We began the week thinking about kindness. We had a lovely assembly from P5 last Friday all about kindness and we have been thinking of ways in which we are kind already and what things we could do to be really kind to each other. We practised our detailed drawing as we drew pictures to show how we can be kind, F did a fantastic drawing of him helping his dad with the washing. It is very clear from his picture what they are doing, they both have very big smiles too 🙂 for this reason, F is our ‘star writer’ this week.
In literacy, we have been learning the sounds ‘u’ and ‘b’. We came up with lots and lots of ‘b’ words with our chatty partners! Some of us have been writing words, sounding out the letters.
In maths, we have been doing more addition and have begun to learn addition facts so that we can recall answers without having to count objects. We have been learning all the ways of adding to 2 and 3. We will continue this with numbers 4 and 5 next week.
We also began learning about capacity. We investigated with water and different sized containers – how many cups of water will it take to fill it up? We also used cubes to measure capacity too. We looked at measuring jugs and used the numbers on the side to measure amounts. We have been using the words ‘most’, ‘least’, ‘full’, ’empty’ and ‘half full’.
We are continuing our book study of ‘Wee Granny’s Tartan Bag.’ If you haven’t heard about it yet, ask your child to tell you the story. As Wee Granny has a tartan bag and skirt we have been looking closely at tartan patterns and designing our own. They are on display in our home corner and have really brightened it up. In the story Granny, Emily and Harry bake cupcakes for a bake sale. We have been busy making cakes of our own this too, using lots of weird and wonderful ingredients found around the classroom!
It was lovely to see everyone dressed in their spotty clothes on Friday. It was great fun going to the bake sale and spending our own money. Thank you to everyone who baked and handed in donation money – it was a huge success and I’m sure we will find out soon how much we raised for this excellent cause.
Some photographs from this week:
