It was a short week last week so we didn’t have a chance to write up our blog before it was time for the long weekend!
We came back to school on Pancake Tuesday…..but we remembered that on Sunday it was also the Chinese New Year…so many things to celebrate and so little time to squeeze it all in!
Anyway on Tuesday we did lots of Pancake things …like read a story about Mr Wolf and his Pancakes.
We liked this story because it had lots of characters we already knew such as the 3 pigs and Little Red Riding Hood but it came as a bit of a surprise at the end when Mr Wolf gobbled them all up for being so nasty to him! Wow! We didn’t expect that! Hearing about Mr Wolf baking the pancakes put us in the mood for some pancakes of our own…so later on we had some pancakes with a choice of either chocolate or strawberry sauce on top. Mmm, they were lovely! (Oh, and we had some healthy fruit as well!)
In the gymhall we acted out the last part of our Dinosaur story, which meant we had to pretend we were spending the night inside a museum with lots of displays of dinosaurs. We had to creep about pretending we had torches and were exploring all the exhibits in the museum. Suddenly there was a loud noise and the dinosaurs came to life and began to chase us! It was great fun and reminded us a bit about a film we had seen at the cinema about a similar story.
We learned about the Chinese New Year and watched some BBC clips about Chinese primary schools. We thought it was funny when the children bowed to their teachers when they said ‘good morning.’ We didn’t understand them when they spoke in Chinese but we thought their celebrations for New Year were very colourful and exciting. We learned about Chinese dragons and made some of our own. Aren’t they colourful?
As part of our Journeys topic we watched BBC clips on the whiteboard about Barnaby Bear and his visit to Orkney. We had been watching some clips about the first aeroplanes ever invented then we saw the modern aeroplane Barnaby Bear used to take him from the top of Scotland to the Orkney Islands. We looked at the map to see where the Orkney Islands are. On his visit to the Orkneys Barnaby visited a farm where the farmer had some sheep. We saw how he sheared the sheep to get the sheep’s wool.
Later in the week we saw Curious Cat explain the journey from the farm to the processing factories where the fleece was cleaned and spun into yarn so that it could be made into jumpers and scarves for us to wear. We talked about this and completed a storysheet about the journey of wool. Here we are busy completing our stories.
We talked about other means of transport such as trains and we learned that this allowed people to travel to lots of different places in Britain and the rest of the world.
Rylan brought in some travel brochures for us to look at and a big poster about travelling.
We also spoke about making another type of journey when someone moves to another house. We read a story about a boy who was a bit scared about leaving his home behind to move to another house. He was given a large box to pack his favourite things to take with him. We worked with our learning partners to decide what sort of things we would pack if we were given packing boxes. Here are some of our ideas.
In Maths we’ve been learning how to tell the time. We know o’clock and half past!….and we’ve been learning how to write this using analogue and digital clocks. Blair and Cameron demonstrate how we can use the whiteboard to tell the time. Half past nine looks like it’s fun!!
In Literacy we got our new reading books and there were some really funny stories amongst them…like The Hairy Fairy! I think we all found that a bit silly…We worked very hard with our reading this week. We like to read our stories to our learning partners then they read us their stories. It’s good because we all get a chance to swap our stories and hear each other read. Then we helped each other with writing. We took turns to check each other’s work…we had to pretend we were ‘teachers’ and point out any mistakes to our learning partners! On Friday we changed our library books and had the chance to pick some really interesting ones for us to read later in class.
Another week now over and we’re off for the weekend….Lara and Morgan look happy that we can have a wee rest again!
Come on Leo, it’s time to go home.
We’ll see you all again next week. Bye for now from P2a.
