This week we finally made it to the park! Our buddies came along and were a great help getting us back up the hill in time for home!

In maths we have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes. We made shape pictures and played shape games. We also had an adding station where we practised adding calculations.

In PE we tried out the big apparatus including the monkey bars and the ropes. We had so much fun climbing and swinging.

This week we have been continuing to learn to say, make and write o’clock times…

We also made some dens outside…

We were super proud of Emily and Ruaridh this week. Emily represented the school at the Robert Burns Academy reciting our Scots Poem and Ruaridh spoke beautifully at our Easter Service…

On Thursday we had great fun making our eggs for the Easter Egg Competition.

In literacy we have been learning ‘ch’ so we built churches, chopped playdough to make chocolate and chips, chatted on the phone, drew Easter chicks and cheese.

In RME, we have continued to learn about Ramadan and Eid. We learned that, in Egypt, during the month of Ramadan, streets are illuminated at night by colourful lanterns. So we decided to make our own colourful lanterns. We had to use lots of skills, like using a ruler and scissors carefully, to make them. I’m sure you’ll agree we did a great job!

On Thursday afternoon we went down to the ECC with the P6 class for the Teddy Bear’s picnic. We had so much fun seeing all the ladies and playing with some of our friends from last year.

“Tomorrow you have to bring one teddy to school because it is the Teddy Bear’s Picnic.” – Gracie

“We are going to the nursery for the Teddy Bear’s Picnic” – Dalton

“We will see all the teachers and our friends at the nursery” – Savannah & Blair

“You can make new friends there” – Gracie

In literacy we have been learning ‘th’ digraph.  We learned how to write it neatly and use it to make words.  We also made thank you cards, cleaned teeth with toothbrushes, made thin and thick snakes and used blocks to make theatres…

In maths we have been continuing to learn about money.  We were learning how to make amounts four different ways using the 4 Ways Boards…

In RME, we have been learning about the festival of Eid al-Fitr.  We made  Mehndi Pattern hand designs…

We also had great fun out our village walk this week.  We spotted ducks in the river and some daffodils growing in the gardens…

We’ve had lots of fun building this week using blocks and cardboard boxes…

We have been playing the Glockenspiels along to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star…

On Thursday morning we had a surprise visit from PC Aitken, the campus police officer.  We got to ask her lots of questions and she even showed us her handcuffs and restraints and tried them on a few of us.

We have had a consolidation week in literacy this week, going over all the sounds and common words we have learned so far.

In maths, we are still working on recognising coins and have started to learn about making amounts.

We had so much fun using the magnets to sort coins that we decided to learn about their properties. We learned about ‘magnetic field’ and that we can make magnets ‘attract’ and ‘repel’. We then tried to make magnet paths and follow the coin through the paper…

The rain stopped our walk this week but when the weather cleared we managed to get out and have some time playing outside. We played Superheroes, showed off our dance moves and built houses…

This week we have been learning the ‘y’ and ‘z’ sound.  We have been building yachts, painted yellow sunflowers, designed yogurt pots, drew zebras and created zoos…

We have also been learning how to work out missing number calculations using numicon…

We have started learning how to play the Glockenspiels in music this week too..

And had fun doing Dinosaur Cosmic Yoga…

We explored using the Base 10 materials to work out really challenging calculations! And had fun building with them too …

In literacy, we learned the ‘j’ and ‘z’ sound. We loved playing with jelly, having a game of jenga, making paper plate jellyfish, building jungles and measuring our jumps.

In maths, we have been using different tools to help us subtract. So far we have learned how to use our fingers, cubes, number lines and Rekenreks. We have also explored what our favourite tool is.

This week we have been learning the ‘b’ and ‘u’ sound. We worked hard to form the letters and make words using these sounds. When learning the ‘b’ sound had great fun bathing babies in bubbles, building bridges, ball pit fun, playing bingo, reading books and creating beautiful butterflies with a buddy. When learning the ‘u’ sound we played with underwater creatures, made ‘u’ umbrellas, designed underpants and built blocks up that we could go under.

In Numeracy, we have been learning how to add one and two as well as starting to learn about doubles.

It was a bit slippy for our walk this week so we decided to do some Cosmic Yoga in class. We loved moving our bodies to the Teenage Ninja Turtles video! 🐢

What a party we had today! We had a special visit from Santa too!