With their library books today,the children in P1S were giving a Reading Passport. Hopefully they will be able to talk about this with you and be able to start keeping a note of the books they are bringing home to share with you. Some of the children were able to tell the rest of the class why they had chosen their library books today. Now we know what the words “Title” and “Author” mean. I am happy for the children to keep their passports in their book bags to be shared in class.

There is some information for parents and carers here:

https://www.readingchallenge.scot/about/parents

The Scottish Book Trust also has some good ideas to support early reading:

http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading/book-lists/kids

In the words of Dr Seuss, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

Happy reading!

Today the P7 class went to a food event which was held in Livingstone Football Club.  They watched a chef demonstrate how to cook mussels and mackerel, made smoothies, watched a barista make coffee and tasted lots of other freshly cooked items such as pasta, scones and bread.  The children also gathered lots of career information about careers they may enter into linked with the food industry.

Thank you to our parents and carers who came along to help out last Saturday on the ‘Big Dig’.   The nursery garden is now looking lovely thanks to all of your hard work.

The children enjoyed sitting inside our new wigwam this week…

We enjoyed using the apples we collected from the school grounds to do some fruit printing…

Mrs Galloway had set us a challenge at the playdough table this week. We had to see if we could create hedgehogs with playdough and pasta. We had fun making tall spaghetti towers and we could even thread pasta and cheerios onto the spaghetti!

What a busy week we’ve had.

Dressing up as firefighters and acting out different emergency situations was very exciting but we know only to call 999 in a real emergency.

We made very special Halloween cards to help boost the morale of soldiers.  We hope they will like our spooky witches!

Phonics is now underway-we learned our first two sounds-s and a.  Mrs McKay was delighted with our homework.

Some activities to help us remember our new sounds included making springy snakes and amazing alligators!