Winter Fun in Primary One

We’ve managed to get outdoors this week despite the weather and used the snow and the rain for so many learning opportunities.

For months now, we have been dodging the puddle at the gate and we noticed when we were outdoors on Wednesday, that there was a river running down the playground towards our gate, so we went to investigate the source of the water.

We found that the water starts to flow down right round at the back of the building next to the P6 doors.

After some water was poured out of a bucket in our garden area, some of the children followed it to see where it would go, and realised that it was easier to spot the water flow as it had some sand mixed into it from the bucket and you could see the sand moving towards the drains.

The children were curious to discover whether the water all went down the drain or it some of it would go all the way round the path and down the front of the school. So, we got some glitter and the watering can and repeated our experiment. This time we could really clearly see where the water was going.

As you will have seen from Twitter, we “cheated” a wee tiny bit in the school snowman competition as some of the P7’s offered to help us and it would have been rude to refuse! We named our snowman Jack Frosty

We even made a little Frosty and sneaked him back into the classroom, there was still a little bit of him left at the end of the day.

In Maths this week, Miss Bishop has been teaching us about weight and we have continued to learn about money and to extend our number knowledge.

In Literacy and English this week, we have continued to consolidate our digraph learning, worked on our Common Words and this week we wrote a story in three parts.

It has been International Mother Tongue Language week and Primary One were tasked with learning British Sign Language – check out our signing and singing over on our Google Classroom.

Here are a few more photos of this week’s learning.