Month: March 2017

Yesterday Primary 1 visited the Sea Life Centre in Loch Lomond to help learn a little more about our under the sea topic.

We had a great day together learning about the various sea creatures

We arrived on time to see the otters having their lunch. They were super fast and a little bit smelly. They were enjoying some chicks for their lunch.

We listened to lots of facts about the creatures given to us by our tour guide.

We went through a big tunnel and all of the sea creatures were swimming just above our heads. It was very exciting!!

We even had time to play in the park before we got the coach back to school.

Thank you very much to all of our parent helpers who came along with us. You helped keep us safe and answered lots of our questions!

Cameron from Primary 1b has been snapping some great pictures of the children playing this afternoon. He is very proud of his work.

“It was really fun. I’ve never taken photos on a camera before, only my tablet”.

 

Good job Cameron!!!

Primary 1 were very lucky to have a visit from Ms Madden a PE specialist in the authority. The boys and girls had so much fun developing their movement skills and working in groups to problem solve. We started by playing trucks and trailers and then moved onto team games with some new rules.

“I enjoyed playing traffic lights”. (James)

“I liked it when I got the ball”. (Cameron)

“We were trying to not let the person with the green apron get the ball”. They were The Hulk. (Rosie)

P1a all enjoyed planting sunflower seeds.  We wrote our own instructions how to plant them. We used words like ‘first, next, then…’ to order our instructions. We discussed what we have to do to help seeds grow after planting them. We have them in pots at the window and will watch how quickly they  grow!

P1a read instructions how to make a game called ‘Fan the fish.’ In groups we had to cut out and order the instuctions how to make the game.

 

Then we made the game by following our instructions.

We had lots of fun having a race with our fish we had made!

Monday is a very active day for Primary 1b. We have PE in the morning where we have been developing our skills in athletics followed by a short yoga session in the afternoon. It is a great chance for us to discover how our bodies move and experience mindfulness.

The boys and girls had great fun sharing their favourite stories with each other. We had time to talk about our favourite characters and why we liked the books so much. It was lovely to see so many different books in the classroom.

Emily, Benjamin and James had great fun exploring numbers today.

They were able to recognise that when adding, we can switch our numbers around and still arrive at the same answer.

This week P1C celebrated Pancake Tuesday by making pancakes in the classroom from scratch.

We carefully weighed the flour and sugar using the scales.

We sieved the flour to remove any lumps and make nice light pancakes.

We added milk, a little at a time, and mixed with the whisk to make a smooth batter.

 

We waited patiently whilst Miss Shaw cooked the pancakes in the frying pan.

 

 

The pancakes smelled and tasted delicious.