Let’s start off our blog with our learning highlights this week from the children.
Elkie – My highlight was making my Highland cow because I loved making it.
Sai liked making his fact file about highland cows, his favourite fact was that their hair is so long it goes over their eyes, but it is there to protect them.
Jordon – I liked drawing Nessie because she goes under water.
Nathaniel- I liked learning about the sound x because it was easy to write!
Tadas – I like the daily 5 because it is easy for me!
Robyn – I liked learning all of our sounds, every Monday I look forward to seeing all the new letters for the week.
It’s been another busy week where we have been learning all about the Loch Ness Monster! We watched the Nessie cam but unfortunately didn’t catch a glimpse of her this time, why not have a look for yourselves at home!
Use this link https://www.lochness.co.uk/livecam/
This led to a very interesting discussion about whether we thought Nessie existed or not….. Most of us are believers! We made our own Nessie to decorate our Learning Journey wall. We had to use our scissors very carefully and we came up with some amazing Nessie designs.
In writing this week we wrote postcards to Nessie, telling her all about ourselves and the things we like to do. We all wrote at least 3 sentences all by ourselves. After reading the story, Hamish the Highland Cow by Natalie Russell, we also designed and wrote our own fact files about Highland cows and created a pastel drawing using a smudging technique to create a ‘hairy’ effect!
We are still working on the topic of Time in Maths. This week we have been looking at how we measure time. We talked about seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks. We discussed how long we thought it would take us to complete certain activities. We had a team work challenge where we had to match up activities with how long we thought they would last. 
Lennon thought this was a good challenge and Erica said it was lots of fun.
We have also been discussing the seasons and which season we like the best!
Euan’s favourite season is Summer because that’s when his birthday falls.
Jordon loves Winter the best because the snow comes out.
Ethan loves Autumn the best because you can collect all the leaves.
Kayden loves Spring because you can start to play outside.
We designed some posters to show different changes which take place in each season.
As part of our numeracy we have been examining how to double numbers. We are getting really good at doing this mentally and talking about our answers. One of our focuses this week has been how to use a number line to help us solve addition calculations by counting on. Its really easy when you know how!
Just a little reminder for the children to bring their red homework folders to school every day with their reading books. Many thanks!
