Thanks to everyone for the wonderful response to our Harvest Collection. The P1 children did an excellent job of sending letters and collecting and sorting the donations. They also made a card for every household. Primary 6/7 came to help the class to carry the bags of food over to Queen Elizabeth Court as we had far too much to carry by ourselves. The residents were very grateful and all signed a lovely thank you card. To finish off our Harvest topic the children have also been learning about how Jewish people celebrate Sukkot. Next they will move on to finding out about Festivals of Light in different religions.
In Literacy the children have revised all the sounds they have learnt so far, begun the next set of sounds, and practised reading and making 3 letter words. They also learned about leaving finger spaces in between the words. All the children are taking reading books home now, and we are grateful that you are helping them to practise their reading skills. They are also practising reading their books to their reading partners from P.6/7 . For this to work well, we need everyone to return the books to school the next day so that they can be used or changed over. We have been doing a variety of activities around the books that are in the Primary One Bookbug Pack, and later this term, the Librarian from Mearns Community Library will be coming to present these to the children.
In Numeracy the children have revised all numbers to 10 , practising counting and writing. They have had a hopping challenge to see how far they can hop and count accurately. They will be bringing home a tub with number words in it to practise reading and recognising. They have worked on the language of measurement, and used it in drawing different sizes of items, which was quite a challenge.
Our topic this term is ‘Toys Old and New’. Together the children sorted toys into old and new, made their own timelines to give them understanding of old and new, and discussed the materials that toys are made from. Next they will go even further back into the past and explore really old toys, so if you have any at home they would like to bring in to show the class, they may bring them in for Show and Tell on any day. Miss Robbie will be teaching the class about forces as part of this topic, while Mrs. Smith teaches the P6/7 class Russian as their 3rd language. They have also being taking part in Drama related to the topic, using their bodies to move in different ways. So far they have successfully turned themselves in to teddies and very disciplined marching soldiers.
Keeping the pulse in different ways has been the focus of our Music lessons and we will be moving on to practising Christmas Carols. In Art we have worked on some Christmas activities that had to be prepared in advance, and will be moving on to using chalk and paint. Some children have still to bring in an old t-shirt or shirt to use as an apron, this is important when we are using these messy materials. In PE, ball skills has been the focus.
