The Transition class had their usual appointment with Drake Music and were Effective Contributors with the group work. We had our usual songs, silly noises and a play along with the chime bars. Very harmonious!
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Successful Learners – SQA Numeracy
There was lots of great numeracy skills on show this week when the class worked hard on their pictogram SQA work. The class were Successful Learners when they created pictograms from data collected in class choosing favorite colours and matching eye colour. They also interpreted ready-made pictograms by translating the graph into building blocks before looking at the highest and smallest and relating that to the favorite and least favorite. Some very hard work completed – well done!
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IDL:Science boat building
The Bluebells have been enjoying learning about life on a Scottish Island through Katie Morag stories. Today we learned about how people travel from an island to the mainland using a boat. We created our own foil boats and used a fan to make them sail across the water in our tuff tray. We enjoyed a little competitive boat race against our friends.
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Successful Learners – SQA Literacy
The class were Successful Learners this week when they continued their study of ‘His Dark Materials’. This week we looked at the emotions of Iorek the polar bear. Everyone matched what happened to different emotions expressed by Iorek. We also had a quick look at some characters and their behaviors. Excellent work everybody
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Robert Burns Celebrations
Successful Learners Effective Contributors
The Moonbeams enjoyed learning about Robert Burns this week. They enjoyed smelling and tasting some Scottish food and drink also. The children helped to make shortbread which they all agreed tasted delicious.
Take a look at some of our other activities from this week. The children participated during Rebound and created a Tornado in a bottle during a Science lesson while learning about extreme weathers.
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Confident Individuals – SQA Cooking
It was the turn of the second half of the class to cook their neeps this week! Some great skills shown by Confident Individuals. They worked with hot water and hot equipment. They used kitchen utensils safely and tidied up well at the end of their session. Well done!
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IDL – Social Studies
We have been exploring different jobs people may have. When reading the stories we have been exploring the jobs people have on the island. We were confident individuals and completed jigsaws matching people in their work uniform. We had to pick the correct head, body and legs to create a whole person. We also dressed up and were effective contributors and completed some jobs in the classroom. Some pupils had hi-vis vests on and put rubbish in the bin pretending to be bin men. We pretended to have a train the class and boarded the train to take us to the shop where we decided what we wanted to buy. We also dressed up and pretended to go to see the doctor and she used the phone to talk to her patients.
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Responsible Citizens – Burns’ Day
After all our preparation it was finally Burns’ Day. The Transition class were Responsible Citizens taking part in lots of activities and setting up the classroom for lunch time. There were lots of literary skills on display sequencing stories and adding sentences. Well done everyone!
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Effective Contributors – P.E. Dance
It was our last Scottish dancing lesson this week when Transition class went to P.E. The class were all Effective Contributors when they took part in a minion zumba warm-up. The class were excellent when they tried the Virginia Reel for the first time. Everyone took part with real effort and enjoyment. We finished up by testing our memories by doing a dance from a previous week. Everyone showed that they had been paying attention and danced a flawless St Bernard’s Waltz. Well done everyone. A new P.E. activity will start next week!
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Robert Burns
On Tuesday we celebrated Robert Burns.
In the morning we listened to some Scottish poems – our favourite was ‘Crocodile’ by JK Annand. We then created our own acrostic poem choosing different words that started with each of the letters in the word Scotland.
In the afternoon we used strips of paper to create our own tartan design for our kilts that will be displayed on our Katie Morag display outside our classroom. We were all confident individuals at choosing which strip of colour we wanted to use each time. We added a black semi -circle to be the sporran and gold detail with our name.
Last week were were confident individuals mixing up icing in a bowl and using a spoon to create a Scotland flag design on a biscuit.
