** Star of the Week **

Well done to Conor for being awarded star of the week for excellent effort and improvement with his spelling. Keep up the fantastic work, Conor! 🙂

Topic – Scotland

Scots Language Descriptions

This week we have been learning lots of Scots words. We had to apply this learning to write a short description about an animal of our choice. We enjoyed trying to say the words, guess what they might mean and sharing our work with the class.

Body Parts in Scots

We also learned what all of our body parts are called in Scots. We had to draw a character or person and label the body parts using the correct vocabulary.

Scots Instructions

Miss Dow read out instructions in Scots and we had to follow the instructions. This worked well since we had just learned body parts.

Poetry and Stories

We have been practising reading and talking in Scots and comparing the language to how we normally talk. We read ‘The Gruffalo’ in Scots and a variety of poems from books that children brought in.

Maths – Measurement

In maths we have been working on measurement. We have had to ESTIMATE the length/width of an object and then measure it using a ruler or metre stick. We have also been comparing lengths and ordering objects by their measurements. We had to decide what was the best measurement to use. eg – smaller items would most likely be measured in mm and distances would be measured in miles or even km.

Circle Time

We had a very memorable Circle Time this week. Miss Dow chose a few of us to act as characters in a story and as she told the story, the actors had to improvise and act out what was being told in the story whilst the rest of the class listened and watched. The story was ‘The Girl Who Cried Wolf.’ We then spoke about the moral of the story and how it applies to us. We know that sometimes people don’t tell the truth to try and protect someone. We spoke about the importance of telling the truth and being honest.

Health & Wellbeing

We  became a masseur/masseuse this week! We spoke about mindfulness and the importance of taking a break and being mindful if we start to get stressed or angry. We spoke about how massage can be used to make us feel calm and relaxed. We enjoyed practising on each other!

French

We revised days of the week and colours. We were looking at the months of the years. We sang a song on Youtube and played a game. When Miss Dow said a month in French, we had to jump up if our birthday fell in that month. She made it easy to begin with by saying the months in French in the correct order but then it got a bit trickier as she said them in a random order!

Joined Handwriting

We had our first ever joined handwriting lesson. We know that our writing might become a bit messier before it becomes neater as we are learning a new skill that we have never done before. We were learning the ‘un’ and ‘um’ join. We self-assess our handwriting by drawing a little 🙂 next to our best, most successful attempt at a word and a 🙁 next to the ones that needed the most work.

Dancing

Since we have been learning about Scotland, Miss Dow taught us some of the steps of the Highland Fling. Grace was a big help too since she goes to Highland Dancing lessons. We were worked very hard and were very sweaty by the end of it! We then learned a new dance that Miss Dow calls ‘in, two, clap, clap, clap’ which was also lots of fun.

Library

Our library helpers were so fantastic this week! We had some technical difficulties with the scanner but managed in the end. Here we are being very independent…