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.
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Friday 3rd December…
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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Rachel won the Pudsey Bear Design a Bandana Competition which was judged by Mainlands Mini Market. Well done! Here she is with her prize and her cupcake, kindly made by the Pupil Council. Thank you for all your Children in Need donations and colouring entries!
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Today, on the 11th of November, we stopped and remembered all the people who have died in wars around the world. We also thought about those still fighting today, during our 2 minute silence.
We looked together at John McCrae’s famous poem, “In Flanders Fields.” We copied this out very carefully in our Handwriting time and used our written work to form the background for our poppies.
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We hope you like the new image on our P4/5/6 Blog page! What a motley crew we are! We had a great time celebrating Halloween in class. We made toilet roll tube characters, wrote spooky story starters, created a pastel crayon bat picture, enjoyed a special Halloween themed lunch in the canteen and took part in a co-ordinates Trick or Trick game in the afternoon.
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We have had a super last day of term! Here’s what P4/5/6 have been kept busy with!
First thing, we all did a Double Doodle Soft Start activity. Double Doodling is a great way to be creative, relax and stay in the present moment, only concentrating on where you want to guide your two pens. You draw with a pen in each hand and use them simultaneously. What one pen draws, the other mirrors. This activity is a fantastic way to engage both sides of the brain so is particularly useful before written or reading tasks. Why not watch the clip in the link and try this at home too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNzVn0BF9Ow
Once our brains were active, we continued to write our National Poetry Day poems. We are still typing these up but hope to share them with you soon. Here are some starting lines to whet your appetite!
If music had the power to heal the world I would … play the piano and the piano should give the world hope. (Scott)
If music had the power to heal the world I would play every note, sing every song.
Think of the words to nature’s tune. (Georgia)
Every time a note is struck on an acoustic guitar,
A bit of litter is replaced with sand, so fine and smooth. (Ruben)
We were in for a musical treat after break when Joy came to do drumming with us. We even managed a dance outside as we moved and drummed to a Swahili song.
The afternoon saw us reflecting on what we’d enjoyed about Term 1 and what we need to keep working on next term.
Then we got the oil pastels out and created a moonlit sky background ready for a Halloween picture first week back.
It’s been a pleasure spending this term with you all! Have a wonderful holiday!
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We had a long wait today until Freya came back with news about how she got on at the Young Fiddler of the Year competition! We were excited to hear all about it and she was delighted to share her certificate with us. Well done Freya! We are all proud of you! 👏
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What have we done today? It’s been a busy day with lots going on!
First the class went to see Mrs Inkster for their Music class. They have been working on, “Wonderland Tea Party Rhythms.” This has involved them using different phrases to help them clap out the rhythms. Then they saw how these rhythms looked in musical notation.
Grammar was waiting for them on their return! Different groups were looking at different aspects of grammar… speech marks, homophones using dictionary work and proper adjectives.
We took advantage of the nice weather to go outside to measure larger areas in metres and centimetres. We found keeping count of the whole metres the hardest part when measuring the length of the multi court! Tomorrow, we will try using the trundle wheel some more and we’ll look at the different ways these measurements can be recorded.
The afternoon saw us quietly reading…always a relaxing, enjoyable time! Then we wrote out our, “Diamond 9 Skills for Teamwork,”ideas. We worked on these last week, deciding in small groups, which skills we thought were most important when working together. See the photos below.
Lastly, some pupils went through to Mrs Inkster to let her hear their voices ahead of choir starting up again. She was very impressed!
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Over a few weeks, we have been working on our class charter. First, we talked about the work of the United Nations which then led us to look at the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. There are many “Articles” in the convention but we focused on the main ones that we felt were important in our class. We chose those that fitted – Be Heard, Be Ourselves, Be Healthy and Be safe. We worked in groups to say what this would look like in our class as we learn together. We gathered everyone’s ideas and these were turned into statements that we are going to try our best to abide by in class. 🙂
There was also a discussion about what the children want their teachers to try to provide. Mrs Henderson and I will work hard on these too and we’ll try our best not to let you down. 🌞
Please see pictures of our Class Charter below.
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A huge well done to Inara, Jade, Georgia and Lily who put themselves forward for Vice Captain of their House Team. They all thought so carefully about what skills they can bring to this role and spoke so well about their interest in the committees they will be involved in. It’s not easy to deliver a speech on Teams to the whole school but they were all so quietly confident and handled the occasion brilliantly! Good luck to you all. It’s a hard choice!
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