gw18oneilnicolle@glow – P3.10 Blog 2023/24

Values Day & MPS Talent Show

The boys and girls had a fantastic time on Values Day. There was a silent disco, bouncy castles and we got to eat yummy (and messy!) cupcakes.

1.4 was also so proud to have been given an award at the achievements assembly for the support we have shown our peers throughout the year. We are such a nurturing class and have been so kind to one another. Mrs Hamilton and I are so proud!

Kaydance was also selected to represent p1 in the school talent show and she did a fantastic job. We were blown away by her beautiful singing voice 🙂

Musicality

Mrs Kelly has been visiting us from the nursery for Musicality. We play games, explore rhythm and dance! On this occasion, we had the children coming from 1.1 join our class as part of our transition into p2 🙂

Sports Day!

Sports Day was lots of fun. We enjoyed the races and loved taking part in all our activities. Our favourite part was when the adults raced each other!

Well done to the children who received 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. As one of our children would say, they were running ‘as fast as Sonic !’

Coin combinations

During Maths time we have been further focusing on money. Mrs Stephenson has been challenging us, both through play opportunities and written tasks, to show coin combinations for different values within 50p. For the activity above, items from our classroom were labelled with different prices and we had to find the correct coins to pay for each item.

Hockey

During our outdoor P.E time, we are now focusing on hockey. Today our main aim was to hold the hockey stick correctly. Next week we will further develop our skills in moving with a ball. By the end of the lesson today we were very tired so spent 5 minutes having a little rest (some of us even lay down) in the glorious sunshine!

Nursery Playground

Whilst our classroom was being used for a parent workshop, we enjoyed a little visit to the nursery garden. It was great being able to see the nursery teachers and have fun with our friends. We are really enjoying getting outdoors as the weather improves!

Spring has Sprung

We have been enjoying exploring the outdoors for signs of Spring. From this, we have become interested in the different minibeasts we have come across. One of our boys found a little ladybird that had lost its way on the pitch. We brought it back into class to have a closer look then set it free on the grass outside. Our play corner is now our ‘Minibeast Investigation’ spot filled with books about different insects along with some insects to study.

Literacy

Today we took our handwriting outdoors into the glorious sunshine. We enjoyed using the chalk and when we weren’t working with Mrs Stephenson we drew nice pictures. ☀️

We are also now learning about vowels. Mrs Noble was in our classroom this morning and taught us a song to help us identify these letters.

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Handwriting

Each Monday we practise our handwriting. This week we were writing the digraphs qu, ou, oi, ue, er and ar. We are really good at sitting our letters on the line and can self assess our work. ✏️

Robert Burns Day

This afternoon we were learning about Robert Burns. We listened to some of his poems and sang Auld Lang Syne! We discussed what some of the words in his poems mean which led us on to recording a variety of Scots words on the board, including some we thought of ourselves. After this, we decided to create a short scene in groups which had to include words from the board. We created our scripts together with our friends and were very creative!

Have a look at the end result 😁

It took a little bit of practice to remember our lines and we were able to laugh together when we made mistakes. It was fantastic to see everyone persevere. We had such a giggle all afternoon 😊

Have a look at some of our outtakes …