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.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

A massive congratulations to all of p2/3 on their wonderful performances of their class assembly on Monday. We received some great feedback from adults and other classes. We all used our organisation, creativity and communication skills well.
We were sad not to go to sing at Servite House to the elderly residents on Tuesday due to the weather but we are going to go at Easter instead.
Miss Drummond is a student teacher who will be joining us after the holidays and she came in to meet us all on Tuesday which was lovely.

We wrote fabulous imaginative stories about magic portals and jewel thieves! We also worked cooperatively using Kapla and small loose parts to build what Newport needs next linked to our topic.
In numeracy p2s we’re adding using mental strategies and number lines within 20 and p3s we’re adding two digit numbers with bridging.

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.

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  Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week there has been no reading homework as we are all learning the words for our class assembly.
We have enjoyed writing and planning it together.
In topic we interviewed James the lollipop man and Mrs Anderson about how they help in the school. We asked open questions. We also continued to help Rory keep the school safe by picking up slippy leaves.
We communicated well with each other when talking about needs and wants and linking these to The Rights of a Child.

 

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.