Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we were practising jumping skills in PE. We played lots of fun games. We made our own obstacle courses in Loose Parts Play.
In writing we were creating our own narrative pieces to entertain the reader. We all used our imaginations to create some wonderful stories.
We have been talking about our likes and dislikes. We created our own notes in class and performed a short talk about ourselves to the class. We all tried hard to be a quality audience and to give feedback using the success criteria.

Tuesday and Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

We were all very excited to hear about everyone’s news from the long weekend. We were also talking about how our sunflowers are growing at home. We are all going to keep measuring their progress throughout the term.
In numeracy we did a short check up on multiplication. We enjoyed exploring the new loose parts in the shed. In topic we were learning about pine martens and we did a super piece of writing about them.

Monday and Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

Tuesday with Miss Allan

This week we did our PE outside. We were playing games to do with balance and stability. We loved playing hot dog tig and rolling about the grass!
We practised skimming and scanning skills using highlighters and made our own notes. We wrote information reports about moles.
In numeracy we used objects to show commutative pairs (3×4 and 4×3…).

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem What a lovely sunny week we’ve had! We enjoyed learning outside lots this week. In PE we were practising throwing and catching with lots of fun music and games. In numeracy we took our learning outside and used natural materials to group objects for multiplication. We have been doing lots of extra writing and seeing how much we can write in 10 minutes. We planted sunflowers in science and talked about what a seed needs to grow. We are setting up an experiment and making predictions. In topic we were reading for information about beavers. We made our own notes and wrote information reports.

What a wonderful trip we had with NatureScot at Tentsmuir on Wednesday! We hunted for bugs and even found a frog. We used the telescope to watch the seals on the sandbanks and had fun making our own artistic creations in the sand. There was even time for a little play in the play park before coming back to school.  Then an ice lolly at the end to top it all off!

This week we planted some wild flowers to attract butterflies and bees in our class planter box.
We also had such fun at our Rio Cinema Day trip. It was great to organise and enjoy our enterprise day together at the end of term.
We enjoyed our final gymnastics session where we  worked with a partner to make up sequences on the equipment.
In French we were labelling classroom objects. We also write Easter poems.
Have a fabulous holiday!

This week we celebrated World Story Telling Day with lots of stories. On a sunny afternoon we made our own obstacle courses from loose parts. We were learning how to write poems this week.
In French we were learning the words for classroom objects and instructions.
We have all been enjoying practising the songs for our Spring Assembly.
Next Tuesday is our class trip to the Rio.

This week we loved playing ‘floor is lava’ in Loose Parts. We used our talking and listening, creativity and problem solving skills in teams.
In science we are learning about inherited characteristics in animals and we looked at cross breeding of dogs.
We enjoyed going to the book fair this week and exploring all of the books.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we have been teaching different strategies for subtraction and using different vocabulary.
We are practising how to write a recount and using time words to sequence our events.
We have been enjoying ‘Drop Everything And Read’  time in class, making use of our restocked class library and audio books.

This week we entered two competitions. We loved listening to all of the jokes for the joke competition and we sent off our art work to the HMS Unicorn. Fingers crossed!

We are busy planning and organising our Rio cinema enterprise trip too.

In gymnastics we were practising different types of jumping off apparatus.
We are writing recounts in literacy just now. We are using time phrases and writing using past tense verbs.
We have been learning different vocabulary for subtraction and talking about different strategies.
In science we have started to learn about inherited characteristics. We made a class bar chart on eye colour.

In French we were learning some words for clothing. We also enjoyed Loose Parts outside, working on team building skills.