This week in P1a, we have celebrated Burns’ Night and Australia Day. We learned about the life and poetry of Robert Burns, learned some Scots language words, created timorous beastie pictures and created tartan. Please check out our fabulous ceilidh dancing on our Google Classroom.

We read the story Neeps and Tatties in Scots and then re enacted parts of the story.

Today we celebrated Australia Day, we have learned about Australian animals and culture. Thank you so much to Mrs Agnew for bringing in some of her Australian artefacts for us to investigate.

In maths we have been learning about ordinal numbers by completing a whole  class challenge, we had to listen really carefully and follow the instructions.

We have been working on our subitising skills by sharing how we look for patterns in collections.

In literacy, we have been working on reading fluency and information gathering.

We continue to learn about local birds and complete our surveys.

It has been such a busy week, but we have still had lots of time to explore the play areas with our friends.

Have a great weekend.

We started this week by Going on a bear Hunt in our drama lesson!

And then we made houses for the Three Little Pigs in our Science lesson with Mrs Doyle.

The we retold our reading book story in the classroom.

We have been using our knowledge of single sounds and digraphs in a range of activities.

And in Maths we have been further investigating 3D shape.

And working with numbers in lots of different ways.

We have created seascapes using blue and yellow paint in our art lessons.

We took all of our hard earned house points up to the collection tubes.

And we have still had time to play!

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

This week we have started researching the birds that use our playground in preparation for the RSPB Big Birdwatch.  We have been learning about a new bird each day – this week’s birds are Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Blackbird, Robin and Blue Tit.

In maths we have been working on our number bonds and investigating 3D shapes.

Our maths problem solving task this week involved sharing coins equally – it was really challenging but we got there in the end, by working together and sharing ideas.

In our Technology Lesson we have been learning about algorythms by creating codes for the Indi Cars. Again, lots of team working and problem solving.

It has been so lovely to hear about everyone’s time away from school and everyone has been so ready to learn this week. Here are a few more pictures of our time in class.