P5.17 Blog 2023/24

This week we had fun learning about positional language, using the floor robots called Bee Bots.

We were learning about famous Scottish poet, Robert Burns. We have learned the song: “Auld Lang syne”, made Scottish flags and had a class performance. We really enjoyed singing Auld Lang Syne!

In P1.1, we are always as busy as bees. Arts and craft table was definitely a favourite one this week. Lots of fun during free play with construction, Lego, board games or simply role play games!

In numeracy, along with number formation, number stories, forward/backward counting, we focused on addition this week. We used different loose parts and concrete materials like cubes to help us for adding 2/3 numbers.

We are really enjoying our reading time in P 1.1. We are using the pointers to help us read the words and the word hunt game!

In literacy, we also continued working on learning new sounds and worked on writing words and sentences. Look at our different writing activities!

We had a fun time talking about our feelings and emotions. Regular talking and listening in circle time helps us to understand other people’s feelings and also control our own emotions. We are developing a nice, caring learning environment and enjoying better friendship in the classroom. Mrs Patra was very pleased about the way in which we all shared our emotions with the class!

We have started learning about Ecosystems in Science. We now know that an ecosystem is made up of all the living things and non-living things in an area. It can be of any size; as small as a puddle or big as oceans. First, we investigated what kind of living and non-living things we can find around us and then watched a video on different ecosystems. We were fascinated by the amazing facts of our diverse planet, Earth! We went outside to explore our school compound and to spot any ecosystems we can find. We were very good in spotting small ecosystem under logs and even found flies and worms in the puddles along with the non-living things like water, soil, stones and logs. We will be doing lots of fun activities on different ecosystems in the next following weeks!

 

In Numeracy, we are working on Data Handling. We did some surveys on our favourite crisp flavours, our favourite pets, eye colours, favourite ice cream, etc . We were collecting information using tally marks, interpreting simple bar graphs and trying to making our own bar graphs using cubes!