In our committee group this week we discussed what’s going well in both digital and play in our classes, we also talked about what we would like to see in our classrooms going forward.
We made a two stars 🌟 and a wish 🪄for each class. Using our collaboration skills to decide what our wish would be for our class. It was helpful to all about what other classes use digital for and how we play in class.
We talked about how we learn better when we are having fun 🤩 or playing together. This inspired us to make posters to put up around the school to remind everyone why play is important.
Primary 1 have had lots of fun exploring den building skills. Working as a team we created some very unique dens. We had to think carefully about where to set our dens, what we would use and if the dens to survive a full day. This involved lots of collaboration and creative thinking skills, as well as lots of fun 😀
We have been enjoying our topic, Scotland, 🏴and this week we have been learning about Robert Burns and in particular enjoyed the poem To a Mouse 🐭 . In PE we have also been learning some Scottish dancing, everyone has enjoyed this and showed good skills in learning the dances.
During outdoor learning we ventured to the local woodland area where our learning focus was on pH testing on natural objects, we talked about the pH scale and tried to predict where each item would sit on the scale.
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After exploring the Bible story of Noah and the Ark this inspired our art activity for the week. We created painted rainbows 🌈 and added texture to them with cotton wool ⛅️. We thought about the story of Noah and how God wants us to listen to him even if others try to convince us not to.
A few of us have been suffering from colds and coughs this week but everyone has been such good troopers engaging in all learning activities. We hope everyone has a restful weekend to recharge for more learning next week.😉
What a fantastic time we had during our Food Technology session. The pupils decided they wanted to make ‘Monster Burgers’ with scary faces and tasty teeth. Well done to all the pupils who flipped their own burgers, used different food textures and sniffed and tasted everything, they cooked. A very responsible class who cleaned and tidied up after themselves.
At the beginning of the new term we had our business meeting to decide what we wanted our house corner to be. Jenson chaired the meeting and Macie took the minutes. Everyone had lots of great ideas but in the end, after a fair vote, it was decided to turn it into a Starbucks. Everyone has been busy designing and creating different parts of the coffee shop for play. We designed the outside and inside, we have a drive through window with a headset to speak to the customers, a road and some cars. We made menus, snacks, cakes, drinks, ice cubes, a fridge for storage and lots more. We look forward to having lots of time to play and learn in our new area.
We have had a very busy start to the new term.
Out new IDL topic is Our Community. We started by looking at the difference between our wants and needs. We now know that our needs are the things we require to live and be healthy whereas our wants are things that make our life more comfortable.
We then investigated the services that are available in our Community to help with our wants and needs.
Jorja – We have a doctors surgery
Siena – We have fire fighters
Amber – We use the Vets
Jenson – There is a police station
Evan – We have shops for food
In maths we have started our work on Multiplication. We used lots of practical equipment to help us learn different strategies to help us. We can use repeated addition, skip counting and arrays. P3 have been working on the 2 and 5 times tables and P4 have been working within the 3 and 4 times tables.
In outdoor learnings we went for a nature walk and made alphabetical list full of the stuff we saw🌳
Adam and his friend Anna came in to teach us about a Ghanian-monkey called mangabey and they’re also sending letters by us to a school in Ghana🇬🇭🐒
In physical education (PE) we,ve been focusing on fitness and gymnastics .for fitness we’ve been learning how to use our core muscles 🏋️and in gymnastics we’ve been learning how to do rolls🤸♀️
In numeracy or mathematics we’ve been learning how add,subtract,and times fractions by finding the lowest common multiple🧮➕➖✖️
In Scot’s language we’ve learned how to make a rhythmic poem using Scot’s language like Aye,Naw,Dreech,Rammy,and Eejit and we’ve found out the meanings for many other words🏴🗣
We have had a ball outside…lots of muddy play! We have also enjoyed sensory time in class….with flour, popcorn, oats and crispies…yummy tactile fun!
Our learning is coming on a pace too…some of us are working on our numbers 11-20!! Our pencil control is wonderful too…and we are learning to recognise and follow instructions for colour and pictures.
It’s good to be back with all our friends😊 and something to do after 2 weeks off!🥱
We’ve been up to a lot of learning and we’ve been manly focusing on maths,literacy,and spelling📚
In guided reading we’ve got new books for the topic of world war 1 and we’ve learned many facts!📖
In math,s we’ve been learned to add and subract fractions by finding the most common multiple🧮In outdoor we’ve been learning how to cooperate with the outdoors and mixing our human bodies with life🏕
The New Year got off to a brilliant start this week in Ness. Getting back into our routines helped focus our minds back to enjoying time with our learning friends.
In reading, we have been exploring non fiction texts. In writing, we have been focusing on New Year Resolutions and presentation. Our Number learning is multiplying by 2 and 3 this week. We are also linking this to repeated addition allowing us to go beyond 2×12 and 3×12.
The highlight of our week was baking today. Our class chose Shortbread biscuits and we look forward to tasting them tomorrow.
