P2 & P3 were reading old poems, rhymes and songs that had been given a new setting today. They then came up with their own version of ‘She’ll be coming round the mountain’ with a weather theme.
Author: C. Gibson
Sneaky Peak
We have been developing our animated Scots poems, Maya made the first one all about a Selkie called Saleena. She used alliteration and some scots words. There will be lots more to follow! Watch this space.
https://youtu.be/0gvZF9HT7fw
A Dreich Day!
Rain, rain and more rain but instead of complaining we went outside splashed about and then wrote some super poems!
A Dreich Day
Dreich Day
Another Braw Week
We have all been so busy, this afternoon we reflected on our week and all the learning that had happened.
Some of us learned a new sound ‘Z’ it makes a zzzzzzz sound and is at the start of words like zip, zebra and zoo. Others have learned some new scots words like ‘feart’ ‘fankle’ and our favourite one ‘bahookie’. Telling the time was another skill learned this week with some of us now able to use a digital clock and others can do o’clock and quarter past the hour. P2 & P3 have figured out that multi[plication is just making groups and dividing is sharing equally they are looking forward to doing more of this type of work.
Our daily mile has been very soggy recently we are walking rather than running as wee don’t want to land on our bahookies!
Today we really enjoyed our daily mile because it was lovely and sunny and we did a wee bit of skating on the ice too!
The bairns are havin a braw time learnin Scots
We listened to a braw story in Scots all about a boy cried Neil and his bunnet, this inspired us to learn some scots words and we are going to be writing some poems too! To get started we worked together in groups to come up with alternative verses to the great rhyme Katie Bardie.
Have a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixQiEsT6gqU&sns=tw
The Science of Sound
This term pupils have been looking at the science of sound. P1 have been thinking about the different sounds that things make and to show their learning have created a wee book.
Check it out here!
https://youtu.be/Whh-zo3X5ns
Book Week Scotland
Pupils were very keen to take part in this years Book week Scotland and organised a number of events.
– To raise money for new books for our library P1-6 arranged a read-a-thon!
– We went to a Book Fair at Kenmore Primary School.
– We created a Book Trailer for the story Never Tickle a Tiger, one of the books shortlisted Scottish Book Trust Awards.
– Families worked together to create dioramas of pupils favourite books as a homework project.
– Linda from Breadalbane Library came to give P1s their book bags and to talk to use about maintaining our school library.
– Parents attended a workshop on how to support children with literacy at home.
As you can see it has been a busy, book filled week!
Check out our trailer
and our fabulous dioramas!
Harvest at Grandtully
Last school year, before the summer holidays we planted tiny seeds in the ground. We gave them some water and pulled out all the weeds so they would get more sunlight. When we came back to school in August all the seeds had grown. This week we have been harvesting our food.
P1 found potatoes
We used our sounds to call them different names ‘t’ for tatties, ‘p’ for potatoes ‘s’ for spuds
We found some very, very tiny carrots
We found lots of neeps!
We are going to put them in our soup for our harvest showcase.
We have two apple trees, we had to pull down the branches and stand on our tip toes to pick the apples. We dried them and wrapped them in newspaper to keep them nice and fresh.
P1 used their drawing skills to tell the story of how they picked the apples.
From P1-3
SUMDOG
Sumdog is a big favourite here at Grandtully, great for getting our pupils thinking about their mental maths. Each pupil has a log in and can log in from school or home. Look out for Mrs Gibson’s challenges!
www.sumdog.com
Writing a Mythical Story
After finding the dragon eggs and painting our own ones we decided to write a story about our dragons. We think our mythical stories with make Grandtully seem like a more magical place. LOOK OUT for our stories they’ll be coming soon! You’ll find out how Ben Y Vrackie and our mound came to be!
From P1/2
