Pandas and tigers – please revise all sounds and words.

Elephants: new sounds and new words.  These will be issued on Tuesday.  Update: I have not issued the new sounds or words to the elephants yet as we have not had adequate time to learn the sounds.  We will leave it until after the holidays.

Reading

We will try to get reading done twice this week but this is dependent on our very important Christmas rehearsals.

Songs

Please learn the songs of the words for the show.  These were sent home today.  You might wish to focus on ‘Precious baby,’ and ‘On the first Christmas night.’

We were the best class at lining up this week so we got five minutes extra at playtime.  We were all desperate to show Mrs Duncan what we could do in the playground. 🙂

In the afternoon we had a Superhero competition. We worked in teams to design a giant superhero.  Look at the wonderful spelling of ‘Wundr Woomin!’

We also visited the nursery so that the afternoon nursery friends could see our costumes.

We have had a great fun being Superheroes today. We went on a parade through the school to show them our fantastic costumes. We especially liked visiting nursery.

We also decorated gingerbread superheroes for golden time. We had them for our snacks. They were delicious!

We also used the construction to extend our superhero play.  Some children even made a band.  It started with just one lonely batman drummer but developed into a full band complete with guitarists, dancers and even screaming girls!

Look at our enthusiastic Superheroes completing their assault courses.  Click here.

We had a great time at the Scottish children’s book awards at the beach ballroom today.  We listened extremely well to the three authors who spoke.  We heard the author of ‘Never tickle a Tiger,’ ‘Mouse’s first night at Moonlight School,’ and ‘Ralfy the book thief.’  We have been reading these books in class so were very excited to see these authors.  You will notice these books in the book bags that were sent home today.

Each author spoke to us, sang, read to us and asked us questions. We particularly liked the author of ‘Never tickle a tiger.’ She was very funny.  The authors gave us some tips for writing our own stories

Click here to see a video of us taking part in a song based on one of the stories we read.

Click here to listen to a song about the tiger who came to tea – Keir’s mummy I was told that you would like this! 🙂

We are in the process of writing our own book covers for ‘Never tickle a tiger.’  We will post some photos of them when we get them finished.  We have been trying hard to summarise/give clues when writing the blurb rather than telling the entire story.  Mrs Duncan was extremely proud of us all! 🙂

We have been putting the Chinese containers that you collected to good use this week.  We are using them to store our magnetic letters.  Today we were focussing on making three or four letter words with  our letters.  We tried extremely hard to make sure we were saying the words slowly so that we could hear each sound.  We also  wrote each word.

Even Batman had a go. 😀

This week is ‘Book Scotland’ week.  We will be focussing on reading for enjoyment at home and in school this week.  Each day the children will be given time to look at, and explore a variety of books for enjoyment.  This will be instead of our ‘normal’ reading this week.

Homework

Reading challenge – how many books can you read in a week? Using the reading record that was sent home please help your child keep a record of any books they read this week. These can be books they have ‘read’ themselves, books they have shared with an adult or sibling or magazines/comics.  The focus is reading for fun!  They can colour and decorate their reading record too.  The comment section should be used by the children and is to encourage them to be reflective.  They may wish to simple draw a smiley face, medium face, or sad face based on how much they enjoyed it.  Or they could use the traffic lights system we use in class: red – did not enjoy,  orange – it had some good bits, green – it was very good.

Bring your favourite book to school – please encourage your child to bring his/her favourite book to school on Tuesday of this week.  We will be storing them in our book corner all week and using them to develop our love for reading.  This will enable the children to be exposed to a wide variety of stories.  Please ensure all books are named.

New learn-its

• 2+2=4
• 3+3=6

New sounds and words – issued on Tuesday.  No new sounds for the elephants as it is revision week.

We have been finding it difficult to talk about kind things that have happened in the playground.  We have been tending to focus on very small disagreements instead.   This week we have been trying to find and share kind things that our friends have said or done to help us get better at appreciating kindness.   Here are some of our comments:

• Enzo is kind at playing with me.  Harry
• Willow and Emily always play what I want to play.  Katie
• Alex said he liked my painting.  Kian
• Scott was being fun.  Axel
• Axel was sitting next to me at singing.  Keir
• Mara and Emily always play with me in the playground.  Abbey
• Enzo shared his pens with me.  I shared my book.  Oliver.
• Oliver said thank you when I shared my pens.  Enzo
• Enzo is always kind to me.  Veer.

As shown in the recent note, Superhero day is next Friday 27th November.  This is also ‘kilts for kids’ day. Superheroes are invited to add a touch of tartan to their costume if they wish and to bring £1 to support Children 1st.  Thank you.