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Getting to know some of the new P1s
We have been sharing some of our learning and skills with the nursery boys and girls who are coming to Primary 1 after the summer. We have been telling them about some of the things we love about school! This week we had a joint play session and made the most of the lovely weather by getting outside into the garden. Next we are going to be showing them some of our favourite numeracy games with the numicon.
Lotto!!!!! French minibeast bingo
We are doing so well with our french minibeast learning. This week we were learning the French words for common minibeast habitats. We loved playing bingo to apply our new learning.
Growing so fast….
Look at our wonderful sunflower plants. We found out in our experiment that seeds need to have both water and light to grow. We made sure our seed had both of these things and look how quickly they grew!!! We took our plants home to look after them.
We have found lots of interesting bugs this week. This large spider was in our classroom so we carefully put it in our magnifier jar to take a closer look. The spider had an interesting pattern on its back! We also found a minibeast that none of us could identify. Miss Thompson took it with her to the staffroom to see if any of the other teachers knew what it was, but they didn’t either. After some research we identified it as an adult Hawthorne Shield bug which is quite rare for our country. Unfortunately it had lost a leg because we could only count 5! We were very pleased with our find and after all having a closer look, we released it outside in a safe place.
Louie and his special trophy
Louie won this amazing trophy at his Boys Brigade for showing Endeavour…we learned that this means he tries and tries even if things are a bit tricky. He never gives up until he can!!! Fantastic Louie…we are all very proud of you!
We love to read! Here are some of the girls enjoying some quite time reading for pleasure. Look at our new comfy chairs and footstools Miss Thompson brought us from her house….they are very relaxing!
Super Scientists
Today we learned more about how a seed grows into a plant and what a plant needs to grow effectively. The 2 things are light from the sun and water. We have set up an experiment to test out our ideas. We have a seed with both light and water, another with just light, another with just water and another with none. We guessed what we thought might happen and can’t wait to see if we are right! We also checked on our sunflowers from last week….they have grown so much already. We passed them around to take a closer look at the roots and shoots developing. Finally we had fun planting our own mini- grass garden and teeny pots of grass which we are turning into crazy grass heads!
Buddy Numeracy
We worked with our P7 Buddies on some 100 square work, some adding and taking away challenges using our Numicon and other strategies to help us to ‘prove it’ to our buddy when we thought we had an answer. We also impressed them with our ‘fact family’ learning, where we show the link between number relationships. Miss Thompson gave us some tasks and we worked though them independently, showing off our learning and skills and explaining our thinking.
