We have carried on our Outdoor learning this year with Muddy Mondays.
The children have been experiencing the different types of cold weather!
In our Wood area in the school grounds we have been taking different types of mark making equipment and seeing what the children choose to do with it.
We have enjoyed having our story and snack outside too.
Please support us by ensuring your child is warmly and appropriately dressed for the weather!
Today we enjoyed a visit our new School Liaison Officer, PC Harper. He answered some of our questions and we looked at the important equipment he uses. We look forward to seeing PC Harper again soon!
We had a busy morning on Friday as we worked with our P7 buddies to take part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. We wrapped up warm and enjoyed exploring different areas of the playground. In spite of the cold, we were able to see many different types of birds and we recorded our findings on a table. Then we headed inside to make bird seed feeders and shared some bird-themed stories with our P7 friends.
Further information and activities can be found here:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/everything-you-need-to-know-about-big-garden-birdwatch/
Welcome back everyone! We are all pleased to be back at ELC and we welcome some new boys and girls this term too!
This term we are going to be learning about, rhyming words and patterns. We are going to do this through talking about Scotland and learning a Scottish rhyme.
We will also be learning about foods which are healthy and unhealthy and recycling.
We were so busy in December! We did lots of Christmas crafts, decorated our Christmas tree, performed our nativity show, made cards and gifts to take home, had lots of visits from Elf on the shelf and had a party with a special visitor!
Primary One Scottish Celebration
Every January we look at some songs and poetry written in Scots language for a whole school celebration later in the month. Each class holds a competition to choose one winner who will recite their poem at this event.
Primary One are invited to try to learn either the Jack and Jill poem or at least one verse of the Katie Bairdie song to perform to the class the week beginning 21st January (although they can do both). We will be learning and rehearsing these in class but you may wish to practise at home too. Entering the competition is voluntary but we would all like to be able to sing the song together.
Please see the words to our song and poem below:
Katie Bairdie (Traditional)
Katie Bairdie had a coo,
Black and white aboot the mou.
Wasnae that a dainty coo?
Dance Katie Bairdie.
CHORUS
Diddley di del diddle dum (x3)
Dance Katie Bairdie.
Katie Bairdie had a hen,
Toddled but and toddled ben.
Wasnae that a dainty hen?
Dance Katie Bairdie.
Katie Bairdie had a pig,
No she didnae! Aye she did!
Wasnae that a dainty pig?
Dance Katie Bairdie.
Katie Bairdie had a cat,
It would chase both mouse and rat.
Wasnae that a hungry cat?
Dance Katie Bairdie.
Katie Bairdie had a duck,
It would have the best of luck.
Wasnae that a lucky duck?
Dance Katie Bairdie.
Katie had a crocodile,
Havenae seen her in a while…
(snapping crocodile sounds)
Dance Katie Bairdie.
Link to the music for Katie Bairdie: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookbug/bookbug-song-and-rhyme-library/katie-bairdie
Jack and Jill (Anonymous)
Twa wee birdies,
Sittin on a hill,
Ane ca’d Jack,
And anither ca’d Jill.
Flee awa Jack,
Flee awa Jill,
Come back Jack,
Come back Jill.
On Friday we had lots of fun at our Halloween party with our P7 buddies. We played games and took part in a range of Halloween themed activities. We particularly enjoyed counting spiders, pumpkin printing and making tissue ghosts!
Spooky fun!
Over the last couple of weeks we have been doing lots of activities to do with Halloween and dressing up!
We have made a Halloween area in our ELC, painted and carved pumpkins, listened and danced to spooky music, went on a spooky Muddy Monday walk and had a fantastic dress up party!
We had a lovely walk all the way round the school grounds this afternoon. We were looking for signs of Autunn and for any animals that might share our environment…but really we just loved having a really good look around the other playgrounds. We especially loved the view from the P7 balcony! (Shh, don’t tell them we sneaked on!). What a gorgeous Autumn day. 
We have been having lots of fun learning about Autumn since we have came back from the October holidays!
We have got an Autumn investigation tree in ELC and children have been bringing in things from out in the community to put in it! There is lots of different coloured leaves in the tray too.
We have had some stories at the end of the day about Autumn and the weather too. We listed to a story about Alfie and Annie, and we watched the story of the enormous turnip on the smart board too.
At gym, we had the parachute out and we put leaves in the middle. When shook the parachute all together the leaves wen flying up in the air! We also enjoyed some autumn songs, movement and ,music.
Yesterday we had our first “Monday Muddy”. Everyone came in their warm clothes and we spent all our session outdoors exploring the school grounds, having snack outside, using the parachute in the mugga and playing in the leaves! It was great fun! 🙂
Some of the children made a yummy snack of flapjack with Mrs Ramage, it was delicious!
