Happy Diwali to all our families celebrating this weekend. I have never seen our class so peaceful and relaxed! Spa music and rangoli patterns!
Special thanks to Blair and his family for telling us more about the customs and traditions at Diwali for the Sikh faith.
At the beginning of October we welcomed 5 very hungry caterpillars to our classroom. We watched them grow, change and form their own cocoons. At the end of the October week they finally emerged as butterflies. A week later we set them free in our eco garden, with the help of two P5 pupils.
It is wonderful to see the pupils applying their counting, matching and sorting skills during play. This was led by the children showing their ability to develop their ideas and build on previously learned skills.
It started with one pupil laying the cards on the carpet to create a number line from right to left. The same pupil then added blocks to the cards. 
The number line and blocks were left for some time before two more pupils added to it. They spaced out the blocks, made sure the correct number were there and then counted out gems for each number. Sorting, matching and counting through play.
On Thursday, we started our morning phonics activities and play with a sound scavenger hunt! Everyone looked for as many items beginning with s, a, t, i, p, n as they could. Interestingly, some names of items were changed to suit the task. e.g. a caterpillar became an insect, blocks became sticks and lots of items just became ‘toys.’ Creative minds in the making… or just trying to pull the wool over my eyes? Either way, the pupils were very engaged and loved the challenge. Pupils also practised the formation of these sounds using playdough and writing them in our busy books. Well done 1.4.
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