Room 3 Kirklandneuk: September 2015

Wonderful Work!

Have a look at our fantastic work from Term 1!! P2 designed doors for Six Dinner Sid in the style of Pablo Picasso, created detailed fine line drawings of Sid himself as well as making graphs to show pets we have in our class. P2 have also made their own prayer mats during RME lessons! P1 have been busy experimenting with colour mixing - look how bright our handprints are! P1 have also painted self portraits, complete with realistic facial features and shirts and ties!!

Health Month - Relaxation

This month's Health theme is Relaxation. Primary 1/2 has been learning about different ways of relaxing and keeping calm. We joined our friends from other rooms in our infant department for a lovely massage session with Mrs Ayres in our breakout space.

Homework Bags

Primary 2 have had their homework bags since the start of term. Inside our Primary 2 bags you will find:

Homework diaries (these tell the adults at home what to do just incase we forget!)
Reading Books Maths worksheets/ topic activities
Name cards
Any important letters from our teachers/ school office.

Primary 1 were given homework bags to take home on their first full day of school. We were all so excited to be getting homework just like the big boys and girls! Inside our Primary 1 homework bags you will find:

Homework diaries (these tell the adults at home what to do just incase we forget!)
Reading books
Word boxes
ORT word cards (in diary)
Jolly Phonics sounds cards
Maths worksheets/ topic activities
Name cards
Parents information booklets
Pairs game
Any important letters from our teachers/ school office.

Mrs Wallace and Mrs Ayres say we must try to remember our homework bags (with everything inside) everyday, because we sometimes use the materials in class. Primary 1 will work with ORT word cards, reading books, sounds and word boxes each week with Mrs Wallace and Mrs Ayres. It is very important that we try not to lose any of the contents of our homework bags. Parents and carers should use the homework diary as a means of communication with our school, because our teachers check our diaries every day. Return slips from letters sent home should be put in our diaries.

Primary 7 Buddies

Primary 1 in our class have been helped to settle into school routines by their Primary 7 buddies. We have enjoyed getting to know our buddies - the older children visited our class to read a story and they have also been playing games with us in the playground and at Goldentime. Primary 7 even took us on a tour of the whole school in our first week! When we went to the dinner hall as a class on our first full day our buddies gave some friendly reassurance and help when needed. We are so grateful that they have taken time out of their busy days to help us! Photos of us with our buddies will be posted soon :-)

Settling into School Life

Primary 1/2 has settled well into school life. We are all working hard and enjoying being in room 3! In our first week, we decided that we should have a set of rules for our class. This is to make sure it is a happy and safe place to learn each day. We want to be able to work and play happily together. As well as thinking about how we work inside the class, room 3 also thought about how we would behave outside the classroom. With Mrs Ayres and Mrs Wallace's help we chose our own 'quality indicators' to remind ourselves what our work-times, listening times and lines should be like. Our Pupil of the Week always leads our line as they are able to set an excellent example! Everyone who visits our class comments on how good we are at listening, working quietly and playing together co-operatively! You can see pictures of our quality audience, quality line and quality work time below. We have also been talking about the rights we have as children. Although this has been quite hard for us to think about, our teachers both say we are doing very well – our class has been able to think about ideas for our own class charter to go alongside our ‘qualities’. Each week, two very special members of our class get to visit somewhere exciting! Murphy the Monkey and Sally the Bear watch all week to see who has been working hard and trying their very best. They choose who they would like to go home with for the weekend (Sally goes home with Primary 1 and Murphy goes home with Primary 2). Primary 1/2 have looked at their photo diaries from previous years - we loved hearing about their adventures with other children! We are all hoping Murphy and Sally will come home with us soon!