I hope everyone is looking forward to our trip tomorrow!

Just a quick reminder in case you’re unsure..

• children should wear school top/jumper but can wear comfy bottoms/trousers/shorts/shoes
• children should bring a packed lunch and water bottle and will be bringing their school bag with them on the trip
• children should bring a waterproof coat (hopefully we won’t need them!)
• bus will leave school at 9.15am and return in time for home time at 3.15pm
• children can bring a pencil/rubber from home if they’d like but I will be bringing some from school too.

Looking forward to it! 🙂

New Topic

We watched a surprise clip this week which was a big clue to our new topic. Our new topic is going to be called ‘A Bug’s Life.’ We will be learning about different types of animals, insects, habitats and looking at plants and growing. We are also going to be working on a very exciting drama performance linking to our topic which will be keeping us very busy this term!

Syllables

We were thinking about syllables this week. This is when a word is split into its individual sounds. We had to decide if the words had 2,3 or 4 syllables and colour it correctly. We found that if we clapped whilst we said the word then that was a great help! It was much easier than we thought it might be! If we were finished, we had to think of our own words for a partner to work out the syllables.

Maths

This week the Triangles, Squares and Pentagons have been starting to look at division. We know that  this means sharing/splitting into equal groups. Some of us have been using concrete resources such as counters and cubes to help us share out into equal groups.

The Semicircles have been working on chimney sums. We know that if a question says ‘how many altogether’ then it must be an adding sum. We had to create our own written problems. We read them out to the group and everyone else had to calculate the answer.

Writing

In writing this week we listened to the story of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. Our task was to change a part of the story and re-write our very own versions! Some of us had more than 3 bears, some of us had Goldilocks being eaten and some even had the bears being arrested! We will continue to work on this piece of writing next week. We also had some P7 boys come to work with a few of us and show us how we can use the laptops to help us with our writing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KndSVsY5HWM

Drama

To link with our writing, we had to act out one of our new stories of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.  Our performances were very funny and involved lots of chasing and humour! We need to work on ensuring we always face the audience and don’t have our backs to them. In future lessons we are also going to set up a ‘stage’ area to make sure the audience can always hear us.

Circle Time

We had a discussion in Circle Time about CONFIDENCE. We discussed what confidence is and the fact that people have different levels of confidence. Some people have very low confidence and can be quite shy and anxious and some people have a lot of confidence and rarely feel embarrassed or awkward. We spoke about a few of our experiences where people had used their confidence in a negative way and had been a bit boastful. We had to volunteer to walk and act as if we had very low confidence or very high confidence. It was lots of fun! This linked nicely to our recent  gym lessons with Miss MacCrae as we have had to discuss how to win/lose appropriately.

Health and Wellbeing

As the weather was so nice this week we headed out to the playground to do some Health and Wellbeing. Building on our learning from last week, our challenge was to list or draw as many food items as we could think of and put them into the correct categories on the Eatwell Plate. We also used the interactive whiteboard to do a bit of this too. This is the website that we used…

https://www.healthyactivekids.com.au/teachers/online-games/whats-plate-kids/

 Easter Week!

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday, all of the children were very exciting to share their holiday news with the class on Monday. We have had a very lovely week this week with most of our work having an Easter theme! This has included Easter crafts, maths and even writing! It’s been a nice way to start back to school after the holiday to ease us in gently…

Easter Maths

We had to complete an Easter mosaic sheet where we had to use add/subtract/times tables to work out the answers of each tile and then colour it in a specific colour, depending on the answer. Some of us were even learning the 8, 9 and 11 times tables which were very tricky!

We also designed some Easter eggs that had to show symmetry. We used mirrors to help us. We had some very fancy ideas and were very creative.

Easter Writing

We wrote another list poem describing as many things about Easter as we could think of. We started by mindmapping in small groups all of the nouns we could think of to do with Easter. We then repeated this for adjectives and verbs. This worked well as a planning page if we ran out of ideas! Some of us were even challenged to add a fourth word to each line of our poem, by adding in an adverb which some children learned describes the doing word. Our poems turned out really well and had some lovely, descriptive lines in them.

Easter Cards

We took part in an art activity where we had to use many different types of line and pattern to fill in a little bunny rabbit. It was hard to think of lots of shapes and patterns but we all managed it! We then cut it out and turned it into an Easter card to take home.

Hatching Chick Craft

Again we used our design and creative skills to design an Easter egg. We had to cut it out and design a little chick to be hatching out of the egg. We used paper fasteners to join both parts of the egg together. We could choose how we wanted the egg to crack – straight, zig zags etc. Some of our chicks even had flowers in their feathers or wore a crown!

Easter Egg Decorating

We were each given a polystyrene egg and we had to come up with a design of how we would like to decorate it. We had to plan out our ideas using a whiteboard so that we were sure what we wanted to do. We had to choose appropriate resources from a wide variety to stick onto the egg. Our designs included golden snitches, peacocks and lots more.

Eatwell Plate

In a non-Easter related lesson, we were thinking about healthy eating and we were looking at the ‘Eatwell Plate.’ We were learning about different food groups such  as protein, dairy and carbohydrates. We then played a game on the board where we had to choose the food group that the food item belonged to. Our task was then to use a paper plate and create our own meal that met the proportions of the Eatwell Plate. Some of us chose to draw the parts onto our plate which made it a bit clearer. We had lots of good idea and it brought up lots of discussion about our diets and what we usually eat at home. We will be continuing our learning on this over the next few weeks.

Play-doh

For our play zones this week, 2 of the boys helped Mrs Philipson to make play-doh! It was a nice change to have as one of our play zones.