Today marked Mrs Mill’s last day as Head Teacher at LVPS! We gave her a lovely handmade gift which you will see below and Primary four, along with the other classes in the School, presented this to her. Each flower had a personal memory from the children inside them. She will be missed by all. Enjoy your retirement Mrs Mill!
Mrs Love
In P1 this week our learned sounds were u and b and the tricky word no! Some of the children went on an environmental word hunt around the school. They were amazed at how many words they could read! For numeracy, we have been adding 1 more to a number. The children all enjoyed outdoor learning this week. We went for a walk and explored the woods; we had to look up, down, over, under and through to see what we could see. We saw the river, brambles, broom, trees, leaves, sticks, branches, slugs, beetles, pinecones, feathers, moss and the light shimmering through the trees onto the ground!
Please see below for goodbye wishes to Mrs Mill along with learning reflection comments:
Rhy-Lee – I will miss you!
Georgia – I hope you have a nice holiday.
Olivia – I will miss you!
Grace – I hope you have a good retirement!
Jack – I will miss you!
Weronika – Goodbye!
Lily – I will miss you!
Aylar – Goodbye!
Kaylan – I love you!
Ms King – Mrs Mill, I will miss your positive and motivational assemblies and your funny stories in the staff room! x
Learning Reflection Comments
Kyra – I liked going in the woods. I liked looking at stuff, I saw trees.
Oliver – playing cave games and mind craft games in the woods.
Izaan – I liked going for a walk. I saw a big dip in the grass.
Ella – I liked playing in the woods, I saw the sun coming through the trees, the light made circles.
Jessica – We went to the woods we found a little hill in the ground.
Kade – I liked building with the bricks we made a seat for Ms King!
Elyas – I liked going to the woods, I saw lots of sticks.
Caleb – I liked building stuff with the bricks. I made a seat and Ms King sat in it and read a story!
Louis – I had fun in the woods.
Alexander – I was doing a pattern.
Josh – We did the letters u and b this week.
Outdoor Learning
Environmental Print
Good Afternoon. I can’t believe its Friday already and the end of our first term. What a quick term it has been. This week in Literacy, P1 have learned the sounds ‘u’ and ‘b’ and the tricky word you. We have made a unicorn, a butterfly, taught ted how to write u and b, coloured pictures that begin with b and made words on our magnetic boards. P2 have been revising the aw, au, ir, er and ur sounds. We played snakes and ladders, played roll and read, looked for words in a word search and wrote the words three ways. We also read our reading books.
In Numeracy P1 have continued to explore pattern. We have copied and completed patterns on peg boards, made our own coloured patterns, made patterns with the counting bears, been the actual pattern(boy, girl etc.) and played patterns games. P2 have been learning to add more, find a part and have looked at finding how many left. We have completed part part whole models, worksheets and played Sumdog.
In Health and Wellbeing we explored the story of My Fantastic Elastic Brain. It taught us that we can grow our brains. We can grow our brain by doing things that we have never done before and that we find hard at first. We discussed saying I can’t do it …yet! For IDL, we worked with a partner to create a fact file about an animal. We drew a picture of the animal and found out where it lived, what it ate and about its young.
In Drama, we explored using mime to show our emotions. We worked in a pair and the rest of the class had to guess how we were feeling. In Science with Miss Whigham we were learning about habitats. We looked at how animals adapt depending on where they live.
Here are a few of the children’s reflections:
“I enjoyed completing the word search of ir, er and ur words. I enjoyed finding Miss Maclachlan’s mistake. She had put the word burn in twice. ”
“I found it tricky this week when making the butterfly. I enjoyed finding out the facts about the animals”
“I found creating a pattern with the counting bears easy. I think completing the butterfly was hard.”
“I found creating a beautiful butterfly a bit tricky.”
“I enjoyed doing my sounds word search.”
“I liked playing roll and read with aw or au words.”
“I enjoyed completing the word search.”
Have a lovely holiday.
Miss Maclachlan
What a great week we have had in Primary 5. Our first Outdoor Learning was a great success and amazingly it stayed dry for us. We had our second French lesson with Madame Moore who taught us how to say how many brothers and sisters we have. We are all very sad to say goodbye to Mrs Mill, but we have made her two lovely books to help her remember us. One is full of memories and messages, the other is the P5 Guide to Peace and Positivity which is full of great ideas to cheer Mrs Mill up on a gloomy day.
Anna – I liked Outdoor Learning. I liked trying to balance the leaf on the water and seeing if the needle would turn the right way.
Jarrad – I am sad about Mrs Mill leaving. I liked learning the hockey skills in PE.
Harris – I liked the Teams assembly today when I found out I won the decorate a mug competition.
Lakshya – I liked the Outdoor Learning when we were working out which way was North. We tried to make our own compass but it was hard to get the needle to balance on the water.
Labib – I like the French class because we were learning about how to say How are you? and What is your age? I also liked trying to make a compass in Outdoor Learning and learning hockey in PE. The RME was good too it was interesting. It was good when we played the How to Train Your Dragon game too.
Teme – I liked the How to Train Your Dragon board games when we got to play them. I am very sad that Mrs Mill is leaving.
Luke N – I feel really sad that Mrs Mill is leaving today because she was really nice to us and always had a smile.
Leo – I liked it when we were outside for an assembly to say goodbye to Mrs Mill. The Outdoor Learning was good because we did proper nature things and we made a compass. I also liked learning about RME with Mr Keast because it was interesting to find out about buildings that different religions have and are special to them. In PE I liked how we were doing hockey and learning hockey skills.
Rohan – I liked the nice and fresh air when we went for our walk in Outdoor Learning. I liked the big stairs that were muddy.
Kaitlyn – I am really sad that Mrs Mill has to leave. She was always so nice to us.
This week we have been learning, maths and we have been assessed to check our progress in place value.
We have also been doing our final draft for our recount on lockdown.
We had Madam Moore covering vocabualry on my family, such as ‘I have a brother or sister’ and ‘I dont have a brother or sister.’
We were mostly finishing off work and are really excited about our holidays and what we can do in our own time.
by Rocco, Leighton, Oliver and Rebecca W 🙂
