This morning Mrs Keith gave us The BIG Calendar Problem.  We used various problem solving skills and strategies to name and order the months.

Today we launched Fairtrade Fortnight. There is a tuck shop selling Fairtrade products and there is also a homework competition: write a Fairtrade poem to help people understand the meaning of Fairtrade.  Entries to be handed to Mr McMullan by Friday 6th March. All this week we will be learning about Fairtrade and how this links to the Rights of a Child.

Today we attended a special assembly about the importance of Speaking Out  and Staying Safe. Then we had an hours workshop in our class looking at abuse and how those people getting abused can get help.  There are many ways to get help and one of those ways is by calling  Childline Number 0800 1111

Happy Holidays everyone and we will see you all next Friday 14th February.  Don’t forget we’ve got Woodlands Got Talent next Friday  afternoon. 💃🕺🌟🎤🎹🎸🎺🎷🤸🏼‍♂️

This morning, as part of our healthy eating work, we were learning how to read food labels to help us identify: sugar, salt and saturated fat content.

Remember PE kits for tomorrow, please.

Over the next few weeks, we are going to complete a times tables test ever single day.  Today was our first attempt at completing 100 questions in 5 minutes.  We then all identified the tables we need to work on (everyone has their own personal list) and strategies that can help us.  Everyone agreed that they’d like to improve their score.  This means everyone should practice their tables every day for at least 5 minutes.  This could be in the car, bath, in bed, using table songs in You Tube or games.

If you didn’t hand homework in today, please hand it in so I can tick your name on the list.

Today we were travelling and balancing on the apparatus. There were a lot of people who didn’t bring their PE kit.  Please ensure you have shorts to wear next week, you can’t wear leggings or joggers on the bars.

If you didn’t bring in homework today, please bring it in tomorrow.

This morning we welcomed  parents and grandparents  to our class to share our learning.  We listed all the Scots words we knew at the beginning  of our lesson. By the end of our lesson, we had over a “hunner” Scots words!

Remember to bring your homework jotter and the homework sheet the adult has signed.

Today in our writing lessons we were looking at examples of how famous author “hook” us into read their stories. We then categorised 8 different story openings into opening with a question, a dramatic statement, a description of a character, description of a setting, action, middle of action and dialogue.

This morning we had a special assembly and Chris Duke, the author of Lucy’s Blue Day, came along to tell us all about his book.

Today we read a story about a boy stealing another boy’s conker. We picked out the 5 Top Tips for Developing Characters, highlighted  the VCOP in the text and then wrote what happened next in the story.