This is our last week of term and it’s been a busy one.

We have been learning about data handling. We have been looking at how we gather information and then put it into a pictogram. We started with talking about our favourite Oxford Reading Tree character. We all stuck on our favourite onto the graph and then looked at which was our favourite character. We practised this every day in maths and at the end of the week we talked about our favourite fruit and made a pictogram on the Promethean Board. Mango was our favourite!

Ms Gauld came to our class on Friday. She brought with her lots of fruit. We have fruit every day in school as part of being a Healthy school. But Ms Gauld brought lots of different types of fruit. She brought lime, watermelon, pineapple, mandarin, tomato, mango and apricot. Mango was our favourite. Lots of us liked it.

In the Active Learning Zone we have been going outside with Mrs Munro to find some signs of Autumn. We had to collect lots of leaves, twigs and fir cones from the playground to put on our science table so we can investigate further. Mrs Munro brought in lots more fir cones from her walks in Tentsmuir forest and a great big bit of tree trunk. We have been using the magnifying glasses to investigate signs of Autumn further.

We made patterns in the playground too with leaves we found. We had to look for lots of other patterns. We found lots of stripes on the fences.

At the Cat in the Hat area we have been writing three letter words again but this time the Cat had taken some of the letters away! This meant we had to work out what the first sound was and write it down. We took a photograph of our Hat and Mrs Munro printed it off so we could add it to our folio. We have been listening to the story of Cat in the Hat on the iPad. We listen for words that have three sounds and then sound them out. We also noticed all the question marks and exclamation marks too.

We look forward to learning more through Cat in the Hat and other stories in the new term. I think that Cat may have taken more letters away!

Week Starting 22nd October 2012

• Remember to bring your filled, named water bottle with you every day (no juice please).
• HOMEWORK WILL RESUME ON THURSDAY 25TH OCTOBER.We will send homework out on a Thursday. Please send it to school every day but any tasks should be completed by Wednesday. The teacher will collect in the weeks work on Wednesday. Each week there will be a Yellow Book Challenge to do but you can pick which challenge you want to do from a list of  3 each week. There will be no homework on a Wednesday night.
• Gym is on a Monday and Thursday. Please remember long hair will need to be tied back and no jewellery. This means all earrings must be removed.
• ICT is on Wednesday afternoons.

Our project is …….

This week we will be learning ;

• Jolly Phonics sounds x and y