We added to our seaside this week. We painted a lighthouse to go in our classroom. Some of us also started helping to make our ‘Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ display and created light up lighthouses and paper plate seagulls! Thank you to Mrs Miller for helping us with this.
This week we were studying a book called ‘Beegu’. It is about a little alien who comes down to Earth and gets lost. On Wednesday we had a surprise visit! Miss Mudd had got a text from Mr Wells saying there were aliens spotted in our classroom. She rushed from Stirling to come and see them but must have just missed them. They left us lots of learning activities in the classroom and some tasks to do. Here are a few…..
- We were building with moon sand
- Writing with our digraphs in moon dust
- Practising our fine motor skills by using the spoons to fish out alien eyeballs from the soapy water
- At the Finger Gym we were decorating underpants with patterns using the tweezers and pompoms/beads/counters.
- Moulded foil to make moon rocks
- Reading words and sorting them into real words and alien words
We were also writing postcards from Beegu back to her family on her own planet. This was our last lesson on postcard writing so we had to try and remember all of the key features of a postcard.
We used fabulous describing words to create and describe our own aliens. We watched a short film by Andy Martin called ‘The Planets’. It is a short animation showing 12 different planets. We then created our own planets and labelled them. Miss Mudd was so impressed with our creativity. We then stood up and described our planets to the rest of the class.
We used question starters to come up with key questions that we would ask Beegu if she came to visit us. We then used ‘hot seating’ to get into character and practised interviewing Beegu.
In PE this week we continued our work on movement and ball skills. We practised using the rugby balls and did some obstacle courses and team games at the end to apply our skills. We also played some games to speed up our reaction times. We had to listen for the whistle and get up as quick as we could starting from different positions.
A big well done to all of the children who have brought in their owls for Miss Baillie’s competition. We have some wonderful entries. Here is Thomas showing us his owl baby.
In ICT we were practising how to log on independently. We played some keyboard typing games and practised our mental maths on Hit the Button.
In Maths we were looking at 2D shapes. We were talking about their properties and counting their sides and corners. We used the faces of the 3D shapes to create our own 2D shape aliens!
P2A were named class of the week! Miss Mudd is so proud of them. What stars!!
