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As part of our Scots focus, Primary 1 will be reading Katie Morag stories by the Scottish author, Mairi Hedderwick. This week we have enjoyed reading Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted.
In the story, Katie Morag throws her teddy bear into the stormy sea. We painted stormy seas using cold colours and made our own teddy bears. We also completed a challenge where we put the events of the story in the correct order and wrote our own descriptions of Katie Morag.
A big well done to Primary 1 who gave a fantastic performance in this year’s nativity, Magical Christmas Journey. The boys and girls have worked hard the last few weeks, learning the songs and practising their lines. Everyone looked wonderful in their costumes yesterday and Mrs Strachan was very proud of you all!😊
Here are what a few of the children said about being in the nativity.
Cooper: I liked getting to speak on the microphone.
Bessie : I was sparkly and I liked it
Murray: The song about baby Jesus sleeping was my favourite.
Harvey: I liked being a King and saying “Greetings” and “We come from the East”.
Jaxson: Follow the star was my favourite song.
Primary 1 have been very busy this week making reindeer food to sell at the Christmas Fayre next Friday. Our reindeer food is sparkly and should be sprinkled on your lawn on Christmas Eve to guide Santa’s reindeer to your home.
Primary 1 have been learning about Remembrance Day and why we wear poppies. We learned that people wear poppies to show that they are thinking about the soldiers that have fought in the wars. We made our own poppies to remember the soldiers.
In Maths this week Primary 1 have been learning about pattern. We created our own patterns using numbers, colours and shapes.
We also made spooky pumpkins for Halloween.
Primary 1 have been learning about Autumn this week. We talked about the different colours of the trees during this time, then painted our own trees, using foil to create the leaves. We learned about how hedgehogs go for a big long sleep in Autumn (hibernation) and we made our own hedgehogs using real Autumn leaves to create the spikes.
We spent a lot of time considering which articles, from the UN convention of the rights of a child, were most suited to us in school.
We read the articles.
Highlighted the one that applied to us in school/class.
We considered the most important to us.
We then thought how we as Rights Holders could keep these rights and how the adults as Duty Bearers, can help us maintain our rights.
From Primary 7
All of the boys and girls are settling in well to Primary one. Here are some photos showing how busy they’ve been!
