A big thank you to the buddies who joined us today for our outdoor Easter activities even though it was very cold.
We had a great time taking part in the Easter Egg Hunt Quiz, Easter Egg races and playing croquet and quoits as you will see from the photos!
Since we started in P1 we have been practising our fine motor skills to make the muscles in our hands and fingers stronger. We do this in lots of different ways and in lots of different curricular areas. For example – using scissors for cutting, using the tweezers for picking things up, finger painting, threading things such as beads etc. The photos below show just some of these and the results of all this practice – look at how fantastic we are getting at handwriting!
In maths we are continuing to add and subtract numbers within 10 and one of our favourite activities at the moment is a Lego game where we have to add or take away bricks. The winner is the person with the largest tower.
Miss McDermott had bought a new book about Paddington Bear in London when she was there at the February weekend. We enjoyed listening to the story but lots of us hadn’t tried Paddington’s favourite snack – marmalade sandwiches.
With Mrs Smith’s help, we made a selection of different marmalade sandwiches and had a little tasting session. You will see from the photographs we had a visitor in the middle of the tasting session! We then collected the data about our favourites and used this to create a chart. Miss McDermott also showed us how you can do this on the computer – much quicker!
This week was British Science Week and our focus was on different things that can be pushed and pulled. We linked this to our reading as we used a non fiction book to follow instructions and make a “bug” that worked by pulling the strings to make it move. We also practised our fine motor skills as we had to cut and thread.
Please see info about upcoming Fairtrade event at Linlithgow Primary School next Friday. Click link below.
This is an update about the P7 Lagganlia trip next week. The trip at the moment will still go ahead. We have spoken to Lagganlia Centre and they have told us they all roads are clear and safe to drive. We will update you if anything changes.
Please check the following basic kit list. Remember that is is the minimum requirements. Link to list below:-
Lagganlia Suggested Clothing List
They have however suggested to pack some extra layers as well as extra gloves, hat, snood and socks due to the cold weather.
Please note that any MEDICAL forms as well as any medicines needs to be into the office for 8:45 Monday at the latest. Staff will not be allowed to give any medicines without relevant completed medical forms and approval from parents.
Please bring all luggage to the school hall on Monday first thing. Children will also need a packed lunch for Monday.
Here are the powerpoint presentation and photographs of our stand at the recent Health and Wellbeing Showcase held in school. It was deliberately quite simple so that the children were able to talk about what they had been learning without any adult help. Thank you to everyone who came along, especially in the afternoon when the children were at the stand talking about their learning.
