A quick recap of the past two weeks – we have fitted in quite a lot!
Last week we performed our nativity. The children were very proud of themselves and I’m certain you were proud of them too. Here we are before the Thursday night performance – it was great fun coming to school at night!
On Friday we had our stall at the Christmas Fair. For our enterprise task we made salt dough Christmas tree decorations and reindeer lollipops. We sold out very quickly and raised around £50 which we have to spend on our class.
This week we have been very busy making snowmen for our corridor display. We tried out lots of different ways to create our pictures. Some were quite tricky but we kept trying and didn’t give up, showing a lot of resilience. It was worth it – the artwork is fantastic, well done everyone for helping to make our winter corridor look so good.
For our first snowmen, we were only allowed to rip paper and glue it down to make a picture. It was difficult to make the different shapes we needed and we had to use our hands carefully and tear slowly.
For our second snowmen, we drew around round objects and stuck cotton wool and felt on to decorate them, cutting the felt into the shapes we wanted.
For our last snowmen we used potatoes and white paint to print the bodies and then painted faces, arms and clothing.
N and A helped to make the big snowman. They painted him, filled his body with polystyrene and designed his clothes from off-cuts of material.
Here is the finished result, we love it! Please have a closer look the next time you are in.
We had some visitors on Wednesday for our ‘Learning Showcase’ afternoon. The children certainly showed off their learning at the different activities, all relating to what we have been covering over the past few weeks. We had a full classroom and all the children were eager to show their skills, they were very much on task too. Thank you for visiting and well done P1B for being so enthusiastic.
We have been continuing our phonics and numeracy work. Sounds ‘j’ and ‘v’ this week and number bonds for 8 and 9.
I can’t believe it’s one week until the holidays! Next week we will have Santa’s workshop in our home corner, with toy designing and a wrapping station. We will be enjoying lots of other Christmas activities too, including our party on Thursday and our family church service on Tuesday evening.
Primary 1B and Mrs Kennedy
