To develop our independence and application of subtraction strategies we had lots of fun using ‘chilli challenge’ subtraction cards to challenge ourselves to solve a range of subtraction problems. We worked hard to record our thinking too!
Monthly Archives: March 2020
P1-Play Pics
We love trying new and creative things in our play and these experience all help us to learn new things about the world and our skills and capabilities.
P1- My Brain – The Boss of my body
As part of our learning about the body, we focussed on finding out more about our brains!
We learned that it is rough, wrinkled and looks all squashed because it has to fit into our skull and the skull has the job of providing protection to our brain. If our brain was flat it would be around the size of a whole ironing board and can you imagine the size our head would need to be to hold it!
We worked together to create some plasticine brain models and spoke about the things our brain helps us control and do! We also experimented to design our own protective models to shield and keep our eggs safe to help us to explore and understand the importance of wearing a helmet when riding our bikes or scooters. Look at some of this exciting learning below.
P1- Focussing on our sense of smell and taste
We did a few experiments earlier this week to help us to investigate and learn more about our sense of smell and taste.
We know that we use our nose to smell and that smells can be pleasant or not very nice and our sense of smell is there to help keep us safe and away from danger. We worked in groups to have a sniff of some mystery smells and then tried to guess and describe what it was. We discovered that even without or other senses to help, our sense of smell was quite accurate in determining what it was we were smelling and if it would be something we would want to be close to. The smells were chocolate, ketchup, coffee, onion, vinegar and lemon and we guess them all!
We also investigated our sense of taste and discovered that our tongues are specially designed to identify a range of different flavour groups. In this experiment we had to be good at partner working and show a responsible and respectful attitude to ensure our partner, who could not see what they were tasting, was safe and happy. We tasted 9 things and described and guessed what it was. Again, we were fantastic at this taste testing, getting all 9 identified correctly. The tastes were salt crisps, carrot, blueberries, dark chocolate, pickled onions, raisins, cheese and marshmallows!
P1- Pick up a Puzzle
Some of us decided to spend some time on these alphabet and opposite jigsaw puzzles during our play this week. Well done Matthew and Libby for not giving up and working hard to fit all the pieces together independently!
P1- Learning to Login week 2
After our first try logging into the desktop computer in the ICT suite last week, this week we have our skills another try and worked hard to come up with our ‘steps to success’ with the help of our teacher. We decided to create this check list to help us to login independently. Mrs MacPhail delivered is a great surprise, a special keyboard with lowercase letters along with the tricky uppercase capital ones to help us to learn successfully! We will keep practising this until we don’t even need our checklist anymore!
P1- Subtraction Tasks
We have continued to focus on our subtraction skills this week and had fun learning and playing with these ‘subtraction smash’ playdough and ‘stamp and subtract’ activities in small groups. We are gaining confidence using a range of strategies including our fingers, Manipulatives, drawing our thinking, counting back and number lines to take away successfully. Our next steps are to look at the link between adding and subtraction and to try to solve word problems.
