Category: Our Learning Stories

This week Primary 1 have been effective contributors, working together in groups to design and construct a castle using wooden blocks. We were practising our teamwork and communication skills to share the blocks and build together. We were also able to talk about the different features of our construction and the shapes we had used. You can view photos of our work by clicking on our Sway link. https://sway.office.com/wLD1fQFIvoDsRjcA?ref=Link

Today we dressed up or down for Children in Need. We discussed how the charity helps children and designed our own Pudsey Bear faces.

We also received Bookbug bags and had the opportunity to explore the contents with our peers. We read Inch and Grub together as a class, making predictions about what we thought might happen next.

This week, Primary 3 were given their ‘Read, Write, Count’ bags.

They are always a lovely resource for the children to receive and this year is no exception!

Each bag contains:

• A copy of ‘Octopus Shocktopus’
• A copy of ‘The Last Wolf’
• A Parent Club booklet full of activity ideas for you to use with your children
• A notebook and pencil
• A whiteboard marker
• A measuring tape
• A set of story and routine cards (these are REALLY good!)

Below is a link to the Parent Club website if you would like more information about ‘Read, Write, Count’:

https://www.parentclub.scot/articles/p3-read-write-count-activity-bag

Have a lovely weekend!
Miss M 🙂

#confidentindividuals

For this block of Science, Primary 3 will be learning about water.

This week, we brainstormed everything that we knew about water (e.g. it is wet, used for drinking and washing, comes in the form of rain, it can change into ice and steam). Then, Miss McLaughlin set us a challenge – there were little plastic people trapped inside a block of ice! We had to work in teams to find the best way to free them. See the photos below for our findings. #successfullearners

Primary 1 were successful learners this week because we were able to count up coins and add amounts together to find a total.

We have also enjoyed using real coins to buy items in our class shop and practising our writing skills to create shopping lists.

To mark Bonfire Night, Primary 1 used paint and coloured chalk to recreate the shapes and colours of fireworks exploding in the sky. We also talked about how to keep safe around fireworks.

Within numeracy this week, Primary 1 have begun learning how to use money. So far we have looked at the value of different coins and practised counting up 1p, 2p and 5p coins to find a total.