We are looking at growing seeds and parts of flowers in science now. Today, we started by looking at Percy The Park Keeper and all the work he has to do to look after the park. We will be looking after our school Eco Garden and planting in class. We now have Percy’s hut in class. We can pretend to be Percy and cook in his little hut; take notes and use the binoculars to look for birds in the playground.
We love Sumdog in 1.3. It is such a good way to learn numbers, addition and subtraction. We use it as part of our homework every other week and we look at the number of questions each child has answered when we are altogether in class. We use it for our iPad sessions in class just now. The chat about numbers is brilliant! 😁
Adrienne came in to tell us about Daniel and the Lion’s Den. It was a really good story, but quite scary. Adrienne brought some things in for us to see to give us clues about the story. We were a very good audience.
We have been learning to skip. It is a lost skill and it is such good exercise. It was really difficult in the first week, but we are now getting the hang of it. Big ropes next week! 👍
In our writing lesson this week, we prepared questions for Goldilocks. We were learning about asking questions, and who better to ask! We asked some burning questions such as, ” Why did you just go into the Bears Cottage?” and ” How did Baby bear’s bed feel? ” Goldilocks visited us with Daddy Bear and she answered all our questions. We decided that she was very naughty. ( Thank you, Mrs Gray!)
Our class has changed again, as the children wanted to learn about dinosaurs, then the conversation turned to fossils. There are dinosaurs to play with; bones to discover; fossils to make and curiosity to be satisfied. The conversations which have been sparked have been amazing.
At our Mearns Masters classes, we have all split up into our Houses and are doing different activities. Mrs Arbuckle’s group are fund raising for CHAS and are making teddy bears to give to other boys and girls who are not so lucky as us. We will celebrate the end of our activities with a Teddy Bears Picnic.
Johnny from CHAS, came to talk to us and gave us different activities to do. Mrs Kelly from the Nursery told us a bear story.
The lovely Adrienne came in to tell us all about the Bible and the many stories that it has in it. There are some really good stories. Today she told us about Joshua and the Walls of Jericho.
As she read the story, when she said “march”, we had to do it. When she said “round” , we had to draw circles in the air and when she said “Joshua”, we had to salute. It was a really good story.
We have continued our contstruction and developed it into becoming engineers. We have lots of tubes, ramps, balls and cars and we have made lots of structures. Some made rollercoasters; some made roads; some made bridges. we used our imagination.
