Broomhill School P1 Room 7

We have just completed a unit of work on measure. We had fun measuring the lengths and weights of different objects and measuring the volume of different liquids.

Dance and Fitness

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The children did very well in all the sports they competed in on Tuesday. Well done Primary 1!

Thank you to our wonderful monitors for helping us on the day.

We had a great time visiting the animals at Doonies Farm this week. Farmer Alice told us lots of interesting facts about the animals. We enjoyed feeding the pig, sheep and ponies.

We have been retelling the story of The Little Red Hen.

Dancing – we had lots of fun learning a dance to the song ‘Happy.’

Room 11 invited us to visit their pyramid exhibition. We were very impressed by their hard work.

This week we have been learning about the Jewish festival, Passover.  We created Seder plates to learn about the different ceremonial foods associated with Passover. We learned all about the traditions associated with matzot breads.

We have been learning how to programme and control blue bots.

This week the book that arrived on the magic carpet was ‘WANTED Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar’ by Emily MacKenzie. We wrote some fantastic book reviews.

We have been learning about where our food comes from.

We joined up with the other primary 1’s to plant potatoes in the wildlife garden.

We had lots of fun using chalk and water to create beautiful patterns in the garden.

Sounds of the week: consolidation of s,a,t,p,i,n.

Art: we used farming magazines and oil pastels to create farmyard pictures.

We have been watching our cress seeds grow day by day.

Literacy – this week we have been building sentences.

Construction

Sound of the week: ck

We have been learning about the life cycle of a sunflower. We know that plants need water and sunshine to make them grow. We planted cress seeds and are excited to watch the seeds change.

Some of the primary 3 children came to read their fairytales to us. We were very impressed and loved looking at all their beautiful illustrations.

A magic story carpet arrived in our classroom today! We read the story Meerkat Mail on it and made giant postcards to send back to our friend Vassily the meerkat.

In Maths this week we have been learning all about money. We have been sorting coins, playing money bingo and ordering coins by their value.

For Health and Wellbeing, we had a fruit and vegetable taste test. We voted for our favourites and made two class pictographs. Our favourite fruit was a tangerine and our favourite vegetable was a cucumber.

We have also been learning about the festival of Diwali. We made some Rangoli patterns to invite people in to our classroom.

Sound of the week: oo

Phonics – This week we have been learning all about the sound oo. We used play dough to make some oo words, played oo bingo and practised sounding out oo words on a roll and read board.

PE – This term we are learning to play basketball. This week we were learning to throw and catch in different ways.

Maths – In maths we have been making our own number lines and using blocks to show our understanding of number.

ICT – This week we have been learning about healthy eating. In ICT we used our mouse skills to sort food into healthy and unhealthy categories.

Music – We have been working hard in music to create our own Music book.