This week we have had three visitors to take our learning forward in two areas. On Monday, we were pleased to welcome another of our class parents to the class to share their life journey. We found out about apprenticeships, and the important part that maths and physics play in his current career. We discovered that management and planning of time was important as well as independent skills. The class asked some interesting questions about skills as well as what Mr johnston’s favourite car was!  (I do love the links that go on in their brain.) Thank you Mr Johnson for giving us your time.

On Thursday, we had a visit from a five month old and her mum. We linked their visit to our learning about the GIRFEC wellbeing wheel. We talked about a babies needs, and care, keeping a baby healthy, safe and nurtured. We spoke about a babies development and what she could and could not do at five months old. One of our children had a music box which she played, and the baby fell asleep just before they left. Thank you for your visit.

In PE the children have been really pulling together their skills for benchball, they are beginning to show a greater awareness and understanding of tactics and defence skills to win the games and many are persevering and increasing their length of pass/ throw.

In our spelling word of week pocket was the word adventure, so we developed our learning with other words that ended in ‘ture’, challenging themselves with temperature and linking their learning with mature and nature.

The children are collecting facts about key Scottish animals about their habitat, food, and predators. Again, our outdoor classroom we continued tidying the back garden,  planting iris, daffodil and tulip bulbs and collecting more worms for our wormery.  We have prepared, cooked and eaten the potatoes the children found in the planters while they were weeding.  Almost all the children tasted them, and all rose to the challenge of unscrambling the method list and putting them in the right order.

The children were challenged to summarise what they have read so far in their group reading book, or were asked to find links with factual book and their reading book.

In maths,we had a go at money sums and word problems, it seems that many are a little rusty with their chimney sums but their mental maths is much better. Word problems can be difficult as they children find the vocabulary or pattern of information hard to unravel – more practice on its way!

Some of the class continued to type up their story writing while others were writing letters to Mrs Mill to ask for a loan to buy resources for making our snow globes.  I wonder if our ‘bank manager’ will say yes?

The children enjoyed learning about visiting a mosque and even learnt how to greet each other in Arabic.