This week we took advantage of the good weather and took our play outside to the activity trail where the children showed off how good their balancing had become. We had lots of fun and helped each other to make it to the end of the trail.

We have been working hard to develop our problem solving skills this week in Numeracy and Maths. We worked in small groups to identify what the problem was asking and what strategies we could use to find the answers. We selected materials that would help us and took turns to record and report back our findings. We are looking forward to a new problem next week.

Enjoy the long weekend.
Mrs Denholm x

We have had a lovely day learning more about Eid Al-Fitr. Our day began preparing and baking chocolate chip cookies following Mrs Amin’s recipe. We worked together in small groups to measure out the ingredients and separate the mixture to create our cookies. The smell floating through the school as they were baking was delicious.

We were invited to have some henna designs on our hands which were so beautiful and unique. The children were delighted with them.

We tried learning some new dance moves together which was lots of fun, but very fast!

We learnt about different places of worship and what happens in a Mosque. We then tried to build some Mosques using photographs in the block area. We realised all of the buildings were very grand and had lots of interesting details on them.

Have a lovely weekend. See you all next week.
Mrs Denholm x

We had a wonderful sunny day to walk to the Co-op to deepen our understanding of money and the services of a local business. The children worked well together in their groups to explore and complete some challenges encouraging them to look at the prices of items. They were able to spot and talk about their favourite foods and plan a dinner they would like to enjoy. We finished our experience by buying some ingredients to make play dough in the classroom. We enjoyed a little treat in the sun to give us some energy to manage the big walk back. Thank you to our lovely helpers who made the experience much easier to manage. Here is a wee snapshot of our trip.

This week we have been learning about different types of fruit and have shared what we like and dislike with each other. We recognise the importance of eating fruit as part of a healthy diet and enjoyed preparing our own fruit salads developing our chopping, peeling and slicing skills.

After we had our visit from Rennie, The Dams to Darnley Ranger we carried out some drawing and writing about some facts that we had learned.

We then carried out some observational drawings on birds trying to really focus on the different shapes and colours that we could see and add as much detail as we could.

We used IPADs to enhance our learning by using google to search for information about birds. The children enjoyed talking about different images they could find.

Over the last couple of weeks we have learned more about different ways we can help look after the environment to help make a better world.

The children thoroughly enjoyed doing some litter picking down at Woodland!

After the Easter holidays, we will continue to learn more about sustainability together!