Primary 1/2 have been working hard on our Big Maths work in class and completed our first “Beat That” this morning! We loved it! Being timed made it fun and helped us to work faster!
Excited to start our Beat That!
Concentration time!
Delighted with our results!
Primary 1/2 found out about the Loch Ness Monster this week and enjoyed it so much they asked Mrs Spowart if they could make their own Nessies! Can you spot some super Nessies in the photos below?
As part of our Scotland topic, we read the book “There was a Wee Lassie who swallowed a Midgie.”
We love the pictures and in February the illustrator, Kate McLelland is going to visit primary 1 and primary 1/2.
Today in primary 1/2, we looked closely at some of her artwork and were inspired to try some of our own.
We love the ending to “There was a wee lassie who swallowed a midgie”
Kate often draws thistles and highland cows!
We love getting arty!
Through our rights respecting schools work we know that every child has the right to a nationality. With this in mind p1/2 have started their new topic all about Scotland to find out about ours. We started by talking about what we already knew about Scotland, what we want to learn about and how we think we are going to find this out.
We drew pictures and recorded ourselves talking about what we already know.
We watched a programme called “My Story” that showed what it is like growing up inside a Scottish castle. We made our own castles pictures and the finished results are amazing!
Measuring with cubes to ensure our castles won’t be too small.
Our finished product!
Amazing artwork!
Our children were so inspired they decided to make more Scottish castles during Golden Time!
A lego model of a Scottish castle.
Creative work- a paper castle!
Primary 1/2 had a frosty welcome as they arrived in class this week. Our class now has its own Winter Wonderland that even contains its own igloo. The children loved it and one boy in particular thought it was “just like Disneyland!” We are hoping this area will inspire some cross curricular work in literacy, science and art. Watch this space…..
Winter Wonderland
Primary 1/2 have been working very hard to read and spell our common words. This week we introduced two new common word tasks and we loved them!
These pupils love our new bottle top common words game.
Super spelling!
These happy primary 2 pupils have no problem spelling the word “have” with our new common words activity.
In primary 1/2 we have been very busy and created a business company called Super Santas. We have our own logo designed by our pupils and we have chosen fantastic products to make for our school’s Christmas Fayre which takes place tomorrow. Our company has allowed us to work cooperatively and has given us lots of opportunities to take part in decision making.
Creating our Christmas Tree Decorations.
We decorated a Christmas table cloth to display our products.
Our fantastic Lucky Bags.
Our younger classes thoroughly enjoyed some well deserved play during golden time this week and loved getting to visit each others classes.
We love working together.
We love playing with out nativity scene.
Happy boys!
Getting creative!
This week Ravenswood Primary has been very like Santa’s workshop! Classes around the school have been creating companies and making products to sell at our Christmas Fayre. Mrs Simpson and some of our Enterprise Committee took some of our products to the Greenfaulds High School Christmas Market. We were a huge hit! This opportunity gave our pupils a chance to hone their sales techniques as well as allow us to meet some of the teachers at Greenfauld High School.
Our stall is set up and ready for action.
The Head Teacher of Greenfaulds was impressed with our stall and bought a couple of our products.
Superb selling techniques were used by our pupils.
This week p1/2 revisited our Minibeast Hotel to see if any little creatures had decided to make it their home. We saw worms, woodlouse, beetles and a slug. We were hoping to find some hedgehogs, frogs or ladybirds so some problem solving children came up with the idea of making posters to persuade these minibeasts to come and live in our hotel. The next day we created “Wanted” posters using our most persuasive language. The results were fantastic and we will position them around our hotel to encourage the wildlife of Ravenswood to seek shelter in the cold winter months.
On Wednesday we went to search our Minibeast hotel- hoping to find some hibernating hedgehogs.
A super “Wanted” poster that is sure to attract some prickly friends.
P1/2 are learning to self assess their own writing.
