This week we had our first reading session with Primary 6! They introduced us to the four picture books up for the Picture Book Award. On Friday we took part in a number of activities evolving around the first book we have read, ‘Baby’s First Bank Heist’.

For the next 5 weeks we are focusing on gymnastics in our gym time and today we started with learning how to balance and hold our bodies in different shapes on the floor and on apparatus.

We also learned how to do some stretch positions in gymnastics and learned the special names these stretches have – tuck, pike, straddle, front and back support.  We then worked around the various stations developing our gymnastic positions.

Yesterday we said goodbye to Thomas as he is moving to Australia with his family. P1 surprised him with a goodbye party and a card. We played who is missing, musical bumps/statues and guess who. We also had a dance party and it was lots of fun!

Good luck in Australia Thomas, we will miss you!

Last term we focused on our ball control in gym and Miss Gordon wanted to see how much we could remember. Here we are having lots of fun playing some team games and also practicing our individual skills at different stations. We worked hard and showed Miss Gordon how much we have developed our coordination and control.

Before we begin our gym lessons we always do a warm up and the boys and girls know it is very important to get our bodies ready for exercise. They can list the different things that happen to our bodies when we start to move.

This week we have been doing our Daily 15 in the classroom and have been trying lots of guided dance and recall videos on Go Noodle to activate our minds and bodies!

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We read a book about Greyfriars Bobby and learned about the type of cattle that Old Joc and Bobby would have looked after.

We had to tear up a lot of tissue paper to make our Scottie dogs and Highland cows. This was lots of fun! Then we used the glue sticks to stick our crumpled balls of tissue paper onto the animals template, our hands were covered in glue by the time we had finished!

We spoke about how to be successful in our task and decided that the most important thing was teamwork and to make sure that no partner felt left out. Well done P1, your animals look fantastic!

We learned about the history of the Forth Road Bridge and looked at it’s design. We really liked the three giant structures and were amazed that it could stretch across the water. After watching a video that showed us how it was built and looking at some pictures of the bridge, we designed our own. We think they look fantastic!

Here are some of our final designs!

P1 were shocked when they discovered that aliens had visited the classroom! Each alien had a name on its stomach and after sounding them all out, we decided that they have super silly names!! None of them make any sense!

Miss Gordon challenged our class to a day of co-operative learning tasks. We were excited to work in groups with different people in our class.

First, we had to work in teams to complete a jigsaw. This was just the beginning of our day!

Then, Miss Gordon told us that she had a wild Scottish animal that she wanted to introduce us to, it was a haggis. It took a while for us to guess what it was because we thought it was a pig or a cow. She explained that her haggis needed a new home and it had hoped that P1 would help. Of course, we said yes!

We had to talk, agree and work as a group to decide what the haggis would need in a house, where the house would be and what things in our classroom we could use. We came up with some fantastic ideas!

After playtime, we went outside into the playground to try to recreate our houses and make new parts for Miss Gordon’s haggis to live in. Some groups decided the haggis might like a gym hall where it could play ball games like we do, others wanted to make him a cosy bed made from grass and one group even made the haggis a bath! It was lots of fun!

When we got back inside, Miss Gordon told us that her haggis wasn’t real! We were shocked! She explained that some people think that a haggis is an animal that runs wild in Scotland but really it’s a food made from different ingredients. We decided that haggis looks a bit like mince when it’s cut up!

We watched a man who was dressed in a kilt say some funny words to a haggis. He was saying ‘An Adress to a Haggis’ on Burns Night and we were really surprised that after learning some Scots that we could understand some of the sentences of the poem!

We really enjoyed our day of fitness on Thursday and here we are doing some of the activities – Yoga, Gymnastics, Dance, Football and Playground Games. We all worked so hard and tried every activity, well done Primary 1!