Well, on Monday Miss Henderson came into our class with a basket and red cape.  She had found it outside and immediately knew something was strange so came along to P1 to ask us about it.  As we know lots about fairytales it didn’t take us long to work out it must belong to Little Red Riding Hood and that Dennis the Dragon must have had it but dropped it. After we worked it out we listened to the story and were all very good at realising that Little Red Riding Hood should not have spoken to the wolf because he was a stranger.  Our Red Riding Hood activities continued during the week and Mrs Jamieson helped us decorate some cookies to go in baskets we decorated. On Wednesday with Mrs Spence we wrote ‘Wanted’ posters to help find the wolf and on Thursday we had a different version of the story called Little Bad Riding Hood.  She ate all the cookies on the way to Granny’s house and put stones in instead.  In the end it turned out she was a hero because the wolf ate the stones and his teeth fell out!

Our sounds this week have been ‘t’ and ‘i’ and we are doing really well with them.  Some people have started to sound out words and make up words themselves – Mrs Leamy and Mrs Spence are very proud.

Here are some of our thoughts about school:

I like doing letters and numbers – Alfie

I am looking forward to going on a trip with school – Katie

We like drawing in school – Suvi and Maisey

I like playing with the Lego – Lucas

Bye for now

P1l

This week we have been busy learning about money.  We have been identifying coins and sorting them into different coin collections.  We have made our own 1p and 2p coins and have enjoyed making coin rubbings.

In other news, we have had another visit from Dennis the Dragon, who curiously dropped off a basket, with a red hooded cape in it.  We are currently investigating who it belongs to…..

In language we are making great progress with learning our sounds and understanding how to blend them together to read small words.  Both of our teachers are very proud of us. 🙂

On Monday, Mrs White came to our class with a package addressed to us.  Inside the bag, was one glass slipper! Dennis wrote us a letter and asked us to find out who the slipper belonged to. 

As a result, this week in class, we have been exploring the story of Cinderella.  We acted out the story using masks, made wanted posters for the owner of the glass slipper and designed outfits for a prince and Princess.

We wonder what Dennis will find next…

We have had a great week!
We finished painting in the style of Jasper Johns to create a 3D painting of the American flag.

By Natalie Reilly

Lucia said that she “enjoyed painting a famous American in the style of Andy Warhol”.

Daniel T said that he “liked learning about 3D shapes”.

Ashley said she was “enjoying her book The Bread Winner because it is really interesting”.

We took part in a flag and capital city challenge. Our class winner was …..Ewan Burns! Well done!

Next week we will be preparing for our assembly.

This week we have been learning about how to build houses. We know the different people we need to help build a house and we put the stages into the correct order. We also have been learning how to write instructions and used different openers to write instructions about how to build a house. In topic we have also been learning about how to sell houses. We designed our own posters and have turned part of our role play area into an estate agents.

   We have been having fun in maths this week as we have been learning about symmetry. We have been painting symmetrical pictures and have been cutting out different symmetrical patterns.

Molly: I enjoyed music this week. We were using instruments to follow the beat of some different songs.

Lucy: I enjoyed writing in my review jotter this week. I said that I have been learning about capital letters and full stops.

Freddie: I have been learning about symmetrical shapes. I made a symmetrical bat!

This week in P6a we have been learning more about the stories of the skies and how to spot constellations. We are so good at this that Miss Anderson challenged us to design our own constellations and write our own stories to explain these constellations. We all wrote a different story.

Taylor’s story was about a giraffe that had a neck that grew so long that his head ended up in space.

Ellie’s story was about a shark that was different and wanted to visit space.

Adam’s story was about a cat that wanted to go to space. A dog chased the cat and the cat ended up in space.

Callum’s story was about a dog and a human that went to space and got super powers.

Kai’s story was about a dinosaur that had a fight.

In maths this week we have been continuing to learn about fractions and multiplication.

Taylor – I find my times table work quite easy as I know the quick way to do the 9 times table.

Ellie – I thought that the 2 times table was easy.

Adam – I thought that maths was easy and I liked it as I now understand fractions a bit more.

Callum – I think fractions are easy after a few weeks as we do more work on fractions.

We have also been working on our assembly songs and writing our scripts.

Taylor – We had fun writing scripts whilst sitting on the comfy couch.

Ellie – I found the songs fun, particularly Variations in Space.

Adam – I quite liked singing because the songs are catchy.

Callum – The songs are really good.

Achievements

The class have been getting on better in the playground and have been playing football sensibly. Callum thinks that the new rota is good and leads to less disagreements.

We also think that the playground is getting tidier – it is everyone’s job to keep it tidy!

Quite a few of us received our new instruments – how exciting!

Finally, we all enjoyed the coffee morning this morning!

Miss Anderson and P6a (and in particular the Mars Mallow Mountains) 😀

This week, in our ‘Freedom?’ topic, we decided to stand up against King Edward and fight for our freedom. We chose to fight on foot alongside William Wallace. We felt confident with him because he was a brave fighter and a strong leader.  There was a huge battle at Stirling Bridge, a lot of blood was shed but we were victorious even though the English army was four times bigger than ours! Thanks for the tip from the future, Josh – we may not have survived the battle had we chosen to fight on horseback alongside Andrew Murray!

From the Blog Post Box:

This week I was proud of…..

…myself for winning so many gem points for the table.                  Craig

…the newspaper article I wrote about the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Ava

…the work I did on place value. We were exploring numbers up to 1,000,000!                       Emma C

…my handwriting because I did more than triple the amount I needed to do. I got to Step One with my Dojo points. I was very proud of myself this week.                 Cameron

…the effective headline I wrote. It got displayed on the wall.                        Abby