This week we loved starting to learn the Gay Gordan’s for Scottish Country Dancing/ We had to count the beat, move to the beat and start to learn the steps. There was lots of skipping, clapping and dancing. We finished off learning about Capacity in maths. we used the sand and water to measure in Liters and in no-standard units. In Literacy we were continuing to learn about nouns. We were categorising them and hunting for them. Our student Teacher Miss Drummond shared all about here and we shared all our favourite things with here. We also designed a whole class feelings check in system as part of Health. Sometimes its easier to show how we are feeling, rather than say. We finished off our week with art where we created lovely hibernating hedgehogs. We used oil pastels, crayons and paint. They look amazing.

We have loved being back together this week and catching up with all our friends! We have also enjoyed skills academy, we had 4 to chose from. There was animation, printing, Lego and games. in Literacy we started talking about nouns. we went on a noun hunt and categorised nouns into people, places and things. in maths we have been continuing learning a lot capacity. some of us have been measuring in liters and some of us in non-standard units. For health, we have been discussing worries, what they feel like, where we feel them on our bodies and what to do with them. We know it is important to share our worries so they don’t snowball out of control.  We had a fun week back in PE, paying team games such as dodge ball and bench ball.

What a lovely last two days of the year we have had. We are all feeling very festive. We enjoyed the Christmas service at the church and singing all the lovely songs. we have also enjoyed our top ten Christmas sing a long as a school! we have made Christmas cards for our family and a decoration which is being brought home today. We have enjoyed taking part in Christmas themed maths and literacy lessons as well as games and crafts. We hope you have a lovely Christmas break.

This week in PE we enjoyed sharing our favourite yoga poses we have learnt over the block and we did our last yoga story, under the sea. We are getting very good at our yoga breaths and holding our poses.

We made melted snowmen using paint, sponges, paper and googley eys. We then created and wrote short stories about how our snowmen had melted. We loved sharing these with the class! In RME we looked at the Christmas story with Miss Good.

We also enjoyed watching the p1 nativity. They were fab! We also took part in outdoor learning and made lovely Christmas tree cards for our families.

This week we learned about different types of energy. we discussed the different types and sorted and classified them. we used skills like communicating, problem solving and organising. We spoke about the different jobs where you might need to know about energy, there were lots! In maths we continued learning about measuring weight in standard and non standard units. we enjoyed using the scales. In P.E we really enjoyed our yoga story this week where we imagined we were at a pet show. there were lots of interesting poses. This week kicked of our first festive Friday. the p2’s made cards and the p3’s made jokes for the community bags. We had a special goodbye Together Time for Rory the janitor. We will miss him lots but wish him well.

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.

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.

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.

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!