We have had another busy week in P1C!

This week we continued with data handling and enjoyed creating our own bar charts using different materials.

We also looked at the artist Henri Mattisse, He is a famous French artist and he used an art technique that he called ‘painting with scissors’. We looked at some of his famous paintings and created our own Mattisse inspired artwork using his technique.

We have had create fun in Dance this week, we looked at different dance moves and selected our favourite to create a dance routine.

We have been working hard in writing and this week we read ‘One Button Benny’ and wrote a summary of the story.

The highlight of our week was definitely the colour run!! We had so much fun taking part and going round with our buddies.

Here we are before!

During…

And after!!

Over the past couple of weeks we have been exploring Data Handling. We have discussed what data actually is and why we gather information. This week we explored Bar Graphs, we gathered different items and placed them onto the graph. We had to make sure we placed the information accurately and we then look at our graph and what information it was telling us.

We have been looking at the Weather this week. We created our own Weather diaries for the week where we documented the weather each day. We loved learning about how and why rain falls too! We then discussed our favourite weather and all agreed that sunny days are our favourite!

This week we have been taking part in Crookfur’s Culture Week and completing activities to celebrate Eid.

Here we are in our amazing outfits, some of us wore traditional dress for our own culture.

Thank you very much to the volunteers who came into school and created the beautiful Mehndi on our hands. We loved our designs and think they look amazing!

We also created our own Mehndi designs!

We also had great fun making our own chocolate covered strawberries.

We also loved having a visit from Mrs Ali who read us a story and answered some questions we had about Eid.

We ended the week with a visit from Mr Crawford who teaches at Williamwood High School. He taught us some Spanish and brought along some props for us to enjoy.

We have had a busy, fun filled week in P1C!

This week we loved making our own fruit salads 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!

One word- “YUMMY!!”

“I enjoyed making them.”

“It was fun cutting all the juicy stuff!”

“We had to cut the fruit very carefully.”

“I loved eating mine!”

We also enjoyed discussing Easter and why we celebrate Easter. We decided to make our own Easter cards and loved decorating them.

“We made a little bunny out of our hand for the front and I added lots of decoration.”

“I wrote my card to my family.”

We have also been working hard on tally marks and looked at using base five tally marks when gathering information. We used the lollipop sticks to help us display our tally marks.

“Number 5 has to close the gate!”

“It was lots of fun.”

Have a wonderful Easter holiday and very well deserved rest!

We have had a busy, fun filled week in P1C!

As it has been STEM Week, we discussed our Woodland and what creatures we may find living there. We thought the Woodland is the best place for minibeasts to stay so we decided to create little habitats for them. We carefully selected the items we used to ensure the minibeasts would want to live in our special habitats.

“We made houses for minibeasts.”

“I made a house for a ladybird!”

“We had to pick up things that would be good for minibeasts like grass and sticks.”

For STEM week, we also enjoyed the six brick Lego challenge. We only had six Lego bricks and we had to complete different challenges like creating a tower with all the Lego bricks, this was a lot tricker than we thought it would be! We also had to complete challenges like copy the building and create different items, it was so much fun and we all worked so well together.

“It was really hard and I enjoyed it!”

“We only had 6 bits of Lego and had tricky challenges.”

“My favourite challenge was trying to copy my partners building.”

“My favourite was challenge was trying to make an animal.”

We have also celebrated Neurodiversity this week, we explored what Neurodiveristy means and looked at how we are all different and what makes us special.

“We drew what we are good at because we are good at different things.”

“Neurodiversity means everyone has different brains which is so cool.”

We were also super lucky this week as Mr. Monkey wrote us a letter! In his letter Mr.Monkey explained he had been trying to learn his common words like us but sadly he had got a few wrong! We discussed what we could do to help him and decided to write him a letter back telling him to continue to use his growth mindset and keep working hard. We hope he writes to us again real soon!

“Mr Monkey wrote us a letter so we wanted to write him a letter back, I told him about school and gave him some words to try.”

“Mr Monkey was so excited to get our letters!”

We have had a great week celebrating all things World Book Day! Our author of the week was Nick Sharratt and we loved exploring his different texts and drawings. We created our own front covers for different books, trying to use a similar style to Nick Sharratt.

“His books are good and cool!”

“I loved all his books because they’re good books.”

“I really liked his books.”

“I loved my new cover I made for Shark in the Dark.”

We also had a very special special Tiger come read to us on Thursday, which was very exciting! The Tiger read the story “The Tiger who came to tea” which we all really enjoyed.

We ended World Book Day by reading with our buddies, we brought along our teddies and different books and our buddies brought some cosy blankets. As you can see from the pictures we had a great time and this was a great way to finish our week and our World Book Day celebrations!

“It was so exciting!”

“It was fun!”

“I loved reading with my buddy!”

“Some books were cool and my buddy is good at reading!”

We have had another busy week in P1C!

We are continuing to learn about Scotland and this week we looked at famous Scottish Landmarks and their features. We decided to create them in the construction area and we created landmarks like Edinburgh Castle, The Kelpies and Loch Ness.

“I made a famous Scottish castle!”

“We made Scottish landmarks, I made Loch Ness with Nessie in it!”

We also had great fun learning about the different types of Scottish Dance. We worked in pairs to learn some different ceilidh dances, we tried a Canadian Barn dance and Gay Gordons. We especially loved the parts were you got to spin around with you partner.

“I loved it!”

“It was fun when you spun around with your partner.”

We also learnt how to preform a highland fling!

This week we have also looked at the importance of tartan, we know that tartan is special in Scotland and that each clan and family have their own tartan. We created our own tartan using cars to help us create the lines.

“We used the cars to help us make the tartan, the car made the lines and we choose different colours to create it.”

“I made a colourful tartan.”

We have had a busy two weeks in P1C and hope everyone had a lovely holiday.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been working hard to use concrete materials to help us solve different addition calculations. We have also been using numicon to help us explore number bonds for  numbers 8, 9 and 10.

“When you add it gets bigger”.

“We put two bits of numicon on top of 9 to see how we can make 9.”

We are continuing to explore money and we had great fun making our coin towers!

“The cups had different amounts on them and you had to look at the coin and try match it to the number.”

We have been developing our racket skills with Mrs Lamont. We have been working hard to pass the bean bags to each other without them falling off our racket. We had to try and do this 10 times without dropping it, which was much harder than we thought!

“We had to try and flip the bean bag like a pancake and keep it on.”

“We had to try and flip it to our partner and they had to throw it back.”

We are continuing to enjoy our topic which is Scotland and this week we drew what we think the Loch Ness Monster looks like and discussed the Scottish flag and then decided to design our own Scottish Flags.

“We made our very own Scottish flag and it was really fun doing it! You could do stripes or diagonal whatever you wanted”.

“We could design it however we wanted”.

“We designed Scotland flags because that is the country we live in!”

Last week, we really enjoyed a visit from our Digital leaders who talked to us about keeping safe online. We also enjoyed learning about Children’s Mental Health week. We discussed what we can do to help make ourselves feel better if we aren’t feeling calm or happy.

“We need to try and keep our brain healthy to keep us healthy”.

“The Digital Leaders taught us not to click on buttons that don’t look safe.”

This week in Numeracy and Maths, we explored Money. We looked at what money is used for, the value of each coin and ordered the coins from smallest to largest.

“We put them in order.”

“We had to find the right coin and put it in order.”

“We use coins to pay for things but my Mummy uses her phone to buy things.”

We are continuing to discuss what keeps us healthy and this week  we discussed the importance of sleep.  We know that sleep helps our brain store information and helps us to concentrate. We discussed our bedtime routine and wrote instructions for our own bedtime routine.

“I drew my bedtime routine, you have to start with what you do first.”

We really enjoyed learning all about Burns Day! We looked at why and how  we celebrate burns and read some of his poems. We had great fun trying to work out the meaning of different scots words. We then created our own ‘Wee Rid Motor’ to go with the poem ‘The Wee Rid Motor’ by Sandy Thomas Ross.

We have had another fun week in P1C! We have been continuing to work on time this week. We ordered the months of the year and days of the week. We also matched the digital time to the correct analogue clock.

“I can put the months in order.”

“We put days of the week  in order.”

“I can match digital time to the clock.”

We have continued with our colour mixing and we created beautiful seascapes by mixing blue and yellow. We then created our own fish and stuck them on.

“We mixed colours to make our background and then made our own fish.”

“We stuck the fish on the painting that we made.”

Our story of the week has been ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’, we all love this story and this prompted a discussion during circle time were we discussed what we can do well and what we want to improve. We then created our own beautiful I can pictures that we can’t wait to show you.

“We made a nice moon like the book Giraffes Can’t Dance and drew our own Gerald”

We have been working hard on our prediction skills and made predictions about our reading books. We then read our books to see if our prediction was similar to the story.

“We predicted what might happen in the book, my prediction was almost right!”