Today, we were glad to see Mr Rose back in class to help us learn all about Forces. We have been learning that forces are all around us, all the time. We have been talking about gravity and the forces that we can apply to objects to make them move and change. We are looking forward to planning, testing and writing up our own experiment soon.
It’s been a busy start to the term. We’re glad to welcome two new pupils into P1/2 and we’ve been enjoying getting to know them. Today we were lucky enough to be blessed with beautiful weather for our Voar Redd Up to the Croft House Museum. P1/2 did a super job cleaning up. We didn’t find too much bruck, which is a good thing!
P1/2 have worked hard on the last day of term sequencing the main parts of the Easter story and noting down important words that would help them retell it later. In the afternoon, they deserved a run around the garden area having an Easter egg hunt. Happy Easter everyone! See you all on the 18th April.
P1/2 have been learning about money during Maths time and while at play. Our gallery of photos show some of the practical activities they’ve been doing.
Since World Book Day, P1/2 have been enjoying the challenges of reading all sorts of different texts at home and at school. They are enjoying reading alone, with a partner and in small groups. They have been really keen to share their reading with the class and have written book reviews at home to tell us all about their favourite stories. Please look through our gallery of photos. It is clear to see the enjoyment, concentration, peer support and potential for learning.
We’ve had a splendid day! Beautiful weather for our procession to see the galley burning, squad acts that had us all giggling and topping the day off with the SMUHA Jarl Squad visit in the afternoon. Here are some of our photos from the day.
P1/2 have been busy making helmets and torches ready for the South Mainland Up-Helly-Aa celebrations. They have also worked on various cutting and painting projects to help decorate the dining hall and corridors. We took a class photo beside the school galley, “Fivla” today. I think they look the part! Looking forward to our school procession and galley burning tomorrow and a visit from the jarl squad in the afternoon.
Well that’s our 4 week block finished and I have really loved sharing what I know about sign language with the P1-4 pupils! I am so impressed to see how much they have learned in such a short space of time and have encouraged them to keep their new-found skills up at home! There is a link below for the website we have enjoyed using during our 4 week block that shows the alphabet, has a signing dictionary and has games to play.
http://www.british-sign.co.uk/sign-of-the-day/
Today, we also watched this short advert that shows how a young, deaf man’s day was transformed when he surprisingly met a number of people in the community who could sign. I wish each day could be like this for him. Keep up the signing. You never know when you might need it!
It’s amazing to see how quickly the group are recalling signs each week and how well they can use the finger spelling alphabet to sign words and to “read” words back. Today we learned the days of the week and learned food signs to go with our topics. We spent time on the laptops searching for words we use at home and words we were keen to learn. The “Sign A Day” website is excellent!
Callum searched how to sign “school”.
Drew looked up “brother”.
Callum learned “teacher”.
We had another good session today. We revised the signs we learned last week and were taught lots of new animal signs. We learned to ask, “How are you today?” We also learned lots of ways we could answer this. We looked again at finger spelling and played a sign language word search on the laptops.
Watch Jay and Lewis say, “How are you today?” “I’m happy!”
