This week in Primary 2 we have been learning what “Hot-Seating” is through drama. The children have had great fun becoming famous athletes, musicians and celebrities. We have been performing in front of the class taking on somebody famous’ persona.
We have also been writing more on the alien that visited Craigshill last month. The alien is still missing but through our writing lessons we feel as though we are getting closer to finding the missing alien!
Primary 3 have had an exciting and engaging week during Scottish Book Week. We are all enjoying reading Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and have used this as inspiration for our writing. The children wrote letters to Mr Wonka persuading him to make their own sweet or chocolate invention in his factory. The children carefully considered the structure of their letters along with different examples of persuasive language they could use. Their hard work has definitely payed off and I don’t think Mr Wonka could refuse!
We also worked together to design and create a Charlie and The Chocolate Factory themed door display and were very pleased with the end result!
Our book week came to a great end as we all received our Read Write Count bags. One of the books in the bag was an atlas, therefore the children enjoyed a tasting session of different types of bread from around the world.
Here are what some of the children thought about our book week;
Aiden – “I liked playing the guess the book game best. Sometimes I didn’t even need all three clues.”
Rebecca – “My favourite bread was the French brioche bread, it tasted sweet.”
Lexi – “I liked writing an acrostic poem about reading and getting to share it with everyone at assembly.”
Iona – “I liked getting to do a book personality quiz with my Dad at Biscuits and Blethers.”
This week has been exciting for P2/3 as it was Book Week! Our week began with our assembly on Monday where Miss MacPhail shared some of her favourite books with us. We then went back to class feeling very inspired and excited to read our ‘drop everything and read’ (DEAR) time books. We also decorated our classroom door with a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory theme using different colours and patterns.
Carrying on from our Wonka topic we also wrote some letters to Willy Wonka convincing him to make our chocolate bars in his factory. We were encouraged to think about the structure and purpose of the letter, a description of our chocolate and why he should make it. On Friday we played a game of character charades. We were given a character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which we had to keep secret and act out for the rest of the class to guess. The children were all so engaged with this and the class was roaring with laughter!
Our book week ended with P3 going through to Miss Duffy’s room where we were very lucky as we got to taste different types of bread from around the world. This was inspired by our read, write, count bags which contained an atlas. P2 read ”Open Very Carefully” by Nick Bromley with Miss Gill and then went on a hunt around the school for clues which the crocodile had left us. Our hunt ended back in the P2/3 classroom and we arrived to find some read, write, count bags waiting for us. We were all very excited to open them and explore the goodies inside. Overall we had a great book week!
Primary 6 have had a very fun-filled and imaginative week! We have been studying our class novel, A Series of Unfortunate Events-The Bad Beginning, in depth and created our own setting descriptions of Count Olaf’s House. We really achieved our learning intention by being able to use a range of writing techniques such as similes, the five senses and descriptive adverbs. We enjoyed being able to use a variety of our boost words in our writing. We got so enthusiastic about our class novel that we decided to decorate our door as the front cover of the book. We had fun experimenting with paint and using the skills we had learned before to create a detailed effect. We also created a new corridor display in the school which shows a scene from the book and has our fantastic setting descriptions displayed. Photos of this will be posted soon!
In Primary 2 we went on an adventure with the book “Open Very Carefully, A Book that Bites!”
In the book a naughty crocodile begins to eat and steal letters and sentences from our story so we decided to get our own back by dressing the crocodile up in silly clothes while it was asleep. We also went on a treasure hunt around the school finding clues that the crocodile left for us. At the end of the treasure hunt we were surprised with our Read, Write, Count bags!
Primary 2 loved book week!
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