This week P1c have been enjoying learning more about the dinosaurs with Mrs Laidlaw. The children made dinosaurs from playdough and have been enjoying the playdough ever since. It is a popular big start activity and today we did some phonics work together, including making the first initial of our names.

This week we also learnt some more scottish words with Mrs Collings when we read ‘Jordan’s New Jaiket’. Mrs Cosgrove read us the story and we had to translate it for Mrs Collings. We made some of our own new jaikets for Jordan too!

In maths we have been learning the days of the week, the months of the year and about our daily routines. Soon we will be learning about clocks and telling the time.

We are also learning about how to stay safe when we are working on our tablets and on pcs. We know we shouldnt give out our real names and should never give our school or home address.

We are trying to make sure that we use appropriate french greetings so please greet us with ‘bonjour’ or ‘salut’ and we will try to do the same. In the evenings we say ‘au revoir’ or ‘a demain’ and on a friday we wish everyone a ‘bon weekend’!

Article 28 – the right to an education.

This week we have been busy learning:
Aidan – We have been learning about Charles Rennie Mackintosh and we made some of his art. I think my work is pretty good.
Dadirayi – In our topic we have been learning about electricity.
Ben – We have learning about circuits and what symbols to use when drawing them. Electricity can come from static, lightning, and animals such as electric eels.
Aaron – I figured out how to make a circuit with three things in it!
Reece – We have learned that chalk, rubber, wood and plastic are insulators which means that electricity does not flow. We learned this by experimenting with different materials. Conductors which means that electricity flows are metals.
Leia – We also learned to drum this week. We learned about high and low pitches. You play a high pitch by using your finger tips on the edge and a low tone by using your whole hand in the middle.
Grace – We learned to copy different rhythms such as tea and coffee and lemonade.

The Junior Choir will complete the Scottish songs on Monday. We have chosen to learn more about the Disney Songs! We will begin some of them on Monday too.

The Senior Choir – A reminder that the next two Fridays (29th January and 5th February) the choir will be joining the primary seven classes for their pantomime performances. Any child who can’t come to choir will leave at the end of the normal school day on these Fridays.

Last week’s Dojo winner was Lucy – well done!

Look at what we’ve done this week –
Cameron and Connor – This week we made Powerpoint presentations about Electricity. Cameron’s was about transformers and electric circuits. He found this interesting. Connor’s was about electric fields and electric shocks. Connor enjoyed doing this work.
Scott – In PE, we have been learning Scottish Country Dancing – this we learned The Dashing White Sergeant. This was great fun!
Keira B – In story writing we wrote a biography about Rabbie Burns. We used the i-pads to research information about him – this helped us a great deal.
Lexis – My spelling group has been working on compound connectives – words like sideboard!
In performing Arts – The Rocky Monster Show is going to be fantastic! This week we have completed Act 1. We are now beginning to move forward to Act 2. In class, we are beginning to use our art and design skills to prepare the scenes, programme and DVD covers. After school on Thursday the rehearsal will be all the soloists and the Superbs!

Another busy week for us!

Adam: “I liked swimming this week because it was very fun. I learned how to swim when I tried very hard.

I liked making pikatu on the SMARTboard, outlining him and drawing him. I have nearly finished him.”

Yolie: “On Tuesday I went to the big playground because I wanted to play with other girls. I liked the big playground. To go to the big playground again I need to stop running away from the adults in school. I have been trying hard with this. At Get Together I got a certificate for trying hard. It made me feel excited!”

Liam: “I painted a character in the sensory room. My character was my favourite from Super Paper Mario, that is a game. I used colours red, yellow and blue. Today I went to the library. I read books and got some books for in class.”

This week Class G started their new Context for Learning – SPACE! We are using a storyline approach so the class have been creating characters to use in this. We made our own characters and then had a vote to see which one will be our main character. Logan’s character called Nine came first. In Health and Wellbeing we have been learning how to make bread. We made our own bread and compared this to shop bought. Most people preferred the shop bought but we think it is because Miss Garland is not a very good cook.

Gabriel – I liked learning about space and doing my KWL grid saying what I would like to learn.

Lewis – I enjoyed making my character. I called him Archie.

David – I was off school. I liked baking cakes with mum.