Today the class enjoyed completing a 10 minute sketch at the beginning of our Art session. Our focus for this weeks drawing was observation. Can you guess what we were trying to draw?

You can see the children really concentrating!! ❤️

The children have spent the last few weeks using the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood to learn how to write a quest story!

Today the children have been using all of their new learning to write up their own wonderful stories and complete their hot task!

Take a look at the children sharing their story plan with their partner before they got to work writing!

The children had great fun this morning practising their weekly spellings! The class used funky colours and had to dart around the room writing out their spellings as quickly as they could in the given time! The pages quickly became filled!!

Take a look at the children in action! 🖍📝

To support the children’s RE learning this week, we welcomed Kathryn from Sound and Broomhall chapel into school. Ruby Class prepared some excellent questions with Mrs Huntbach. They asked Kathryn about her life, why she chooses to be a Christian and about the bible. The children then had the chance to listen to stories and look at her collection of bibles. They enjoyed learning and talking about how each were slightly different. The children had a marvellous time!!

Over the last few days we have been looking at inverse in Maths. We have been playing the role of a teacher and checking lots of answers!

Today we played a Maths of the Day game. We worked in teams to sort calculations into true and false piles! Next we played a game of pass the number! We were given a target number and had to come up with a range of number sentences which make the number. We loved being active and moving around!

Ruby Class had lots of fun learning outside on Thursday!

The children played lots of games to secure their understanding of counting in 2’s!

Ask your children to count to you in 2’s at home to test their knowledge. How high can they go?

This afternoon Ruby Class enjoyed completing some music activities based on the South African song, ‘Hands, Feet, Heart’.

The children began by listening to and appraising the song, ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ sung by The Soweto Gospel Choir. The children discussed what they liked about the song and the instruments they could hear being played.

We then listened to our song for the half term, ‘Hands, Feet, Heart’ and began to learn to how play a glockenspiel along to the beat!

Check out the cover of our new sketchbooks! 🥰

The rest of Ruby Class will finish theirs this week! ⭐️

Today we took ourselves outside and did Maths of the Day today! ⭐️

We started by combining PE and Maths! The children had to count how many times they could throw a bean bag to each other, wrote their number down, repeated the process and then compared the two numbers using <, > & = signs.

We then had the best time playing the crocodile and fish game! Some of us were crocs and some or us were fish. The fish wore numbers on their chests and the crocs wore bibs. The crocs (children in the middle) were given instructions such as ‘catch fish greater than 21’. You can see how much fun we had below!