This week we have started our new maths topic which is learning all about money.  During out and about we went to the local shop to learn about why we use and need money.  We all had a small amount of money and we had to be responsible for this.  We had to keep it safe in our pockets during the walk and we all managed this.  We then had to choose and pay for an item independently.  Miss Garland was very proud of all of us as we all did so well and behaved very well.  We have also been looking at information handling and have been learning about tally marks and graphs.  We really enjoyed doing our car colour survey outside in the sun.  We also did another outdoor learning activity for information handling and made tables and graphs on the ground with chalk and used items in the playground to make these.  Here is what Class G had to say this week:

Logan – I liked out and about to the shop.

Jake – My favourite activity was going to the shops.

Erin – We seen some colours.  I seen Miss Garland’s car and Miss Fisher’s car.

Shea – We had money at the shop.

Class G have had great fun this week.  As part of our symmetry topic we have been making symmetrical pizza.  We had lots of topping to taste and choose from.  We really enjoyed making these and then getting to eat them.  They were yummy!  We have also been learning about healthy eating and we were tasting different vegetables and talking about their looks, smell, taste and texture.  Some were popular but some were not so popular, like peppers.  Here is what Class G have to say this week:

Logan – We made pizza.  I liked eating it.

Shea – I liked making pizza.

Erin – I liked making pizza.  I tasted lots of different toppings.

Gabriel – I liked tasting vegetables.

Jake – I liked making pizza.  I put pepperoni and salami on mine.

Have a great, long weekend!

This week we have been doing maths and numeracy outdoors.  It was great fun.  We played addition hopscotch, counting skittles and treasure hunt.  The treasure hunt was great fun.  We used magnets to finds real coins in the water.  Miss Fisher tried to trick us with fake coins but we had magnets so we did not fall for her trick.  Here is a picture of the coin activity.

This week we have also been doing lots of fun activities.  It was Shea’s birthday and we had a party and have been learning new party games.  We also have been writing and drawing about our Easter holidays.  We have started our new topic which is healthy living and we have been tasting different fruits and giving our opinion.  We have looked at taste, smell and texture.  Class G have said what their favourite activity this week was:

Gabriel – My favourite part of the week was tasting fruit.  My favourite fruit was raspberry.  I have not tasted that before.

Erin – I enjoyed doing maths outside.  I liked the coins in water.

Jake – I liked planting my apple seed.

Logan – I liked tasting fruit yesterday.

Shea – I liked maths games outside.

We have had a fantastic week in Class G.  We have had so much fun learning about Easter.  We have been learning about the Easter story and have been doing lots of arts and crafts.  We made Easter bonnets and we looked great in them.  We also decorated a boiled egg and went to Balbardie park to roll them down the hill.  It was great fun and we all managed to break our eggs.  All of Class G made it to the Golden Club and we had fun at the Easter hunt. We have also been learning about Autism and were doing activities for Autism Awareness Day. We all wore blue.  Here is what Class G have to say this week.

Erin – I liked rolling my egg and the park.

Gabriel – I enjoyed float day at swimming and going under water.  We went to the park to roll our eggs.  Mines broke last.

Shea – I liked the park.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As part of our recycle topic and looking after the environment Class G went on a school trip to Dynamic Earth.  It was great fun and all the pupils really enjoyed it and learnt lots of new things.  To begin with we had a recycling workshop.  We were learning about and matching different materials.  We had to match them to the number of years we thought they would take to decompose and even the teachers found this tricky and surprising.  After that we went back in time.  We were so excited about the time machine.  We learnt all about how the Earth began and one of our favourite parts was when the ground moved.  We also liked touching the cold ice berg.  When we were in the 3D cinema we all got a fright with the scorpion and Miss Garland and Erin got covered in foam.  It was very funny.  We finished our trip with a film in the 360 degree Snowdome. All pupils behaved very well and all really enjoyed our trip.  Miss Garland and Miss Fisher were very proud and happy with us.

We started our new topic this week.  We have been looking at Reduce Reuse Recycle!  We have been learning about what we can recycle in the different rooms in our home.  We really enjoyed the cartoon about recycling and all joined in the discussion on the PowerPoint.  We have also been sorting materials into the correct bins which was quite tricky as there are so many things we can recycle.  We particularly liked talking about recycling to make compost.  Next week we will attend our workshop at Dynamic Earth which is all about recycling.  We are so excited.  We have also been looking at acrostic poems in Literacy and we learnt 2 new sounds.  Our sounds this week were er and ng. We are really enjoy phonics and do so well with all our phonics work.  We have also continued to work on our targets at swimming and we are doing great!   Here is what Class G would like to say this week:

Jake – I loved swimming.  I like the floats.

Shea – I liked recycling rubbish.

Erin – I liked going into the big school.

Gabriel – We have been practising going under water.

Logan – I liked swimming.  I can swim with one noodle.

Class G have been doing a lot of work on time this week.  We have been making huge floor clocks and practising telling the time.  We have been learning all about o’clock.  We have also been reading time based stories and playing with time based and clock based toys.  In Literacy we were pretending we lived in a castle and we have written all about this.  We also finished making our castle models.  Here is what Class G have to say this week

Shea – I made a castle.

Erin – I enjoyed going on a bear hunt in the snug.

Logan – I had one noodle at swimming.  It was good.

Gabriel – I liked swimming and how the goggles protected my eyes from splashing

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It has been a fantastic week in Class G.  We had great fun on Thursday for World Book Day.  This week we have been reading Horrid Henry’s Holiday.  The class have really enjoyed this book.  In the book Henry goes on a camping trip.  We decided to go on a camping trip.  We set up the snug as a campsite and had 3 tents and a pretend campfire using lights and twigs.  We roasted marshmallows and had some hot chocolate with cream.  It was great fun.  We all loved playing in the big tent with the sleeping bags.

Erin – We had a camping room for World Book Day.  We had Haribos to eat.  Our story is Horrid Henry’s Holiday.

Jake – My favourite thing this week was camping in the snug.  I liked the sleeping bags.

Gabriel – I enjoyed everything this week.  I liked going in the tents.  I learned how to play Monopoly.

Logan – I had a great week.  When we were camping we ate smores and hot chocolate and we had orange juice.

We have had a great week in Class G. We have been doing lots of work during Learning Across the Curriculum.  We have been learning al about castles and castle defences.  We looked at parts of a castle and have been labelling these and we also had great fun building our own castles using junk.  We liked getting messy painting these.  We have been looking at doubles in Numeracy and even though this is tricky we all managed it and Miss Garland was very proud of us.  In writing we have been looking at independent writing.  We had to make our own story based on ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’.  Our storied were great.  We had a bunny hunt and a witch hunt and they were very exciting stories.  Here is what Class G enjoyed this week:

Logan – I enjoyed building my castle and painting it.

Gabriel – I enjoyed PE. I enjoyed playing the games.

Erin – I loved PE with Mr Jeffries and p2/1.

Jake – I enjoyed swimming.

Shea – I liked TACPAC. It tickled.

It has been a short week this week but we have still managed to get a lot done.  We have been learning about the seasons and we made a season wheel.  We also have been sorting clothes into seasons and have been writing about seasons all by ourselves.  Miss Garland was very proud of us during writing.  We have also been working hard in reading and well done Logan who moved up a reading level.  Here is what Class G has enjoyed this week:

Logan – I liked learning about seasons.  I did a wheel with Miss Fisher.

Gabriel – I liked the movie for Fun Time Friday.

Jake – I have enjoyed gaining laptop time.

Erin – I have made a new friend in my new class.

This week Class G has had great fun at PE both in Balbardie and outwith.  We starting swimming at Bathgate Sports Centre and we were all very excited.  We had great fun in the pool and really enjoyed the swimming race.  In Balbardie Primary School we have been doing different ways to jump, balance, catch and throw.  Other things we have been doing in class is finishing off our circus stories.  Logan received a reward at Get Together for this as he tried really hard and wrote a great story.  Everyone in Class G worked hard and the stories were great.  In LAC we have been creating castle characters and next week we are voting for the character we will use in our storyline.  Here is what Class G wanted to say this week:

Shea – I enjoyed jumping and has the ball at PE.

Gabriel – I was really excited going back to swimming.  We were wetting our hair and face and playing hide and seek in the pool.

Logan – I enjoyed swimming.  I liked racing in the big pool.

We have had a great week in Class G.  Our phonics this week has been sh, qu and j.  We had great fun making shark hats and we all looked great in these.  We also had jelly for the letter j and we planned and had a jelly party.  Everyone had great fun!  We have also been enjoying reading and spelling this week.  We got to go outside for Spelling and use a water spray.  It was so much fun!

We have also been doing time in Numeracy and have been looking at Days of the Week.  We have also been doing number work all the way up to 1000.  We started our new topic this week which is Castles and people in the past.  We did a KWL grid and are looking forward to learning information about castles.

Looking forward to next week!

It has been a busy and fun week in Class G.  We have been looking at the Scottish Poem – The Circus.  We have also been looking at the circus theme in writing.  We made circus based characters for our stories using balloons and having been writing adjectives to describe them.  We have also been watching videos of the circus and got to make popcorn.  It was great fun.  We have also been learning about the body during Health and Wellbeing and Logan made a life sized picture of himself to label.  In numeracy we have been looking at number bonds and addition to 20.  Class G has said what they enjoyed about this week:

Jake – Telling you all my ideas (BBB).

Logan – I liked the balloons.

Erin – I liked playing with toys from home.

Shea – I liked the circus on the smartboard.

Class G have had great fun this week making their sleighs for the Christmas Fayre.  We really enjoyed putting the sweets and chocolate into Santa’s sleighs.  We have also been working hard in Literacy and Numeracy and have been working on acrostic poems in writing and addition in Numeracy. This week we began a new context for learning and have been looking at electricity.

Jake – I liked making my sleigh.  I used tape and paper.  I want to buy it.

Logan – I put stickers on my sleigh with gold glitter and candy canes.

Erin – There is chocolate in my sleigh.

Shea – I have Christmas chocolates.  I like Sleigh.

Gabriel – It was very, very, very good making the sleigh.

This has been a great last week of term for Class G. We have been learning all about 3D shapes and had great fun making 3D models. Pupils also enjoyed learning about rolling and sliding using our chute. We have also been continuing out sound topic and have been writing stories titled ‘What’s That Noise’.   We had great fun during Fun Time Friday making cakes.  We made lots of mess but the cakes taste fantastic.  Have a fantastic holiday everyone!

 

Gabriel – Me and Jake were making water sounds. We were making paint sounds and when we put the cars all over the paper it was all painted.

 

Cameron – We were rolling down shapes. We were learning about shapes.  We were learning if shapes could roll or build.

 

Shea – I helped clean the table.

 

Erin – I wrote about an elephant.

 

Logan – I went to the church. I liked it.