We had a super Christmas lunch in the classroom. We played Christmas songs while we enjoyed good food and company! Grateful thanks to the cooks for all the effort they went to.
Our class is beginning is get ready for Christmas. Each morning, we open the light bulb advent calendar we made and we also learn a new “sign” each day when we open a door on our Signalong calendar. We are taking part in the reverse advent calendar again this year and want to thank you all for your kind donations to the Shetland Food Bank too.
We started our day with a reading session. Lots of quizzes were taken with some great scores being recorded! We’ve had a new delivery of books from the Sandwick School Library so lots of pupils had a look through them and chose stories that they think they will enjoy. We have some very keen readers in P4/5/6.
We are working hard on handwriting in the class. Some pupils worked alone on joined sentences while others copied my examples from the board. Getting to grips with joining can be tricky but all pupils worked hard and did not give up! It was great to see their confidence grow in just one short session.
Maths time was spent exploring 3D shapes and their nets. We built up various shapes using construction, then folded it flat so that we could see how we needed to draw our own nets on squared paper. There was a lot of learning in this activity! It didn’t always work out but we spoke about how we’d improve on what we did next time!
After lunch we looked at two Christmas cards and spoke about the different themes that appear on them. The class have been asked to look out for this over the coming weeks at home. Do the cards link to the Christian faith and festival of Christmas or are they more winter themed with images of Santa, snowmen, robins and things we associate with this time of year?
Then we started to think about creating a Christmas card to take home. We painted the background ready to start decorating next week.
We took advantage of the calm day to go outside for a longer Class PE session while Ruben and Ryan grabbed the chance to rehearse their guitar pieces for our Christmas Play in peace and quiet. Two of our violin players also celebrated success in their individual lessons. See the photos below!
Have a lovely weekend all!
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Innes is hoping to find a treat in his advent bulb!
We used nets to create our 3D light bulbs.
Beautiful joined handwriting!
Last week we explored 3D shapes using tooth picks to create the edges and play doh to hold it together. It made it easy to count vertices.
It was tricky to get the shapes to stand up. We needed patience and sometimes, a friend to help hold our structures up!
Rachel was pleased with her triangular prism. We’ve talked a lot this week about the difference between pyramids and prisms.
It’s good to work alongside friends on your Maths!
More complicated 3D shapes were easily made using the Geomags.
Our recent measuring topic came in handy as we had to draw lines of the right size, using the squared paper as a guide. We had to work accurately.
Ruben quickly realised he needed to use a protractor to measure the angles so he could draw his net accurately.
Gluing the tabs and sticking them down was tricky!
Eilidh’s construction cube and her completed net.
These two budding musicians have now moved on to playing first finger! They are very proud of themselves.
Look for the different types of Christmas cards coming into your homes over the next few weeks.
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