Literacy

This week we learned more about ‘magic e’ and how it changes the sound in words with i and o. We created a report on cats for our writing assessment and we challenged ourselves by learning a poem in Scots about a chicken called ‘Choukie Hen.’

Numeracy

We used a book called the ‘Shopping Basket’ by John Burningham as our school celebrated a Maths through Stories week. Using this text we used cuisinaire rods as an introduction to bar modelling. It was a fun way to connect literacy and numeracy in our learning.  In our time studies this week we learned about the different ways to measure time: seconds, minutes and hours. We then participated in a few challenges where we had to estimate how many things we could do in a minute: How many teddies could we put in a jar? How many times could we write our name? How many bricks could we build in a tower?

Health & Well-Being

We thought about the different factors that affect our energy levels: the time of day and the food we eat. At home we spoke about our resilience role models and in class we watched Boundin’ and then created a class treasure book where we shared the things that made us feel happy if we were having a bad day like the sheep in the cartoon.

Science: The Sun & The Moon

We learned about the rotation of Earth which creates night and day and about the different time zones across the world.  We were excited to see the Wolf Moon on the 17th Jan and learned that it was not dust that changed the shape of the moon but the rotation of the moon through it’s monthly phases and the way the light from the sun is reflected on it’s surface.

STEM

Our challenge this week was to create new chairs for the three bears. They had to be comfortable and at the right height for each bear. We had some ingenious ideas and most of them survived the seat testing at the end!Great team work too.