This week we were extremely excited to get started with our castles.

On Monday we split into small groups and started designing our castle. We had to think about communicating with each other by sharing our ideas and opinions. We all added lots of detail to our designs and it was lovely to see added extras such as fireworks or a crowd of people in our drawings.

On Friday afternoon we started building our castles. We again had to think about talking to each other along with sharing resources. This is just the beginning and we will continue to work on our castles next week…

On Thursday afternoon we received a visit from our P6 buddies organised by Miss Lamb. The buddies had very kindly written us all a short story and we enjoyed listening to the buddies read their story to us, we even featured in the some of the stories! It was lovely to spend time with our buddies and we even enjoy a little play in our classroom before it was time for them to head back to class.

This week we enjoyed an afternoon of Scottish food tasting. We all had the option to try shortbread, oatcakes, vegetarian haggis, porridge and potato scone…yum!

Most of the us tried all of the foods, even if we were a little unsure. Shortbread was the clear favourite and there was a very mixed view amongst the class about the haggis We had a discussion afterwards about likes and dislikes and were encouraged to explain why we liked or disliked one of the foods, this really got us thinking about the taste!

   

    

The following day we collected data about our food tasting and used this to begin our learning about tally marks, We practised tally marks on our whiteboards and then completed the data from the food tasting on them.

On Friday, we displayed this data in a table using tally marks.

We have started learning about money and have chosen to turn our home corner into a shop. There was lots of excitement as we chose what our shop should sell and the most popular choice was toys.

On Thursday afternoon we split into small groups and each completed a different task for our shop. Some made the sign, some prepared opened and closed signs whilst others created the opening times. We also cut out and made labels with various prices to attach to the items we have for sale. P1a’s Toy Shop will be open and ready for customers on Monday !

 

Thursday was a very exciting day in P1A as we celebrated World Book Day. Many of us took part in the Book Swap and were delighted with the new books we took home.

We also enjoyed looking at the ‘Stories in a Jar/Box’ and working out what story they are representing. Well done to everyone for demonstrating so much creativity however a special well done to Cara and William who were winners from P1!

       

      

On Thursday morning we were beaten by the weather for PE so we stayed in the classroom and did some Yoga. We of course had to link this to World Book Day and our Yoga session was based on ‘We are Going on a Bear Hunt’.

We were extremely lucky to receive a visit from Mrs Syme who teaches P6. Mrs Syme is trained to deliver Bookbug Sessions and gave up her time to come and deliver one to us. She based it around our story of the week, The Gruffalo. We remembered lots of the songs from previous sessions we had attended at nursery or the library and all loved the very shiny lycra at the end!

In the afternoon, we listened to a story except Mrs Agnew didn’t tell us the title or the show us the front cover or pictures. We had to listen very carefully to the story because we were then tasked with choosing a title for the story and designing a front cover. Once we had completed this, we then had to retell part of the story in our own words. The story hasn’t been revealed yet…we will find out on Monday!

We also took part in a class competition to ‘Snap a Story Scene’. We chose Paper Dolls and went outside to take photos to see if other children at assembly could guess which story we were acting out. We were extremely enthusiastic about this and loved that our story was a secret!

Here we are creating four scenes from the story, Paper Dolls.