Autumn

We have been investigating and exploring the season. We collected leaves from the school playground and at home.

‘Using magnifying glasses we looked at the leaves closely to see the patterns and beautiful colours’, Ana.

We read The Leaf Man and feeling inspired we made our own leaf pictures using Autumn treasures.

‘I made a leaf hedgehog. I used acorns, a leaf and some googly eyes’, Lena.

‘I made a reindeer with using a medium sized leaf and some conkers’, Max.

We experimented with mixing paints to create Autumnal colours to paint our own leaves.

 

Literacy

Through exploring and investigating we have been developing our literacy skills. We have been learning to predict and sequence a variety of stories and have been using our talking and listening skills to discuss characters and setting.

Zoe said ‘We have been making a prediction which is a sensible guess about what will happen in the story but you can’t peek in the book first’

We have used our knowledge of phonics to develop our writing skills, you can check out some of our Spooky Spells inside the classroom. We had lots of fun mixing ingredients into our potions at Halloween.

‘My group made a potion that bubbled and bubbled. If you drank it you would turn into a little rabbit’, Zariya.

‘I liked mixing in the spiders’, Denny.

 

Numeracy

Our numeracy skills are developing quickly and through practical activities have explored the concept of addition and some of us even subtraction.

‘When you add two numbers together you get a bigger number’, Poppy

‘I like adding 10 and 10 together, it makes 20. I like doubles’, Marnie.

‘I practised addition using numicon and dominoes’, Mitchell Hatfield.

We are working to record our calculations using the correct symbols and number formation. A favourite activity for this week has been investigating weight using our loose parts and different types of scales. A few of us have managed to balance the scales.

 

Safety

We have been learning about road safety and really enjoyed our role area. These are our top tips for staying safe –

• Hold an adult’s hand
• Stop, look and listen
• Use traffic lights
• Go to the lollypop person

We really enjoyed a visit from Graham, our lollypop person. We asked him questions to find out more about his job and how he keeps us safe. Outside, we crossed the road safely with Graham’s help. Inside the classroom we had a turn of the real size lollypop, it was very heavy!

 

We enjoyed a visit from PC Traynor. He told us lots of information about his job and we asked great questions to find out more.

‘I got to try on his hat because it was my birthday’, Emily.

‘PC Traynor carries a notebook, a torch, hand cuffs and a walkie talkie’, Eilidh.

‘Miss Stead had to wear the hand cuffs’, Lily.

‘He has caught lots of bad guys’, Mitchell Hart.

 

Things to look forward to

We have begun practising for our Christmas Show by learning our lines, our song words and beginning to create a dance. Parents, look out for further information in bags about costumes as well as song words to learn at home.

This week, we are looking forward to a visit from the cookalong team to make some fairycakes.

We are visiting Giffnock library on Wednesday21st November to get a gift bag from Book Bug.

 

Awesome Achievers

This month we have been awesome yet again! Some of us have started new clubs including football and Rainbows. Through hard work and determination we have been moving up levels and groups at swimming and karate. At home, as well as in school, we are becoming more independent by dressing ourselves and taking responsibility for jobs.

 

Article 29: You have the right to education which develops your personality, respect for other’s rights and the environment.