Primary 1 have been introduced this week to our new vowel digraph  ai/ay.  We have learned that ‘ai’ comes mainly in the middle of a word and ‘ay’ comes mainly at the end.  We have been continuing our daily Number Talks and are very good at explaining our strategies.  We listened to the the story ‘The Dot’ by Peter Reynolds and created our own dot  black pen drawing.  We then wrote a super sentence describing our dot picture.  We are continuing to enjoy developing our skills during our topic afternoons.

 

 

This week Primary 1 have celebrated Robert Burns day with lots of fun Scottish activities.  We listened to the story ‘The Gruffalo in Scots’, drew a picture of the Gruffalo and labelled it with some Scottish words.  We performed the song’Bananas are the Best’ by the Scottish writer Ewan McVicar, we were fantastic! We continued our ‘Houses and Homes’ topic activities showing skills in teamwork, problem solving and creativity.

  

            

This week in Primary 5 we have being learning lots of Scots words like braw and cannie, muckle, fantoosh, crabbit  honkin, dreich, slither and wheesht! We enjoyed lairnin’ scots, and writing our aen poems. We liked singing scottish songs like ‘Scots Wha Hae’ and ‘Wee Jeannie McColl’ at our ‘Burns’ Assembly’ on Friday. We also presented some amazing class talks with super props like a model of the ‘Battle of Stirling Bridge’ , Robert the Bruce’s skull and his diary stolen from his grave! We enjoyed meeting other P5s at the Handball festival. We scored lots of goals!

This week has been a week of wonderful learning in Primary 6; we begun the week with Futsal and enjoyed being outside learning new skills. As the week has gone on we have been busy learning and preparing for the Burns Assembly. We have had such fun editing a poem to make it our own. I am sure you will enjoy it. If you were not able to join us we have put it here for you to read.

Meh granny never had the things

That maist fowk hae the day,

She never watched a NETFLIX show

Or heard Spotify play.

She never yaised a Nerf Gun

Or shopped in B and M.

She always yaise a  tea cosey

An‘ ended  with Amen.

 

Meh granny never ate Nandos

Or wore designer boots

She never drank a can o’ bru

Or tasted passion fruits.

She never smelt the scent of Greggs

O’ eaten a vindaloo

An’ she never played an X box.

Facebook ,she never knew.

 

Meh granny never wore a bikini,

No even in her teens.

She never wore a mini skirt

Or Primark’s skinny jeans.

She never had her hair in spikes

Or dyed it blue and white,

An’ she never had her airms tattoed

Or partied for a night.

 

Meh granny never had her own hoose

Wi’ mod cons like we hay

The kitchen was her main room,

The loaby her hallway.

The carpets were but clootie rugs

That she’d made piece by piece,

An’ her vacuum wis a besom heid

That worked wi’ elbow grease.

 

Alas, meh granny’s no longer living near

She lives in a care home

She’s sairly missed, but nontheless

That’s whaur she’ll hae tae be

Hoo’ever—should she get tae hear

O’ a’ the things we’ve got,

I’m shair she’ll hobble onto a bus

An’ come back here like a shot.

 

We have continued to learn about the devastation in Australia, and wrote a story as if we were one of the animals caught up in the fires. This writing opportunity allowed us to write in the first person as well as carefully consider how to include each of the senses. Mr Reed even put some of our work up on display as it was so well written.

We have also been given the opportunity to explore electrical circuits and even build circuits which was great fun, there was lots of ‘lightbulb’ moments.

We have been told that we will be continuing our partnership with Donaldson School and sessions will begin again next Friday.

Primary 6

We’ve had a busy week.. In Literacy we found out about the features of Myths, Fables and Legends. We read the Legend of ‘Robert the Bruce and the Spider’ … ‘If at first you don’t succeed try,try, try again. Then we wrote our own legends. In Topic we finished our shields and started to create our spears. I Art we found out how to blend chalks to create a picture of Robert the Bruce. In Maths we started to investigate Fractions. We completed  our Sway presentations and  created ‘Comics’ using Comic Life about the Scottish Wars of Independence!

It has been a great start to 2020 in Primary 6, we have been really busy with our topic as we pay particular attention to the devastating wildfires in Australia. We created pieces of artwork which were inspired by what we had been learning. These have been put together to create a display in the corridor outside the classroom. We would love it if  you came to see our work

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We are also preparing for our Robert Burns assembly next Friday and have been looking at various Scottish poems. We found one which we liked but thought that as a class could do better so we have been busy becoming poets as we adapted and improved a poem. We hope that you will be able to come and hear us perform our poem.

Primary 6

Happy New Year!

Primary 1 have had a great start to the the new year.  We listened to the story of ‘Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution’  and thought of our own resolutions.  We used different materials and loose parts to create a winter picture.  We developed our understanding of addition by using ten frames and numicon.  We used oil pastels and water resist paints to make a Snowflake picture.  We had the opportunity to use our creativity and problem solving skills to build different structures with the large wooden blocks.  We were very imaginative and worked really well as a team.

 

Happy New Year Everyone!

This week in P5 we focused on finishing off our ‘Who Would be King?’ topic. We found out about Robert The Bruce and we created our own Scottish battle shields. In Maths we investigated long division with remainders and we looked at area. In ICT we looked at SWAY presentations and created our own SWAYs. We had fun stacking pictures and inserting videos!