We had such a fun trip to Glasgow Science Centre this week. In the morning we explored all three of the levels in small groups. I did my best to capture all of the children, but as I’m sure you can imagine, the groups scattered and so the photos are predominantly of the group that was with me and the ipad!

Thanks so much to our parent helpers who did an amazing job of keeping track of their little charges – the term “herding cats” was used on more than one occasion!

The afternoon was much calmer with a trip to the Planetarium where we learned about the Sun and the Moon and visited Mars to see what the Mars Rover was up to.

I have completed the GSC learning lab Tiny Forests teacher training and over the next few weeks we will be working through the lessons, learning about sustainability, our planet and how to look after it. There are even some activities for the children to try at home and this can all be shared with the Science Centre Education Dept too.

As we were not in school on Wednesday to mark Burns’ Night, we spent Thursday learning some Scots using the book Neeps and Tatties – a book about the Neep tribe and the Tattie tribe who don’t get along until a wise haggis comes to visit and shows them how well they go together. We acted out part of the story with The Gruffalo playing the part of the haggis.

We then chose some words to act out and were able to share our learning with the lower school at this morning’s assembly.

So, another busy week in P1a. I hope everyone has a great weekend and look forward to next week.

This week in literacy we have been developing our story telling skills. We have completed another round of Helicopter stories and illustrated them. These will now be merged together to create our Helicopter Stories Book Volume 2.

Through play we have been investigating and recreating classic tales, this week our focus story was Rapunzel. We used the costumes outdoors to help us with our story telling.

In Maths this week we were learning about fractions. We we halving and quartering shapes and finding half of amounts.

In PE we have started a new block of Rebound Games.

Here are some more pictures of our learning.

Happy New Year! It has been so lovely to get back into our school routine.

This week in maths we have been working on our subitising skills – finding patterns in amounts to help us count more efficiently.

We started our new Mini Topic based around the RSPB Big Birdwatch. First we identified the birds that are commonly found in our playground and then we conducted a survey. We were using our  tally marks and classification skills.

We worked together to gather all of the information together and then we created bar graphs to display our findings.

In Literacy this week, we have been learning about the sh sound and our story of the week was The Three Little Pigs. We retold the story in a variety of ways and wrote story maps to show that we could sequence.

Here are some more pictures of this week’s learning.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.