colours!

Having great fun creating our backdrop!