This week, we made some tasty pizzas to help develop our understanding of halves. While we were preparing our pizzas, we spoke about trying new foods and how some of our friends or family may eat different foods from us. We made sure that we were very careful when we were chopping our vegetables and we also had to think carefully about where we were cutting our vegetables so that we had equal halves. All the pizzas looked yummy and I am sure they tasted as good as they looked! We have also been enjoying a range of other activities to help us identify halves.

Outdoors this week as it was very icy so we decided to go on an ice hunt. We found lots of ice and create ice cream, ice painting and looked at the different ways we could make the ice melt quickly. We also enjoyed creating different landmarks outdoors as well.

In Literacy, we are working hard using our sounds to help read and build words. We have also been working hard identifying our common words in our reading books and we have been enjoying lots of activities to help us identify and read our common words.

Some pupils from Primary 6  came down to talk to us about the work they have been carrying out as part of anti bullying week. They explained to us about the importance of being kind and they helped us to send a thank you note to somebody who been kind to us.

In PE, we have been working on our racket skills and have been enjoying playing lots of different games to help us develop our racket skills.

Well done for all your amazing work this week, have a wonderful weekend!

We have had a great week celebrating Book Week Scotland. We enjoyed reading ‘One Button Benny’ by Alan Windram. We enjoyed creating Benny’s new emergency vehicle outside using loose parts, we had lots of amazing designs! We also created a new robot sidekick for Benny and wrote about Benny’s sidekick.

We also enjoyed reading the books from our book bug bags. We drew our favourite woodland animal from the book ‘My First Book of Woodland Animals’ and found out interesting facts about the animal we selected.

After reading ‘Arlo-The lion who couldn’t sleep’  by Catherine Ryan we decided to paint our favourite place.

We also enjoyed hearing our P6 buddies read different stories to us.

We had a great visit to the Library, we loved getting our bookbug bags and hearing the stories from our bags.

We decided to create our own book covers outside for our favourite books. To help us, we designed our cover before we went outside and looked in the woodland to find different materials to use.

It has been a great week celebrating all things books!

This week outdoors we were finding materials outside to make pictures with. We found things like grass, mud and sand to make our beautiful pictures.

 We read the book  ‘Winston of Churchill, One Bears Battles Against Global Warming’ and this gave us a good insight into global warming. We have decided to make some changes in our classroom and we made pledges  that we will, use both sides of the paper, recycle old toys, bin all rubbish and recycle. We also explored the properties of water and noticed how quickly ice melted when we added water or held it in our hands. This helped us to understand what was happening to the polar bears ice. We have been doing a great job of carrying out our pledges!   

We enjoyed using our knowledge of 2D shapes to make our very own shape pizzas, they looked so yummy!

We have also been practicing identifying numbers before and after. Creating numicon monsters and making 2D shapes using pom poms.

In Literacy, we have been working hard on all our sounds and our common words. In our reading books we were set a challenge to find one common one and anytime we found it we had to cover it up.

Here are some more highlights from the week.

Next week is book week Scotland and we will be looking at the story ‘One Button Benny’ and we will be doing some ‘STEM-A-Story’ challenges throughout the week based on the book. Could I please ask that you send in any ‘junk’ modelling materials like cardboard boxes or plastics bottles on Monday. It would be hugely appreciated.

Have a lovely weekend and well done for all your super work this week!

Miss Regan

This week we have enjoyed learning about Diwali. Our story of the week has been ‘The Best Diwali Ever’ by Sonali Shah and this has given us great insight into how Diwali is celebrated. We enjoyed creating lots of rangoli patterns outside using chalk and natural materials. We also enjoyed creating rangoli patterns using rice. We also had great fun creating our own henna design using piping bags and paint to help us.

We learnt three new sounds this week and continue to consolidate all of our sounds using lots of different activities to help us.  We have also been learning to sequence the events in our stories and have been practising  our common words.

We have also been busy creating different patterns using loose parts and making our own pattern bracelets.

Outdoors we also looked at comparing sizes, we found different items and but them in order of size.

In PE, we have been enjoying playing possession games and working on object control.

We also created our own bonfire themed artwork using forks and cotton buds.

Another great highlight of the week was ‘break the rules’ day!