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P2 started off their week by learning about symmetry in maths. We used numicon, 2D shapes & mirrors to help us learn about this. We then worked in a trio where one group member told the other two to make a shape with their body and the other person had to make a symmetrical movement! Look at our symmetrical dab!

We then worked in groups to plan our minibeast hotel! We each had a role of either leader, writer, architect or speaker. We planned what minibeasts we wanted to attract to our hotel & then the materials we would need to build it. We also had to consider any problems we might come across when we build it and how we would resolve these. Our speaker then presented our idea to the rest of the class for feedback! We then went outside into the playground and forest to collect the materials for our hotels and collected some worms for our wormery in our classroom!

Tomorrow we plan to build our hotels! Stay tuned for photographs of the newest, most luxurious place to stay for Glenboig bugs!!

 

To finish off our very busy day, Miss Scott visited our class to show us her parachute and equipment she uses for skydiving!

 

 

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Glenboig were visited by Chef Derek Lockett from Brakes Food Scotland yesterday. He led cooking sessions with 4 classes and provided all the ingredients and huge healthy fruit hampers for the classes. It was a fantastic experience- he has even passed on the recipes the children made if you want to try them at home.

Cinnamon Carrot Soda Bread

Ingredients

• 150gm Plain Flour
• 150gm Wholemeal Flour
• 1tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
• 1tsp Ground Cinnamon
• ½tsp Sea Salt
• 100gm Raisins
• 75gm Grated Carrot
• 3tbsp Maple Syrup
• 200ml Buttermilk
• A little Extra Milk (if needed)

Method

• Pre heat oven to 180˚C.
• Sift both the flours and Bicarbonate of Soda, Cinnamon and stir in the salt. Add any remaining wholemeal from the sieve back into the bowl.
• Make a well in the centre and add the Buttermilk and Maple Syrup. Add the Grated Carrot and Raisins. Mix to form a soft dough which should be just a little sticky.
• Tip onto a floured surface and knead lightly for about a minute, just long enough to pull it together into a loose ball.
• Put round of dough onto baking sheet and dust generously with flour. Mark a deep cross in it with a sharp kitchen knife.
• Bake in oven for 25 – 35 minutes until when the loaf sounds hollow when tapped underneath.
• Cool on a wire rack for a crunchy crust or wrap in a tea towel for a soft crust. Best eaten when still warm with your favourite jam or spread. If you have some left tomorrow it makes great toast…….Enjoy!

Honey Flapjacks

Ingredients

• 200gm Unsalted Butter
• 200gm Demerara Sugar
• 200gm Honey
• 400gm Porridge Oats
• 75gm Dried Fruits

Method

• Pre heat oven to 180˚C
• Put the butter, sugar and honey in saucepan and heat stirring occasionally until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved. Add the porridge oats and dried fruit. Mix well.
• Transfer the oat mixture to the prepared cake tin and spread to around 2cm thick. Smooth the surface with the back of a spoon. Bake in oven for 15 – 25 minutes or until light and golden around the edges but slightly soft in the middle. Allow to cool in the tin, turn out and cut into desired sized squares.
• This is a great treat for Mum and Dad…..Yum!
• Leave for a couple of hours so that the flapjack cools down and will be easier to cut into portions.

Primary 3 had a visit from some chefs today. We showed off our baking skills by making delicious flapjacks and learned lots about different fruits and vegetables!

Last night Primary 7 held a magical open evening for very special invited guests. It was a night of mystery and wonder with treats and surprises. The Primary 7 Witches and Wizards showed their guests round the Wizarding Clock, Treasure Chest and Stone Walls. While hearing speakers tell the tales of The Secret Panel, The Fact Files and The Wizard Biographies. Games were played like: Unjumble houses, ICT house games, Happy Wizard families and Silly Spells.

The P7s ran the Hocus Pocus Café where there were treats to taste they had made in school and at home. You could even dress as a Witch or Wizard at the Hogwarts Castle Selfie Station.

Thank you to all the parents, carers and friends who came to support their magical children.

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On Tuesday the 20th of December primary 7 held a Magic Castle Open Day. This was to showcase primary 7’s hard work and creations. We had fourteen stations including: an owlery, a hocus pocus cafe, a selfie station, an amour information station, a broom station, a wizard biography station, a spell station, a pin the tail on the dragon station, a secret panel station and lots more. Each station had a Hogwarts (Glenboig) student in charge of explaining the station. We had done lots of different pieces of work based on the magical world of Harry Potter and magic castles. We did things like write our own spells, a piece of writing on the secret panels, fact files, made our own armour, draw maps of castles and lots of art. At the owlery we had a real owl! Primary 1,2 and the nursery had a great time and we hope the adults have a great time tonight.

By Olivia P7

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Primary 7 received some amazing news this morning. They came first place in North Lanarkshire Sumdog competition. They had to answer 1000 maths questions differentiated to their maths level at home and in school. They won a certificate each and… a years free class subscription so they can play even more maths games.

Fantastically, Katie-Louise ranked top ten out of all schools including ours and got her own certificate.

Kameron amazingly came first place in the entire competition with 980 correct answers.

Primary Two had a very busy day today… here are some pictures of our learning.

First we practiced our common words using active spelling stations – we had to make our spelling words using play-doh, pipe cleaners, magnetic letters and we even got to write the words on Miss Lawson’s board!

In maths, we were learning how to add three numbers together and we recorded it on our whiteboards. Then in Art this afternoon we worked together as a team to paint three dinosaurs, a volcano and the environment for our dinosaur wall display! Phew! What a busy day!

We were lucky enough to be visited by two parent nurses. They spoke to us about healthy hearts and hand washing and germs. We even got to use a light box to test our hand washing.

At the police talk we all went out to see the police van and we got to go in to the front of it, the drivers seat and the back where all of the prisoners go on their way to jail. In the front of the van we got to put on the sirens and play with the steering wheel, in he back of the van we got to go in to the little cage and the door closed we got to kick it and hit it but we couldn’t open it. When we went back into the class we learned all of the weapons and uniform that they wear. We all got to try on the stab proof vest and it was really heavy we can’t imagine what it would be like wearing that all day like long.

By Gabi P7