LEPRA

We did our LEPRA workout today to raise money to help people living with leprosy. Steph did a dance workout with the Primary 1 and 2 classes and the children put in lots of effort, earning the money they had raised. 

Drama

We enjoyed another drama session with Mrs Linklater. As a warm up we played a human body version of fruit salad. Instead of apples, pears and bananas we had skeletons, hearts and kidneys.

After that Mrs Linklater, the surgeon, came to perform an operation but before she took any body parts away, they gave us a clue about how they were useful and if we guessed what they were they got to stay in the body.

 

We then used our senses to help imagine ourselves as a character in a story, thinking about what we could hear, see, smell, taste and touch in our own versions of the story as we listened to Mrs Linklater read it.

 

 

Opposites

Mrs Scott has been working on opposites with the children during grammar time. This week the focus was opposites and the children made their own game of pairs, making pairs of words that are opposites. The winner was the person who found the most pairs once the cards were shuffled and turned over.

Joined up writing

This term we have been doing joined up writing during our handwriting sessions. So far we have joined at, all, th and ch. The children have picked it up quickly and seem to be enjoying it, taking pride in the presentation of their work.

Senses walk

We are learning about our senses this week and as introduction we split into 2 groups and went on a senses walk around the school with the ladybirds. We wrote as many different things as we could in each section and we are going to use what we heard, saw, felt and smelt to do some descriptive writing later in the week.

 

 

Sharing Sweets

We are learning to divide by sharing. Today we used sweets to help us divide and shared them out evenly. We understand that for the groups to be even they each have to have the same amount.

Mick West Duo

We were treated to a visit from the Mick West duo - a pair of performers up for the Folk Festival. We did a fun warm up with them to exercise our vocal chords using different vowel sounds. We got to join in a couple of songs and add some actions and we also enjoyed listening to them perform tunes for us.

Measuring length

This week we have been measuring the length of different things around the room using hands, feet, cubes and other things too.

 

 

The children drew lines in their books and guessed how many cubes long it would be. They then checked their guesses my measuring them with cubes.