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We have been busy making decorations for our playground Christmas tree. We are always trying to find ways to be eco-friendly and Mrs Wright thought it would be a good idea to make edible tree decorations for all the birds that come to our playground! We made fat baubles, popcorn tinsel and decorated rice cakes. We think it looks fabulous! Hopefully the birds will have a great Christmas!
Today we had a visit from the school nurses, Tammy and Val. They were talking to us about handwashing. We put glitter gel on our hands and put them inside a special box which showed us where all the germs were. It was horrible! Then we washed our hands and went back to the box to check that all the germs had gone. It took some of us 3 or 4 times to get our hands clean!
We are really enjoying our project about Scottish Inventors. We even became inventors ourselves! Look at the fun we have had designing a bridge out of newspapers to carry Miss Munro’s monkey. We even got to create our very own inventions which was lots of fun.
Cameron: I liked going on the laptops to research John Logie Baird. I had fun making my glove. You get limited power with it like fireballs.
Brad: I made a bed that makes itself. I enjoyed doing my invention.
Lucy: I enjoyed painting my invention. I made a tele-porter. You type in where you want to go and then you press go and you’re there!
Sophie S: John Logie Baird, Alexander Fleming and Alexander Graham Bell were really famous. They invented medicine, TVs and the telephone. We got good information from the computer about them.
Today we had our Fancy Dress Dookin’ Party and it was great! We all got into the spirit by dressing up and the teachers found it tricky to know who we all were. Although everyone looked fantastic, the winners of our dressing up competition were:
P1/2/3: First – Milly, Second – Keir, Third – Jamie
P4/5: First – Cameron, Second – Finlay, Third – Sophie
P6/7: First – Ellie, Second - Andrew, Third (Joint) - Nadean and Andrew
We also held our traditional pumpkin competition! Every year we are amazed by the imagination that you all show. It was really difficult to pick some winners, but congratulations to Keir, Kyle and Ruairidh.
Well done everyone, it was a really good day!
We are all so excited about our Fancy Dress Dookin’ Party tomorrow! This afternoon we made some decorations. We worked in small groups and the older class helped the P1/2/3s. Some of the decorations were a bit of a challenge, but we think they look great!
We were so lucky today to have some visitors from Africa. The Zulu warriors came to us from God’s Golden Acre in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. It is an orphanage which helps children who have lost their parents through AIDs or violence. We were amazed by their fantastic clothes! They were great at singing and dancing. By the end of the morning we were all able to join in with two of their Zulu dances.
We have been learning all about our senses. This week we made a display to show people what the 5 senses are. You can look at them in our cloakroom. Then we did some surveys. We asked the whole school about their favourite things to see, hear, smell, taste and touch.
This week we enjoyed painting with Mrs Campbell. They were called monochrome paintings and we only used one colour with different tones and shades. By Sophie D and Sophie S.
We also went to tennis this week with the P6/7 class. We took the bus to Tain and learned more about tennis. Half the balls went on the road! We are looking forward to going next week again. By John and Clara.
Morag and her latest group have been cooking for us again! This week they pulled up some tatties from our garden and treated us to some tattie and leek soup. You might have been able to smell it if you passed the school on Friday – it was delicious!
In Technology we were challenged to make a cot for a baby. We had to make sure that it was big enough to hold baby Annie and that it was safe so that she wouldn’t fall out. Miss Lowson thought that we did a great job! We worked hard with our partners.
