We learned about different emotions and how our faces show how we are feeling. We made pictures with the play doh to show us being happy.  Don’t they look great?

The main school blog has information on whole school homework tasks over the month of September so please check that for details of what to do.

I have allocated a new shared book on the ‘Bug Club’ site called ‘Planet Earth Here We Come’. Click on the link below to access the book.

Enjoy reading and discussing the book together.

We finished our ‘Shaun the Shy Shark’ pictures today by adding more sea creatures to our pictures. We used paint, collage materials, felts and crayons to make the finished masterpieces. Don’t they look AMAZING!

We’ve also been learning about the ‘ch’ sound, practising our spelling, reading words, handwriting and making up numbers using our number frames. What a busy day we have had.

We enjoyed sponging with the paints today to make the sea for our ‘Shaun the Shy Sheep’ pictures. We added on Shaun’s eyes’ teeth and jewels. Don’t they look great?

This afternoon we read the story called ‘Shaun the Shy Shark’ and talked about feeling shy. It also helped us with our ‘sh’ words which is this week’s main sound. Then we made shark pictures which we will finish tomorrow.

We also displayed our ClassCharter pictures we made of ourselves yesterday. Don’t they look great!

Your child was given their user name and password to enable them to access our new digital literacy resource called ‘Bug Club’ today. This is part of the Active Learn resource which the school subscribes to.

They will be introduced to a ‘shared’ text that should be read and discussed with a grown up to aid understanding and comprehension of a story. The book will have been introduced in class and will be part of their homework.

Your child will not be expected to read the story on their own as it is meant to be read together and for you both to discuss the characters, events and vocabulary to deepen their understanding and enjoyment of the story.

The book we are working on is ‘Where Next Dinky? Click this link to access it. It works best on Google Chrome.

Once you are logged in, click the ‘My Stuff’ tab and the book that has been allocated should appear. Once you have finished reading it, it will be stored in ‘My Library’ for you to read at a later time.

Have fun reading together!

Today we took part in some yoga and used collage materials to make pictures of ourselves to put on our Class Charter. We have been learning about Article 19 – the right to be safe and Article 31 – the right to play.

Homework up until the September weekend will consist of a whole school approach and will be allocated via the main school blog.

Please check the main blog for whole school homework details:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/woodlandsprimary/

We have been learning the sound ‘sh’ in class and how to read tricky words. We have been learning to use some reading strategies like sound the word out, look for words hiding inside the word or look for a phoneme (two or three sounds together that make one sound – like ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘th’ etc).

Why not watch this clip about ‘sh’ sounds;

How many sound words can you remember? Can you think of any more? Can you think of  words that end with ‘sh’? Tell a grown up.