This week we have been learning about symmetry. We have played smartboard games and coloured and completed our own patterns and designs to show that we understand what it means when things are symmetrical.

Logan’s mummy came in this morning to help us with our symmetry monsters. Can you see how we have made these? If you look very closely and carefully, you will see who has made them even if there is not a name written!

We had great discussions when we were cutting out and sticking our monsters! We understood why they all look different – do you know why that would be?

Here we are getting ready for and then taking part in our daily mile challenge. The older boys and girls are doing this and we think we can do it too!

We have talked about different ways of moving – we can walk, jog, run, skip, hop and even march. We can chat to our running buddies when we are outside, and if we are lucky our running buddy might be one of our teachers!

There is some information about the daily mile here: The Daily Mile

We enjoyed being out in the fresh air. Mrs Sutherland and Mrs McKay were a bit windswept afterwards!!

Today we learned the sad news that our friend and teacher, Mr Hewitt, had passed away last week.

We took some time today to celebrate his life and remember all the great things he taught us and all the laughs we had together.

We created some art tributes that we will post to his family and we will show some of these tributes on the blog at a later date.

Mr Hewitt was an amazingly talented performer and many of the P6 students mentioned how much they enjoyed his dance lessons, so we thought it would be a fitting tribute to perform the dance he taught us in his honour.

At this time we would like to send our heartfelt condolences to all of Mr Hewitt’s family and friends.  As the children said today, he will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

All children in Primary 1 have been given a letter today explaining how to login to Education City at home. Each child has their own unique username and password.  We have allocated some games for the children to explore (instead of sending out homework in the red homework jotters), have a look in the ‘Homework’ section.  In class we are working through the activities at Early level-either Early** or Early***.  Some of the activities at First level will be too difficult for the children to complete independently.

Have fun boys and girls!

Thank you to everyone at home who helped the children create their Whirry Bang models.  The children are extremely proud of their creations, talking confidently about how they made them.  We have compared designs and styles within our own class and with P1S.  Primary 4 visited our classroom to see our Whirry Bangs too-they gave us great feedback.