Literacy

What an exciting week we have had in literacy celebrating Scottish Book Week and taking home our Read,Write, Count bags.  On Monday afternoon we had our Book Bag Launch where we opened up a huge, heavy parcel that had been delivered to our classroom. Inside there was a book bag for everyone. We then took part in activities linked to the contents. On Wednesday we celebrated book week by making our own mini-books, bookmarks and designing book covers. We enjoyed some online stories on the ipad using ‘Bookflix’.

Numeracy

We continued with our studies in counting money. This week our focus was finding the correct coins to match a price tag, we also played games matching coins and counting amounts in purses. We were using the colour, shape and size of coins to help us to identify them. In our measure task this week we were using different tools to measure length in our playground. We used trundle wheels, metre sticks, tape measures and rulers. We even found a tape measure that was 10 metres long so had fun using that to measure the fence.

The Senses

Our experiment was to test our sense of smell. We had to identify six hidden scents. Some were good scents and some were bad scents! Most of us recognised the mint, orange and fish smells. However banana, garlic and onion were not so easy. Some pupils thought that garlic was a pair of smelly socks or a hamster !!

Health & Well-Being

We read a new story book called My Monster & Me and identified the different zones of regulation that the main character was experiencing throughout the story. The boy in the story had a worry but he felt much better after he shared the worry with his grandma. We thought about five ways we could help ourselves if we have a worry or a problem.

Catholic Education Week

This week we developed our understanding of our faith. We designed prayer cards after thinking very carefully about all the things we are thankful for. We enjoyed learning some new hymns to sing at Mass. Our Laudato Si task was thinking about the weather changes and how that will affect the birds in our area. We used cereal and pipe cleaners to create beautiful bird feeders to hang on the trees in our playground. We know that birds will appreciate us thinking about them.