This week we have been really busy completing all of the tasks that Trex asked us to do. We took a walk around the school grounds to look for the different things in our local area. We saw shops, another school (Dedridge Primary), the park, the Lanthorn and we recognised the path that would take us to the pond. After our walk we had a look at all of these different landmarks on google earth – this was lots of fun! We then made our own maps for Trex. We gave each different route we created a number to help Trex find his way around our local area.
We had a fantastic afternoon at the park on Thursday. The children wanted to bring in their own teddies to meet Trex so we decided to take our teddies and Trex to the park together. When we were at the park we all played so well together. We shared the apparatus and took turns too. We also spoke about ‘stranger danger’ and we know that we should only speak to adults that we know.
Thank you to all who sent in photographs of your houses and your address. We had so much fun looking at our houses on google earth. We then used the photographs of our houses to paint our own representation of these. Our painting skills are constantly improving. This week we were working on using the correct amount of paint on our brush and ensuring we cleaned our paint brush properly so the colours didn’t mix together if we didn’t want them to.
Last week, we went to the library and took out some books which we would like to read in class. We have enjoyed reading our own books in class this week and sharing our books with our friends too. Ask your child what book they took out from the library?
Do you remember about our letter from Trex last week? Trex told us that his baby brother was going to join our class. Well… you will never guess what has happened this week! A nest with an egg in it has appeared in our classroom. When we came into our classroom Trex was watching over the nest so we think it must be his baby brother that is inside the egg. We are so excited about the egg hatching, we keep checking on the egg throughout the day to check it is safe. This week in our writing lesson we wrote stories about what we think Trex’s baby brother might look like. Our writing is fantastic and well done to Adam our star writer this week!
Our numeracy skills are constantly improving and this week we participated in some fun activities to improve our numeracy skills. We are becoming much quicker at recognising random dot patterns and we loved using sand trays to work on our number formation too. We played the caterpillar ordering game on the smartboard. Search for this on your device at home too to play this game. We are continuing to work on our ordering of numbers, we used numicon and lollipop sticks to order our numbers this week. Can you believe that we are also learning about addition too! We are clever clogs in primary 1!
A big well done to Kerr who joined Mrs Purdie for ‘hot chocolate with the head’ today. Kerr always works hard and is a good friend to everyone in our class. A well deserved treat for you, Kerr.
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Meechan
Sophie had lots to share with me this week, she loved taking skye to the park. She was particularly keen to tell me about the counting dinosaurs number worksheet! Sophie can now also count in Spanish she’s super proud!
Sophie thinks over the weekend trex’s baby brother is goinh to hatch! Eeeek how exciting!
Weldone kerr!!! 🙂
Very exciting week, with lots of wonderful stories being told when I pick kerr up. Liked the numeracy night and getting to join in with learning numbers. Kerr loved his treat. He enjoys spending time with his classmates and learning new things. Long may this continue. 😁
Kerr is m so jealous that you joined Mrs Purdie today, I wonder when she will let me join in especially since I have been really trying hard to behave!
You have been so busy! I love that you were using Google Earth to search for your own houses, this is such a fun thing to do. Did you know you can post photographs onto Google Earth and everyone around the World can see them? Perhaps this is something you could try with Miss Meechan.
Trex has been busy, I noticed he was in Mrs Purdie’s office today…getting a selfie!! I must ask Trex how he managed to get his invitation to hot chocolate Friday!