Primary 1a have had such a busy week this week!

We have been learning all about Scotland, by looking at stories, videos and pictures.

Here are some of the things we have learned:

Inverness is near the top – Daniella

Tartan is a kind of pattern – Daniella

‘Heid’ means head – Dermott

Edinburgh Castle is in Edinburgh – Dermott

Our ‘lugs’ are our ears – Lucas

Inverness is in Scotland – Lucas

‘Bahookie’ is your bum – Lennox

The Scottish slower is the Thistle – Matthew

Sometimes the thistle is blue – Matthew

The thistle is green and purple – Olivia

The Scottish flag is blue and white – Toby

Loch Ness is near Inverness  – Ava

The flag has stripes that look like an X – Daniel

Nessie is in Loch Ness – Hugh John

Edinburgh used to be called Auld Reekie – Daniella

In Edinburgh people used to poop in a bucket and throw it out of the window. They shouted ‘Gar De Lui’ – Olivia

Edinburgh used to be very smoky because they used a fire to cook and keep warm – Daniella

Edinburgh Castle is on top of an extinct volcano- Matthew

The volcano doesn’t have any red in it – Hugh John

It doesn’t have any lava – Daniella

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This week we have written some amazing descriptions of our Hamish McHaggis (who is helping us to find out more about Scotland). We all remembered to use capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, and we are even learning to use adjectives to describe something (ie he has a shiny red nose).

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Today we were learning all about Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We learned that he lived in Glasgow, and he was an artist. We made our own pictures based on his. We decided that for it to be similar, we had to have a pink flower, some stripes, and some small squares.

Don’t they look amazing?

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Also today, we had a very special visitor, who came to sing some songs with us. She brought lots of fun props to help us with some of the songs!

I’m sure the children will all be exhausted after such a busy week!!