Just in case you haven’t seen the snow day activities on ‘Class Dojo’.

PLAY IT!
Play on Sumdog at
www.sumdog.com
Play a board game with a friend.
Design your own board game and play it with a friend.
Play charades with your family.

READ IT!
Practise your reading.
Write a book review.
Design a new front cover for a book.
Choose a favourite character, draw them and use “wow” words todescribe them.
Create a poster or leaflet based on the subject of a non-fictionbook.

ENJOY IT!

Look for signs of animal tracks out in the snow, can you identifywho made them?
See how big a snowball you can make – measure around it inhandspans or cm.
Go for a winter walk and look for signs of winter.

MAKE IT!
Make an animal out of snow and take a picture of it.
Create a winter picture.
Can you create a symmetrical snowflake?
Make up a winter-themed song and sing it to an audience.

Above all, don’t forget to enjoy the snow!

If you’d like to leave a  comment I’d love to know what you’ve been up to!

Good morning P3/4. I hope you are having lots of fun playing in the snow.  As soon as I’ve finished some marking, Nikki and myself are planning to build snowmen as well as snowball fights. Please feel free to write a comment and let me know what you’ve been up to throughout the day.  Thanks Mrs Sinclair

For Scottish Maths week we have been designing place value monsters to show our teacher our understanding of place value.

For Roald Dahl day we watched a video clip of the BFG catching dreams and then we wrote our own dreams in a dream jar.

IDL: We have been learning about the different inventions of Alexander Graham Bell such as a metal detector, as well as a device that can separate grain from husks and not forgetting the telephone.

Star of the Week (photo to follow)

Cameron Coward for always trying his best.

We have done so much at the beginning of health week that we wanted to let everyone know about the special activities we have been doing so far…

We started health week yesterday by inviting Mrs Stewart to join us for our daily mile.  We had a talk from the ladies from Childsmile who reminded us how to brush our teeth correctly and gave us a chance to brush Dexter and Yoshi’s teeth.

After break we did some multi-sports in the hall as well as having P.E. with Mr Muldoon in the afternoon!!

Oskar liked doing the daily mile and Izaak enjoyed having a chance to brush Dexter and Yoshi’s teeth.  Abi has liked all the activities especially trying to throw the small hoops into the big hoop.

Today our morning started with ‘shake and wake’ in the hall as it was too wet to be outside.

We then did more P.E. with Miss Campbell.  Chloe and Niamh both said they enjoyed the races (I think the egg and spoon was a favourite!) and Charlie liked doing hockey.

Next we took our teddies to learn how to save a life.  We were shown how to do CPR by pushing down on our teddies chests and talked about how to call an ambulance.

We did our daily mile by walking round the school so we can keep up with our Bankton marathon challenge and finished this with a visit to the fire engine that came to the school.  We all had a turn sitting inside even though it was very wet outside!!

Health week has been very popular so far.  Here are some of the children’s thoughts about it…

“It’s been super fun and by the end of the week I will be exhausted because of all the fun!”   Cameron Ch.

“Health week is the best week ever!”  Casey

“I like to play sports so I don’t want health week to end!”  Jamie

Spelling Homework Week Beginning 22nd May 2017
Spelling Bees
Read Write Inc Unit 3
Speed Spell
• could
• there
• want
• was
• would
• what
Spell Zone
• sloppy
• funny
• boggy
• muddy
• nutty
• spotty
• runny
Spelling Stars
Nelson Grammar Unit 21’all’
Speed Spell
• could
• there
• want
• was
• would
• what
Spelling Zone
• all
• ball
• Call
• fall
• hall
• tall

Maths Homework – see jotter
Due Back 30th May 2017

Thanks

Homework Week Beginning 15^th May 2017

Spelling Homework

Spelling Bees: Design a poster to explain the soft ‘c’ rule.

Spelling Stars: Design a poster to explain your spelling pattern o-e.

Spelling Wizards: Colourful Letters

Maths Homework

Keep practising your times tables and division facts using your poster or ICT games such as

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

topmarks – speed challenge

Due Back Tuesday 23rd May 2017

Thanks

Mrs Sinclair

A lesson we will never forget!

This morning we took a bit of time to reflect on our learning from last week and to think about what we are looking forward to learning about this week.

Ryan enjoyed starting to learn about Roman houses last week and Alexander is looking forward to finding out more about the Romans and their houses this week.

Sandee was pleased with her work on adding 2 digit numbers last week and is going to build on those skills this week.

Chloe and Jodie are both looking forward to their learning in maths this week.

Niamh was pleased with her ability in gymnastics last week as she thought she was doing things better.

Paul is enjoying the challenge of thinking of different strategies in number talks to help him add 19 to different numbers.

We are all looking forward to a busy week of learning!

P2/3 had great fun yesterday for World Book Day.  It was fantastic to see so many different book characters in the classroom.

At assembly we had chosen a group to perform a drama based on The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.  They performed confidently and we were very proud of them.

In class we developed our team work skills when we completed the World Book Day Quiz.  Mrs Thomson was impressed with our knowledge of different books and we found some new books that we would like to read.  We assessed our team working skills at the end and decided that we still need to work on this.  We hope to develop our skills further over the next few weeks.

We created book covers for our favourite books after reading Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book and enjoyed it when P7 came to visit and read with us.  All this and having to be prepared for the reading alarms that kept sounding during the day kept us busy!