We enjoyed celebrating World Book Day today and were delighted that Mrs Fiona Henderson could be with us to celebrate too! Our day started in the Library where we got to change our books. Then we looked at all the tatties, fruits and stones that pupils decorated as their favourite story characters. The winners are yet to be announced! We had a special Assembly where we did a quiz and were handed out our £1 book tokens. Mrs Henderson read us a story but didn’t tell us the title or show us the cover. We went back to class to draw and write down our own ideas. We all enjoyed celebrating the joy of reading!
What could this book be called? What does it look like?
P1/2 have started to prepare for World Book Day. We have read and enjoyed “Robot Rumpus!” by S.Taylor and R.Collins. Today, the children were asked to think about what jobs they would like a robot to help them with. They named their robots and started to create them using different craft materials. The next step will be to write about what their robot does for them, to accompany their pictures. Here are a few photos of our work in progress!
A Colour-Bot and Birthday-Bot in the making!
Scott wanted his robot to help him with his toy cars and Jessica wants her robot to help her keep clean!
Archie’s Number-Bot!
Every robot was different! Everyone had their own creative ideas!
Primary 2 have been finding out all about nouns. They have been taught the Jolly Phonics actions to help them remember proper nouns and common nouns and have been learning that proper nouns need to be written using capital letters. They got busy taking photos of nouns they could see all around and have been writing labels to be displayed beside them.
This is our sign for proper nouns. 🙂
We do this for a common noun. 🙂
The drum kit is something we can take a photo of. It’s a common noun.
Dunrossness Primay School is the name of a special place. It’s a proper noun.
Well done to Alexander who has completed his First Minister’s Reading Passport booklet. He has read lots of story books and factual books. He has drawn his favourite parts and has written about what he has learned. He has also recommended stories for his friends. 😀
Alexander’s favourite page in his passport.
Mrs Smith likes that you have recommended this book to a friend!
The theme for National Poetry Day this year was, “Freedom”. In P1/2 we decided to look at the freedom we have to play and how fortunate we are to live where we do and have wonderful experiences right on our doorstep. This can clearly be seen in the beautiful photos sent in to help us with this! Thank you! The P1 children used their photo to complete the, “Freedom is…” sentence. P2 wrote acrostic poems to share their thoughts. The photos and poems are displayed in the dining area so please go and have a look when you are in for your parent appointments next week.
We also really enjoyed listening to the poem, “I Opened A Book” by Julia Donaldson and we have spoken about what the poem is trying to tell us about using our imaginations when we are reading. The class enjoyed sharing their favourite book with a talking partner and drew and wrote about where their imaginations take them.
This week, we have listened to the very popular Stick Man story by Julia Donaldson. We have sequenced parts of the story and have used it to help us revise some of our sounds. P2 have enjoyed making small books with pictures and writing. We have also been using parts of the story to help us with our number work. Today, we looked at the family tree picture in detail and started to draw our own black pen pictures. Sadly, it was too wet for us to look for our own stick men in the garden! Maybe tomorrow!
Kate made a fantastic Stick Man at home! He’s watched over us all day and loved watching us draw!
Black pen pictures starting to take shape.
We had to listen carefully to instructions as we went.
Lots of detail being added in.
We are looking forward to adding on leaves and other details tomorrow.
Primary 2 have been enjoying their quiet afternoons but are looking forward to helping P1 settle into full days next week. P2 have been reading in groups and working together on alphabet tasks. They’ve been really keen to start their spelling tests and dictation work … just like P2 last year and have been learning how we need to set this out in our jotters. They have worked together on practical capacity work in Maths and have been developing their estimation skills. Topic work has been centred around lessons on Our Body and we’ve been keeping our bodies fit in class PE.
Everyone has enjoyed working together to explore capacity and trying out our estimation skills.
Dictation takes a lot of concentration to listen to the words and sounds and write them down.
We set out a cube every time we heard Mrs Smith say a word in the sentence.
The cubes helped us to remember how many words we needed to write and helped us to see where we should put a finger space.
Mrs Tait helped P2 to learn about the major organs of the body.
In class P.E. we have been working on listening to and following instructions first time and developing our ball skills.
Thanks to the glorious Shetland weather, we were able to do all our planned activities today! We started off at the Boddam play park to do an experiment on forces. Then, in groups, we had to show forces at work using the play equipment. After some time inside looking at Electricity with Mr Rose, it was back outside to do a spot of reading before we joined the rest of the school on our whole school walk. A full day of learning and fresh air!
We wanted to test what would happen if we let a tractor run down different heights of slope.
We needed to make sure the tractor would run off smoothly.
On the flat, with no push or slope, our tractor was going nowhere.
We measured how high up we wanted to start our test.
To be fair, we had to let go and not push the tractor.
A little further up.
We watched how far it travelled.
It worked well.
Measuring the distance.
We tried it again, but further up this time.
We had to measure how far it travelled.
We could easily see that the higher the slope, the further the vehicle would run.
How far will it go?
We just had to try it right from the top!
The girls had to use a force to get the spin started.
Denley and Christina had to PULL hard to get up!
Gravity is all around us!
This group had to show using a push.
Gravity pulls us down!
A steep, smooth surface was perfect to get our tractor moving!
We applied forces to make things twist.
Some pushes can be good fun!
This group had to find smooth surfaces that would make the tractor run easily and quickly.
Anders and Ryan were looking for rough surfaces that would slow their tractor down.
Testing the wooden ramp for friction.
P2 read in the sunshine. Lots of them chose to read topic books on forces.
P1/2 have been using the laptops to research French food this term as part of their Food topic. Some food sounded really yummy – macarons, crepes, baguettes and tarte tatin just to name a few. Others were a bit surprising. Have you ever tried frogs legs and snails?!
We decided that we wanted to try making some of the yummy treats for family and friends to enjoy. Once we found some simple recipes, we wrote shopping lists and began the preparations for our French afternoon. Invitations were made and sent out. Then it was time to begin making and baking! We also made a milk chocolate tarte and a white chocolate tarte but forgot to take photos!!
Roma was busy making her own notes on French food.
Ryan and Elijah worked as a team to find out about baguettes and took notes to share with the class.
P2 were super helpers for the P1s. There was a lot of information to look through and they had to decide what was important to write down.
Conor carefully looked through the recipes to make sure he had included everything in his shopping list.
Elijah read out the ingredients for Freya to add to her shopping list.
Time to begin the first crepe mixture.
Everyone enjoys cracking the eggs! Watch out for egg shells!
Conor made sure Aiden poured just the right amount of milk.
Roma takes a break from beating her eggs to check the milk too!
Leo and Freya worked as a team to pour and measure the right amount of milk.
tap…tap…tap…
Everyone was busy pouring, measuring and mixing.
Iona begins mixing all of the ingredients together.
Freya’s turn next!
Next up…mini chocolate croissants.
Roll them up….
Roma seems happy with her croissant!
When the pupils finished each croissant, they added them to the tray.
Keep rolling…we need to make more!
Georgia and Elijah worked together to lightly brush some egg on top of each one.
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.
Ruben and Ryan reading and recording titles read.
World Book Day reading…Roma and Kayla the witch!
Christina dressed as Heidi concentrating so well!
Isla showing us how much her reading skills are developing.
Friends learning together.
P2 pupils make excellent reading partners.
Reading is fun when you share a book together!
Leo was engrossed in his story!
Conor recording and rating his story.
Christina revising her Tricky Words at the end of her story.
Isla and Leo shared their stories with the class.
Sounding words out together.
Kayla enjoying our ERIC time.
Having fun while we read!
Reading in small groups.
Working together.
Sharing our book reviews we wrote at home.
Elijah asks, “What would have made your story get five stars?”
Talking about the illustrations too.
Sharing our favourite titles.
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