You’ll never guess…

We won Star Class at the Infant Assembly again this week! Miss Mackay said that she couldn’t give it to another class as we were the best, even though we had it last week too! We couldn’t believe it!

Problem Solving

We have been carrying on with our ‘design a park/garden’ problem solving challenge this week. We had to finish off our plans of our garden and then we had to work out how many workers we need to run the park. We were given the price per day of what each worker would receive and we had to calculate (using a calculator if necessary) how much it would cost to pay the staff each day. Although it was not a realistic wage, we had to work together in our groups to calculate and agree on our decisions. We have been learning about COMPROMISE. We know that this means meeting in the ‘middle’ with someone if we cannot agree on an idea.

Cups of Kindness

On Monday we emptied our ‘cups’ that we created last week and read all of the lovely comments and compliments our classmates had left for us. The smiles on our faces (see photos) show how it made us feel! We had to choose our favourite one to hold up and share with the class. Some of us are keeping these notes in our personal trays so that if we every feel sad or not very good about ourselves we can go into our tray, read the notes and hopefully feel a bit better!

Reading

In our verbal reading this week we have been thinking about:

*reading at a good pace/fluency

*taking a short pause when there is a full stop

*reading new, unknown words

*reading with expression

Writing

We have started focussing on imaginative writing. We used story dice and when we rolled the dice we ended up with a smiley face, a question mark, a ladder and a rain cloud. We had to use each of these things in our story and try to make sure our story had a clear beginning, middle and end. We planned the story at our tables so that we could share our ideas and come up with one story together and then we wrote our story individually in our jotters.

Let’s Create! (Topic)

We have started to plan our next design challenge. We must use either 1 or 3 lollipop sticks to design a Christmas decoration. We watched Miss Dow draw some ideas on the board and we had to think of what design we wanted to do. Our ideas included elves, Santas, Rudolphs, angels and Christmas trees. We had to sketch a rough plan of our idea which we will use when we make our final designs next week.

Spelling

For spelling this week we have been doing ‘back writing.’ This is when we have to work with a partner and use our finger to spell one of our words on their back. They must guess what word we wrote and then we swap over. If we were finding it easy, Miss Dow challenged us to write the word in capital letters and see if our partner could still guess the word correctly!

Science

We are still patiently waiting for the rain to stop and grass to dry a bit so that we can get outside and onto the climbing equipment to test our parachutes! Fingers crossed we’ll manage to do this next week.

Play Zones

We have had lots of fun this week in our play zones!

What’s New?

We now have a new special box in our classroom. The box is full of brand new books that Miss Dow has brought in for us. If we have a spare 5 minutes (usually at the end of the day) Miss Dow chooses someone that has been working very hard that day and they can choose a special book to read to the class. This week we have read ‘Penguins’ which was all about penguins in a zoo who find a camera and take lots of selfies! We found it very funny and enjoyed seeing the selfies that they took at the end of the book. We also read ‘Sharing a Shell,’  ‘Little Penguin Learns to Swim’ and ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark.’