Month: June 2024

We had a lovely afternoon visiting our new class.

This week we used the Olympics as a theme for our lesson.  First we designed Olympic medals and then we created Olympic and Country flags using the equipment.

We had a great time in the multi doing an orienteering task. We then had an explore in the wildlife area and there was a very friendly red admiral butterfly going from one set of rocks to another, it nearly landed on us a few times.

We had a great day! Thank you to the parent helpers who counted, timed and generally helped out. It was very much appreciated. What a busy morning it was!!

“I liked watching the mini marathon”

“I liked doing the running races”

“I liked doing the jumping over the triangle”

“I liked doing the speed bounce”

“I liked playing with my friends”

“I liked everything”

To relax in the afternoon after a busy morning we decided to watch The Snale and The Whale.

We were discussing all the fun times in primary two. The pupils had so many times to talk  about, we ran out of space on the white board and had to use some mini- whiteboards to add all our ideas on to.

Some of the highlights of the year were:

• Outdoor learning – we have done lots but the favourites were the stoney beach and the burn
• Baking – pancakes and gingerbread men
• Fruit testing
• Parties
• Play
• Map making
• Swimming
• Museum visit
• Bookbug visits
• Going to the library
• Story time
• Having parents in to do maths games
• Making circuits
• Gym time

We made acrostic poems on our favourite experiences.

We have been learning more about the zones of regulation and we have been using a few fun songs to help us get into the green zone which is the zone we need to be in to be ready to learn.

Numbers Song Let’s Count 1-10 New Version (youtube.com)

Shake Break Exercise Song for Kids | Pancake Manor (youtube.com)

 

We did maths outside yesterday. We have been learning about tally marks so we went outside to record the variety of coloured cars we could see. To record it clearly and accurately we used tally marks. We have been learning that it is important to use a finger space between each group of 5. We know we can read it clearly if it is neat and has a space. We saw lots of white cars! And hardly any pink, purple or brown cars.

Meta skills we covered were focusing, communicating, curiosity and collaborating.

We had a visit from Cheryl and Naomi from Morgan Sindall to speak to us about plants. The pupils loved the videos of the exploding seeds. We saw tiny seeds and a picture of a coconut as that is the biggest seed.

They have left us resources so we can do our own planting in the next few weeks. Thank you!

We had outdoor plans for Thursday afternoon but it was REALLY wet so we decided to have an afternoon of games. What a lovely idea for a rainy day.

We read this lovely story today. It is called Amazing Me Amazing You by Christine McGuinness.  We spoke about how we are all unique and we have some similarities and some differences but we all like that we are our own people.

We loved getting fruit for snack! Lots of pupils were trying blackberries, cherries, kiwi, melon and plums for the first time. I was so impressed with how keen they all were to try new fruits.

Thank you to Grays and Tesco for the yummy fruits!

We had great fun in PE today, taking part in an obstacle course to develop agility, stamina, coordination, balance and many more skills athletes need for all sports.

P2A have been using visual information to help them compose drawings of under the sea. They will use wax crayons to colour some details and paint washes for the sea and sand.

We have been making Road Safety posters in P2a.

We looked at this website first to have a go at the challenges and watch the videos to remind us of what we learned in term 2 about Road Safety.

Click on the link below to have a look at the useful website and play the games.

First (P2, P3, P4) – Road Safety Scotland

 

We had a great time orienteering in the wildlife area today. We had to look for 8 fruits and could only do one fruit at a time. We all had fun! The winners were Conan and Tymon finding all the fruit fastest!

This kind of task certainly covered a few of the meta-skills we are thinking about at Sound School. We were focusing, adapting, using our initiative, communicating, collaborating, leading, sense-making and critical thinking.

We’ve been learning a song called ‘Frog in the Meadow’ and keeping a steady beat by using our bodies. In the song, there are four beats at the end where we had to jump like a frog. Each time we sang the word ‘glumph’ we had to show one beat of music with one frog jump. This led us on to the popular song of Crazy Frog which the class absolutely loved! Here we are doing some movement activities to the song.