This week we have continued to learn more about our senses and we explored our sense of taste. We tasted four different things and we had to describe what we tasted.  We guessed the sugar straightaway and described it as sweet. The salt we didn’t like that much, we were able to guess what it was and we chatted that we like salt on our chips but it isn’t nice to taste on its own.  The sour taste was funny, some of us really didn’t like it but a few of us said it was their favourite and guessed it correctly as lemon juice. The last one was cocoa powder and it had a bitter taste which we quite liked.

We had lots of fun exploring our sense of taste!

We took advantage of the lovely weather today and completed a senses hunt outside. We each had our own clipboard and had to draw pictures of the things we could see, hear, smell and touch outside. We also had to draw things that we shouldn’t taste – some of the boys and girls drew berries as they said they might be poisonous and make you sick if you eat them, well done!

Today in gym we had our last session of gymnastics and we had the chance to work at six different stations using all of the skills we have been developing over the past eight weeks. We really liked the station where we had to bunny hop over the bench and although it was a bit tricky to begin with, we were very confident by the end of the session.

The boys and girls have worked so hard during our gymnastics block and have developed lots of skills that they can transfer to other areas.  Well done Primary 1!

Today we started learning about our senses  – we discussed what the five senses are and what parts of our bodies we use. We created a thinking map and made a list of all the things we could see, hear, taste, smell and touch.

We then worked around different activities to learn a bit more about some of the senses. We wore blindfolds and tried to write and draw pictures, this was a bit tricky.  We worked with partners to learn more about our sense of touch and we had to describe an object to our partner and they had to guess what it was.  Next we will learn more about our sense of smell and taste.

The boys and girls were very happy to see Mr McLean return this afternoon to continue with the Kodaly music lessons. He will be visiting every Tuesday for the rest of the term and we are looking forward to learning more of the fantastic songs and playing games with Mr McLean.

Today we celebrated two birthdays in Primary One! Mirren turned 6 today and Jayden turned 6 during the holidays. They each picked a card from their classmates and told us all about the lovely birthday presents they had been given.

Ava turned 6 today, here she is with her lovely card from her classmates. We sang Happy Birthday to Ava and she told us all about the things she is doing to celebrate, have a lovely time!

This week in numeracy we have been learning all about subtraction and using different resources to help us. We used pom poms which we had to hide under a tub and our partner had to work out how many were left, we then practiced writing a subtraction number sentence. We did really well!

We had a fantastic day at Sensation yesterday!We had a chance to explore the centre before we did a Space Workshop. We got to climb up the giant nose and come down the slide, we played in the sand pit that changes colour and shows lava, we dressed up as astronauts and we even met a dinosaur called Fluffy!! The man who did the Space workshop was very impressed with all our fantastic learning about Space, well done everyone!

In literacy this week we have been discussing our favourite books and reading some of them. We designed a book cover for our favourite books and wrote a little blurb, they look fantastic! We are going to put them on the wall in our Reading Garden.