Category Archives: P1-4 ‘THE WEE CLASS’
Scottish Myths & Legends
Mrs Martin was impressed with our note-taking skills when we learned about some Scottish Myths & Legends.
Ball Skills
Throwing & Catching
We have been practising our throwing and catching skills.
We make sure that we have our hands ready to catch and keep our eyes on the ball.
This Week’s Superstars
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30/8/18
Community Funding Event
This week in the “Wee Class” we have been learning…
We learned new strategies for adding:
- Near Doubles
- Compensating
- Chimney sums
We wrote diamante poems about Scotland.
In Literacy, we learned about plurals.
one cat – two cats
We made our own Scot’s Dictionaries with Scottish words we have learned,
We learned where different cities are in Scotland. We glued the city names on to a map.
We redrafted our Friendship Recipes to make a nice display.
Our Achievements
I have tried really hard to improve my handwriting because that’s my New Year’s resolution.
My group got a more challenging book for reading.
My handwriting has improved.
I learned to use a 100 square and got harder questions in Numeracy.
Masterclass 2019 – Creativity
Our Term 3 Masterclasses got off to a great start. We are STEM exploring, Spanish speaking animators!
| Animation – Mrs Martin
Week 1 – Create characters using a range of material. Week 2 – Develop a story for the characters to tell. Week 3 – Take stop motion pictures.
Spanish – Mrs Holland Week 1 – Learn basic Spanish greetings Week 2 – Choose Spanish words to include in animated film Week 3 – Record sound for film
STEM – Mrs Blain (supported by Helen Hamilton) Week 1 – Engage with STEM related experiments Week 2 – Experiment with stop motion animation technology Week 3 – Build a junk model Cinema for their mini movie |
There will be a Showcase of the stop motion animation films created by each house at the end of this term.
JANUARY – Right of the Month
Article 13
You have the right to find out things and share
what you think with others, by talking, drawing,
writing or in any other way unless it harms or
offends other people.
The Wee Class – What have we been learning this week?
On Monday we made new class jobs and we all came up with our own Super Hero name. Mrs Martin made it into a display.
We all got a Scottish poem to learn at home and have been learning Scots words in class.
freenly = friendly
aye = yes
dug = dog
naw = no
rin = run
hail = whole
dunny = toilet
sanny = sand shoe
We have been learning about Number Talks and have been counting on in 10s.
In Maths we have been learning lots of strategies for adding – portioning, counting on and re-ordering.
We learned about some Scottish landmarks – like Edinburgh Castle.
We learned about Scotland’s landscape too.
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in Scotland – it is 1344m.
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland.
The River Tay is the longest river and it goes through Dundee.
On Wednesday we were figuring out where Scottish cities were on a map.
Scotland has over 700 islands but only 130 have people living on them.
There are lots of lochs and rivers in Scotland.
Aberdeen is a Scottish city.
Scotland is part of the UK along with England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We share a border with England.
Virgin Media Christmas Stars Competition
We entered our original script into a nationwide competition.
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The winners would win £5000 and their school show filmed.
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Second prize was £1000.
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20 semi finalists would receive £100.
We were luck enough to be selected as semi finalists!!
