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Tay Clan -Christmas Party

Tay clan had a fantastic Christmas party on Monday morning.

To kick off our Christmas party, we put on our playlist of chosen songs, and had a wee boogie to get us warmed-up.  After that, we had a fantastic game of Christmas Corners.  We also had a best dancer competition.  Dancing and taking part in the games made us thirsty and hungry so we took time out for a snack and juice, provided by our lovely helpers, which was served on our Christmas placemats we had designed ourselves.  Finally, we took part in some fun dances – chu chu wa and the Macarena.  We loved dancing to these!  The time went by so fast and were sad to see it come to an end.  We had a blast together.

We loved learning, practising and performing our song for the Christmas Celebrations – Count on Me at Christmas.  We loved exploring the value of kindness and spreading kindness to others because…..kindness costs you nothing!  We hope you all enjoyed it too.

We also had a fantastic Christmas lunch together too.  Such fun and wholesome times to spend together as a clan.

 

Tay Clan – Drama and Advent

Tay clan have been enjoying drama lessons based around story telling.  This week, we had a go at hot-seating.  In hot-seating, we pretend that we are a character and answer questions, from others, as if we were in that particular character’s shoes.  We listened to the end of a story, as we have been working on endings to our own stories in writing, and then our group members asked us questions based on the story we had heard.  We all had a turn and loved pretending to be someone else.  It really got our imaginations switched on!

We have also been learning about advent this week: what it is and how it is celebrated.  Through this learning, we decided to create our own clan advent calendar and base it around the value of kindness. We came up with a kindness challenge for each day of Advent and created our very own kindness calendar.  We are very excited to start using this next week.  We have also made our very own, unique, Tay clan Christmas wreath to hang in our clan room.

 

Book Week in Tay Clan

Tay clan have had a great week celebrating Book Week Scotland!

We worked collaboratively to make a book cover of our clan novel – The Land of Roar.  Some clan members drew the cover of the book and the rest of the clan drew small pictures of characters or scenes from the book that we attached around the cover.  We were very proud of our teamwork.

We completed a book quiz and we think we got all the answers correct, Some of us swapped books with each other and were excited to have a new book to read at home and we enjoyed guessing the champions book shelf in the book ‘shelfie’ quiz.  We got Mrs Scobie, Miss Burton and Mrs Findlay’s book shelves straight away!

We enjoyed a visit from Mrs Findlay who read us the beginning of ‘Rivet Boy’ which we loved so much that we want to read more at another time.

Finally, we dressed up as our favourite book characters.  We had some characters from Harry Potter, Gangsta Granny and even some mythical creatures – I wonder if you can spot a very well-known green monster hiding in our pictures.

We have had a great week, enjoying lots of books and stories and these have helped us to gather new and interesting words that we can use when writing our own stories.

 

Tay Clan – Sharing the Learning

Tay clan were very proud to share their literacy learning with families this week.  We were very excited to demonstrate what and how we have been learning in our writing lessons and the progress we have made in our writing.  It was a lovely afternoon.  Thank you to everyone who attended.

We also enjoyed listening to our new class novel ‘The Land of Roar’ which hooked us into our new literacy theme for this terms learning.  We got comfy and relaxed on the carpet with pillows and sat ‘ by the fire’ (YouTube works wonders these days!) to listen to an imaginative story.  Afterwards, we took inspiration from the story and created maps of our own imaginary worlds.  We loved delving into our imagination, where anything is possible!

Financial Education Sessions

Last week, our P3-7 clans took part in Financial Education Sessions, kindly delivered by Money Advice Scotland.

These sessions looked at Introduction to Money, Budgeting for Events, and Banking and Borrowing.

The children thoroughly enjoyed these sessions and learning about such an important subject.

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Tay Clan – Maths Week Scotland

Tay clan have been exploring the water cycle, climate change, habitats and food chains through the context of rivers (our Tay clan namesake).  This week we explored our key question ‘why does it rain so much in Scotland and where does it come from?’.  We also discussed ‘what is weather and how does it exist?’, looking at where it comes from, how it forms clouds and why and how we measure rainfall.

 

We learnt about meteorologists and why they measure rainfall and why this is necessary.  We decided to make our own rain gauges to measure the amount of rain that falls in our area.  We used our measuring skills, that we have been learning in maths lessons, to support us to complete this challenge.  We will explore how to collect, record and analyse our data in future lessons.

 

 

Tay Clan – Description Writing

To show what we know about writing a description text, Tay clan created their own sea creatures using line, shape and colour and then wrote a description. The more detail we added to our picture, meant that we would have more to describe in our writing.  We then wrote a description of our creatures. We tried to write interesting descriptions so that the reader could visualise our sea creature in their head.

We have built on what we know already by learning a bit more about description writing. We have learnt about the purpose of this writing, how to structure the text and have learnt an example description through actions with words called ‘Wolf Spiders’. This learning helped us to write our own description of Mr Tickle who is from the series of Mr Men and Little Miss books which we have loved listening to which show how we are all unique.

Tay Clan – ‘Our Clan is a family’

Tay clan have had a fantastic 2 weeks of getting to know each other.  We have worked together on expectations, routines and built up our Tay Clan family.  Please click on the link below to read and look at what we have been doing together.

We have created a Tay Clan family album which we look forward to sharing with you soon.

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