Monthly Archives: June 2011

School Trips

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This week we have been on our school trips.
Some of us went to Deep Sea World and some went to Baxter Park.

Deep Sea World
We all have a good time.
We were in three groups  as we went round Deep Sea World to see everything. We really enjoyed the shark tunnel and we saw a mummy, daddy and baby shark. Dylan said it was just like the three bears.

   
The angel sharks watched us and were sliding over the tank tunnel. We liked their faces.
We asked lots of questions at the seals and liked Heather and . Samuel made such a good seal noise that Heather the seal came to see him.

   
We all liked the arrow frogs especially the yellow and blue arrow frogs.
When we went home we all got a real shark tooth.

                          
What a great day!Baxter Park
We all had a great time at Baxter Park.
We all walked along the road and crossed all the crossings to make sure we got there safely. Then we went into the pavilion to do some art and craft with Mrs McLean.

                                                 

We used oil pastels to make a beautiful coloured butterfly. After we finished we went on a nature walk around Baxter Park. We looked at lots of lovely coloured flowers and we found some trees which had blown down. We also found lots of nettles so had to watch that we didn’t get stung.

   

We walked back to school to have our picnic. In the afternoon we had Mini Games. We all went into teams and had to do things like hockey, relay running, golf, hurdles and long jump. Some of us were in the winning team.
What a great day we had!

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Assembly

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This week we had our Golidlocks and the Three Bears assembly. We were all very nervous. We had practised lots of times to say our words and learn lots of songs that helped us tell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We had three narrators, Golidlocks, Daddy Bear, Mummy Bear, Baby Bear and Golidlocks mum. We all made special ears so we all looked like bears andwe had black noses painted on us with face paint.

We all did a great job. We remembered our lines we had to say and we sang beautifully. Miss Davies, Mrs Mackay, Ms Lowden and Mrs Munro were very proud of us. Lots of mums and dads and grans and grandads came to see us. They all gave us a great big clap at the end. Then they stayed for a drink and a biscuit. We all got to see Andrews new baby too. Mrs McDonald told us that we were all nearly in Primary 2 already because we looked so big and grown up.

In P1a1 this week they have had another two new arrivals!

Stone and Rainbow arrived this week so we now have four fish in our tank. We thought the other two were really lonely in such a big tank so it’s great to have lots of friends.

Pets and Plants

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We have been using the Promethean Whiteboard to help us add. We drag on the fish and add them to see how many altogether.

We have been playing a matching game about animals and their homes. We are still enjoying learning about rhyming and we all played this rhyming game were animals lived in a rhyming place – the toad lived on the road and the duck lived in a truck.

We wrote instructions on how to plant a seed. We had practise doing this in the compost tray and we all planted our own Sunflower seeds. Our sunflowers are starting to grow … Some are really tall but others are just little shoots.

 

We are still enjoying the garden centre and Dominika and Maja have been labelling and pricing things.

We have been reading books by Judith kerr but these are our favourite two.

We have been learning how o care for our pets and we are taking turns to feed Daisy and Rocky.


Here is the playdough models Sean made. He made an ant, a centipede, a caterpillar and a flat worm. Mrs Mackays favourite is the Centipede.

 

Remember!!!

Next week is our Goldilocks and the Three Bears Assembly on Tuesday 14th June at 9.30am. Parents are invited so please come along and see us!

We are learning about Plants and Animals

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We started this week by finishing off lots of experiments. We had to use our senses to taste different crisps and decide what flavour they were. But Miss Davies and Mrs Mackay hid the packets they came from so we didn’t know what flavours they were. We filled in a sheet to record our experiment. Then we did a smelling experiment. We had to guess what will hidden in the cup. We recorded our findings for this experiment too.

This week we are learning about Plants and Animals. In the classrooms we have a vet and a garden centre. We have compost in the sand tray so we can practise planting. We did a mind map for our areas to help us decide what we need.

Our Garden Centers have needed a lot of work. We needed to made signs and put up lots of flowers. We have a cutting activity where we have to use catalogues to cut out things for our garden to help us design it. We all like the sheds and swimming pools.

In our water trays we have a pretend frog pond. It had pretend frogs and tadpoles that help us to play and learn about the life cycle of a frog. Try out this website.

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/2008-09/cynnal/discovery/eng/life_cycle_2.html

We have been listening to lots of stories about animals too.

P1a1 are very lucky because they have two new class pets. They are goldfish. A gold one and a black one. The class voted on names for them and decided on Daisy and Rocky. We are looking forward to caring for them.

In Mrs Munro’s Learning Zone we have a pet shop and an X Box Kinect with Kinectimals game. We all got the meet the five cubs who are in the game and used the Active Expressions to vote on who our favourite cub is. We choose the black panther to be our P1 cub. Watch out for more information about what we get up to with him as we play and care for him.