It has been great being back this week.
We have started our new class topic – Our Community.
Within this topic we are going to be learning about the jobs and skills of people in our community. The children have identified the areas they would like to learn more about;
Yasmin – Learn about vets
Amelia – Sports in Livingston
Evie – Dentists
Ibad – what are the jobs of a police officer?
Kayla – hairdressers
Amelia – working in hotels
Oliver – what kind of scientist jobs are there?
Abigail – working in the Vue cinema
Cooper – Universities and West Lothian College
Eve – Learn about St John’s Hospital
This week in Literacy we have started to use our new writing resource called Mighty Writer. Here is photograph of what it looks like.
We use the pictures, punctuation and sentence starters to build up a sentence. This will really help us with our learning about how to extend our stories to include a beginning, middle and end. It will also highlight clearly when to use punctuation in our stories. One of the main areas of focus this term in our writing is imaginary stories. Next week we are going to write about a little alien who comes to our planet for the very first time just in time to see fireworks. Have a chat with your child about what they might include in their story.
In our numeracy learning this week we have been practising our addition skills. We have been using all the concrete material in class to help us prove our answers! We then became the teachers and showed others in class how we could prove our answer. In our Number Talks we have started to use the interactive Rekenrek. Our focus for this is doubles/near doubles (within 20). Here is an example of one of our Number Talks from this week.
In PE we are focusing on Fitness. This will include core strength, stamina and flexibility. We can’t wait to see what new ideas Mr McCurdy has for us to develop these skills. Our PE days will remain the same for this term; Tuesday and Thursday.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Currie
