This week we enjoyed making characters from clay based on our story of the week ‘The Gruffalo’. The children showed creativity and perseverance to get their character into the shape they wanted. They used the tools well to add intricate details and learnt about patience waiting for them to fully dry to take them home.
Last week our classroom smelled like a bakery as we attempted to make our very own shortbread after learning about Scottish food and drinks.
Working together, we looked carefully at the recipe to ensure our measurements were just right. We took turns to make sure everyone had a chance to lead and tried to mix and knead the dough until it became the perfect consistency.
Our first batch was a bit of a learning curve (little crumbly) but that didn’t stop us. We tried to work out what went wrong, adjusted our technique and our second batch turned out golden, crumbly and resembled shortbread much to Mrs Denholm’s relief and delight.
Here are some pictures of the bakers in action.
Enjoy the weekend! It sounds like there are lots of lovely plans and some birthdays being celebrated. Can’t wait to hear all about them on Monday.
Mrs Denholm x
We have been learning all about colour as part of Art & Design over the last few weeks. This links nicely to our French learning where we can recognise and say most of the colours in French. We made a class colour wheel with things from our classroom. We made our own colour wheels. We learned that mixing two primary colours makes a secondary colour and looked at where these go in the colour wheel. Next we looked at hot and cold colours. We are going to use cold and hot colours in a piece of art work which we started this week and are looking forward to finishing off in our next few lessons. Below you will see us matching French colour words to the right colour and playing colour splat.
Last week we started learning about using tally marks to record data in a quick way. The children were able to think of some questions they wanted to find out the answers to for example what is P1b’s favourite flavour of ice cream? with an overwhelming result favouring chocolate.
We enjoyed a Scottish story in the garden enjoying our snacks and talking about the new Scottish words we have learnt including loch, wee and lassie.
We also found time to build a swamp, a Jurassic park, do a spot of hula hooping and collaborative art.
Remember to bring back the outdoor clothes for this Wednesday!
Mrs Denholm x
This week we have developed our understanding of the seasons and the changes that occur around us as the months pass. We have thought carefully about events that take place such as Halloween Christmas and our birthdays and linked these to the seasons also. We worked hard to create our own calendars with a tree representing the colours we would see in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Inspired by an interest in snow animals we have been finding out about life in the Arctic. To help us find this freezing habitat at the very top of the world, we used a globe to locate the Arctic Circle. We discovered the Arctic is home to many amazing animals including polar bears, Arctic foxes, snowy owls, beluga whales and seals. We even tried to make some of our own snow.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Denholm x
What a busy wee month it has been in Primary 1. Here are some pictures to show you what we have been up to…
We have had lots of fun in the garden making yummy hot chocolate recipes, testing different heights for ramps for the cars and making zoos and swamps for the animals we have been learning about to play and live in.
We have been following and giving directions using Bee-Bot and a beebot app.
Our building designs have reached new levels with rooms, ramps and even labels.
We’ve shared stories by the fire.
We planned, practised and performed our nativity and oh what fun we had whilst singing, acting and dancing.
We have been super busy crafting, completing challenges, writing, junk modelling and playing with our friends.
We threw a party in for good measure and a special visitor even stopped by. How lucky are we?
We finished our super busy month with a relaxing movie morning watching The Grinch, all snug as bugs.
I wish you all a very merry Christmas and hope you all have a lovely holiday and well deserved rest.
love Mrs Denholm xx
Today we met together in the hall with the other P1 classes and practised singing our nativity songs. It was lovely to hear such beautiful voices and see some interesting dance moves 🙂
This week we have been developing our understanding of addition using our fingers to help us add numbers together accurately. We have tried to record our own calculations with a plus symbol and equals sign. We have played games to help us recognise numbers without counting (subitising) and have used lots of different language to talk about numbers.
We have been bringing our own stories to life through drama. There has been lots of hilarity as the children take on the roles of different characters and think about how they can use their body and voice to act it out to the class.
