Although we have had a very short week as we were on holiday on Monday and Tuesday, our time in class has been very exciting. Last week we put together a wish list for some resources that we would like for our classroom, and most of the things we wanted were ordered. They all started to arrive this week.
We are all looking forward to putting our new resources to good use in class next week.
We have had a very busy week working on our maths. We have been given budget of some money to spend on new resources for our class. We looked through catalogues to get ideas of what we would like to buy. We made a shopping list of the stuff we really wanted. Unfortunately, we were way over our budget and we had to take some things off our list. We decided we wanted a numbers rug for our maths zone, and we measured the space to check the rug would fit.
We have also been working on fractions, and exploring the relationship between multiplication and division.
We made lovely valentine heart pictures using chalks and stencils.
Last week we performed a simple version of a Scottish dance at the Burns Assembly. We enjoyed wearing the tartan sashes for our dance.
As part of our Scots focus this week, we have added more steps to our dance, and now it is becoming quite a challenge, but we are all having fun learning. We have also been learning about different Scots words, and listening to stories written in Scots. Sometimes it is easy to guess, and sometimes not. We were all a bit stuck with translating “loon”.
We have been creative with our imaginative writing, and have been writing more stories for our classroom pets. We have now started to type them on the computer. We will try to put some of our stories on the blog, once they are finished.
This photograph was taken on Monday, at the front of the school. During the week, we have discussed silhouettes, and using chalks. We have made some lovely pictures using the photo as our inspiration.
“I enjoyed using the chalks – it was very messy” EC
“It was lots of fun” LM
“Nobody knew the picture was taken from our school” AD
Maths
This week we have started learning about quarter past, half past and quarter to times. We are using analogue and digital clocks. We have also been learning to use the mathematical symbols > greater than, < less than, and = equals. We are also practising rounding numbers to the nearest 10.
Burns Assembly
Today we had Burns Assembly in school. We all took part in a Scottish style dance. We wore sashes and we looked very smart.
Reading & Writing
We have been reading and writing with our class pet dogs this week. We have been writing stories about our pets, and what they might get up to when we are not in class.
“It’s always more fun to read with a dog” “It was fun writing about the dogs”
We all enjoy reading to our pet dogs, but we don’t quite have enough for one each yet. If you have any toy dogs you no longer need and would be willing to donate to our class, please send them into school. They will be looked after, and read to often.
We have been very busy using our senses this week. We had a smelly quiz where we were trying to guess what things were, just from their smell. We also had a tasting session, and we were focusing on whether the tastes were sweet, sour, salty or bitter. We found it quite hard.
We were also trying our hand at writing sensory poems. It was quite difficult as we were trying to include each of the 5 senses. It looks like, it smells like, it sounds like, it tastes like, it feels like.
We are continuing to work in maths on rounding to the nearest ten. This week we also had a visit from the Transport Police, reminding us to stay away from the railway.
