We had a fantastic time celebrating Scottish Literature Week in our classroom. P2 received a fabulous Scottish parcel with The Gruffulo in Scots, The Gruffalo’s Wean, lyrics to Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes, Scottish Animal Trump cards and much more.

Children engaged with our literacy table activity, matching English and Scots words from the Gruffalo in Scots.

We also designed how we imagined the Gruffalo’s hoose might look and labelled it using a Scots workbank. We then used our design to create a poem called ‘The Gruffalo’s Hoose’ using our Scots words.

Over the past few weeks lots of our children have been learning about measuring weight.

We have been learning how to use and read digital and analogue scales using grams and kilograms.

We have discussed the language of heavy, heavier, heaviest, light, lighter, lightest and equal.

We have worked together to match weights to objects and order them, lightest to heaviest.

We then developed our estimating skills, recording our guesses and the actual weight using the abbreviations g and kg.

Through practice, our estimating became increasingly more accurate.