Over the last couple of weeks leading up to Christmas we enjoyed the opportunity to see the Primary 2’s and 3’s Christmas Singalong and we also saw the Primary 1 children perform their nativity. We thought everyone did a fabulous job. In class:

• We have designed and built Santa sleighs
• We have started to look at times tables in maths
• We wrote stories about Rudolph who’s nose had stopped glowing
• We completed some reading all about reindeer
• In French we have been learning numbers to 31
• We have completed our NYCOS work and we learnt all about pulse, rhythm and pitch

We have been very busy over the last couple of weeks. Last week we did a variety of activities for book week. We made bunting of our favourite books to put up outside the classroom, we wrote some book reviews and created ‘We love reading’ posters. In other news:

• We have been learning about road safety and played a ‘Crossy Road’ game in the playground
• In maths we have been learning how to find change from £1 and beyond
• We did some Judo
• We made Christmas tree decorations and sold them at the Christmas Fair

We have been busy working on our Enterprise topic this week. We have been developing our ideas, making prototypes of tree decorations and presenting them to the class. Next week we will need to make them so they are ready to sell at the fair. Also next week it is Book Week. The children need to bring in a favourite book to share with us in class. This week:

• We have been working on column addition in Maths, 2 and 3 digit numbers.
• We have started painting some snow globes
• We wrote some imaginative stories with different characters and settings
• In PE we have continued our work in handball
• We did some reading all about Remembrance day

Thank you to those who came to visit us on Wednesday morning for our Language Parents Morning, it was a great success. This week:

• We have been writing firework poems with onomatopoeia, alliteration and similes.
• We have been designing Christmas tree decorations which we will be making for the school fair.
• Yesterday we took part in a Danceathon
• We have been learning how to use the formal written method for addition.
• We wrote job applications for our enterprise topic.
• We started doing some handball skills in PE

We are back in school after our October break and are looking forward to a busy term leading up to Christmas. We hope to post to the blog most weeks. This week:

• We have been inspired by the painting ‘Senecio’ by Paul Klee to create our own paintings in the same style
• In Maths we have looking at mental arithmetic. techniques including the use of a number line to add and subtract.
• We wrote some descriptions of scarecrows, looking to use lots of adjectives to describe.
• We have learnt about a school in Malawi.
• We have been putting some pieces of work from last term into our Simfiles.
• We had a spelling test on all the words we were learning last term.