earlier this term the children were creating patterns with colour and shapes using a variety of resources including ICT.
They enjoyed creating their own patterns using natural materials and then printing patterns with paint.
The children loved the Song called ‘There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly’. We read the story in class, then watched a video which allowed the children to compare and chat about the differences. They sang the song in Music with Mr Travins earlier in the week too.
The Children did Drawing Club about the story and enjoyed playing with the puppets afterwards.
They set up their own puppet Show in Class during Golden Time on Friday. It was amazing to see the organisation and cooperation amongst the children. They provided seats for the audience, as well as tickets and ‘snacks’.
The whole audience joined in with the singing. I shall try and share a little video on here for you to see.
The Primary 1’s have been learning about place value using different materials and continuing to practise sequencing and ordering numbers within 20.
They have also been learning to read the number words and have played lots of games and enjoyed matching activities.
The older children have been continuing to work with numbers up to100. They have been learning about rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and also sequencing and ordering numbers.
They have been doing a lot of skip counting games and activites. Counting in 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s using lots of different classroom materials.
They have been learning about odd and even numbers, and how counting in 2’s links to doubling and halving, factions, symmetry and the processes of multiplication and division.
The children enjoyed fingerpainting arrays, choosing different multiplication cards and then writing the answers next to them
With the lovely weather the children have been outside doing some measuring as part of their maths lessons. They have been comparing objects
There have also been lots of opportunities in the classroom for measuring using different non-standard units and activities on the Interactive Whiteboard.
The Primary 2’s have been learning about metres and have also enjoyed being outdoors to do their maths this week.
They have made their own metre strips to take home. These will be helpful for next weeks homework.
On Friday mornings we have been doing some Drumming with Joy. The children have been so good at listening and trying their best with all the games and different rhythms. Their confidence is growing week by week and they are really enjoying this opportunity to learn about African music and cultures.
As well as drumming there is time for dancing, singing and a lot of fun.
The children love playing the Dunduns keeping the beat throughout the pieces they have been learning.
A few weeks ago we all went for a walk up the Strom Road to find frogspawn and tadpoles. The bairns were so excited to see them and wanted to bring some back to school.
They loved watching the tadpoles swimming around and using the magnifying glasses to get a closer look at the frogspawn.
The frogspawn and tadpoles were returned to the outdoors to grow into froglets and then frogs.
The primary 1’s made these collages demonstrating their understanding of the life cycle of a frog.
As part of their work on lifecycles the Primary !’s made these beautiful models withe their buddies after reading ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ story.
This term the children have done a lot of Information Handling as part of their maths. They have been collecting data using tally marks to sort information and create pictographs and bar charts.
They worked together to create this graph outdoors and had to answer lots of questions about what it showed.
The Primary 2’s did a great job sorting objects and numbers into various Carroll Diagrams, taking care to make sure everything got placed correctly.
The primary 1’s were learning how to spell words with the ‘qu’ sound in them. They loved this activity where they had to squirt the correct word with water as soon as they found it written in chalk on the playground.
The Children practice their phonics and spellings in lots of different ways at school. Below Imogen is playing pairs on the Interactive Whiteboard to practise the most recent sounds she has been learning.
The weather has been amazing this month and the plants are thriving as they have been well watered and looked after by the primary 1/2 class.
The older children have also been getting involved in planting and looking after the polycrub on Tuesday afternoons as part of our IDL work in school.
We had our first harvest of vegetables. There was great excitement when we pulled up a few radishes and took them into school to clean and prpare for tasting. There were not many children who liked them but they gave them a try.
