It has been a week full of excitement as we look forward to the Spring holiday.

The children prepared and ate their fruit salad on Tuesday as part of our Health and Wellbeing topic, Food and Health. We spoke about the importance of washing hands before preparing food and how to keep our chopping board and knife clean. We also discussed how to keep  ourselves safe when using a knife. We did an excellent job of cutting our fruit although the apple was quite tricky!

    

Eating the fruit salad was definitely the best part!

Break the Rules Day  was lots of fun! Thank you to everyone who donated 🙂

Here we are breaking the rules…

Have an amazing Spring holiday!

We have had a very busy week celebrating Neurodiversity Celebration Week, British Science Week and World Down Syndrome Day. It was lovely to see all of the odd socks in class 🙂

To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week we discussed what this terms means and discussed ways in which we are all different. We learned what our brains help us to do and that we all learn differently and process information differently.

We were asked to colour in the Neurodiversity symbol as part of a whole school competition and also took part in an activity which encouraged us to think about what makes us who we are and how we are different from each other.

For British Science Week we decided to think about Lego. We worked in pairs and completed various challenges with only six bricks.

We had to get the bricks to balance vertically which we agreed was the most challenging.

   

   

    

We then had to make a snake and explored different ways we could connect the bricks to show this.

We also made out own creature and described this to our partner who then had to guess what we had made based on our description.

Our last challenging was building something of our choice, whilst our partner wasn’t look and then showing it to them. They then had to build it back up the exact same way.

As part of our Health and Wellbeing topic about Food and Health, we designed our own fruit salad on Monday with Miss Thomson. We chose up to six fruits that we would like to include in our fruit salad. We were all keen to know which fruits were the most popular so we decided to look at tally marks as a way to record this information.

In small groups we created our own tally charts based on the data we collected. Mrs Agnew thought we did such an amazing job she has decided to display these in the cloakroom. We then presented our tally charts to the rest of the class and read the data from each one.

We totalled up the amounts of fruits we each chose and the most popular were strawberries, raspberries, apples and grapes. We will be making our fruit salad in class on Monday 🙂

 

Over the past few weeks, we have been learning about Dinosaurs, a topic chosen by the children. Many of us already show a keen interest in dinosaurs and have enjoyed sharing our knowledge with others, including Mrs Agnew.

We started our learning by finding out about different types of dinosaurs. We completed our own research and then created our own fact sheet based on a chosen dinosaur. We collated all of the fact sheets and turned them into our ‘P1B Dinosaur Fact Book’.

    

We wanted to learn where dinosaurs lived. We explored each of the different types of habitats and why certain species lived in them. We then drew our own habitat and labelled which habitat it was.

We were also keen to find out what dinosaurs ate. We learned that dinosaurs are split into three categories; carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. We discussed what each of these mean then sorted the dinosaurs into each of the categories based on what they eat.

We know about dinosaurs because of fossils found over the years! We made our own dinosaur fossils from salt dough and waited patiently whilst they were baked in the oven. We were extremely excited to bring them home!

   

   

   

    

We have had a very exciting week celebrating World Book Day! The theme this year is ‘Read Your Way’ with the aim being to bring the fun of reading to more children.

We started off with the Book Swap on Wednesday. We were all delighted to bring our chosen book home and love showing each other what we had picked.

We took part in a ‘Book Scavenger Hunt’ where we had to scan the books for many different things such as an alien, a witch or a vehicle. We were tasked with finding an example of friendship within the books and this prompted lovely discussions. We saw examples of cuddles and kindness which we could identify as a way to be a good friend.

    

On Thursday, Ms Doig visited our class and read Paddington to us. She brought a lovely Paddington for us to see and we even got to smell some of Paddington’s marmalade!

We were asked to study an author and P1 were given Nick Sharratt to learn about. He is also a famous illustrator We learned a little about Nick and how he became an author an illustrator. We have explored a variety of book that he has either wrote or illustrated. Our favourite was ‘Pants’ and this led to us designing our own pants on Friday.

We also listened to Mrs Agnew reading ‘The Foggy Foggy Forest’ but the cover and pages were hidden. We had to listen carefully to the story and use our imagination to design a front cover for it.

    

On Friday , we explored the style of Nick Sharratt’s illustrations. We had a go at drawing like him by following a ‘draw along’ video. We of course chose a dinosaur to draw since this is our current topic in class!

Some of us shared our learning at assembly 🙂

The most exciting part of the week was meeting with our buddies to enjoy some stories. We loved showing them our teddies and cosying up to read a book together.