– about the different types of clouds, specifically Cirrus, Stratus and Cumulus. We went outside cloud spotting to see the formation and position of these in the sky.
– the 3Rs of recycling in our eco vertical groups.
– with Mrs Millar we have been singing the alphabet in French as well as finding out about Papa Noel (Santa)!
– Primary 2 have been rehearsing the songs for the nativity. Anton’s favourite is Donkey Plodding and Jack really likes Wriggly Nativity. They are looking forward to performing these during Wednesday’s performance.

This is what the children in P3A have enjoyed doing this week

Science – we did an experiment with an ice cube, water and salt.

We were challenged to lift the ice cube up with a piece of string without touching it!  Most groups manged to do it! WOW!! (sorry no pics as my camera not working).

French – we learned the alphabet in French with Mrs Millar

Early Intervention – we have been learning the magic e spelling pattern and one group learning when to use Capital Letters.

Numeracy – Circles – using ten rods and units to depict larger numbers. Also writing these in numbers and words.

Triangles – matching up words to numbers up to 100.

Squares – doing addition sums within 20 using a 10 frame and cubes

Reading – the Reds have enjoyed using different voices in their Play.

We have also been writing and drawing Character Studies and Comprehension tasks.

P.E – we learned the Grand Old Duke of York in dancing this week. It was good fun but tiring!

As it’s December and soon time for the big jolly man in red to come…we started a Santa Beard countdown to Christmas picture. Every day we glue on another part of his beard…..exciting times.