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We have had such a busy week! Luckily, the weather has been nice which meant we enjoyed our 3 day visit from Archaeology Scotland even more!

We played “I Spy” to find differences and similarities between our school and the old school. We found out that the old school has a bell tower that our school doesn’t have and that the old school is made from stone, while our school is build with bricks. The next day, we went into our school pitch and did some archaeological digs in some of our many mole hills. We found lots of “treasures”, some of which were shards from a 200 year old plate! On Friday, we did some time travelling and found out that 200 years is not that old after all! We made a timeline in the playground and travelled along it.

We have started to put together a lap book of our time travel adventures. Here is what we have created so far:

 

In between our archaeological work, we also continued working hard on our literacy and numeracy skills. We practised subtraction, our new sounds and graphemes, and wrote super news stories on Monday morning.

We really have been busy and doing a super job! I hope that everyone will have a wonderful weekend and will be able to enjoy the lovely sunshine.

We have had a great time celebrating World Book Day today. Thank you to everyone for putting in so much effort with all the wonderful costumes!

We showed off our costumes and discussed our characters in class this morning, then we showed them off in front of the whole school. We did a quiz in our School Houses and then shared our favourite books with reading buddies from Primary 5/6.

We have been looking at The Rainbow Fish in class over the last week. We wrote our own Rainbow Fish book and looked at the setting, characters and re-telling the story. We also made Rainbow name plates which the children brought home today. We ended the day with fruit and a story.

It has been a very exciting week in our newly painted classroom. We have settled back into our space well and are excited to get our hard work back up on our walls. I will share our “new” classroom with you once it has been properly tidied and organised.

On Tuesday, PC Shirkie visited our class to talk to us about the job a police officer does. This was as part of our learning about “People who Help Us”. We learned all about police officers’ uniforms, had our finger prints taken and even got handcuffs (though we all managed to escape PC Shirkie’s arrest). A big thank you to PC Shirkie for visiting our class!

On Wednesday, we went into our community garden and did some bulb planting for the spring. We were lucky with the weather and even though it had been frozen in the morning, the sun was lovely and warm and had thawed the ground by the afternoon. Thank you to Margaret for coming into school to help us with our planting!

This week, P1s learned two new sounds – <e> and <u>. We practised letter formation, reading and writing simple sentences. P2s looked at <or> and <ur> and worked on different activities to help with their spelling. In maths, P1s were practising writing sums using + and =; P2s are now comparing numbers up to 100. We are also continuing to practise making patterns by copying them or making our own. We are getting better at creating repeating patterns. We have been very busy and have been working hard!

 

It has been an exciting week for us! Our classroom has been painted and we moved back into it this morning, just in time for Pudsey day.

We spent most of the week in the play area, a little treat for us. Here is what we have been up to:

We are learning about people who help us with Miss Smith. We have been learning all about what police officers do and how we can contact emergency Services.

In maths, we have been looking at comparing weight, using vocabulary like lighter / heavier and lightest / heaviest. We used cubes to measure how many cubes different toys weigh.

We had our first achievement assembly this week and celebrated everything that we have achieved in school and at home. Well done to everyone!

We had a great time doing some Pudsey activities today. We decorated our own Pudsey, did a Pudsey workout and listened to a Pudsey story. The best Pudsey even won a prize and we had the runner-up for the lower classes in our class – well done Mia!

We have been learning all about hedgehogs this week. Next week, we are planning to go into the garden to do some planting and we would like to build a hedgehog hibernation box with help from Maidsafe, too. The children have been fantastic at learning hedgehog facts and we painted, drew and made our own hedgehogs, too. We really improved our cutting skills as making our hedgehogs was quite a challenging job.

Primary 1s created their first description story last week and continued practising their writing this week. Primary 2s are also working on writing descriptions. When we were not working hard on writing and maths, we developed our skills doing different activities around the play area.

This week we will be working in our play area full time as our classroom walls are getting painted.

The classroom is all ready for this much needed refreshment and we will be able to return to it next week.

There has also been a change in our PE timetable. Children currently have Miss Smith as their teacher on a Tuesday whilst I work with small groups to support learning as well as taking on additional duties around the school. This is only temporary. However, Miss Smith will now do PE with the children on a Tuesday morning.

Our PE days are therefore on Mondays and Tuesdays for the time being. As we approach Christmas, children will also practise social dancing with P3/4 at the end of the week but they will not need to get changed into their PE clothes for this.

I will keep you updated on our classroom renovation and our progress this week. I’m aware that I have not given an update about last week and will do so as soon as I can.

Have a lovely week!

This week we were having lots of Halloween fun but we have also been working hard.

Primary 1s practised their /k/ sounds and Primary 2s wrote lots of tricky words. We have also practised sentence writing, even Primary 1s! We looked at numbers to 20 and sequenced them, as well as adding numbers within 10. P2s looked at tens and ones in numbers. In art we used sponges to make scary monsters.

 

We have had lots of fun in our play area this week with some additional Halloween costumes for our dress up corner. We did lots of Halloween themed learning activities too!

This week we did one of our PE lesson outside and we had a choice of activities which we really enjoyed.

On Friday, we started the day with a costume parade. We then did Halloween stations with our buddies. We did some work in our class after break and then we had an amazing Halloween party in the afternoon. It was great fun!

It has been a busy week for us in Primary 1/2 despite just being back from the holidays.

Primary 1s learned their new phoneme o this week and we practised letter formation and blending and segmenting. Primary 2s looked at the phoneme <oa> and practised reading and writing oa words.

In maths, P1s are still practising counting and number recognition to 10 but we also started looking at the concept of addition. Primary 2s practised counting in tens and ones and we then looked at partitioning big numbers.

We did some fun art activities this week to hone our cutting skills and further develop our fine motor skills.

Next week will be all about Halloween and we will have a Halloween party at the end of the day on Friday! It’s promising to be a fun week!

This is a bit of a shorter update this week, mainly because we have been so busy that I often forgot to take pictures!

We have already started our new topic this week. We started off by looking for signs of Autumn and we did leaf rubbings. We also spotted signs of autumn on our autumn amble around the village! After the October holidays we will be exploring some Eco themes through our Litter Lab called Harriet’s Adventure.

We loved going on our Autumn Amble around the village to raise funds for our school. Thank you to everyone who sponsored us! It may have been a rainy day but that did nothing to dampen our spirits!

We also worked hard in the class this week, practising our maths and literacy. In art, we created beautiful autumn trees this week!

On Friday afternoon, our P7 buddies helped us with some structured activities. We enjoy spending time with our buddies.

 

 

This is a two week update so I’m afraid there are lots of pictures for you to look at.

We have been really busy doing our number work in class. Primary 2s have been finding numbers after and before to 100. Primary 1s have been counting to 5 and practising number formation and number recognition. We have also started looking at data handling and have explored bar graphs and tally marks as part of our topic.

In Literacy, Primary 1s have been learning and then revising the first block of sounds (s a t p i n). We have now started to practise blending and spelling our first CVC words. Primary 2s have been practising their reading and sentence writing.

We spent some time with our buddies again on Friday afternoon and had a great time.

I have finally managed to take some pictures of our social play in the play area as well as of some of our more structured daily activities. The children are doing a great job developing their social skills and are practising kindness, turn taking and patience.

Thank you so much for coming along to our stay and play afternoon. The children had a great time showing you around and telling you all about what they have been learning.

Thank you so much! I think we all deserve a relaxing weekend after such a busy two weeks.  See you again on Monday!