Well what a busy week we have had. On Monday we were very sporty. We had gym with Mrs Paton but in the morning we had a special treat, we all got a taster lesson in Judo. We were all fab and we had so much fun that some of us said we would like to try joining a Judo club on our Folio sheet.

In language we have beenlearning more of our Jolly Phonics sounds. This week we learnt the sounds l, f and b. We were really good at thinking of lots of words which started with our sound of the day and we are getting really good at applying what we know when we sound out a word in reading or spelling- so good infact that lots of us now have books with words in that we can read! These might be tricky but are all doing really well.

We have also been learning all about invitations because we remembered that in the story of Sleeping Beauty some of the books had a party at the start because the King and Queen we so happy to have a baby but in other stories the Prince and Sleeping Beauty had a party because they fell in love. First of all we looked at our promethean board to see what WALT and WILF said we were learning about.

Next we saw that the fairy in the Lotte Reiniger film was reading an invitation and we talked about what the invitation could be for. We heard that it was because everyone in the castle had woken up after being asleep for 100 years and we learned that there was going to be a ball (that is the name for a posh party not a football)!

We all thought very carefully about what it might say on the good fairy’s invitation. We thought that it would say that there was ball and it was going to be in the castle…. and do you know- we were right! Then we decided that we should try to write our own invitations. We did really well and lots of us said that we were proud of ourselves because we didnt know how to read or write a few weeks ago. We tried to sound out most of the words we wanted and Mrs Mackay helped us with the ones we weren’t sure about. Our teachers are very proud of us!

In number work we have been learning all about pattern. We had lots of fun making patterns with different things in our classroom. We used cotton reels, buttons, pictures, peg boards, cubes and shapes. Some of us managed to make a pattern on own and some us made super patterns with the help of an idea card but we all got there in the end.

After we made all these patterns we used what we had learned and been practising and we completed a sheet for our folios. We had to think carefully to colour a pattern and then we had to look at a pattern and think what shape might come next. After all that we then had to think how to make a colour pattern in the shape pattern that we made. Our teachers’ said “Wow”.

We were enjoying learning about pattern so much that we had to see if we could find any patterns at home for our homework. Some of us found them on our clothes, on our carpets and rugs and on our beds. Kyra took a picture of patterns she found on her cushions and on the wallpaper. Edyn took a picture of a pattern she found in a game. What lovely looking and clever concentrating to find them! Well done.

Another part of our homework was practising putting lots of details in our artwork. We had to draw a detailed picture of our family. There were so many fabulous artworks that here are just some of them…

We are really good at recording what we are learning using our digital cameras, easy speak mics and flipcams. Here is a wee look at some of what we recorded. Sameer made a letter link of all the sounds he knows. Josh drew a castle on the aquamat. Rayyan drew some numbers on the blackboards. We get a chance to do lots of different activities so watch the space and we will put some more or our fun photos.

In the Active Learning Zone we have been busy practising our three letter words. Cat in the Hat has been helping us. There are lots of three letter words in the Cat in the Hat story. We have been trying to read this book with Mrs Munro in the Active Learning Zone on the iPad. We have been so busy we are only half way through!

We do have a Cat in the Hat display and have been writing down lots of three letter words.

We have been making Cat in the Hat hats at the creative area too. We have to draw the hat, cut it out and then paint on a pattern just like Cat in the Hat’s hat. We have had a great time making our own hats.

We have been  making patterns at the shaving foam with lots of different tools to help us. We used the wheels on the cars to make some patterns.

In ICT we have been practising our skills with Textease. In the Active Learning Zone we can practise using Textease Paint and using the tools to create things. We were using the pen tool, colours, shape tool and fill tool.

We have been continuing to find punctuation in books. Especially the Sleeping Beauty books. We love looking through lots of books to see if we can find question marks, exclamation marks and full stops. We have found lots!

We have been using the Sleeping Beauty story on the iPad this week. We also have to find our name on our class list and score it off once we have listened to the story. This helps us organise our time and makes sure everyone gets a turn to listen to the story.

This weeks star of the week was Billy. He has been doing super sound work when thinking of words to match our sound of the day and when matching pictures to a sound. Well done, Billy and keep it up!

Week Starting 1st October 2012

• Remember to bring your filled, named water bottle with you every day (no juice please).
• THERE IS NO HOMEWORK FROM WEDNESDAY ONWARDS THIS WEEK DUE TO THE HOLIDAYS. HOMEWORK WILL RESUME ON THURSDAY 25TH OCTIBER.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 Sleeping Beauty.

This week we will be learning ;

• how to use, read and create a graph
• how to  select good and bad characters from the story of  Sleeping Beauty
• Jolly Phonics sounds j and z

School ends for the holidays on Friday 5th October at 3.15pm. We come back to school on Monday 22nd October at 9.00am.

Have a great holiday and well done on such a fabulous start to primary school boys and girls, it has been a super term!