After a very busy first week back after the holidays, we enjoyed a walk in the sunshine to Hallhouse.
The residents welcomed us again and we enjoyed sharing our new Bug Club novels with everyone.
The staff enjoyed listening too and made us all a drink of juice before our walk back to school.
Everyone always enjoys our visits and we all end up with a huge smile on our faces.
Thank you to all our parents and grandparents who came along to our literacy open afternoon yesterday.
We enjoyed sharing some of the literacy activities that take place in our class every week including visualiser, clarifier, spelling and grammar tasks.
First thing this morning we visited the hall to choose books from the book swap tables. Everyone was delighted with their new books and couldn’t wait to get back to class to enjoy them.
Next we followed the clues around the school to solve the book puzzles and discover the letter combination.
Ilaria was delighted to win the book prize.
Next we scoured the photos of staff from their childhood along with a picture of their favourite book. Everyone in p4/5 found Mrs Ross on her first day at primary school with her huge bag and copy of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Jim was the best detective and worked out who 6 of the staff were!
The final treat before lunch was a visit frim the children’s author, Rachel McGaw. She read her story The Unicorn in the Castle and then we were lucky enough to get a sneak preview of her brand new unreleased book.
We have used this knowledge to find locations on the map of Orkney and to help us understand some of the locations in our class novel.
Today we took our learning outdoors and used compasses to find where north is in our playground and then we located the other 7points on the compass.
We then gave and followed directions to navigate the playground.
Not even the rain could stop us enjoying this task !
We like to share our thoughts on the books we have read so that we can recommend them to others in our class.
This week we completed reviews on 2 class novels.
Escape from Black Mountain by Martin Chatterton
and
Below Deck a Titanic Story by Tony Bradman
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