In numeracy we have been learning all about time. We started by creating a mind map. In green we wrote all the things that we already know about time. In orange we wrote what we want to learn about time and in purple we wrote how we would like to learn. We all talked about what we would like to do with our role play area and we decided that we would like to have a clock shop in the classroom to help us learn about time. We thought about what resources and activities we would need in a clock shop so we all made a plan of what we would need. We also had to think of a name for our shop. We decided to call our shop Mr Wolf’s clock Shop. We love playing in our clock shop and we have been putting prices on things to help us learn about money, sorting broken and working clocks and writing the times. We have even been making our own clocks to practise telling the time with at home.
At the writing table we have been practising writing and sounding out using blend sounds. We were surprised when we came in to find that the Easter Bunny had visited us and left us an early Easter present of eggs….but not just ordinary eggs they were spelling eggs. We have to turn the eggs and match up the sounds to blend them together to make words. Once we have read them we have to sound them out to write them.
In health and wellbeing we are still learning all about the food groups with Ms Gauld. This week it was the pink builders. In this group there are things which contain protein. This is the group which helps you to build muscles and can help keep your blood healthy. We couldnt do any taste testing this week but we did play a game on the computer with Mrs Mackay where we had to select the healthiest food possible from a supermarket and put it in our trolley, from a cafe and put it on our tray and when we made our breakfast. It was good fun and we had to think carefully about what foods where in which groups as well as thinking about how much of each of the different types of food we should eat to stay healthy.
We are still learning all about Lost and Found, our moving images education project. This time we had to record what we liked and disliked about the book and the film. We did a SATA which is when we Sit About Talk About to share our thoughts and opinions with our friends then we wrote our thoughts on a paper and stuck it on the book or the film board. We all got different colours of paper so we could see which ones were our ideas. We also took a picture of everyone together who liked the film and everyone who liked the book then we wrote in a speech bubble to tell people why we thought that. In our class only one person, Becca, liked the book the best and 22 people liked the film the best.
We have been very busy in art recently and we all made a penguin as we have been researching lots about them for our topic. We decided that it would be a good thing to write and imaginative story about. So this week, for World Book Day we started to write our own story. On the first of day we used our used thinking triangle and flowers to remember and apply so that we could give our Penguin a character name. Next, we had to think about some information for our penguin character using our analysing flower. We had to think about some facts about our penguins so that we could use them to build our story. We were all very creative and are looking forward to writing our stories next week too. When they are finished we are going to turn them into a class book for our library area.
We got a surprise package in the post this week. A very nice doggy sent us a fab book with lots of pictures to put in our story area. We love hearing about the adventures Mrs Mackay’s dog has so when we found out that one of her dog friends had written a book we were very excited. Mrs Mackay told us that the dog, Spaniel Harry, was a famous dog because he interviews people just like the people on the news, and he writes books. He sent us a picture of himself which we put on the wall and he sent us the book. We all love reading the book to see what words we know and we all love looking at the pictures.
We also got to watch a short film that taught us about other jobs that dogs can do. It had Spaniel Harry in it too but this time he had a friend called Nelson the firedog. Nelson has a very important job with the FireBrigade and he helps the fire fighters work out where the fire started and because he has a special nose he can smell lots of things that the human fire fighters can’t. Nelson doesn’t wear a fire suit like human fire fighters but he does wear special boots to stop his feet from getting hurt.We were excited to find out that animals can sometimes need skills for work too!
We all talked about staying safe and we got a special task to go home and get our grown ups to check that our fire alarms worked and to remind our grown ups to check them. Here is a link to the video we watched …
Harry and Nelson really captured our imaginations and lots of us drew pictures of them but they also got us thinking about what jobs we would like to do when we are older and what skills we would need. Edyn and Carys want to be artists becuase they are good at art. Maddison decided she wants to be a ‘police girl’. She made a list of the skills she needed in her yellow homework book.
We were looking around our room this week and we decided that we wanted to make our library a bit more interesting.
First we made a plan of our ideas. we used orange to show what ideas we had about what we wanted it to look like, purple to show what activities we wanted to have in the library and we used blue to show what we wanted to put into the new library area.
Next we set about changing it. We went with an island theme and we have called it Desert Island Books. It is now much more busy and we love using the cushions to lie under the blue twinkly stars and read or listen to a book.
We have been doing so much reading we decided to start a book rating system. We can write a book review, draw a book review or take a picture with our favourite book and a star strip.
In ICT we are getting really good at logging on with our individual log ins and passwords independently. We are also really able when programming a beebot (and a HUGE thank you to Kyra’s dad who helped Mrs Mackay and Mrs Munro out by fixing a beebot!).
We took part in a GlowMeet with lots and lots of other schools all across Scotland. It was called Flushed with Success? The RIGHT Big Toilet Debate. and it was lead by Tam Baillie who has a very important job. He is Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People (which basically means that he want to make sure that we all stay healthy, happy and safe). We had to talk about what our school toilets were like. We had to vote and type talk o other schools. It was really interesting and we all did very well.
This Sunday is Mother’s Day so we thought is would be nice if we made someone we cared about a card. First we had to fold our card, then we had to stick in a message and write who our card is to and who it is from. Next, we got our hands painted and we made a hand print on the card. We turned our hand into a flowering plant by sticking a flower petals and a flower pot on to the card. We think that they look fab and our special person will really love receiving them.
Lastly, Mrs Mackay got a surprise this week from Josh and Lara. Josh made her a beautiful pot on his potters wheel and Lara brought her in some flowers to put in it. It was so kind of them and Mrs Mackay loves her vase and her flowers. It makes her desk look fabulous. Thank you!
Week Beginning Monday 25th February
