Happy New Year from P2A. We celebrated the new year by singing Auld Lang Syne and looking at different ways people celebrate.
We also set ourselves a very special homework task. We had another visit from the Kindness Fairy as she wanted to check we were still following our kindness promise. We talked about acts of kindness and we each picked a kind thing that we are going to do this week. On Friday we all shared the kind acts we have been doing. Miss Mudd was incredibly proud and even awarded us with a kindness award! Being kind is one of our school values so it is important for us to show kindness all the time.
We started using our traffic light cups more in class. We can use them to show Miss Mudd if we are stuck and we were using them to self-assess our writing.
This week we were talking about what makes a good learner. We drew around one of our bodies and filled it with our ideas. Here are some to share with you:
- Listening skills
- Concentrate
- Ask questions
- Keep trying your best
- Show resilience
- Be confident
- Be positive
- See mistakes as good things
- Share your ideas
We then thought of examples of when we have shown some of these qualities. We realised that we can all be great learners!
We also started turning our classroom into the Isle of Struay. We turned our reading corner into Grannie Island’s house, we added a Post Office to our role play area and we built the Redburn bridge.
On Thursday we joined P2B for some Cosmic Yoga. We had to follow instructions and listen carefully. We stretched our bodies and developed our balance.
We have also changed our Dojo skills this term. Miss Mudd has linked them to our school values so we can earn dojo’s for showing our values.
Hope you all had a lovely break. It is nice to be back and we have an exciting term ahead!
Miss Mudd and P2A x
