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Primary 1 – Term 4 Day 14 Thursday 30th April 2020

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and being kind and helpful at home.  Grown-ups please remember that completing all learning is in no way compulsory each and every day but trying to do aspects as often as possible will definitely ensure children’s progress in maintained.

Literacy –

  1. Phonics– Practice all sounds on your simple sound chart.  Take time to practise your speedy blending using the game shown below.
    https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/fishy-phonics?phase=2#


2. Reading– Play some more of ‘Teach Your Monster To Read’ by logging in using your account details.
3. Also, work on the reading of the speed sounds, green words, red words and the short story on your reading sheet booklet.

Red literacy group- sheet 8

Green literacy group- sheet 17

Pink literacy group- sheet 33

Complete the ‘questions to talk about’ section detailed at the bottom of page

4. Writing– Do the ‘Hold A Sentence’ on the bottom of the reading page detailed above in your blue jotter. Please do this on the lined section and look at your ‘reminder of writing skills’ sheet to help. Steps are 1. Grown up reads sentence. 2. Practise saying the sentence aloud a number of times until child remembers it. 3. Grown up models how to write the sentence (can use back pages of blue jotter or spare paper from home) 4. Child writes sentence independently without a visual. Encourage them to keep saying it as they write. 5. Check the writing. What went well, what do they need to remember for next time?

Mathematics –

On Tuesday we began a recap of our time learning from earlier in the school year.  We will continue this today with the tasks below.  If you didn’t get a chance to complete the tasks on Tuesday, it might be easier to do that first instead.

  1. Play the game linked below.  You must set the clocks to different times and there are different levels to work through to suit how confident you feel.  When you hover over the text it will read the questions aloud for you.

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/on_time_game1.htm

2. Complete pg. 21 of your Early Level Maths Record book.

Other task – Science (Day and Night)

Last term we spent time learning about the wonders of the sky.  Use the resources on the BBC Bitesize lesson below (I have also saved it to our class login ‘MyBitesize’ section) to learn more about seasons, day and night and features of the sky.  There are learning videos and linked activities if you wish to do any of them.  There is even a quiz you can do!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvfbgwx

P1-Trip to Sensation

To extend our body learning and find out more about the role of our main organs, we all went on a fun trip to the science centre.

After spending time touring the centre and playing with lots of science exhibits, we then went to a Body Bits learning workshop. It was here that we met Stuffy, the giant rag doll who has a special zip right down his chest. Lots of us got to go and pull out one of Stuffy’s organs to learn more about. We found his stomach, large and small intestines, lungs, liver, kidneys and heart.

Take a look at some of the photos below showing some of our learning experiences at the science centre….

 

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- Super sense of touch

We are learning about our senses and focussed on touch earlier this week in a number of fun play to learn tasks including a mystery object game, an independent ‘textures to touch’ picture which our teacher asked us to explain later and got the opportunity to play in a range of different messy mediums such as spaghetti, icey water, lentils, gloop and mixed playdough! It was a busy learning time but lots of fun too!

Learning about Water 💦

In science we have been learning all about water. We learned that planet earth is mostly made of water and that water goes around and around all of the time… it is very important for us and everything else on Earth! We spoke about how we use water and how it can change from a liquid, like the water we drink to a solid and even a gas. We experimented with water and how to change it by the processes of freezing, melting and boiling. We especially enjoyed working in small groups to see if we could melt big chunks of ice and find the secret surprises hidden inside. We used a range of things such as salt and sand and also sticks, stones and magnifying glasses to look closely at the ice. Here we are taking part in this fun experiment…

Next we want to try to make dirty water clean again!

P1- A pumpkin kind of week!

This week we were all about pumpkins and used these as a context for learning across the curriculum, incorporating literacy, numeracy and maths, science, expressive arts and health and well-being but more importantly we had a lot of fun learning!

In teams we became scientists and took part in a pumpkin investigation using many skills including turn taking, observing, explaining, problem solving, predicting, estimating, measuring, testing and recording our thoughts and findings. We could not believe that pumpkins actually sink despite being quite heavy! This led us into doing a more in depth learning about floating and sinking later in the week.

We used the book Pumpkin Soup to link our learning this week and decided to make some soup just like Duck, Cat and Squirrel in the story. But before we could do this we needed to write some shopping lists and look at lots of different recipes books. We even went into the garden and found some lovely carrots and potatoes to use in our soup! Miss Thompson was so proud of us all and the writing we produced. It was a challenging job but we can do anything we set our mind to in P1! 

Here we are enjoying our soup once and if the hard work chopping, cutting, stirring and cooking had been done.

Another pumpkin learning task we worked hard on was a S.T.E.M challenge in small cooperative groups. The challenge was to design and create a ‘pumpkin platform’ as a group. It had to be as high as we could get it but still steady and strong. Just look at some of the design ideas we had. The highest platform got the pumpkin 16 cubes high off of the floor!

Overall, we loved using pumpkins in lots of our learning and play this week!