Category Archives: Literacy

Making our Mark

In Skills Academy today, some of the children read the book, “The Dot” by Peter Reynolds. They then tried guessing which household utensils created which marks… and then experimented at making their own marks in many very original ways.

“I think the fork made that mark…”
“That one was the sponge.”
“I think this brush did that one.”
“Look we can use this lid to make a dot.”
“I’m going to try that one. It’s for scraping car windows.”
“If you press the straw here, it makes a line.”
“I like using the toothbrush.”

We all signed our work.

 

Celebrating Creativity and Imaginative Storytelling

Creating landscapes and stories! Knock it down and build it back up again…

Fine motor skills and fun!

Storytime with Mrs Branco during Book Week Scotland
Floating and sinking… scientific investigations…

What could do to make it a fair test?

                         Colours of Autumn
Weaving materials ….pattern and fine motor skills

Shape, colour and using materials to create art

Making bags with a range of materials to practise our weaving skills.

Look what I have made!

Focus, concentration and creativity.

**Book Week**

We are celebrating Book Week Scotland.  We’ve been sharing and exploring lots of different stories.  We read ‘Shhh!’ by Sally Grindley and made a castle just like the giant’s in our block play area.  We added details like a drawbridge and towers.

‘I made a tower.’

‘I put lots of stuff all around it for protection.’

‘A giant lives there.’

We also looked a nursery rhymes book and put Humpty Dumpty on his wall. He fell down!

‘I was trying to get him to sit up so we could knock him down.’