It’s lovely to be back and we’ve had a busy week getting back into our routines. On Monday we were excited to share our news and we talked about Hogmanay and New Year resolutions. We all set a target – from practising writing our numbers to getting better at jumping!
In literacy this week we’ve learned the ‘oo’ sound and talked about how sometimes it is long, e.g. moon, and sometimes it is short, e.g. wood. We read Room on the Broom and on Thursday did a black pen picture of a witch and wrote some great descriptive sentences.
In numeracy we’re consolidating our number bonds to 10. We’ve been using numicon, cubes, beads and ten frames to help with this. We’re also finishing our work on time and looking at digital and analogue clocks.
We have started our Scots topic, looking where Scotland is on the map and then looking closer at Scotland itself. We have set up a role play Tourist Information Office in the classroom where the children have been going to book trips to Loch Ness, Edinburgh and some lovely castles!
On Wednesday we looked at the work of Scottish artist Steven Brown and all drew our own Highland Coos. We used oil pastels to layer the different colours.
The school is a little cooler than before the holidays due to keeping it well ventilated. Please ensure your child has a jumper/cardigan that they can put on if they need to.
Here are some of the children’s highlights this week:
- Drawing a coo
- Junk modelling
- Learning the oo sound
- Drawing the witch
- Playing in the playground with my friends
- Reading Scots books
- Playing in the tourist information office
- Coming to school
- Learning Scottish words
- Seeing my friends again
