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World Book Day fun in Primary 3!

March 7, 2024 Mrs Swanston Leave a comment

What a day! Great fun was had by all in P3. We started our day by coming to school in our pyjamas – we could get used to this!

We did a reading doodle activity before putting our detective skills into action and setting off on a Where’s Wally picture hunt! Back in class we were joined by P4 and we all took part in a live World Book Day football quiz. Lots of schools across the country were taking part in this and we had to answer a series of questions from famous footballers.

Throughout the day we have done some paired reading, reading crosswords and word searches, designed book covers and took part in authors live (Scottish Book Trust) We watched and listened to Catherine Rayner who shared her picture book “Arlo: The Lion Who Couldn’t Sleep“, a beautiful story about finding peace and calm. Catherine also gave us a sneak peek at her sketchbook, and showed us step by step how to draw Arlo the lion. We had our pencils and paper at the ready!

In the afternoon we enjoyed Paired Reading with Primary 6 and we all enjoyed this and asked to do it again soon. Lots of us in Primary 3 brought in a book from home for the whole school book swap which will take place next week.

We will be bringing home a £1 book token home today which is valid to use until the end of March.

We love World Book Day!

Bella – It’s been a fun day and I liked doing the football quiz.

Cody – I am going to get a new book with my book token.

Stella – I liked coming to school in my pyjamas and getting a token.

Peter – I liked drawing the lion. (From Authors Live)

Alexander – I liked drawing a potato character.

Jessica – I liked doing the word search. I found them all.

Iza – I found all the Where’s Wally pictures apart from number 8.

Kiera – It was fun when P6 came in and I read a book with Bailie.

Rocco – I liked Paired Reading and I read with Cora-Linn.

Jaxon – I liked the football quiz and Where’s Wally.

Luke – I love World Book Day!

Tay

Tay Class update..

March 9, 2023 Miss Robertson Leave a comment

Tay class have been very busy the last couple of weeks so here is some of what we’ve been doing…

Some of the class enjoyed coming into school in their pyjamas last week for world book day. They enjoyed listening to adults reading stories, looking at books and stories on the ipad too.

‘H’ was very excited to make numbers with both the arrow cards and the Numicon. He started at 1 and went up to 145! We had to tidy up for lunch or he would have kept going. What great focus ‘H’!

The children (and adults!) enjoyed playing shakers or drums for music. We were practising playing to the beat, playing up high and down low. ‘A’ is especially good on the drums. We liked a few songs showing different instruments too.

‘A’ enjoyed using the Numicon to count in 2’s and also is enjoying playing with the model Magic dough. He has used the dough to make different Numberblocks.

‘B’ enjoyed playing with the Numicon and Lego a lot this week. He tried at at some jigsaws too.

‘L’ helped Miss M. wash the dishes after lunch. She had fun playing with the water and the ducks too.

‘C’ has enjoyed looking at books and also taking photos and videos of herself on the ipad then looking at these.

‘A’ enjoyed number jigsaws and sorting numbers. Also playing with the Paw Patrol toys at Choose Time.

Primary 1

Primary 1 – WORLD BOOK DAY

March 2, 2023 Mrs Swanston Leave a comment

What a fun day in school today as we all celebrate World Book Day!

We did so many fun things! We came into class this morning to find a book at our desks. We could keep and read the book or swap with a friend. After ten minutes, we met with our P7 buddies and worked together to do a book hunt. We had to find hidden bookmarks along the corridor and each book mark contained a letter. We found 10 letters and then had to rearrange them and the letters spelt out a famous character from a story. We figured out the letters spelt…

P A D D I N G T O N.

On return to class we listened to a Paddington story and drew a picture of him.

Throughout the day we also listened to an Authors Live story, coloured in a fairytale poster of lots of different characters and matched them to the correct fairytale, designed and coloured a bookmark, read with our P7 buddies, made up silly stories and did a book character listening activity!!! We had the best day.

Thank you to the children who donated a book for the Book Swap!

Some feedback from our Primary 1 stars…

“I love Paddington, he’s so cute”.

“I brought in a book to swap”.

“I liked colouring in (the characters) I thought of all the stories”.

“I love wearing my pyjamas”.

“”We did bunting for our library”.

“My buddy and me read three stories. I like sitting with her”.

“My favourite book is ‘Supertato’, it’s so funny”.

“We listened to a real author reading a story (Authors Live)”.

“I liked reading with my buddy”.

“My bookmark is so colourful and bright and I’m going to use it tonight”.

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