Tiddler is a lovely story about a fish. Primary 1/2 enjoyed it, getting into the read and respond mood with parts of it. They even linked it to other things. Through discussion in the book Primary 1/2 thought they could help Miss Skate teach the Tiddler and the class about different types of boats to watch out for. They worked in pairs to draw different types of boats. They are pretty cool, please take a look.
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Poor Fred turns poorly in this story so P1/2 decided to design some Get Well Soon cards to help cheer him up. I think you will agree that these would certainly cheer him up.
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The good thing about phonics is that we get a craft activity to do when we are learning sounds. These help our cutting skills and we have been busy this morning. Have a look.
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We had been reading Stick Man and went out to find some sticks of our own. Then we made Stick Man pictures. Take a look.
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This week Mrs Smith has been getting the children to improve on their throwing skills. Although PE is outside, it is still lots of fun and there are plenty of games to help warm us up.
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We read Ugly Five by Julia Donaldson and enjoyed the story a lot. It got us onto thinking about patterns in art and wildlife. We made some peacocks. We had to listen to careful instructions for directional movement with pencil control.
First we had to draw lines from our peacocks all the way out to the edge of the paper.
Then we had to draw some large circles on these lines.
Then we had to draw smaller circles inside the larger circles. These were a different colour.
Once we had done that, we had to draw even smaller circles inside the second colour!
Next we had to draw diagonal lines on each side of our first lines, this made it look like the feather hairy part of a feather.
Finally we coloured in the body of the our peacocks.
It was great fun but a lot of listening and work. We did great though and the peacocks are going up in our corridor gallery. They will make their way home eventually.
We had a week where we read about The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. We read The Gruffalo’s Child too. We also heard them in Shetland Dialect. That was very interesting as there were some words we had never heard before!
After that we went out foraging for ingredients to make some Gruffalo recipes. Here are photos of us doing that. We had great fun and used great language and role play used in our cooking and searching.
We do a craft activity for every sound in our phonics. This activity always involves cutting as it helps us to improved our cutting skills and strengthens our hands. It also helps us to focus and builds on listening for instructions. Look at the concentration we put in.
We listened to the story called ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and then we followed it up with ‘What the Ladybird Heard Next’
It got us thinking that we could be quite creative and make some ladybird stones while we were doing outdoor learning. We had great fun, here are some pictures. We learned about colours, symmetry, numbers, ladybirds, language and many other things. All whilst having fun and working with friends.
We’ve used our imagination in many ways. We’ve been explorers looking for treasure, finding long lost animals and even hiding from robbers.
Exploring hasn’t been everyone’s cup of tea so there have been some inventive cooking classes and meals made during our time outside. From grilling sausages and pasta……
to making soup and other glorious recipes…….
with all ingredients foraged from the forest!
Then cooking hasn’t been for everyone either. Being in the south mainland and having many farming opportunities, the hairst has been a very busy time!
Tractor and combine harvester designs were discussed before the final model chosen and made. Crops were harvested and taken in and the staff were given many lessons on what to do and how to help with this busy time.
Next, the sheep have to be ca’ad…..
