First two weeks.

I can’t believe we are already in week 3 of term 1! Here is a look at some of the things we have been getting up to so far….

I am delighted to say that the children have settled in extremely well and have been very busy engaging in lots of different learning experiences.

Each morning we start the day with soft start; the children can choose from a variety of Numeracy, Literacy, Fine motor, Construction and Sensory activities.

We have already been introduced to 3 new sounds. On Mondays and Wednesdays we hear a story and learn a song, we then practise forming the sound in a variety of sensory activities. We consolidate our learning on Tuesdays and Thursdays with different tasks including looking for and highlighting the sound and trying to think of words beginning with the sound with a little help from our friend Geraldine the Giraffe!

In Numeracy we have been counting forwards and backwards as well as counting objects. We had fun doing this outside last week.

Our topic this term is Adventures with Julia Donaldson and friends. Last week we read Sharing a Shell. We talked about how we share and are kind to others and then came up with our class rules. We have been busy making a wall tree to display these (photos to come!)

This week we have been reading Room on the Broom. Yesterday we talked about different types of transport and had a go at making our own models using different construction resources. We showed excellent teamwork for this task and it helped us develop a range of skills including inventiveness, problem solving and creativity.

This book also made us think about journeys and today we looked at a world map and found some of the places we have visited. We then decided to write some postcards to Julia Donaldson which we will take to the post office to send on Thursday.

Today we had our first session of PE with Mr Gillies. We are working on improving our fitness and stamina.

We also had our first trip to the school library. The children all chose a book to take home which they should bring back to school next Tuesday to exchange for another one.

As well as all this we have have been practising for our Community Cafe performance with P1/2 and P7 on Friday! We are looking forward to seeing some of you there.