This week in PE, we learned the Scottish country dance, the military to step. We had so much fun clapping to the beat, skipping to the beat, even hopping to the beat and we loved having the opportunity to share our dancing with each other. In literacy we were learning about verbs. We watched a video where we had to dance and act out lots of verbs. It was so much fun. In maths we have been continuing our learning about time we’ve all been learning about o’clock half past and quarter past some of us have been learning about quarter to and we have been reading times in both analog and digital. we have also played lots of games involving time to help strengthen our understanding. In health and well-being we continued our work on worries and we had a circle time to discuss who can help us when we’re feeling worried. We have had lots of opportunities to share our worries and solve in class. In science we continued our new topic of electricity. We have been learning about different appliances and talking about how they are electrical non-electrical and whether they use a battery or remains power supply. We used a vent diagram to categorise the appliances. We also had the opportunity to explore components for an electrical circuit. some of us managed to make the lightbulb light or a fan spin we can’t wait to learn more about this next week.

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This week we have been learning about the Tay Whale and talking about the whaling industry in Dundee at that time in history. We took notes and then had a class discussion about  whether whaling should be illegal in all places in the world. We were able to give good reasons for our opinions and listen to others respectfully.

We created our own whale art work using cold colours and poster paints. We created a class art gallery and gave each other peer feedback.

We wrote newspaper articles about the whale.

In PE we are creating a group Bollywood group dance. We filmed ourselves and watched it back on the smart board in the classroom.

We also made a classroom museum to look at old artefacts and discussed how we can see if they are a reliable source of information from the past.

In numeracy we are working on subtraction. P2s within 20 and p3s within 100. We focussed taking away multiples of 10.

This week we had lots of fun learning the Gay Gordon’s and we even managed to dance it to Cotton Eye Joe! it was very fast but we managed to keep up. we started learning about time this week. some of us were learning the months of the year and others were using a calendar. We also revised some times on an analogue clock. In literacy we were using nouns in a sentence and some of us were learning about common and proper nouns. In Health we talked more about our worries and created a class worry box. we worked collaboratively to solve our friends worries. our new topic in science is electricity and we started talking about what it is and how we use it. We realised this links very well with our learning about energy last term.

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Another lovely week together this week! Also a warm welcome to Miss Drummond  who is doing her teacher training placement with us for the next few weeks.
This week we have enjoyed learning more about the Dundee Jute Mills in our topic. We also learned about the old ferry to Dundee and created some wonderful wax resist art work, inspired by famous artist James Rizzi. We are enjoying responding to the children’s’ questions and interests.
In numeracy we are continuing to work on different subtraction strategies at our own level.
In PE we were creating dances with a partner to pop music. We talked about how the music made us feel and gave each other feedback on our performances.

We loved hearing everyone’s Scots Poems  this week. What a super effort from everyone. The class were so encouraging to one another and celebrated each other’s successes with claps and high fives!
In writing we created our own Scots Poems and had fun reading them out.

We were learning about the old ferry from Newport to Dundee. We hope you like our art work.

Next week we are going to create our own class museum with old artefacts that are linked to our community and Dundee. Please look out for a note about this.

 

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.

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It has been so nice getting back together this week and hearing everyone’s news.
The snow was very exciting for us all too and we had fun playing outside in it.
In numeracy the p2 group have been consolidating addition to 20 and the p3s have continued to work on vertical addition to 100.
In music we are listening to different styles of music and thinking about how they make us feel. In PE we are using these music styles to make up our own creative dances. We are looking at shapes, travelling, jumps, turns and learning to count the beat. We are creating dances on our own and in pairs and giving each other verbal feedback.

We have all enjoyed Skills Academy this week.  The groups we have signed up for are animation, Lego, printing and games.

For homework this week we will be reading and choosing a Scottish Poem to learn. Look out for this in the homework folders.
In writing we wrote imaginative stories, focussing on adjectives and openers.

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.

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This week we made lovely Christmas decorations for our homes. We also enjoyed our Christmas parties and the Christmas cinema!
We were trying hard practise our common words in spelling with lots of different games. We all have our own personal lists.
In numeracy we were practising our vertical addition.
Have a wonderful holiday and I can’t wait to hear all about it in 2026!!!

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.