Primary 3 Number Homework
Miss McLaughlin has set each Number group their very own Sumdog challenge. This will consolidate the concepts we will be learning in Number work over the next two weeks. The challenge will be live from 9.00 tomorrow morning and end at 12.30 on Friday 12th October.
Children should try to access their challenge at home by logging in and clicking on the ‘Challenge’ button at the left-hand side of the screen. This will automatically change the focus of the games to the concepts we are practising.
Please don’t worry if you cannot access Sumdog from home – there will also be time given in class to play.
Complete the challenge and earn 400 coins!
Good luck!
Miss M 🙂
Harvesting at Nursery
We have been harvesting our vegetables from the nursery garden over the last 2 weeks. We have used our carrots, tomatoes, squash and onions to make healthy pizzas and we ate them for snack. Some of us made our own pizzas at the craft table and we put them on the wall. They look just like real pizzas!!
We have shown an interest in minibeasts and in the garden we found some worms, snails, earwigs, woodlouse and a spider. We have drawn lots of pictures of the minibeasts for our display.
We also had a visit from our parents when we showed them all the things we enjoy doing in the nursery at our first Pop In And Play session.
Club Wild – Autumn Harvest
As the weather turns colder it is time to harvest our produce in the school garden.
We got a bumper crop of potatoes of all different colours, the biggest red and brown onions we have ever seen and a bucket load of broad beans. The potatoes and onions will be washed, dried and stored so that everyone in the school can use them through the winter.
We tasted fresh peas and broad beans which will make a lovely hummus.
Join us next week for more Autumn adventures.
Learning about Harvest
Primary 1 have been learning about autumn time and harvest. Today we were talking and learning about Harvest in particular. We watched a power point and discussed how vegetables and fruit are harvested – from under the ground, above the ground and from trees/plants. Afterwards we unwrapped a range of vegetables and had the opportunity to use our senses to investigate. Tomorrow we will be able to look even closer at our vegetables using magnifying glasses and peeling the layers off to explore inside.
Club Wild: Autumn – Fruity Foraging!
Over the last few weeks at Club Wild we have been making the most of the bumper crop of autumn fruits. Thanks bees and the warm start to summer 🐝
We climbed the hill at the back of the school to find the orchard trees laden with plums🍑 and apples🍏. Some of the trees were so heavy with fruit that their branches reached the ground. Brambles 🍇 from the hedgerows around the park added to our bounty.
First we made crumble. One with apples and brambles, the other with plums. We rubbed the butter into the flour with the tips of our fingers and covered the prepared fruit with the sweet breadcrumb mixture. The bramble and apple was definitely the favourite with the plum crumble a wee bit tart.
This week we used the rest of our fruit to make jam. The plum jam is an amazing pink colour and the apple and bramble a deep purple. We learned how different fruits and different accounts of pectin, the stuff that makes the jam thicken.
Look out for our Club Wild recipe book and jams on sale at the Christmas Fayre!
Advice on Screen Time
Please find below a leaflet produced by Internet Matters which offers information, guidance and strategies for parents/ carers on ‘screen time’.
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Sum Dog Competition!
So far in the competition Amen in Primary 6 is 36 out of 24,340 pupils across Scotland.
Primary 6 are 102nd out of 980 classes.
Remember you can join in the competition at home up until Thursday.
Sum Dog Contest Begins!
The contest has started. All children can log in and take part in the contest at home as well as in school.
Primary 6 are currently 51st out of 790 classes across Scotland!
P1
Primary 1 had a short session with some helpful P7 buddies this afternoon on how to use our school netbooks. They gave them a wee taster of ‘Sumdog Maths’ ahead of Maths Week! Thank you P7!
