Here we are creating our very own Advent calendars. They are very tricky to cut out however they are worth it because under each door is a kind gesture that we have thought to do each day!!!!

Pictures taken by our photographer for the week…Lou Lou!!!!

Wow!! Today was lots of fun for all the children. The task was to create a den that was waterproof. There were some other categories too that they had to try and include. These were, to work effectively in a team, to use the least resources, to choose their location based on amount of trees / natural resources.

It is safe to say that many lessons were learned today!!! However there were many laughs and lots of fun was had too. We even enjoyed some hot chocolate and biscuits afterwards to heat us up!

We are learning songs from Christmas Adverts. We chose this year’s Sainsbury’s ad song ‘You Get What You Give’ as it linked to our Showtime topic and assembly. From there we decided to go for ‘Silent Night’ as it’s traditional and was in another Sainsbury’s Christmas ad back in 2014, marking the truce the soldiers came to on Christmas Day. Our third song was inspired by John Lewis’ ad this year which stars Elton John. We decided to choose his Christmas Song ‘Step Into Christmas’ as a result!!

Please use these videos to practise for the Christmas Show:

Silent Night:

Step Into Christmas:

Today we voted for the Scottish Book Trust BookBug Prize in the category for Picture Books. Or class had to choose from:

Eric Makes a Splash by Emily MacKenzie,

I Am Bat by Morag Hood and 

One Button Benny by Alan Windram.

Our class overwhelmingly voted for I Am Bat by Morag Hood.

Here is a link to the website where the authors read their own books.

Enjoy!!

http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning/learning-resources/resource/bookbug-picture-book-prize-2019-learning-resource

Week 2 has seen us refine our knot work skills and although our area was reduced due to trees being out of bounds for us, we managed to combine groups and work on sharing materials or learning to swap for other items!!

We decided to create a 3D version of a monument that we had each individually designed for our local area of Kincorth. Some designs are very intricate and interesting!! We shall wait and see how well we can replicate them!!!

We will post pictures of the finished products when they are completed.

On Thursdays for a 5 week block, we will be enjoying learning outdoors in a nearby wooded area. We will be working with Mr Millar to learn about playing outside with different resources to make dens and create spaces to relax, play and enjoy.

Today we had loads of fun, check out who wanted to chill out in a hammock shaped den, the puppet show team and many other cool spaces we have made!! We are looking forward to next week already!!!

We have been learning a lot of non-number numeracy this term and over the past week we have been learning about compass points, vocabulary for giving directions and some angles to move in!! Very impressive altogether. So today, we were ready to put all of this new learning to the test. We went outside and each had a turn of creating a course for someone to navigate, be directed around a course and also supervise a pair directing and navigating!! It was lots of fun and we really trusted one another.

Thank you very much to anyone who may have sponsored us to go for a long walk on the Kincorth Hill. We were lucky with the weather and some of us walked really fast and even needed to carry our jackets, and those of others at times too!! 😛 It was tough but enjoyable!! What great views at this point.

We are getting to know our Buddies even more now and we are all enjoying reading a variety of different books each week!