This term we are learning about living things. On Wednesday we discussed what we mean by a living thing and we compared these to non-living things.

We learned what livings things need to survive and how that can look different depending if the living thing is a human, animal or plant.

We then took our learning outdoors and went on a scavenger hunt searching for living and non-living things. To demonstrate our understanding we then had to identify the living things on our answer sheet.

Mrs Denholm has also been transforming our P1 garden with her Garden Club. She asked if P1A could move some of the bark that was delivered and there were many hard working volunteers.

There was also time for a little fun in the garden ☺️

This week we completed our castles and as you can see from our faces we are very proud of them indeed!

We’ve all worked very well within our groups and communicated well with each other. We’ve had to think about compromise and how to resolve something if we don’t all agree.

We put the finishing touches to our castles with some paint which took a lot longer than some of us thought!

Last week we celebrated Eid as a whole school. In class we have been learning about Eid with Mrs Dickie and the importance of Ramadan and Eid-al-Fitr to the Muslim religion.

In class, we had a go at some Arabic writing, created some Mehndi patterns and looked at the features of Mosques then coloured some pictures. One of us could even say some of the Arabic alphabet and enjoyed sharing it with others ☺️

This week we brought our learning about Food and Health to an end by making a fruit salad. We firstly discussed hygiene when preparing food and then discussed how to stay safe, particularly with a knife. We explored various ways we can cut food using the bridge and claw methods.

We each prepared our own fruit by chopping it and putting it into a cup then added some fruit juice.