We have come to the end of spooky October.

You may have noticed on our school’s twitter page that we went outside on Tuesday for our soft start.  We enjoyed building with some of the loose parts and we also took some of our learning materials from the classroom out with us.  It was super to learn  in the Autumn sunshine.

We also had a visit from members of our Parent Council on Tuesday.  They have bought a new school diary for every pupil in the school.  P1/2G will start to use them on Monday and you will find details of reading books in the diaries  instead of our current reading diaries.  Please read the letter from the Parent Council which you will get along side the diary.

During our topic lessons this week, we discovered that we live on planet Earth.  We also discovered that Earth spins around and when our part of Earth is facing the sun it is daytime and when we are away from the sun it is night time.

Some members of our class have started writing their own books and sharing them with our friends.  Our library is going to get really full.

Finally for this week, here are some photos from our Halloween disco.  Lots of super dancing and scary fun!

It is great to see everyone back after our October holiday.  Everyone was full of news about the holiday which we wrote about on Monday.  We also wrote about what makes us feel happy this week.

We discovered that our new learning Context (topic) is going to be ……………SPACE!

We discussed what we already knew about Space and what we would like to find out.  One of our questions we want to find the answer to is: “Is the moon made out of cheese?”  Look out in future blogs to see what we find out.

On Friday, we became 3D shape detectives.  We went out into the playground to find as made real life examples of 3D shapes.  Didn’t we do well!

Here are some more photos of our learning this week.

Finally for this week  could you please help your child to keep their reading book in their red folder every day.  Thank you.

We can’t believe that it is now the end of our first term of P1/2.  It has been so busy and lots of fantastic learning has taken place.

Here are some photos of us learning this week in class.

We have been enjoy reading in different areas of the class, on our own and sometimes with friends.  We have also been finding letter sounds or the tricky words we have been learning in our books.  We love class story time too.  We had a discussion on Friday to see how we could make our class library even better.  Lots of good ideas for after the holidays.

Thank you for all of your support this term  We are looking forward to even more learning in term 2.

Have a lovely holiday.

This week we read The Lighthouse Keeper’s Catastrophe.  In this story Hamish the cat got locked inside the Lighthouse and Mr Grinling had to rescue him.  Fortunately Mrs Grinling had a good plan to help him.  We have now read almost all of the Lighthouse Keeper’s stories.  We just have to read The Lighthouse Keeper’s Christmas but we can’t read it just now because Mrs Given will get too excited!

During writing this week we wrote stories about Hamish the cat.  Hamish had lots of adventures including going to the park, jumping in puddles and even travelling into space in a rocket!  Our stories are so good we are going to make them into a book for our class library.

Thank you to everyone who gave us materials for our junk modelling task.  We worked with P7W to make a boat for Mr Grinling.  Both classes were working on Science and Technologies experiences and outcomes and it was an excellent opportunity to work with our friends in P7.

On Friday we were developing lots of different skills in our little P.E time.  Bouncing on the space hopper was definitely one of our favourites.  Some of the photos are a little fuzzy because we were moving so fast!

We also found out that one of our class members was chosen as a P.E star.  Well done!

Finally this week, congratulations to Oliver who was voted as our Eco Committee Representative.  We are sure you will be fantastic in this role Oliver!