Primary 3/4 enjoying their time during Roots of Empathy.
P6/7b Reflective Friday December
We began the month with our Entrepreneur Me activities presenting our business plans to Matt and waiting patiently to see if our loans were approved. Thankfully all were and the hard work was underway. We decided any profits from our enterprise would go to our friends in Unitas Court Sheltered Housing and to the parish St. Vincent de Paul
.
Another exciting day for us was when we were recorded by Radio Clyde morning show producer Calum for the Christmas jingle.
We had a visit to the Panto in Hamilton Town Hall, some of our class performed with the Christmas choir and we had a tasting day thanks to Barbara from Tesco. We did lots of Christmas maths activities including co-ordinates, in literacy we did some discursive writing this month and we enjoyed making Christmas wreaths and 3D Christmas trees.
Christmas dinner was fa and we had a great day at our party.
A very busy month…now for some rest.
Happy Christmas
December Reflective Friday
Primary 6/7a have had a very busy month and have learned lots of new things.
Firstly we really enjoyed producing all of our entrepreneur me products and had fun selling them after the Nativity performances. This was a great success and we would like to thank you all for buying all of our products.
In class we have learned a lot about the season of Advent and have prepared ourselves to celebrate the birth of Jesus. We also have learned about Christmas in the past and how it was celebrated during the Victorian era.
In Maths we have been working on mental and written subtraction and also about co-ordinates which has been really fun. We have continued to read our Cathy MacPhail books and will continue these in January.
We can’t wait for our holidays to spend some time at home with our families. Primary 6/7a would like to wish everyone a healthy and Holy Christmas. See you in 2019.
P5/6
Primary 5/6 have been extra busy this month as we wanted to finish the year on a high with all our hard work.
We finished our IDL topic on The Victorians and created fabulous posters showcasing all our learning. We enjoyed using a variety of sources to gather our information particularly, the Charles Dickens Shows from the internet. Everyone enjoyed the art activity which involved drawing Victorian houses and using different techniques to create line, patterns and shading.
In all our curricular areas we have tried to link it to the festive season by writing letters to Santa Claus, describing our perfect Christmas Eve and learning the poem ‘Twas the Night before Christmas’.
In numeracy we have been working on Christmas coordinates with a particularly challenging Christmas Tree activity.
We have also been extremely creative this term and have made robins, wreaths, tree decorations and advent candles using a wide range of techniques. Our Primary 5 pupils enjoyed an arts and craft session at the Baptist church and made decorated tiles. It was a fun filled morning and the children met many new friends.
During our PE lessons we learned some new Scottish dances and danced with our peers from other classes. We showcased our moves at our Christmas parties.
We wish all our family and friends a very happy and holy Christmas!
P1 December
P1 have had a fantastic December. We worked so hard on our Nativity play and really enjoyed performing for all the mums and dads. We also really enjoyed our Christmas party where we did lots of Scottish dancing, had yummy treats and were even visited by Santa and his elf!
We also had a visit from one of Santa’s helpers, Elfie. He came to check that all the boys and girls were behaving in class and gave us presents of new books to read. Each day we opened a new present and enjoyed reading the book together.
We also went on a trip to the pantomime where we saw Jack and the Beanstalk. This was great fun. In literacy, we have finished learning all our initial sounds. In maths, we know our numbers to ten and have been working hard on 2D shapes. In Science, we have been learning about the season of winter and the North Pole. In HWB, we made fruit kebabs and discussed the different tastes and textures of the different foods.
P1 would like to wish everyone a very happy and holy Christmas.
Primary 3 Reflective December
During the month of December we have been very busy again . We enjoyed painting our own Christmas plates for the Christmas fayre . We designed and created our own plates, it was so much fun.
This was our very last nativity and what a great show it was. We had been practising our songs so we hope you all enjoyed ‘The Wriggly Nativity’.
Our classroom is all decorated for Christmas activities. We have created our own Elf, written a letter to Santa and even had an Elf visit us with Santa for our own Christmas party.
We are all looking forward to Christmas and we wish everyone a Happy Holy Christmas from Primary 3.
P4/5’s Reflective Thursday: December
What a busy month and it hasn’t even finished yet!
We started the month with a trip to the pantomime to see Jack and the Beanstalk. The boys and girls said it was brilliant! They really enjoyed the songs and the acting and had many, many favourite characters including the mum, the giant, MooMoo, Archie, Jack, the princess and Fairy Flora.
The boys are girls also contributed to the impressive grand total raised by the parent council at the Christmas Fayre by making tree decorations in the shape of reindeer faces and snowmen made of marshmallows. Well done everyone!
It was P4/5’s First Friday Mass this month, too, which focused on the season of Advent. The boys and girls did a wonderful job handing out hymn sheets, taking part in the offertory and being on the altar to do readings, bidding prayers and more. Mrs Daisley and Mrs Cooney were immensely proud of everyone who practised for our special mass.
This month we have had a special visitor to the class; one of Santa Claus’ special helpers, Ralph the Elf. He has visited every pupil in P4/5 and has given them all a letter and a chocolate. He had some serious messages for the boys and girls about how to stay on Santa’s Nice list. We all really like Ralph and here are some reasons why: he’s friendly but respectful; makes lots of spelling mistakes; he’s funny, smiley and silly; he makes us laugh and has big ears!
We also had the pleasure of watching the infants’ nativity show. The P4/5s used some excellent adjectives to describe it: nice, cool, good, amazing, brilliant, extraordinary, fabulous… and their favourite characters were the donkey – who was cute – and Nisha the inn keeper who is Zak’s little sister!
The P5s were very lucky and got a chance to go on a wee trip to do Arts and Crafts. They made presents and stable shapes using tiling and mosaics; they sang a silly song called Bubblegum and Fluff and played team games and quizzes. While the P5s were away, the P4s did their own arts and crafts in class, making wreaths and advent candles.
Finally, we enjoyed our Christmas party on Tuesday where we danced in traditional Scottish ceilidh dances and played some party games.
I daresay the boys and girls in P4/5 are now far too tired for Christmas so let’s just skip it this year – give Santa a year off!!
Advent wreaths
These primary 4 girls made their Advent wreaths using tissue paper. They were thrilled with how they turned out. There’s a lot of talent in P.4/5!
Advent Candles
We made some beautiful Advent candles by ripping paper to make candles, leaves and flames. They turned out very well.
A very talented Primary 3/4 boy playing his brand new button accordion for his class!
