It is hard to believe we are coming to the end of Primary 1! What a quick year it has been. I am so proud of each and every one of you it has been such a pleasure being your teacher. Thank you for all your hard work and parents, thank you for your support and kind words this year.

Here are some photos from our school trip and our fruit kebab making.

What a quick month it has been it is hard to believe we are almost at the end of Primary 1. Check out our video we have made for the new children who will be starting in August. We had great fun talking about life in Primary 1 https://www.thinglink.com/video/1850272109486408548

We have been learning about animals around the world and have made our own non-fiction books. We were interested in what wildlife can be found in our school grounds and had a visit from Rennie, the park ranger from Barrhead Dams. He talked to us about the different animals and plants in the local area and helped us search for mini beasts in the Muddy Movers area.

We have had a busy start to term 3. On Monday 22nd April we celebrated World Earth day and made a class promise that we will turn off the lights when we leave the classroom and turn off the board when we are not using it to save electricity. We spoke about the importance of recycling and making sure our litter goes in the bin.

In maths we have been learning about data handling. We have been sorting objects by different criteria.

What a quick month March has been. We became authors as we created our own story based on We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. We read our stories to the nursery children then our p6 friends. Later we designed our front cover.

 

 

 

Over the last few months we have been learning to  explore digital
technologies and use what we have learnt to solve problems and  share our  ideas and thoughts.

Linking with artist such as  the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso we explored how we can use digital technology to be creative.  We have been mastering the skills of opening up Word Documents, interesting Word Art  and inserting shapes to create artwork inspired by both famous artist. We can change the colour and texture of the shapes. All very impressive!

When learning to paint like an artist we used the website TatePaint to work on our digital painting skills. This has also helped improve our mouse control skills. https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/tate-paint

 

We have also been exploring simple coding using Bee-Bots.  We put our engineering skills to the test to build a race course for our Bee-Bot friends and successfully navigated them from start to finish.

We transferred our coding skills  to the computer using the website https://beebot.terrapinlogo.com/.

This helped us work out turning left, right and moving forward and backwards.

 

We have been working on identifying  the icons for Google Chrome so we can access website such as Chrome Music Lab.  This  makes learning music using digital literacy more accessible with  hands-on experiments.

Have a go at home if you are brave!

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com

 

 

Using Spheros  we investigated some simple programming techniques.

 

Throughout February we have been learning about people who help us. We had a special visit from PC Lorraine who told us lots of information about her job. We listened well and asked questions. Some of us wanted to try on her hat and some of us decided we want to be a police officer when we grow up!

During languages week, primary 6 worked alongside us to help us learn to sign our names.

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break. We have settled back into Primary 1 and have been busy with lots of new learning.

We loved having Primary 7 join us for some outdoor learning. They taught us how to make a shelter. We worked in groups to plan and build our shelter. We had to follow a design brief, the shelter had to stand without us holding it and it had to fit us all inside. Check them out below!

This term we will be developing our gymnastic skills. We have started to learn how to hold body shapes including straight, t, y, star and tuck.

We had great fun at our party and had a special visitor, Santa! Happy holidays to primary 1 and their families. Thank you so much for all the hard work this term and support shown from home.

A Christmas STEM challenge
We worked with primary 7 to build a sleigh for Santa using construction materials. We had to follow a design brief, the sleigh had to stand unaided, have a seat for santas helper and hold two small presents. We all successfully passed the design brief.

Thank you to all the grown ups for being such a great audience. Primary 1 worked so hard on the nativity and we are so pleased you enjoyed it. Well done primary 1!