Today we came to school dressed up as our favourite book characters. We shared our favourite stories with each other.  At assembly we showed everyone our costumes. Today has been a fun day!

We have been learning about Ancient Egyptian houses. Their houses has flat roofs and were made with mud bricks. They had to build them up high to stop the sand from getting inside. They had ramps to get inside. We were also learning about what they had inside their houses. They didn’t have very much furniture, only few stools and had to sleep on a straw bed on the floor.

We have been learning about symmetry in class. We enjoyed make symmetrical pictures and patterns and looking at symmetry in nature. We also played some symmetry games on the computer.

Every Friday for that last three weeks we have been having great fun playing football. We have been learning how to pass, how to stop the ball with our feet and how to dribble the ball. Then we we get to play some football matches with our friends!

‘It is great fun! My skills are getting much better.’ Micah

‘I like playing football now. I have learnt different things.’ Jenna

‘I like playing the matches best. We won two games!’ Skye

‘It is good playing football’ Chantelle

On Thursday we celebrated Burns day. We sung ‘Three Craws’ and ‘Ally Bally’ to all the grandparents and visitors.

Back in class we talked about Robert Burns and tasted some traditional Scottish food, haggis and shortbread. It was yummy!

‘The haggis was very nice but a little bit spicy!’ Tom

‘I like the haggis. It was yummy!’ Chase

We also learnt how tartan is made and then we made our very own tartan by paper weaving. It was great fun!

‘It was hard to weave but it was fun. I made the McFadyen tartan.’ Alistair W

‘I made the Marks tartan. It was easy and fun.’ Ollie M

‘I made the MacDonald tartan.’ Jessica

This week we have been learning about comprehension. We read ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Catastrophe’. We worked in stations and did four different activities.

‘I liked making the puppets so we can have a puppet show’ Jenna

We did some hot seating. ‘I liked being Mr Grinling. I used a mask and Alistair asked me questions.’ Lyle

‘I liked working with Mrs Murray answering the questions about the story. I like writing.’ Emma

Some children have also been learning about ‘wh’.

‘I wrote wh words.’ Bradley

This week in P2/3 the triangles and the squares have been learning about place value, rounding and estimating. We enjoyed our ’rounding treasure hunt’, finding the hidden cards in the classroom and rounding the number to the nearest 10. Some of them were tricky to find!

We have also been counting forwards and backwards in tens and working out ten more/less. Here are the links to some of the songs we have been singing so you can sing along at home!

Next week we will be adding tens and units in ‘upstairs downstairs’ calculations (vertical). Remember to keep revising number stories to 20 at home!

In class we have been learning about food chains. We talked about producers and consumers and how every food chain starts with a plant and the sun.  An example of a food chain would be:

We talked about predators and prey. It was really interesting.

“I liked learning about food chains. My favourite part was the fun quiz about land and sea food chains.’ Alex

“I liked learning that some animals can be at the top of the food chain and never get eaten.” Ollie F

We’ve been talking about the outdoor learning work that is going on in the school and how we need funds to build an outdoor classroom. Please tell everyone to vote for us on the Aviva website because we could win up to £25, 000!

We made letters to put up on the windows so everyone will remember to vote. You can scan the QR code in the infant playground or follow this link:

https://community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voting/project/view/17-2369

VOTE NEILSTON!