We have had a very busy first term.

Here are our highlights=

Ella – Maths was hard this term but I worked hard and was proud when I succeeded.

Eilidh – I enjoyed learning about the USA, especially the different states.

Nicole and Lucia – I enjoyed learning how to make a power point for our assembly and our class talks.

Daniel M- I enjoyed maths term.

George, Daniel and Ewan – We liked researching and presenting a talk on a famous American. George researched JFK, Daniel told us about Jess Owens and Ewan found out about Martin Luther King.

Our Andy Warhol gallery:

End of term !!!!

We are all excited now that the October break is almost here. We have all worked so hard and feel we deserve a break. We’ve had a good week and especially enjoyed taking delivery of a full set of African drums on Wednesday which we have used already ! We had a great time at the High Church this morning celebrating the Harvest Festival.

Here are some of our highlights of term 1 –

Ray J – Writing about the big bang theory and the creation story was really fun.

Shaun B – I have enjoyed all the different games we have played in class.

Emma T and Sasha B  -We enjoyed visiting the health bus and making the smoothie.

Dave J – I really enjoyed the loop cards and I am much better at my times tables now.

Lewis M – I have enjoyed all the music we have done and really enjoyed using the African drums this week.

Sam D  and Kerry M – we are really enjoying the class novel Gangasta Granny.

Lucy M – I have had a good time learning about  evolution.

Anais P – I really think the morning circle has been fun.

Eve H- I really liked the food chain quiz and I know lots more now about food chains and food webs.

That’s all for now …have a great holiday everyone !!

Our learning:

Rabeea: We did the subtraction accuracy challenge and it has helped us with our accuracy by doublechecking our work. It was fun!

Fraser: I enjoyed doing Destination Judo and Street Dance on Monday because they were fun and I enjoyed getting educated in a fun way.

Callum: I enjoyed playing in the school football match. We did pretty good at the start but Boghall made a very good comeback.

Zenaib: I enjoyed the visit from Jessica’s dad because he told us all about the USA. He told us about a high school in America which got closed for a year because there were loads of fights when 9 black pupils joined the all-white school.

Hannah: I enjoyed the Street Dance because it was fun even though I wasn’t very good at it!

Christopher A: I enjoyed drama this week it was quite surprising to hear who got which part in Cinderella Rockerfella. It was fun to practice our singing skills too.

Louise: I enjoyed learning this week about the USA and how it was first founded. The British people didn’t know America existed and actually thought if you sailed too far in 1492 you would fall off the end of the world!

Who has impressed?

Sam: The school football team impressed me by putting up a good match against Boghall, even though they lost they did well.

Rabeea: Mr Berginis impressed me by doing well in the Street Dance even though he fell over!

Fraser: Nicky has impressed me by doing so well in his writing this week.

Louise: Christopher A has impressed me by being voted as one of the JETs. I was voted as the other one.

Sophie M: Tom has impressed me by getting pupil of the week and for being a good teammate.

Rebecca: Freya has impressed me by writing a brilliant biography about Sally Salt!

Emma: I hope everybody has a great weekend!

Biographies

Sophie M: This week we have been writing biographies. We got partnered up with someone else in the class and we interviewed them to find out details about their family, hobbies and when they were born.

Alexander: Next we collected quotes and we asked some people in the class for nice comments about the person we were writing about.

Dean: Then we wrote all of our information in the form of a biography. I enjoyed asking people what they thought of my partner.

Sophie M: I enjoyed finding out different facts about my partner.

Nicky: I found it strange reading about myself in someone else’s writing!

What else have we been up to this week?

Rabeea: I enjoyed starting the subtraction topic because it was a revision of what we’ve done and once in a while it is good to revise what you have learned before.

Louise: We’ve been finishing our USA map art pictures. It’s been challenging because it is tricky to draw the stars.

Declan: We had a team challenge about the US states. We had to try and memorise all the capitals and flags. We had to work together as a team to work out the best strategy.

Christopher S: We found out the parts for Cinderella Rockerfella and I’m happy for Isla and Hannah for getting the parts they wanted.

Who has impressed?

Declan: I’m impressed with Christopher because he got the part of Buttons.

Josh: I’m impressed with Callum for getting the part of Rocky 2.

Dean: I’m impressed with the other p7 class because they carried on with their assembly even though the projector stopped working.

Alistair: Fraser impressed me by getting the part of one of the ugly sisters.

Sophie M: Amber has impressed when she was writing my biography because she had lots of detail in it.

Mr Berginis: I’m very proud of the class for winning Mrs Innes’ class of the month and Louise for winning Mrs Innes’ pupil of the month.

Lots of learning in P1l this week.  Our sounds were ‘p’ and ‘a’,’ p’ is a pink quiet sound and ‘a’ is a stretchy black sound.  We are very good at reading our sounds and we have started to slide some of our sounds together to help us read words.  We have practised writing all our numbers to 10 now and lots of us can count on even further.  Dennis the Dragon has been busy again, on Monday he sent a shoe in the post!  We were very quick to work out who it belonged to and then we looked at the story of Cinderella. We had a good discussion about goodies and baddies in fairytales and we were split on Goldilocks some say good and some say bad.  The week ended with lots of cakes up in the Coffee Morning and it was great to see lots of our Mums and Dads there.

Bye for now p1l