This week we have been learning about Robert Burns. We read about him and used the internet to write a fact file. We have also learned about what would happen at a Burns Night celebration and have made invitations on PowerPoint to our own Burns party. We worked in pairs to plan our invitation and developed our design skills when making our invite. Miss Amy was very impressed with how the pairs worked together and showed the skills they had learnt.

In Art, we drew a thistle and used pastels to colour it. We also used black pen to outline and make the image pop out. They look great.

In Literacy, we wrote a newspaper report about a section of our class novel, The Twits Next Door. The Twits had been tricked into wearing Mrs Lovely’s Disco Pants and ended up dancing in the town centre with a big crowd watching them. Local newspaper reporters saw what happened and wrote about it for the evening newspaper. Some children have started using quotes from onlookers in their newspaper articles.

In PE, we have been learning different Scottish dances. This week we learnt group dances called the Virginia Reel and the Flying Scotsman.

In Health and Wellbeing, we used KitBag to share how we were feeling and also share any worries. We spoke about how we can manage some of our worries and used feathers to ‘blow’ them away. Blowing the feathers away is also a good way to calm our breathing if we are upset.

In Numeracy, we learned how to do column subtraction and have started exchanging.