An Easter egg hunt with a difference….🐣

Cherry blossom eggs. We loved using cotton buds to make the blossom.

Testing, testing….

Everybody’s  water filtration systems worked. Each group managed to rise to the challenge and we can make clean water. Well done!

Happy holidays and Happy Easter everyone! 🐥🐣

We watched a Newsround report that really gripped our attention last week about saving red squirrels. We were also challenged to building a Lego animal habitat for Red Nose Day. So, we decided to combine the two and design our own Lego habitats for animals.

We spent time constructing the habitats with Lego then we drew a plan of our completed habitats. Finally we labelled our designs.

The labelled designs were used as our plans for writing our procedure. We soon realised how important it was to have neatly labelled drawings.

When we had completed our procedures we did some Peer Assessment and it was interesting to share our work with our partner. This really helps us to improve in our next piece of writing if we discuss our work with a partner.

Then during our iPad session we used the Notes App again. We had great fun taking photos of our habitats and then labelling them or typing up a short summary of how we constructed our designs.

Creating our animal habitats took a lot of time and we had to concentrate hard.

One of the highlights of our week.

Helping our learning partners.

Sharing our ideas with our partners.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine! 🌞

Everyone worked very hard today and it was with great hilarity that we marked up photographs of ourselves on the iPads.

We loved wearing red and our class was a vision in scarlet.

We marked up our images on the Notes App and we also enjoyed creating characters on Sketches School. We were able to work independently on our iPads because we are familiar with these Apps now.

If we encountered any issues we were usually able to resolve them by working with our partners.

( We are looking forward to sharing our photos of Red Nose Day when we resolve our technical issues ) We had a laugh at everyone’s  funny photos after Brunch and we told lots of hilarious jokes.

Happy Red Nose Day everyone ! 🔴

This week we were very industrious making our class video to welcome Mrs Strathearn to Kingsland. We spent a lot of time editing it and deciding if scenes were to be kept in or deleted.

Welcome to Kingsland, Mrs Strathearn.

Rhyme and Analogy

This week’s words were tricky. They all ended in -ight and we had fun working out where the rhyming words were in ,”How to kick start a dragon “ book by Roderick Hunt.

Writing – procedure

Our teacher modelled how to write in the procedure style. We are enjoying adding bullet points and numbers into our writing.

Reading 

In class our guided reading continues to be non-fiction. We are becoming very skilled at reading photographs and what information they are giving us. We can use the contents page accurately and we are getting better at using the glossary.

Maths

It was exciting to use the dotty paper and dotty whiteboards to make tilings. We had to use our ruler to make the lines very straight.

We played Maths games to develop our Maths skills and this also helped us to work better together as a group. This  was a fun way to explore or number bonds, times tables and dividing skills.

Yoga

We did some mindfulness yoga and it was very funny when we all became starfish but, then we found it very relaxing and we felt very calm afterwards.

Science

We learned about how molecules make up solids, liquids and gases. We played a game to test whether we knew the difference between how the molecules are packed in solids, liquids and gases. We managed to work this out very quickly and we will keep playing this game to help us to remember the facts.

For a bit of fun we put some tiny water beads in a tray . Cold water was added to the tray and we were amazed by how quickly the beads grew and then they became quite slimy.

iPads

During our iPad session we continued to explore the Notes app. Last week we took photos of our sock puppets so this week we swapped iPads and took photos of our learning partners. There were lots of retakes, striking a pose and best of all lots of very happy smiles in our photos. It was great to be active in our learning too when we got to move around the classroom to take our photographs. We had lots of personalisation and choice because we had to choose where we took our photographs and the mischief our sock puppets were getting up to.

Then we typed up text from our teacher modelled procedures and we were very proud of what the documents looked like in the end.

The part we enjoyed the most from this session was when we got to share our work with our friends.

We had a lovely week exploring books, joining in on live events like “Matilda” and we really enjoyed hearing Matilda singing her song on a pile of books that moved up and down on the stage.

It has been interesting learning who is behind each book on the bookshelf and finding out what children’s books the staff enjoy reading. Mrs McGilp made the bookshelf and we will continue to peek behind the books until we have opened them all. Our challenge will be to remember who is behind each book!

We made dog sock puppets and backgrounds then we had so much fun playing with our puppets. It was amazing to be able to enter into another world and our dogs got up to all sorts of adventures. One of them even had an adventure under the sea!

A highlight for many of us was just having the time to explore, share and enjoy the favourite books we had brought in from home.

Mrs Istephan read us a story on Thursday afternoon and it was a real treat having a visitor reading to us. She read us a story about a dog that thinks it is a ballerina. It was very funny!

In Art we looked at Claude Monet’s water lilies watercolours. It was amazing that they were huge panels when we usually think of watercolour paintings as being dainty. He also worked in the Impressionist style where he dabbed on little lines of colour to build up the lilies and the water they were floating on.
 

We created our own version of the water lilies in the Impressionist style by using felt tipped pens on clay tiles. This also linked in with our recent learning about tiling in Maths.

In Numeracy we have almost completed learning about numbers to 100 but, we will continue to revisit this throughout the year.

We have been exploring thinking skills in Maths and we started off by thinking about the number 8 and how we can make it in many combinations. At first we made random number bonds and drew the picture of the sum using cubes. Then  we talked about being more systematic and  writing our sums out in an ordered sequence.

Being systematic in setting out the combinations of number bonds will help us to make sure we have not missed any out and it can help us to see very quickly if we have.

Our iPad session was fun too. We continued to explore the Notes app and this week we photographed our sock puppets then added text around the image to show the materials we need to make them.

As this was our third session using the Notes app most of us were independent and did not need much help from adults. We are also getting much better at helping each other out and being really supportive learning partners.

In P2/3 we had the privilege of having Stephen Graham , who works with the PM Writing and Reading schemes we are using in school. He worked with a reading group and they explored a non-fiction book about trees.

He was amazed by the super readers we have, the lovely manners the group have and by the enthusiasm the children have for reading.

Well done everyone! You have been super role models this week.

Mrs Ryalls has built up the suspense this week and we have been so excited about seeing what her display of our Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury would look like. We are so proud of ourselves because it has turned out to be a beautiful display. It is just outside our classroom and it helps us to feel very calm whenever we look at it. Thank you, Mrs Ryalls!

I hope you have all had a lovely break and a great first week back.

We have had a great week.

On Tuesday it was the ‘twosday’ so we had lots of fun exploring the number 2 and 22, and engaging with related challenges. We balanced for 22 seconds, we recorded how many of a task we could do in 22 seconds, we found things that always came in 2’s and had lots of laughter and fun in the process.

In numeracy we have continued exploring subtraction. We have used tens and units, counting on and back, breaking up the numbers and our knowledge of doubles to support us.

In maths we have began to explore money. We can identify coins, recognise prices from 1 to 50p, we can make a given amount with the correct coins and add money together.

In writing we recapped the key aspects of narrative writing; the orientation, the complication and the resolution. We shall be planning and writing our own narrative over the next few weeks.

We have started practising some joined handwriting beginning with a followed by another letter.

In spelling we investigated the sound nk with real and nonsense words, writing outside and completing swirl challenge.

Topic

Our topic this term is water. We have learnt about it’s importance for our bodies, health and our environment. We investigated  how water comes in 3 states solid, liquid and gas.

Health and Wellbeing

We are learning about SHANARRI and it’s importance for our wellbeing. This weeks focus was responsible and included. We will be learning what to do to help when we face challenges within theses indicators. This week we made posters about responsible choices and not responsible choices.

In French we looked at weather.

Signing we have explored family this week.

Art – We have made winter pictures with varied media.

We have been learning the alphabet and we drew a poster to show the lower case and upper case letters. How many letters are in the alphabet? We will explore alphabetical order next.

In Maths we have been learning about tiling and the importance of very straight sides on our shapes.

We are very proud of the display Mrs Ryalls has created for our Chinese New Year Art. It caused great excitement in the corridor when she was putting it together.

Mrs Little had set us an iPad challenge and we had fun exploring more on the Notes app that we had started a few weeks ago. We took a photo to show what we have been learning about and then we selected the markup tool to add text and drawings to the image. It was challenging at first but, we rose to the challenge beautifully.

We did a little yoga in class and many of us got so chilled out that we almost fell asleep on the floor of our classroom!

In Writing we have been learning about a new style called procedure and we are looking forward to learning more about the structure of procedural writing.

You have worked very hard this week. Well done !

Please bring a book to class on Thursday 3rd March for World Book Day.

We have been very inspired by the art work of Polly Dunbar from the book, “While we can’t hug.”

It was fun learning how she draws her hedgehog and tortoise. We then drew our own characters and because it’s Valentine’s Day on Monday the 14th of February we decided to add some paper hearts. So, although hedgehog and tortoise can’t hug they can still show each other that they are friends.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone and have a lovely holiday!

We have been very busy in class again this week.

One highlight for us was learning about the story of the willow pattern that we see on many dinner plates. We then designed our own willow pattern plates that look good enough to eat our mince and tatties from.

We made sure to include a pagoda, bridge and 2 turtle doves in our designs.

In Numeracy we have been exploring numbers to 100. This week we worked hard at reading the text in our workbooks, working with a learning partner if we got stuck and trying to work out what the tasks were a little more independently.

We have also been working more on feedback when we have completed our tasks and sharing how we reach our answers with our partners. We have really enjoyed this part of our Numeracy sessions.

We have been working on planning and writing our final story in the narrative style. Next week we will explore our stories in more depth through Drama and by sharing them with our friends.

Our Virtual Scottish afternoon was amazing. We have to thank Mrs. McGilp, Mrs Little and the Digital Ambassadors for all of their hard work in putting the video together.

We really enjoyed seeing what everyone had been learning about during the Scottish topic. How do P6 and P7 remember all the words in their poems?

Another highlight was savouring the Scottie dog shortbread that Mrs Clyde had made specially for us. Mmmm!

Now we are learning to add some text and drawings on our iPads.

Today we explored the Notes App.

On the 1st February it is Chinese New Year. The year 2022 is represented by the tiger. Last year was the year of the ox.

Can you find out what animal will be represented in 2023 ?

What animal represented the year you were born in ?

In class we were so excited about using the iPads to explore Chinese New Year through Numeracy and Reading. It was so strange not having to wait our turn on the Smartboard because we all had our own iPad to work on. This meant we could work at our own pace and a little faster.

Although we have really had fun drawing on the iPad we felt very grown up when we did ordering, sequencing and reading real facts about the Chinese New Year festival.

We say goodbye to the year of the ox today and we look forward to greeting the year of the tiger tomorrow. 🐅

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! 🐲

We have also been working very hard on our Scottish theme and we are really looking forward to sharing our learning with you on Scottish Afternoon on the 3rd of February.