P4a 30th November

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

It’s almost December!!!

Thank you to everyone who attended the school Christmas Fayre on Saturday. You all seemed to have enjoyed yourselves! We have now sold the majority of our ‘Penguin Footprint Prints’, there are only a few left so if you haven’t got your child’s one yet there is still time to purchase it. We will let to know our total raised as soon as we can.

We have been rehearsing lots for our upcoming Nursery Nativity which can you believe is next week! Tickets are still on sale and forms can be handed to any staff member – and were possible with the correct money in an envelope please! 🙂

Nativity Times on Wednesday 5th December :  AM 10am  PM 2pm

 

Christmas is coming!

The children have been busy making gifts to sell at the Christmas Fayre. The Christmas Fayre is on tomorrow, Saturday 24th of November at 10:30 – 1:30. We will be selling our lovely Penguin print canvases for £2.50. The children are really proud of these and can’t wait to share them with you!

We have also been really busy outside in the garden jumping in puddles. We suggest that the children are in appropriate clothing for this weather and ensure their bags are stocked up with spare clothes.

We would love parents and carers to come along to our Christmas Nativity on the 5th Of December, the children have been working hard singing their songs.  We’re sure you have been made to sing them too at home.

P3C Round up

Numeracy: labelling and sorting 3D shapes according to the different features.

Outdoor Classroom Day: How many shapes can you make using found objects?

Playground games in PE: I went to the shop and I bought… and Secret Squirrel.

Numeracy: making amounts in different ways.

Open Morning: Writing activities based on describing words, punctuation, verbal planning and spelling activities. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it!

 

Numeracy: making the greater than and less than symbol with our bodies to compare numbers to 1000.

We were very lucky to have a parent helper, Ms Pereira, come in to teach us all about Portugal. We made flags, danced to Fado, learned some Portuguese and I know I wasn’t the only one whose tummy was rumbling when we heard about the delicious Portuguese food. A very big obrigada from me – we all thoroughly enjoyed it!

 

 

Festive time is on its way…

With the running up to Christmas now on its way, it’s just busy, busy, busy.

This week in nursery we have been busy practicing singing songs for our nursery nativity. We are all really excited and enthusiastic about this.

We have also been really busy making prints to sell at our Christmas Fayre. Reminder our Christmas Fayre is on Saturday the 24thof November. We hope you will make it along.

This Week in P4A

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

The Lost Words Calendar 2019

The Lost Words – A Spell Book by writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by artist Jackie Morris is something we, as a school, became passionate about in our quest to become more familiar with the language of nature in our native land.

As a the result of Simpson Primary and Nursery’s celebration of The Lost Words through art, we have created a beautiful A4 calendar which we are selling to not only raise funds for our school, but also for Action for Conservation, a charity dedicated to inspiring young people to take action for the natural world.

The cost per calendar is £5.00 and order forms will be coming to you this week – the perfect gift this Christmas! Here is a sneaky peek!!

Today in P2A…

Today in Primary 2A we had a lovely surprise! One of the Primary 1 teachers from last year, Mrs MacCallum, came in to see us and ask how we were all getting on. Mrs MacCallum showed us photos of the lovely baby Finn and was surprised at how much we have grown up since Primary 1. It was a great way to start our Friday morning and we hope to see Mrs MacCallum again soon.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

P2A and Ms Brown

Autumn

Through our autumn discussions and the Floor book the children are becoming more aware of the changes in the environment. They have been talking about the leaves changing colours and how they are different shapes. Remember if you are out and about talk about the seasonal changes and anything you find can be brought into nursery.

In the middle area we have been mixing three of the primary colour paints to see what happens. This has created lots of discussions on the different changes that happen when we mix the colours in line with our autumn theme.

‘I made purple with red and blue’, ‘red and yellow make orange’ and ‘I made green, yellow and blue’.

 

      

 

The Children from both sessions had lots of fun dancing  in the nursery Dance-a-Thon! Thank you for Your contributions.

 

      

The afternoon children were involved in making a Memorial Wreath for our remembrance service the P7 will be leading. Some of the morning children took it along this morning to lay it for the service.

    

P4a Week Beginning 5th November

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

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