Author: Mrs Davenport

This week was Scottish week and we have enjoyed learning some new Scottish things this week. We explored some of the Scots language by listening to the Gruffalo story read in Scots. We then had Paula, who is Spanish read us the Gruffalo in Spanish which we thought it was very funny.

Here is a link for the Gruffalo in Scots:

We have also started our new number topic of subtraction. We played some subtraction bowling to help us remember the different vocabulary that is used in subtraction work. It was lots of fun.

We have continued with our North Pole topic and as part of Scotland week we decided to compare the North Pole to Livingston. In our reading routes groups we completed a cloze procedure about these differences. In a pair we then made posters detailing the differences in weather, clothes, housing, animals, food and travel between the two places. Have a look at our posters.

 

We have been enjoying our CLIC sessions this week and working on adding in 10’s. Here is a picture of during one of our active show me sessions.

On Thursday we had another egg delivered to our classroom and this time a note was left with it. We have put the egg in water just like the letter told us to and it is starting to crack so we think that something is going to hatch from it. We wrote stories about this and Miss Meechan thought everyone’s story was fantastic!    

We have had another busy week in P2M and we would like to share with you our highlights.

On Wednesday we had a visit to the school from ‘Travelling by Tuba’. We were treated to a performance in the morning and some of us were even lucky enough to get involved. Richard helped to hold out a tube to show how long a tuba would be all rolled out. Ava then helped to get a sound out of the pipe by holding the bell part in place. Pawel had to blow really hard into the tube to try and make a sound and Alexis even played a tune using an animal horn! What an eventful and exciting morning.

 

 

We have also been putting in a lot of effort to our nativity this week and we are looking forward to showcasing this to you all very soon. Don’t forget to buy your tickets!

We continued with our ‘North Pole’ topic and took part in a science experiment. As a class we wanted to learn about how polar bears stay warm in the cold weather. The first thing we had to do in this experiment was put our hand into a bucket of ice cold weather… it was very cold! Polar bears would be freezing swimming in water this cold so we know that they must have a special way of keeping warm. We learned that polar bears have lots of fat under their skin and they get this fat from eating seals. We put oil in 2 bags to represent the polar bear fat and put our hand in between these bags and into the water. Our hand didn’t even get cold. This is a very clever way that polar bears stay warm in the Arctic. With a partner we then labelled different parts of a polar bear using the knowledge we had gained this week.

 

On Thursday when we got to school there had been more strange things happening in our classroom. A giant egg had been left! It was left safely in a nest and there was a trail of straw coming from our garden door. We wrote stories about who we think left the egg behind and why they had left it. We then decided that someone would need to come back for the egg and we wanted to find out who. Sophie R had a great idea to set up an iPad in the classroom and fill the action overnight. You will never believe what we found…        

Our week started off by learning the ‘ch’ sound. Here is the song we sang along with to remind us of this sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juqzpgVPbTY

We are really enjoying our ‘North Pole’ topic. This week we looked at the Arctic landscape, in groups we discussed some features in a range of photographs of the Arctic. Using our ideas we gained from the photographs we drew and then painted our own landscape picture.

When we got to school on Thursday we couldn’t go into the classroom because something strange had happened during the night. Everything had been turned upside down! No one knew what had happened. We found lots of things that had been turned upside – all the tables and chairs, the books, our homework boxes, the ipads, our daily timetable, the finished work tray and even cuddles the dog! A few people thought Mrs Gardner had done this to our classroom so we tracked her done and asked her… it wasn’t her! We then thought it might have been Mrs Purdie… but it wasn’t her either! Ava thought the nasty fairy had done this to our classroom. Ethan thought it was a magical bat and Imogen thought it was a mermaid fairy with magical powers. We still haven’t found out who it was… it is a mystery but we hope it doesn’t happen again because it was very tricky to do our work on upside down tables! We hope nothing strange happens next week…

 

We worked with our friends in the class to put our class back to normal!

On Thursday we also had a visit from the SSPCA. We were shown lots of different equipment the SSPCA officers need to use to help animals. We also know if we see an injured animal to tell an adult and they will phone the SSPCA.

This week in P2M we have been working on our teamwork skills. In our ‘reading routes’ lessons we have to work in teams of 4 and everyone has a different role – reader, recorder, checker and noise monitor. All children worked great in their roles and even earned a ‘teamwork’ dojo point for their efforts.

We have also been working on the concept of measure in class. This week we were measuring a range of things using non-standard units of measure (our hands and our feet). The children had to measure the classroom door, table and cabinet using their hands and their feet. We are already looking forward to learning more about measure next week.

We were also introduced to our new topic this session – ‘The North Pole’. We created a poster showing what we already know about this and what we would like to learn about the north pole. Did you see the poster when you visited our classroom this week?

On Thursday we were writing imaginative stories. Our stories were inspired by this video called ‘dream giver’. Miss Meechan is very impressed with our writing and hasn’t managed to pick a star writer yet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXVY0cCnF_c

In our number work we have been working on counting up to 200… this is quite tricky! We have also been working on counting in 5’s. We know that when we are counting in 5’s the number always ends with a 5 or a 0. We have been singing along to this song to help us:

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Meechan

What a wonderful week we have had in P2M. We rounded off our ‘Fairyland’ topic in spectacular style on Thursday at our ‘Fairyland Ball’, thank you to all the parents who came along to support the children at this event.

Sophie R said: “I loved going to the ball as a princess.”

Before the ball we all made crowns and tiaras just like Princes and Princesses would wear to a ball.

Emily said: “I liked making crowns especially putting decorations on them.”

We also used recycled materials to create images of castles. We had to use a range of skills and resources to make these: cardboard tubes, paint, PVA glue, sellotape and paper.

Teegan said: “I loved making the castles because I like painting.”

On Thursday we used our imagination to write an imaginative story about a haunted house. We used a picture of a haunted house as our stimulus.

Alexis said: “I liked writing about the spooky house. A blood witch lived in the house I was writing about.”

Mr McCurdy was challenging us with some fitness challenges in PE.

Maliha said: “I liked climbing on the bars in PE.”

Jack: “we were squatting.”

Alexis: “I liked stretching my legs.”

Sophie YM: “I liked dancing.”

Emily: “we had a dance off with P2B.”

Please check out the blog next week for photos and videos from the ‘Fairyland Ball’.