Day: September 6, 2023

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

It was great meeting some of the parents and guardians this week at the ‘Meet the Teacher sessions’. Next week we will be starting our outdoor learning sessions and this will be scheduled every second week on Thursday afternoon in place of P.E. Please ensure that your child is wearing appropriate footwear and clothing to enable them to fully participate in the planned activities.

Literacy and English

This week we read up to chapter four of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and discovered that Harry received a letter to go to Hogwarts where he will learn how to become a wizard.

As we read the class novel we looked back at our predictions and updated them with our new knowledge and we used clues in the pages to help make inferences.

In Writing we all wrote about discovering a castle and we were encouraged to describe our settings by using adjectives, similes and vocabulary about the five senses.

We have now started our handwriting lessons which will help us with our letter formation and for Grammar we put letters and words into alphabetical order and used dictionaries to look up their definitions.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been revising our timetables up to twelve and we challenged each other by asking multiplication questions in pairs.

In Maths we have also learned about kilograms and grams and bar graphs and line graphs.

Health and Wellbeing

In P.E. we have started our hockey block. This week our focus was dribbling which we developed by moving around cones and racing against other teams. We were challenged to keep the hockey ball under control and not dribble with the wrong side of the stick.

For our Bounce Back lesson this week we talked about what is catastrophising and how to stay positive and not worry.

Expressive Art

With Miss Campbell we drew highlands cows which linked to our new IDL focus of exploring Scotland and Japan.

 

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

This week the pupils have started their new class novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. If children wish to bring in copies they can do so and leave them in their personal trays. Our P.E. days are Monday morning in the gym hall and Thursday afternoon in the MUGA.

Literacy and English

Our first class novel activity involved making predictions about the book by carefully reading the blurb, title and the front cover.

We have also been working on our skimming skills by looking at the words in the blurb and the first few pages and then summarising what we had learned about the book so far.

Numeracy and Maths

In Maths we all completed a check-up, revising some of the topics we had learned last year and to see how much we had remembered from the Summer holiday.

Health and Wellbeing

In P.E. we played different games such as Land, Sea and Air in the MUGA which was a lot of fun!

When we were in the gym hall we used the parachute and played a getting to know you activity. Mr Atkinson would ask us questions and we had to run and sit under the parachute if we had the correct answer.

In our first lesson of the Bounce Back series we talked about keeping situations and problems in perspective and never giving up when faced with challenges. We also agreed that if we are worried or troubled that we should try to stay positive and, where possible, look for the upside.

French

With Miss Campbell we created labels and wrote the names for all the areas and objects in the class in French. These have now been placed around the classroom, when you visit the class keep an eye out for them!

Expressive Art

We designed sunglasses and wrote our favourite memory of summer in the lenses which we then shared with the class. These are now displayed on our Literacy and English wall!

We created names and logos for our groups which are now sitting in the middle of our tables.

With Miss Campbell we were challenged to take our pencils for a walk to see what pictures we could create and then we coloured them in.

IDL

We all suggested different topics ideas and voted on comparing Scotland with Japan! After deciding on this we then discussed what we knew about the two countries, what we would like to learn and the different ways we could learn about the topics.