This week, we decided that as Tod the Tadpole had grown legs and started to hop around the tank, we would return him home to where we collected the frogspawn. With the help of Mrs Agnew and Mrs Howie, the whole class were able to walk across to Capel Burn.

We were a bit sad to say goodbye to Tod, he has been part of our class for a long time now, but we know he’ll be much happier in the pond with his friends and we even spotted more frogspawn so he will have lots of other tadpoles to keep him company soon.

We have had such a busy week, with the House Spirit Afternoon, the House Reward Afternoon and all of our Rights Respecting Week activities.

We managed to fit in some Science time though as we investigated sound waves using Blob Opera

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I hope everyone has a fabulous break and look forward to hearing all the news once we are back.

This week, we have been observing Todd our Tadpole as he grows. We’ve moved him out of his vase and put him into a tray with more stones so that he has more places to hide when he needs peace and quiet.                                             

We have been using our natural loose parts to develop our story telling skills. We have even made a book of our Stone Stories.

We worked together outdoors to create a collaborative story.

Mrs Howie has been helping us to develop our Role Play area. The dress up accessories have helped us to develop characterisation skills.

In Numeracy, we have been ordering numbers and identifying numbers using clues.

This week we were learning about Nebulae and we created our own using pastels.

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I hope everyone has a great weekend.

This week we launched our new topic Into Space. We had so many questions after our trip to the Planetarium about our Solar System, constellations and Planet Earth. We now have our inflatable solar system in our classroom and this morning we even had some little stars to keep the planets company!

In literacy this week we have been focusing on Common Words, reading them, spelling them, using them in sentences and finding them in books. We have been developing our blending and segmenting skills and using our sounds and alphabet skills.

In maths we have been investigating money and continuing our numeracy learning by identifying odd and even numbers.

It was really cold outdoors this week, but our storytelling was fabulous.

Here are some more pictures of this week’s learning.

Our creative skills have developed so well this year that we are now creating 3D shapes using paper – this is our house complete with furniture inside, the creators shared their learning with the class and they are now busy making a garden for their house.

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend and look forward to another busy week of learning.

We have been celebrating reading all of this week!

Each stage of the school was given an author to study and we were delighted to be asked to look at the books and illustrations of Nick Sharratt. We read a pile of his books, took part in a live read and draw along where we learned how to draw sea creatures like the ones in our favourite books.

We linked our maths and literacy lessons by conducting a survey. We had four books that none of us had read before and chose our favourite just looking at the front cover and the blurb. We used this information to practise our data handling skills and then we read the books properly and found that our favourite changed.

We spent time with the P7s who have written children’s books and were really keen to share them with us.

We continued our Nick Sharratt learning through the book Pants.

With the arrival of Spring, we not have some (very temporary) class pets. We collected frog spawn from the Capel Burn and we are observing to see them hatch and form into tadpoles and froglets – as soon as they have legs we will return them to the burn!