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.
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.
It is great to see the vegetables and flowers shooting up now after the Easter Holidays. The children have done a great job of looking after them so far.
The Children enjoyed listening to the Easter Story today and watching a short animation about it. After discussing the reason we roll eggs at Easter time they got to work painting and designing their own egg ready for rolling later in the day.
It was p1 versus p2 in the Egg Rolling competition. The egg that travelled furthest after two shots and had no cracks was Ollie’s.
After lunch the children enjoyed an Easter Egg Hunt in the School grounds. It’s great to be back at school.
It was great to get a visit from two spledid Vikings from the Bressay Up Helly Aa. It was Astryd’s Show and Tell this week so she got all her own Viking outfit on and brought in her dad and grandad to visit the class.
They looked fantastic and Astryd was able to talk lots about her experience of being in the Bressay up Helly Aa. It was lovely to see the three generations together and the class had a great time listening, asking questions and trying out the axes, shields and helmets.
The children have really enjoyed creating an aeroplane and airport to play in this week. They have been talking about all the different jobs and have been really good at taking turns and playing together in this area.
They love being the pilot and co-pilot and its good to have cabin crew ready to help passengers with safety and snacks. They have made tickets and passports to take on their flights with them.
Air traffic control have been guiding the plane safely and they are taking the security very seriously. They have been asking the passengers lots of great questions to see where they are going on holiday and what they have packed in their suitcases.
In class we have been learning a little bit about Chinese New Year. They have been talking about the festival and looking at photos of the celebrations.
The children loved the story of the the Zodiac for naming the Years. This is the Year of the Snake and we looked at calendars and dates in class. Most of the Children were born in the Year of the Dog or the Pig.
We set up a little Chinese Restaurant in class and the children have been trying out chopsticks.
We also had some chinese masks, costumes and other items to investigate and play with in class. Can you guess who are behind these masks?
The children loved the chinese lanterns which were hanging up and the dragon so they had a go at making their own lanterns.
The children have been learning about the ‘j’ sound this week and were delighted the jelly begins with j and they got to make some!
They did really good listening and following instructions to measure out the water and then cut, mix and dissolve the jelly.
The waiting bit was the toughest as it wasn’t until the next day that they got to eat it after it had been in the fridge overnight.
It was great to take advantage of the beautiful morning and get outside for some literacy fun. The primary 1’s had great fun playing hopscotch with words and writing with chalk on the tarmac.
The Primary 1 and 2 class created this beautiful frieze of a village in winter using coloured paper and pens.
As part of their French lessons the Primary 3,4,5 class have been learning vocabulary relating to seasons and places. They added labels to the picture and also drew their own villages to label in class. Turning the frieze into a snowy village in France.
The children were delighted to be back at school this week. They are always excited to see what is new in the classroom but mostly they are excited to see their friends.
The train set is always a huge hit in the classroom. The children work together to build some really good layouts and play together so well with the trains
As part of their numeracy work the primary 1’s have been learning about Ordinal Numbers. They did this with the primary 2’s lined up and then they had their own little tub of objects to set out in an order of their choice. They practiced using the words 1st, 2nd, 3rd …….10th to say the positions of the items in their lines.
This term the IDL topic is titled ‘Here, There and Everywhere’. The children worked in groups to discuss and plan what they would like to learn about this term. Their drawing show lots of fantastic ideas and they are very excited about leading their learning through this topic.
The children have had great fun using different materials and resources to create symmetrical designs. They have been using mirrors to check for symmetry indoors and outside and also painted wonderful symmetrical abstract designs.
They have also been learning about the 2D shapes and practised counting sides and corners. They designed their own pictures using different shapes.
We are very lucky at Whiteness to have so many fantastic resources for the children to use…..some modern technology mixed with some very old puzzles.
The Primary 2’s have been learning about which shapes can tile and which ones can’t. they found examples in and around the school and might find examples at home too. They investigated tiling using the different shapes they had been learning about.
The children have also been learning about 3D shapes and using their knowledge of 2D shapes they can describe the faces they can see. They have been learning about flat and curved faces as well as counting the vertices on the different shapes. They loved using the ‘feely box’ to describe and guess the shapes.
Again we found lots of examples of 3D shapes in the school and outdoors.
They used shapes to build models and the p1’s practiced sorting shapes into ones that could roll or not roll and ones that could stack or not stack.
The classroom has changed around a bit and they are very excited and enjoying the Halloween Shop and messy activities set up for them this week.
The children have been having fun playing literacy and numeracy games and going over some of the learning from last term.
The children started building houses in the junk modelling area and got really into it, making floors, rooms, furniture etc. They began including ‘mini-me’s into the houses too.
From this they decided to make a big town with roads between the houses.
They then began to create other buildings and areas in their town. There was a park, hospital, school etc.
The toy cars were brought out so they then built garages and even a multi-story car park.
They worked in pairs to draw plans of their towns and include all the buildings they thought should be included. It was great to see the primary 2’s labelling parts of their plans and writing names on their buildings.
The children have also been learning about different aspects of safety, including crossing the road. They did some role play in the games hall and had turns at being the lollipop person.
They then re-played crossing the road safely in their ‘town’, using the toy cars and mini-me characters.
This is the primary 2’s favourite spelling game. They work in pairs to read and write the words on the cards.
The children learn phonic sounds and practice letter formations every day. They listen to a story and a song linked to the sound they are learning and play some games on the big whiteboard.
They then spend some time practicing the formations, in sand, on whiteboards, on infinity pads or with chalk, spaghetti or in shaving foam.
The children made tea and enjoyed investigating teabags and chatting about things beginning with ‘t’. They were also outside for a ‘t’ search which was great fun. their favourite game on the whiteboard is popping the ‘ t’ balloons as they appear on the screen.
The children loved investigating the effects of mixing ink and water when they were practicing the ‘i’ sound.
The children like matching the letters to the pictures initial sounds on the big whiteboard.
The children walked down to Taing Beach on Friday and had fun exploring in the ebb.
They found lots of shells, whelks, crabs and even a sea cucumber. It was so great seeing how curious and excited the children were about their finds.
