Author Archive for Mrs.Binnie

Week beginning November 24th 2008…

This week we will be busy working towards our enterprising Christmas Fayre!
ELP ASDAN
Mrs Hoban and Miss Strachan have begun helping us to make salt dough Christmas decorations (a bit like the ones above, only better!). We will be continuing this creative adventure during our Asdan periods and are enjoying making such lovely traditional decorations for [...]

Welcome to the dragon’s den…

This week in Social Studies our fruit from the Third World is a very spectacular and unusual one. A picture of it can be seen above. Do you know what it is called?

Here we take a closer look inside. Are you any clearer about what it might be?
A few clues to help you…

The fruit grows [...]

It’s that most wonderful time of the year…

 
The run up to Christmas sees us once again concentrate on time and date in our maths lessons.
In the coming weeks we will be looking at the new calendar for 2009 - and making our own special calendars to be sold nearer the Festive Season. We will also be making our classroom advent calendar and reminding [...]

Des legumes…le jardin de la vie

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In French recently our theme of the Garden for Life has found its way conveniently into our lessons with Ms Russell. We have been finding out all about “des legumes”.
Please see the attached link for details of the new vocabulary we have been learning.
 

Feed the birds (slightly more than tuppence a bag)…

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As part of our gardening programme we will be looking at what happens to living things during the winter time. Last year we successfully fed the birds in the school gardens with home made fat balls, milk carton feeders and juice bottle water troughs.
We are repeating this exercise this year - we still want to [...]

Week beginning November 17th 2008…

(Parents are going to thank us for this…sorry folks!)
The countdown to Christmas for Santa’s Little Elpers begins this week. With only 5 weeks of school left before the holidays we have had to make a start on our preparations for the big event. There is so much work for Santa’s Little Elpers at this time [...]

It’s a spikey Marge Simpson hairdo!

 
“It is a green and yellow, spikey Marge Simpson hairdo!”
That is the way that one pupil described the outside of a pineapple when we were asked to investigate how this wonderful fruit looked like, felt like or smelt like.

Judging by the above photograph, it is a pretty accurate description!
Today we were looking at more [...]

Week beginning November 10th 2008…

This week sees our country mark Remembrance Day on Tuesday November 11th. We will be taking a look at why we pay respect on this occasion every year and willing be thinking about what we have learned from attending last Friday morning’s Sixth Year Service of Remembrance.
ELP Maths
This week in ELP Maths we will continue [...]

Where did the power station go, Miss?

The view from our classroom window often looks something like this - only from another angle. From many of our classrooms we can see this imposing building on the horizon. It is not everyone’s cup of tea in terms of being a “beautiful skyline” but for the ELP group it has been the source of a number [...]

ELP Public Health Information Service…

The ELP science class has this week been looking at how we can promote the idea of looking after our bodies in order to keep them healthy and fit - to other people.
We have so far looked at how

there are 5 main food groups
we need to eat them in a reasonable balance to give our bodies what they [...]





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