Another lovely week in Primary 3, even though it’s been short we have been busy as usual.
Roots of Empathy
Big important firsts for Kelsey today even though this is her last visit (Awwwwww!) She has just started nursery and had missed her sleep before coming to P3 for her last visit so she was a little tired! Kelsey also did her first finger painting today, can take a few steps on her own now and has started to clap all by herself! (The boys and girls loved clapping back).
Huda – Can Kelsey say ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’ yet? Leona explained she is trying hard and thinks she will say ‘Dada’ first!
Cameron – ‘How old is Kelsey now?’ – Leona said that Kelsey is now a big eleven months and it will soon be her first birthday.
Primary 3 sang Five Little Ducks and Baa Baa Black Sheep beautifully for Kelsey.
Her mummy measured her to see how long Kelsey is now and she is 74cm. She was 52cm when she first came to visit so this means she has grown 22cm! Mrs Brutin explained that if Cameron had grown 22cm his school trousers would now be so short they would be at his knees and Primary 3 thought this was really funny!
Primary 3 chose one favourite memory of Kelsey and we made it into a special book for her to keep for ever. So many children wanted to present Kelsey with her memories book that Mrs Scott had to put their names in a hat and Sophie R won! She proudly thanked Leona and Neil for bringing Kelsey along to Primary 3, said we have had so much fun and learned lots. Well done Sophie!
Thank you so much to Leona and Neil for allowing us to share in Kelsey’s first year and of course a big thank you to baby Kelsey herself!
GLOBAL GOALS
Primary 3 took part in a special experiment to help them understand a little more about the Global Goal ‘No Poverty’. The idea behind this was to let them see how difficult doing ordinary things can be when you don’t have what you need. Each child was given a slip of paper and they had to fold it into three parts then write their name on it….simple task? Not quite, depending on which group they were in. One group had to complete this task with both hands behind their back……another group had to complete it with their dominant hand behind their back and only using their non-dominant hand….the final group had no restrictions and could complete the task normally. The children really tried to accommodate their restrictions in some innovative ways. However, it highlighted how hard it is to perform a simple task when you don’t have access to everything you need and we will be continuing to discuss this next week. If possible talk this over with your child in terms of how so many people in our world don’t have access to basic food, shelter and water which we take for granted.
Have a lovely weekend, hopefully the sun will shine all weekend!! Mrs McMullen and P3 🙂
