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This week we have been learning about Easter. We made our own books about the Easter story and made Easter cards with a symmetrical egg design on the front.
One of our P1 friends is moving to a new school after the holidays, so we decided to have a leaving party for him. We made Easter hats for the party and enjoyed party food and dancing to our favourite music.
This week in numeracy, Primary 1 have been continuing to learn subtraction.
In science, we have been investigating forces. Through experiments and discussion we learned about items which move through being pushed, pulled or both.
This week in numeracy we have continued to concentrate on subtraction (P1 within 10/P2 within 20). We have been exploring data handling in maths.
Primary 2 have discussed and written their ‘Evaluation’ for their Information Report on Kittens this week and P1 have been writing about bath time.
We made our regular visit to the library on Monday.
We have been exploring ‘Relationships’ as part of our Resilience learning. This week we talked about ‘In our family we like to…….’
We worked hard and performed our assembly on ‘France’. Well done to all of the children, you were fantastic! Thank you also to parents/carers and family for your support.
Primary 1 have been helping Katie Morag this week as there are problems on the Isle of Struay. The lighthouse on the island is falling down and Katie Morag needs our help to design a new one. We worked hard to complete our design challenge.
On Thursday, World Book Day (and Dr Seuss’ birthday), Miss McLaughlin ran a ‘Cat in the Hat’-themed masterclass.
We listened to the story of ‘The Cat in the Hat’ and discussed rhythm/rhyme.
We created our own ‘Cat in the Hat’ artwork and gave the Cat new looks! Miss McLaughlin then gave us a design challenge where we had to plan and create a new hat for the Cat. We used lots of different crafting materials for our creations. #effectivecontributors
Primary 1 have been learning about halves. We made cakes for one another with playdoh then cut them in half. We coloured halves of different shapes and found halves of numbers using our counters. We talked about when in real life we might need to use halves.
On World Book Day, we enjoyed reading Gorilla Loves Vanilla. We talked about words that rhyme in the book and completed a rhyme challenge with our friends in P2/1. We talked about our favourite ice cream and designed our own delicious ice cream sundae.
Primary 1 have been learning about money and the value of different coins. To help us with our learning, we set up a class shop, played coin matching games, made coin rubbing pictures and completed a coin sorting challenge.
This week Primary 1 have been investigating finding pairs of numbers that when added together make ten. We used counters and numicon to help us and enjoyed playing smartboard games and number bond bingo to practise what we have learned.
As part of our school Resilience programme, we talked about people who are special to us and drew pictures of who lives behind our front door,
Primary 1 began the week learning about Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated. We learned that in the run up to New Year, people decorate their houses and that as part of the celebrations, children are given red envelopes with money inside. We made our own lanterns and red envelopes.
We also took part in the Scots assembly where we sang two Scottish songs – Mairi’s Wedding and Rammie in the Chip Shop. Our two Scots poem winners also performed “Mince and Tatties” in front of the school and P4 parents/carers.
Continuing our topic, P1 also designed a kilt for Katie Morag and enjoyed learning some Scottish dancing in the hall.
