In art we created a watercolour wash background for our forest painting.

Today we wrote an acrostic poem about our Forbidden Forest and then we visualised what we had written.

Here, we started to show the perspective in our painting by making the tree trunks in the background smaller, and the ones at the front bigger with more detail.

We were thinking about what we already know about Vikings and making an estimate of which centuries they were living in. Next we will think about what we want to know and find out about the Vikings.

Please don’t forget to give an adult the large envelope you were given and start to think of ideas for the special homework task. Perhaps you could work with brothers and sisters to create a family presentation!

Tomorrow, for PE a coach will be teaching you basketball skills, so please have your full kit with you so that you can participate appropriately.

Here is a flavour of our Fitness/Circuit Training lesson in P.E. We will be increasing our fitness levels and developing our skills by practising a variety of activities during the term. If everyone could remember that P.E. is on Wednesday and Friday and bring in their full kit including indoor shoes, that would be great.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

In our literacy lesson we were thinking about what the word “Literacy” means to us. These are the ideas that we thought about and we will build onto this mindmap as the year progresses.

Here we are taking part in the Daily Mile.

In P. E. we were learning some tactics to play  Dodgeball effectively and everyone could state a skill that they had developed during the lesson.

As you can see, the forest animals have put up a sign telling us to keep out of the corner and there is even a sign saying Forbidden Forest! What will happen next? We will wait until next week to find out!

In our Place Value learning, we have been trying to find out mystery numbers using as few questions as possible. Using the words: digit, odd, even, more, less helps to identify the number.

Please could everyone try to get onto their Activelearn account.

It should be the first 4 letters from the first and last name,woodlands, 6kwa. There are no capitals or spaces.

Finally, on p10 of the Primary Times which was given to everyone today, there is information about the Largs Viking Festival. We are going to be learning about the Vikings this term, so a trip to Largs, to visit the festival and visit Vikingar would be a great experience for the children!

This afternoon we created our woodland themed “ Gateways to Learning”. Then we’ll follow the woodland path to some excellent learning adventures!

Earlier today we were practising our spelling using the phonemes and spelling patterns that we already know. In our number work, we were thinking about questions we can use to find a mystery number- why not try this out at home?

Welcome back to school and thanks for a great first day in P4/5; I am sure that we will have a fantastic year! Just a reminder that our P.E. days are Wednesday and Friday , so please bring in your gym kits and indoor shoes ready to develop your skills in gym. Please could you make sure that coats, cardigans and jumpers have names in them to help if they are left outside or in other areas of the school. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.