What a super first week of sign language! We have talked about what sign language is, why it is needed and why it’s an important life skill to have. The pupils have learned various greetings and have been studying the finger spelling alphabet. They also learned how to ask, “What is your name?” and how to answer. They learned lots of colour signs and played Bingo using these signs. They concentrated SO hard for the full session.
The Wider Achievement pupils from P1-4 playing Colours Bingo. Callum was a great signing bingo caller!
Watch Iona and Callum in action below.
Lorelei and Christina signed really well together!
We have been busy looking at the food packaging from our fruit tasting afternoon. It was amazing to see where our fruit has travelled from to get to our classroom! Most of the fruit came from Africa, South America and Spain. As a class, we plotted these fruits on a large map and had fun looking at an atlas to see if we could find these countries for ourselves. Some pupils couldn’t believe how tiny Shetland was in comparison to other places around the world!
We discussed how important it was to try and buy local produce as much as we can, but of course this is not always possible when buying pineapples or bananas!
Following on from our fruit tasting afternoon, we gathered together all the results and worked with a partner to create a bar chart on the laptops. Then we worked together as a class to make a giant bar chart for our classroom wall. I wonder which fruit was the most popular?
We had to count out the correct number of squares to show how many people liked each fruit.
We worked as a team to build each part of the bar chart.
Nearly finished!
Apples were the most popular! Everyone said that they liked the taste of apples.
As part of our topic, we have been tasting lots of different types of fruit. We recorded whether or not we liked each one. It was great to hear some pupils saying that the fruit they had previously disliked were now quite tasty!
Just goes to show how important it is to keep trying!
We’ve made it to the last day of term and what a busy term it’s been! Over the last few weeks, the class have been making lovely cards, decorations and calendars to take home and have been listening to The First Christmas Story so that they know why we celebrate Christmas. They worked so hard on their part in the Christmas production – we have some very keen singers!! Well done to all of P1/2! All that is left to say is that Mrs Henderson and I wish you all a very merry Christmas and best wishes for 2017!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from P1/2 (Ruben missing from photo)
There were some impressive dance moves during Musical Statues!
Freeze!
Some people made very good statues.
We crept quietly in this game to steal the jingly jangly keys!
Yum yum! We enjoyed lots of treats during a well deserved break.
Food glorious food!
Lots of pupils enjoyed dressing up for the party.
Christmas jumpers galore!
We played team games.
This was a tricky one…over and under….over and under….
Don’t drop the ball!
No party is complete without pass the parcel.
P1/2 and P2/3 enjoyed their Christmas Party this afternoon. We played games, danced and ate lots of yummy food! Everyone was very excited and a great afternoon was had by all.
