Welcome back everyone! We hope you have all had a wonderful and relaxing break.  It is great to see all the boys and girls back at school and ready to learn.

Term 2 is going to be a very busy term!  Our topic will focus on Autumn and Festivals that happen around this time of year.  As you know we will be taking weekly trips to the forest between Tuesday 6th November and Tuesday 4th December.  A letter was issued before the holidays to let parent helpers know which weeks their help would be required.  A further letter is being sent home today detailing the clothing children should take with them to school on forest days.

-Water proof jacket

-Wellies/water proof boots

-Hat

-Scarf

-Gloves

-Water proof trousers (if possible)

Please make sure your child comes prepared with these items every Tuesday to ensure their comfort.

*Timetable:

Monday – am: Assembly with Miss McKay and ICT.   Pm: Singing with Miss Hamilton

Tuesday – pm: Forest trips (6th Nov – 4th Dec)

Wednesday – am: Music/Drama.  Pm: Paired reading with P5/6

Thursday – am: Library.

Friday – pm: Gym and Golden Time

*P1M News:

Even though we have only been back 3 days the boys and girls got stuck back into a busy timetable.  On Monday morning we welcomed Miss Wilson into our class.  She is a student from the University of Aberdeen and will be with us for 4 weeks.  We started the week with assembly and learned our new sound ‘d’.  In the afternoon we sung some songs with Miss Hamilton.

Tuesday we got back into the swing of reading and all had some reading group time with Mrs MacKinnon or Miss Wilson.  On Tuesday afternoon we made pumpkin lanterns!  We had to do some decorating and very careful cutting.  What do you think of them?

On Wednesday we carried on with the pumpkin theme and we designed a pumpkin face with a partner.  We had to work hard to compromise and include both partners ideas to make it fair.

When we had finished our design we all voted on the best pumpkin eyes, nose and mouth and Mrs MacKinnon carved it into a real pumpkin!  Before she could carve we had to help her pull out the slimy, stringy insides!

After all the pumpkin carving fun we listened to Room on the Broom and then did a drama activity based on the story.

Mrs MacKinnon watched us very carefully whilst we listened to the story and did our drama job.  She was looking for the person who did the best listening and following instructions – that person got to take home our pumpkin!

Here we are with our pumpkin! Can you spot the photo where we are all pulling scary faces?

On Wednesday afternoon the fun continued. Mrs Moir let us design and create our own tiny pumpkins (tangerines!) so everyone could have one.  It was great fun and we got to draw our designs on the tiny pumpkin with a sharpie.

We’re looking forward to many more exciting weeks to follow!

Have a super week everyone 🙂

Mrs MacKinnon and Mrs Moir