This week we visited the woodland together with a focus of balance on our minds. The children were asked to think about ways they could show balance with their bodies, how to hold a balance when moving and to create smaller and higher areas for balance.
Have a lovely and well deserved Easter holiday!
Mrs Denholm x
Today we enjoyed learning more about Eid in the classroom and listening to some of our friends sharing their experiences from home. We looked at some pictures of mosques and after chatting about the features of the building tried to build our own in the block area. We used tissue paper to collage designs on crescent moon and stars and tried our first attempt at henna designs by drawing around our own hands.
Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you all for the last week of term on Monday (not that I’m counting down) 🙂
Mrs Denholm x
This week we had so much fun playing in the garden and enjoying the sunshine. We read stories together trying to spot magic e words, used bright spring colours to draw collaboratively on the ground and made some delicious recipes in the mud kitchen. Hopefully the weather will continue into next week so we can enjoy some more outdoor learning.
Enjoy your weekend,
Mrs Denholm x
This week we enjoyed tasting some Scottish traditional foods including shortbread, vegetarian haggis, oatcakes, porridge and potato scones. It was a great opportunity to share our own experiences of foods we enjoy at home and to try some new foods.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Denholm x
This week we had great fun reading new and old stories, sharing our favourite stories with each other, creating our own characters in our writing and retelling the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ using our acting skills.
‘We’re definitely going on a bear hunt again”.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Denholm x
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.
