This week we have been continuing with our class novel, The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark. Plop has found out why dark is fascinating and why it is wonderful. We have been continuing to practise using question marks, exclamation marks and word banks in our writing. In maths, we have been learning to measure weight using balance scales and/ or standard unit scales. Some of us have been measuring and comparing kg’s and 1/2kg’s. In H&W, we learnt more strategies for feeling calm, such as meditation, breathing and grounding. We finally finished our festive frieze for the hall and it looks fab. We used wax resist, paint and different materials to make 3D, steaming cups of hot chocolate. This week we have also had outdoor learning and committees, so don’t forget to ask me about them. Finally, in science, we started learning about energy and became energy detectives, spotting as many types of energy as we could.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week our focus has been on using our organisation skills to plan our school assembly performance. We have lots of good ideas and we are making sure that everyone has something they want to do.
We are working hard to learn our songs and to use our communication skills when speaking to an audience.
Our topic is about local community. We have been thinking about the needs and wants of ourselves and the community. We are linking these to our rights. We thought about who helps us in our school community and we interviewed Rory the janitor and Sheila the cleaning lady this week. We learned how to write and ask open questions. We also asked how we could make a difference and help them. We are litter picking and collecting leaves in the school playground.

This week we followed an autumn themed yoga story and practiced different yoga poses. the favourite pose was the squirrel and the bear. We also learned a new game called coconut. in Maths we finished off our learning on measuring length and are ready to start mass and capacity. on Thursday afternoon we had Miss Good who did some maths in the real world and tally marks. We also had committees and outdoor learning this week and we started work on our festive frieze.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we have been sharing lots of stories together for Book Week Scotland. We have enjoyed writing about the different characters too.
In numeracy the P2s are adding within 20 with number lines and the P3s are adding two digits within 100 mentally.
We were all learning about maths in the world with Miss Goode.
We did Loose Parts Play with the P1s and fitness and the daily mile too.
In writing we learnt how to make a cup of tea and wrote a set of instructions.

We have had a lovely shared learning this morning with some of our parents and carers. We worked together to make collage, feather owls just like Plop from our story ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’. The owls were peeping out of a 3D tree. We are all very pleased with our results. In Math’s we have been measuring in non standard units and standard units. in Outdoor learning we were able to choose which group we were working in to work with different children in our year groups. In Literacy we have started learning about ! and ?.

What a busy couple of days we have had. We have started a new class novel with Mrs Robertson. It is The Owl Who was afraid of the dark and we are enjoying learning about Plop the baby barn owl. In Literacy we were practicing how to use a word bank to complete sentences about our novel. In PE we started learning some yoga poses but we need a bit of practice. In Maths we have been working more on measure. some of us have been estimating and measuring in meters and some of us have been measuring in non standard units of measure. We have all been very busy measuring different things. We started a new block in outdoor learning. We got to chose from three different activities, one of them was creating the longest creature, estimating its length and measuring. there was a lot of laughs! In Health and Wellbeing we started learning about why people might feel stressed. We thought about what that meant, what it felt like and we shared our experiences. We read a book called Cora’s Dragon and created our own dragons. It is our turn to decorate one of the notice bods so this week in art we started creating cosy pictures called nestled with a book. we used emphasis to paint a big moon, we did printing with leaves to create texture and depth and we used our sketching skills to draw a little creature. we didn’t quite have enough time to piece them together so we will finish this next week.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we enjoyed joining p1 for Loose Parts Play and the daily mile.
We wrote instructions and also practised the skills for delivering individual talks.
We used puppets and the puppet theatres in drama to create short improvisations about including others. We filmed them in the iPads and gave each other feedback.
In numeracy the P2s are beginning to add within 20 and the P3s within 100.

We have had a lovely first week back. In PE we took part in a variety of Halloween themed games, where we worked on our fitness, problem solving, communication and team building skills. In health we have completed work on strategies to use in challenging situations such as using our stop shield, talking to a trusted friend or adult and taking deep breaths…. We have also started discussing the different feelings we feel over the course of a day and how everyone is different. we made feelings flowers and hung them up to make a feelings garden. In math’s we started learning about measuring lengths. We discussed longest, tallest, shortest and  about the same. we discussed how important it is to line objects up  before we measure and we spoke about how many cm are in 1 meter. Don’t forget to ask me about my skills academy!

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

It has been so nice to see everyone after the holidays.
We have all had a great time in our Skills Academies- Lego, animation, games and printing.
We went out in the sunshine for Loose Parts Play with the p1 class and showed great cooperation and creativity with our builds.
We tried hard at the daily mile and also in PE with our fitness challenges.
In writing we are learning to write a good set of instructions. We did dooking for apples and wrote about it!
Our new spelling rules are ‘zz’ in p2 and ‘ea’ in p3. The p3s have started to learn the first joins in handwriting.

This week in maths we continued our learning about shapes. We focused on 2D and 3D shapes and we made 3D shapes with Play-Doh. We also learned about faces, edges and vertices. We finished out autumn wax resist leaves, discussed harvest festival and thing we are thankful for and we practiced our songs and words for the Harvest Service. Happy holidays!