Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

We enjoyed learning our Spring songs together and doing Easter crafts. We said goodbye to Miss Smith and made her lots of cards. We will miss her and we all wish her well.
The sun was out for loose parts which was lovely.
In Health we practised the recovery position and learned what to do if someone has serious bleeding.
We played spelling sparkle and shared lots of stories.

In PE we played lots of fun games. In French we talked about our likes and dislikes for colours.
Have the best holiday and I’ll see you in two weeks time!

 

We have continued to enjoy working in our committees this week – it was fun to learn the new Wake Up Shake Up Dance that the Health and Wellbeing Committee have created for us.

In Maths we have been learning about patterns and relationships of numbers.  We have practised adding and subtracting numbers in 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s and 4s.

In Outdoor Learning we used many skills when playing noughts and crosses using natural materials.  We had to be creative when thinking about our counters and how to keep a score.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we hope to see everyone at our Spring Assembly next week.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we have all been working together in our committees with friends from across the school. The Eco Committee made pitfall traps.

We wore odd socks on Monday for World Down-syndrome Day.
In numeracy the p3s are working on vertical subtraction and the P2s are practising number bonds to 20.
On Tuesday the winners were announced for the Brikk window design competition.

We wrote Spring acrostic poems and also used ICT to design our own Easter egg packaging!

 

 

 

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

In ICT we continued to use sketchpad on the laptops to design and create shop windows.
We talked about our weekend news using different openers and wow words for feelings and then wrote about it.
In spelling we have all improved and some of us have moved up to the next set of common words. We are continuing to work with spelling partners to practise our own personal lists of words.
We worked on jumps, rolls, balances and travelling in gymnastics.
p2s completed some number assessments on subtraction within 20 and p3s within 100.

We celebrated Dennis the Menace’s 10th birthday!

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we have been using the equipment safely to balance, travel and jump in gymnastics.
We have been enjoying sharing lots of stories for Book Week. We also entered a school competition where we had to design a front cover of a book with Buttercup the sheep, our school mascot!
In French we were learning the words for pets and we had fun repeating them back.
We enjoyed watching the P7s special performance of their dance for the Glee Music Festival. They were great!
In Health we started to learn about how to help a conscious casualty.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

In Numeracy the p3s have been learning to use a 3 step strategy for subtracting with bridging within 100. We have been using whiteboards to show our method.
p2s have been using number lines to subtract within 20.
We have started doing a 10 minute free write on a Monday about weekend news.
In ICT we are starting to learn how to use the netbooks.
For music we had fun using the boomwhackers for songs from K Pop Demon Hunters!
We were so happy the weather was kind and we got outside with the P1s to explore Loose Parts.
We are continuing to do class debates and to turn these into written discussions.

This week we loved trying out Karate in a Karate taster session from Kanzen Karate. We learnt about kindness to others, some stances and played some exciting games. We did a big literacy job to show our learning about nouns, verbs and adjectives. we created our own monsters and used them to write about. in maths we have been starting to finish our learning on time. we should all be able to tell the time to o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. In Art we learnt about scale and we drew habitats for animals. in science we started using our ICT skill to write instructions for making a simple circuit using the Book Creator app. We cant wait to finish this next week. Finally we said good bye to Miss Drummond. She has been amazing and we spent time remembering all the amazing lessons she thought us. We will miss her.

Monday and Tuesday with Mrs Meiklem

We enjoyed working collaboratively to create our own hip hop dances in groups for PE.

We also learned about the ‘three Js- jute, jam and journalism’ in topic. We then made our very own comic strips inspired by Dundee’s famous Beano magazine!

On Tuesday we enjoyed welcoming our grown ups for our Shared Learning Event. It was so nice to have you all in our classroom.

We all wrote imaginative stories and self- assessed our work after editing and self- correcting.
We worked with spelling partners on common words.
It was Internet Safety Week and on Tuesday we learned how to make sure we stay safe online. We created posters to teach others about the dangers online.

This week we had a ceilidh in PE we danced the two dances we know to pop songs and we learnt the Military Two Step. It was the best time ever! We put our learning of nouns, verbs and adjectives together to create silly sentences with dice. We are feeling very confident with our grammar. we have been continuing our learning with time looking at analogue and digital times, such as o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to. In Art we used line, shape colour and texture to create castles, inspired by the yellow castle in Newort. These will be our entries for the yellow castle competition at the Rio. For science we are starting to learn about simple electrical  circuits. we have been learning that electricity likes to travel round the circuit until it reaches back home. We all had an opportunity to make a circuit with a bulb and we could even add in a switch. The trick part was learning the symbols to draw our circuits.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we had fun adding to our group dance in PE. We are dancing to Jai Ho and we are adding lots of Indian Bangra music dance moves. We loved watching it back on the iPad after filming ourselves.
In numeracy we are all working on subtraction at our own levels. We are becoming more independent and selecting appropriate materials and mental strategies. The p3s were working with double digit numbers within 100 and learning how to round numbers or use a ‘split strategy’ for subtraction. The P2s are working hard to use a number line to solve subtraction problems within 20.
In literacy we have been practising the skill of note taking. We are also learning how to have a class debate. This week we worked to debate whether we should eat more insects to help the environment, using our notes to help answer questions.
In French we learned how to talk about the weather.
For topic we were learning about famous Dundonian inventors and how their inventions changed people’s lives. We also created a class museum last week which was very interesting. Pictures attached!
We used boomwhackers in music this week.
We look forward to seeing some of you at our Shared learning event on Tuesday the 10th of February.