Monthly Archives: January 2019
February Article of the Month
Article 31
You have the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
Mathopoly
The Wee Class – Learning Reflections
Scottish Myths & Legends
Mrs Martin was impressed with our note-taking skills when we learned about some Scottish Myths & Legends.
Ball Skills
Throwing & Catching
We have been practising our throwing and catching skills.
We make sure that we have our hands ready to catch and keep our eyes on the ball.
This Week’s Superstars
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Community Funding Event
This week in the “Wee Class” we have been learning…
We learned new strategies for adding:
- Near Doubles
- Compensating
- Chimney sums
We wrote diamante poems about Scotland.
In Literacy, we learned about plurals.
one cat – two cats
We made our own Scot’s Dictionaries with Scottish words we have learned,
We learned where different cities are in Scotland. We glued the city names on to a map.
We redrafted our Friendship Recipes to make a nice display.
Our Achievements
I have tried really hard to improve my handwriting because that’s my New Year’s resolution.
My group got a more challenging book for reading.
My handwriting has improved.
I learned to use a 100 square and got harder questions in Numeracy.
Masterclass 2019 – Creativity
Our Term 3 Masterclasses got off to a great start. We are STEM exploring, Spanish speaking animators!
| Animation – Mrs Martin
Week 1 – Create characters using a range of material. Week 2 – Develop a story for the characters to tell. Week 3 – Take stop motion pictures.
Spanish – Mrs Holland Week 1 – Learn basic Spanish greetings Week 2 – Choose Spanish words to include in animated film Week 3 – Record sound for film
STEM – Mrs Blain (supported by Helen Hamilton) Week 1 – Engage with STEM related experiments Week 2 – Experiment with stop motion animation technology Week 3 – Build a junk model Cinema for their mini movie |
