… this is quite a title! It is what’s called alliteration (goodness, that’s a very long word, isn’t it?!). Alliteration is when every word of a phrase or sentence begins with the same letter … in this case six letter Fs!
There are now plenty of pretty snowdrops in the CKPS woods, and some near Skye the Scarecrow, as well as some colourful crocus and iris. It looks like it won’t be too long before we’ll see our daffodils flowering too. Most of us have helped to plant some of these flowering bulbs. See if you can spot the bright green curly caterpillar and the wriggly worm, enjoying some spring sunshine ….
Here’s Skye the Scarecrow: a few weeks back on a winter’s day; and then, more recently, inspecting the allotment beds after their ‘Spring Clean’ …
The weather was kind on the day Ms Pincock organised the SUPER SPRING CLEAN-UP – lots of helpful and hardworking volunteers came along to tidy and make the CKPS allotment area ready for another year of planting, growing and harvesting. A few days later I had a little help too, from my husband 😊 who kindly joined me one morning to do some tidying up at Skye the Scarecrow’s allotment beds …
Before the February break, Fred Frog’s P3 friends read a story called UndER the bed, they wrote lettERs to Fred Frog and enjoyed anothER SWAP game while learning more about some pURple sounds: ur (nurse with a purse) and er (better letter) …
Around that time too, some P4 pupils played a matching pairs game to improve their memory skills and their spelling knowledge of turquOIse words with the ‘oi’ sound …
On Saturday 24th February, many places around the world will mark the end of this year’s Chinese New Year celebrations with a Lantern Festival. As part of our learning about the Festival, we practised our reading and handwriting skills as we prepared some riddles for our lanterns – we’ll take them home soon!
The Lantern 🏮 Festival takes place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the Chinese New Year; it marks the end of the New Year celebrations. The festival encourages reconciliation, peace, and forgiveness. It is a tradition to eat special sweet dumplings called yuan-xiao resembling the shape of the full moon. The holiday marks the first full moon of the new lunar year, and the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations – I took the photographs above showing an almost full moon when I was cycling home from work on Thursday evening 22.2.24. Look out for a bright and shining full moon this weekend! 🌝
Last but not least, Fred Frog and our Growth Mindset Superheroes were most impressed when they were treated to so many brilliant performances at our annual CKPS Scots Assembly – WELL DONE everyone! 👏 …
That’s all for now, Mrs Dale