The Fantastics and The Cool Kids had a really busy morning with Mrs Sutherland and Mrs Stevenson.

First of all we did a recap of The Smartest Giant in Town. This was one of our Word Boost books and we did a check up on the important vocabulary we learned.

Here are our boost words – smart, comfortable, match, perfect.

Mr Thompson came into the classroom and we agreed that he looked smart. One of the boys said that his joggers and fleece are comfortable. Skye has a cardigan and pinafore that match. Mrs Stevenson’s gardening club is perfect.

We looked at some very odd pictures. We know that if something is odd it is a bit weird or strange. Can you see what is funny about all of these pictures? We had a good discussion and wrote a sentence to describe each one.

We also worked with Mrs Stevenson to start making up one of the jigsaws that we bought on our trip to Waterstones. There was lots of discussion about corners, sides, colours and pictures. We had a problem to solve as there were two pieces missing from the outside! What could we do to solve this we wondered? We decided we could check that we did have 100 pieces and we talked about the quickest way to count. It all worked out in the end!

One of our P6 pupils has been busy over the Easter holiday! Isn’t this just a fantastic representation of Coraline, with lots of detail? What a great way to extend literacy learning. Visualisation in action.

In the Rainbow Room yesterday we were able to watch Authors Live with Martin Brown, who is the illustrator of The Horrible Histories.

We have been learning lots about books recently, and we know that an author is a person who writes books, and an illustrator draws the pictures.

We had a discussion about what it means when things are DIFFERENT. Sometimes it is easier to remember that things can be THE SAME or NOT THE SAME.

We were practising following instructions to draw book characters. We had a go at drawing some lions. Are they all the same or not the same? Have a look at the detail that we were able to put in to our pictures!

The children from Mrs Sutherland’s groups had a lovely walk in the sun yesterday morning. We set off with Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Snowdon to meet Dianne at the library. We checked our books back in and Dianne helped us to find new ones by showing us where everything is stored. It was really useful as we know now where to find non fiction books, comic books and picture books. We got to take a new book back to school.

Mrs Sutherland also found some books for the older children who might find reading a wee bit tricky.

Here we are enjoying our reading!