Author: Mrs Connolly

 

This week we all had the opportunity to share the items we would put into a Time Capsule, showing the things that are most important to us at this moment in time. Everyone spoke clearly and confidently about their Capsules.  After presenting to the class, we spent some time investigating each other’s fantastic boxes. Well done everyone!

  

We were lucky enough to have a few visitors this week to talk about interesting STEM topics – a visit from Scott at Asda, in which we chatted about where all of our food comes from; and a visit from real Beekeepers (sixth year pupils from St Ninian’s High School!) Have a look at the photos below.

 

This week we had loads of fun planning and creating our Push or Pull Junk Modelling toys. You can see some pics below! We also spent some time sharing our favourite books for World Book Day!

 

The Rainbows, Brownies and other clubs held their annual Thinking Day this week, and a few of our children came to school dressed in their super smart uniforms!  We spent some time reflecting on how we can help each other in society. We also spent more time investigating and using money. We used our yoga skills during PE this week, and as you can see from the concentration on our faces we are really improving!  Last but by no means least – we have begun our ‘Campaigners’ Mearns Masters. Through class discussion about mini beasts, we found out that bees are really important to humans- and they are in danger due to Cilmate Change, pesticides and other garden bugs .  We have to learn more, and then let people know what they can do to encourage more bees into our gardens. This week, we started by thinking about what we know, and what we would like to know….

 

Continuing our work on 3D shape, we went on a class 2d and 3D shape hunt. The shapes we found most were rectangles and cuboids. We also created 3D cubes using cube nets on card. We have been looking at verbs this week, and have been playing verb games. We are investigating using money, so we spent some time working out money and change with partners.

This week we celebrated Burns night by having a whole school assembly, during which visiting experts watched Burns performances from nursery to p7. We were lucky enough to have a representative from 2.7, who performed wonderfully! In class, we learned Auld Lang Syne and crossed arms together, we danced some Scottish jigs and we did “Heids, shooders , knees and taes”. We had great fun! We have been learning about nouns and adjectives, so we went on a noun hunt and identified nouns in sentences, too. In maths we are investigating 2d and 3D shape, so we made some 2d shape pictures and we are creating 3D creations using Kapla, which is made from cuboids. Have a look at our week below!

 

We had our stage auditions for the Burns Competition this week, and heard wonderful renditions of a Burns songs and poetry.

Chinese New Year begins on a Sunday 22nd, so we took some time to learn about it. We decided to make lucky Chinese red celebration lanterns – the results were super!

 

We also went on a wintry walk this week, making notes of some of the wintry things we saw. We had a lot of fun and discussed the seasons and how things might change outdoors in Spring, when we will have a Spring Walk to look at the changes.

Moving on with our feelings work in a Health and Wellbeing, we thought back to our feelings on our first day of Primary one and wrote about it. We shared our feelings stories with each other, the writing was fantastic.

 

Here are a few photos of our week.

 

This week we have been talking about our feelings and emotions, and ways that we can manage them. We read the book ‘The Colour Monster’ by Anne Llenas and talked about how we feel.  We drew our feelings . Next we talked about how our feelings can show in our actions and on our faces. We had great fun miming feelings and everyone else had to guess them! You can see some of them here and see if you can guess the emotion. We spoke about ways to manage our emotions when we are feeling them. We also wrote about what makes us happy – you can see a few here!

We have had such fun over the past few weeks practising for our nativity, which was a roaring success! Well done to everyone! We have also been making Christmas badges using the badge maker, and we had our fantastic Christmas party. Here are some pics.

We have been busy this week demonstrating our understanding of Tens and Units. We have been playing tens and units games with partners, using real tens and units to make numbers to 100, and using tens and units to read and write numbers. We have been playing tricky word games to enhance our spelling and word recognition. We have been talking about healthy lunches, and we had great fun playing a healthy foods loop card game. Outside of the classroom, we have been working really hard on the nativity, which we will be performing next week!