P1-3 Blog Lunnasting

This is Mrs K’s last day of term so we thought we would finish our term with a movie afternoon. We turned our class into a Mareel cinema and watched Ice Age. We put our pyjamas on and snuggled in to watch the movie. We had snacks and a drink. We have had such a… Continue reading Pyjama afternoon

We have had such a busy term. Here are some of our play highlights. We have recently started  ‘player’ of the day who gets to go round the class finding out about play. They take photographs and then we spend time discussing what was happening and how this links to our values and then have… Continue reading Term 1 – Play!

We have had a lovely week back at school. Our new p1s have settled in so well. We have been getting to know our new classroom and have spent time building up friendships with everyone. We have been busy beginning our new sounds while the p3s have been revisiting some trickier sounds. We have been… Continue reading P1-3 first week back

We have had a busy few weeks. Lots of transition going on between the new p1s visiting lots and the p3s and p4s spending time in the big class. We are all looking forward to our new classes. We have been trying out new activities in the class too and adding in lots more play… Continue reading Chocolate Tattie Cakes

Lots of play opportunities going on just now. We are really enjoying our Wednesday play themed day as Mrs Hay, our play worker is in. We spend the day on a variety of play activities as well as using our topic of significant people to do more intentional play. We have been building buses when… Continue reading Play

We have been working on our school value of Busy this week. We started off the week by getting the Redd up done at the beach across from the school and the road down to the ferry terminal. We picked up a bit of rubbish but we’re pleased that there was not too much lying… Continue reading Being Busy

We try to get out in our lovely garden at least once a week and spend time doing lots of activities. This week we took our current topic of hot and cold and did some drama around the garden. We decided to look at the Rainforest and used our garden to look at how the… Continue reading Garden Time

We have been making good use of our ERIC (Everyone Reading In Class) time and have been finding books that we get engrossed in. We are reading on our own, sharing a good book with a friend and recommending books to each other. Our library area is being changed around so we have been finding… Continue reading Literacy

Lots of fraction activities going on just now. We are learning lots about identifying and finding fraction of amounts. We have also been comparing the size of a fraction and remembering how the bigger the fraction, the smaller the portion.

We have been doing some Scottish dancing in PE. We learned some dances with Miss Gifford and in these pictures are doing a great job of Strip The Willow. Mrs Kirkness has been also been doing some dances in class to keep us all active during these inside days.