Firstly Happy New Year to everyone, I hope you all enjoyed the holidays I know the children did, they couldn’t wait to share all their news at check in time. We thought it would be a good idea to write a thank you letter to Santa, to tell him how much we loved our new toys.
On Wednesday we had a surprise visitor, Hamish McHaggis from Coorie Doon in the Highlands . He brought some amazing books with him. We have started to read all about his Scottish Adventures. The children are loving the new scots words from the books such as “braw”, “blether” and “peely wally”(lots more words to come!)
We created the first page of our Scottish floor book which demonstrated what we already know about Scotland.
Over the next few weeks we will use Hamish’s adventures as a vehicle to learn more about important places in Scotland such as Edinburgh Castle, Loch Ness, Glamis Castle, The Falkirk Wheel and the Islands of Scotland. We will also explore Scottish food, drink, music, wildlife, tartan etc.
In Math’s we will be exploring shape and time. We began today by looking at calendars for 2020. The children plotted their birthdays and we discussed the purpose of a calendar and how to use it.
In a previous post I spoke about the importance of Developing the Young Workforce, it is an initiative which schools across West Lothian are developing. We are focusing on Social Intelligence which can be divided into 4 parts- Communication, Feeling, Collaborating and Leading. The children had some good ideas about how they would like to lead learning in our class-
Sophie would like to lead reading groups. She would do this by encouraging her peers to sound out words and point to each word as they were reading.
Louie feels confident when identifying sounds and would like to lead others by helping them use their sounds to create new words.
Jayden really enjoys art and would like to lead some art lessons by encouraging his peers to add more detail and use real life colours.
Mark would like to lead a number talk. He enjoys solving number problems and can lead and support others by explaining necessary steps that need to be taken to arrive at the answer.
I shall keep you updated on their progress.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
