Thank you to all of the parents and carers who attended our Open Afternoons. We hope you enjoyed exploring the classroom with the children. They were extremely excited to share their learning with you and show you the areas that they particularly enjoy!

   

As part of our learning about the countries of the world, the children were interested to learn about flags. We explored various flags and their features and discussed why countries had flags. Using flag designs to prompt us, we created our own flags and proudly displayed them in our classroom.

   

   

P1 went on a magic carpet ride on Thursday afternoon. They landed in different lands and had to move their body to show they type of land they were in. There was wiggling like jelly, visiting of Candy Land and squelching through a marsh land. They also flew to space on their magic carpet!

    

During writing we thought about a magic carpet ride we would like to go on and wrote about. We had to think of a land we would like to visit and describe it using adjectives.

    

This week some of us have been developing our sequencing skills. After reading our book, we created a story map to show our understanding of the story. We discussed the beginning, middle and end of the story and drew a picture to explain each part.

   

    

This week we took a break from the apparatus and focused on our balancing skills in Gymnastics. We practised some of the balances we had previously learned and then built on this to create some very challenging balances. We had to communicate and cooperate with our partner to ensure our balances were a success!

   

   

   

    

We spent a lovely afternoon in the sun on Friday exploring the woodland area. We built dens, swung on trees and tyres and spent a lot of time digging for fossils! There aren’t many photos as Mrs Agnew and Miss Regan enjoyed making daisy chains and making beautiful hair pieces from the flowers found on the ground 🙂

   

   

    

 

 

 

It has been another busy week in Primary 1C!

We have been really enjoying learning about the different continents of the world and their climates. We colour coded a map based on the temperature and added animals to the map based on where they would live.  We have discussed the habitats of animals all over the word and how they can differ. We also found out lots of cool facts about many animals from around the world.

         

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been continuing to work on our addition and subtraction calculations. We enjoyed making our own calculations for our friends to solve.

In PE, we had our last session of Gymnastics and showed off our amazing balancing skills while using various equipment.  We have really enjoyed our block of Gymnastics and we think we have some Team Scotland Gymnasts in the making!

 

We have also been working hard to tidy up our P1 garden. We are wanting to give our garden a little bit of a makeover and this week we started by weeding and tidying up different areas in our garden. We can’t wait to watch our garden develop over the next few weeks.

Last week we enjoyed a visit from our Campus Police Officer, PC Mitchell. Before the holiday we were learning about people who help us. We had lots of questions ready for PC Mitchell and were mostly interested in her uniform and where she gets it from. We loved her demonstration with the handcuffs on Miss Regan!

   

    

Our story of the week has been The Snail on the Whale. As you will see from our faces we loved completing an experiment to see how whale blubber works. We put our hands into cold water for as long as we could and then tried this again with Vaseline on our hands. The Vaseline acts as an insulator, the same way blubber does for a whale. We could then hold our hands in the cold water for longer!

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

    

We are coming to the end of our block of Gymnastics. We have learned lots about different ways of moving, jumping and balancing on various types of equipment.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

On Friday we learned about The King’s Coronation both in class and in assembly. We enjoyed listening to the story, The King’s Pants and then had lots of fun designing a new pair of pants for The King. We have also been decorating crowns and during our writing lesson we created our own crown and then wrote about it using some amazing adjectives!

   

   

   

   

    

We enjoyed some time exploring in the woodland on Friday afternoon and also threw our seed bombs which we made the previous week. Fingers crossed some beautiful flowers appear soon!