This week the nursery children in both sessions visited the woods at the Lanthorn Pond to hide monkey nuts for the squirrels. We will go back next week to check if there is any left.
Some of the squirrels were even seen watching while we were hiding them.
Over the past couple of weeks we have been continuing to work hard to learn lots of new sounds. We have been talking about where in the mouth they are made and what colours they are. We have also been learning how to form them correctly and have been making some things at the craft table that begin with these sounds.
We are also working on sliding our sounds together to help us read and spell words. We are getting really good at this! We are continuing to work on reading and writing our tricky words too.
In maths, we have worked on estimating and have been practising writing our numbers to ten correctly. We have also been adding two groups together, sequencing numbers to 20 and jumping on the number line to add one or two more.
Last week, we enjoyed our ‘spotty walk’ for children in need. It was great fun walking with our buddies.
Our day was finished off today when Badger the Mystical Mutt made a special appearance during our assembly. We listened to chapter 1 from one of his books this morning and enjoyed drawing pictures of him and acting out some parts of the story. We were so surprised to see him at assembly today! We can’t wait to read more of his chapter book next week!
This week in P4, we have been learning about Anti Bullying week. We know that bullying is when someone is repeated unkind to you!
We have spoken a lot this week about being a good friend and we wrote a ‘recipe for friendship’.
In maths, we have been learning how to solve word problems using these rules …
1. Read the problem carefully
2.Underline the important facts
3. Draw a picture
4. Write a sum
5. Solve the problem
We also learnt how to use the bar modelling strategy to help us to see what the problem looks like.
In Science, we learnt how to make a parallel circuit.
At the end of the week, we had a very exciting assembly all about ‘Badger the Mystical Mutt’ . The authors of this book are going to be our reading patrons and we will be doing some work with them over the year.
‘I liked listening to the story she told and the Unicorn’ Samantha
‘I enjoyed Badger’s magic tricks’ Ayla
‘I liked it when the author showed us the crystal’ Katie
Josh and Emily were lucky enough to speak to the author and this chat will be aired on BBC Scotland radio on Boxing day!
Its all been very exciting!!!
