P1R are pure dead brilliant!

As you may have guessed from the title of our blog we were celebrating all things Scottish this week. We made a class tartan using an online weaver then chose 3 colours to make our own tartans with coloured pencils to display in our classroom. In reading we heard a story aboot a wee wee moose then had a go at learning some Scots words. We enjoyed our carousel activities which included using the netbooks to play some games and listened to some traditional Scots poems and rhymes on the scuilwab website. We also listened to bagpipe music and enjoyed having a wee jig and a sing song as we made some bagpipers to add to our display. I think our favourite activity was playing Simon says in Scots-touch yer heid, yer

shooders, yer lugs- it wis guid fun!

In maths this week we continued learning about

subtraction and also learned about more than/less than using Ally the Alligator to help us.

On Thursday we discovered some funny looking elf shoes under our Christmas tree – we came up with some really good ideas about why they were there and wrote them down:

Matthew thought that the elf had dropped them from the sleigh when it was flying through the sky.

Anthony thought the elf had come down the school chimney.

Maeve thought the elf had been trying to fill the stockings under our tree but when he heard the school bell he left his shoes behind as he ran away.

When Miss Smyth came to visit we asked if they belonged to her, she tried them on but they didn’t fit, some of the children also enjoyed trying them on.

This week also marked the beginning of Advent, each day we open our calendar and take time to think of others by saying an extra prayer.