Today we took our igloos home. We made them out of clay and had to leave them to dry for a few days  before we painted them. We molded the clay with our hands and then used tools to make the blocks. We have been learning about how water changes when it gets cold and the different things we can do with it.

We have been exploring what happens to ice and about the season of winter. We have had lots of different activities in our ELC to explore this.

We even had ice lollies for snack to see what happened to them and to see where Mrs Watson kept them before we ate them for snack!

These are some of the children quotes….

“The ice lollies might melt when they get warm!”

“Snow turns into ice, ice turns into water”

“Degrees Celsius tells us if its too cold”

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Some of the children wanted to make a “snowdog” out of some of the snow!

We have thought of lots of great ideas to make our reading corner attractive so that we will all want to lose ourselves in a book.

Keep checking as we update what we have been doing.

On Wednesday Mrs. Smith, Isaac’s mum came with her sewing machine. We got to sew our on pockets.It was fun. The sewing machine went fast and slow. We pushed the pedal to make it go.

Huge thanks to Mrs. Smith for all her help.

Both classes had a great time making and tasting mince and tatties. A huge thanks to Tesco and Forsyths for donating the ingredients! The children have been challenged to help make a meal from scratch at home and provide photographic evidence. The first few to show what meal they made will win a lovely apron to keep them clean while cooking in future.

Wow! What fantastic poetry performances in P4, well done to all the girls and boys for learning and reciting their Scots poems in front of the class. Well done to Alfie C for coming runner-up in our class Burns competition,  and Charlie for winning! Charlie is also going to be representing Kingsland and P4 at the Star O’ Rabbie Burns (Callants) competition. Good luck Charlie.

We have been really inspired and have been writing our own poetry in class, and have even had a try at writing in Scots! The girls and boys have written some lovely descriptive Scots poems. Well done!

On Tuesday we had the most amazing afternoon where we celebrated Scottish poems, songs, music and dancing.

Our P2A poetry winner felt scared but proud when she was performing to the whole school. Our P2 teachers are both very proud of the winners and the efforts that all of the other boys and girls put in when they were reciting their Scots poems. Well done! Many of us really enjoyed the sword dancing and Highland dancing.

It was exciting being piped in by our pipers.