Some of the areas in our classroom have changed. Miss McCabe asked us what we liked and didn’t like and we made some changes together.

We did not like where the tipi was so we decided to move it to the library. More people can read in tents together now.

We did not want a shop anymore so we made our shop into the ticket office for our puppet theatre. Take a look…

Characterisation

We read the story Aliens Love Underpants and discussed the characters, events and setting. We thought it was very funny and liked the part where the aliens put pants on their heads and chanted!

We learned about the 5 points of characterisation which authors use to create a character. We worked with Miss McCabe to be authors and create our own alien character.

“ I liked being with the teacher making an alien. My alien had a pink dress and is called XX.” – Kirstyn

“I liked being with the teacher. I liked to write about my own alien and I liked to make funny aliens” – Stephen

“I did making my own alien and it could turn into a boulder!” – Gregor

We were able to sequence the events of the story using pictures to help us.

“I liked doing the sequencing. We had to think what happened in the story and write down the numbers” – Sophie

We were able to re-tell the main parts of the story in our puppet theatre. We used stick puppets. When we had finished retelling the book, we got to create our own story!

“I liked the puppet theatre. You had to do the real story. We got to do our own story in the show.” – Paige

“My favourite was puppet show and I like making my own show” – Sam

We drew pictures of the characters we had created. We had to think about what they would look like.

“I liked drawing my alien and he had wrinkles on his neck and also his name is ET” – Scott

“I liked drawing my alien, it has rainbow coloured hair” – Mia

 

 

 

For Maths week we have been learning about money. Have a look below to see the skills we developed.

We decided to use what we learned to raise money for our class.

P1 have been learning about The Gruffalo, we made them Gruffalo products to sell to them. We made products which will help them retell the story and discuss the characters.

Money, money, money

“We are trying to find the coins on the sheet. I know 5p, 10p” – Logan

“We had a 1p, 2p, 50p and a 20p. 50p and 20p have corners and are silver” -Stephen

“I had to match the numbers and the coins” – Kirstyn

“We were counting money and when we were doing it you didn’t just use 1 coin, you need to add it up.” – Kayden

“We were doing calculations and one time I did £100 add £100 and £100 and £100 and it added up to £400!” – Scott

“I added up different coins” – Dawson

“We had to add up the money to pay for the food. If it was 6p then I would have done a 5p and a 1p” – Mia

“I had to choose food and then sort out the coins and add it up to get the right money. If it was 22p I would give a 20p and 2p” – Eilidh

Creating our Gruffalo products

“We were making our Gruffalo things. We made story sticks and masks” – Daniel

“We made Gruffalo bookmarks” – Sam

Getting our pop up shop ready

Selling to Primary 1!

“We were selling things” – Logan

“If they gave us a 50p we had to give money back. We made money so we can buy our own stuff” – Stephen

“My favourite part was the selling. I sold the story sticks and they cost £1. Some people gave 50p plus 50p” – Sam

Here are some happy customers!

We are so proud of ourselves! We made £36 with P2/3 next door. We are going to decide as a class what to spend our money on.

iPads

“We were playing games on the iPad” – Marcy

“It was a QR code ” – Paige

“We scanned the code and we got on to the game where we had to count money” – Sophie

Miss McCabe lets us make decisions about how our classroom is organised. Check our blog next week to see some of the changes made to the areas in our classroom.

We have been busy learning about our local area. We learned about maps and worked with a partner to map our classroom.

 

“We did a key to tell you what everything is” – Scott

“It shows you where things are beside. The computer is beside the door” – Kensley

After our walk through the village we made our own pictures of Neilston. We used a range of resources and presented these to the class once we had finished.

“We were drawing the places of Neilston like the garage and the church” – Sophie

“We did grass and the school” – Amber

Wonderful writing

In writing we are learning to write with increasing independence. We have been trying to have a go with spelling. Part of our success criteria is to write sentences with full stops and capital letters.

 

Sam, Eilidh and Sophie made playdo sentences with full stops and capita letters.

Kensley is wearing our special assessment glasses to self-assess her work. This means she had to read her writing and check it met the success criteria. She gave herself a green traffic light because she had neat, punctuated sentences!

Dawson is peer assessing Mia’s work. He is checking that Mia has been able to cut and paste sentences in the correct order and write them neatly with punctuation.

Each week we have STAR WRITERS who have made extra effort to achieve the success criteria. Take a look at who we had last week.

Stephen wrote some fantastic sentences with Mrs Ness.

Scott had lots of ideas and wrote all these sentences with very little help! He agreed he had done a great job as he gave himself a green traffic light.

Thom used the picture to help him think up ideas. He tried hard to write neatly.

Kara made sure her sentences had full stops and capital letters.

Read our blog next week to find out about the exciting things we have planned for Maths week! We are so excited!

I can describe and recreate the characteristics of my local environment by exploring the features of the landscape.

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We went a walk around the village to find features of our environment. We checked these off on a list.

We were able to describe the different types of shops we found.

We saw fields and knew that some of them are used as farms. We even spotted some cows!

We have sketched features of our environment. We stood at the top of the playground and noticed hills, pylons, fields, farms, trees and much more.

“We drew things we saw and looked at things to draw it properly.” – Gabriel

“We looked at features like hills and houses”- Freya

“ I saw and drew hills” – Marcy

“I drew bushes and grass” – Mia

“I drew a pylon which is an electricity tower and it goes there and comes back” – Scott

“I drew trees” – Eilidh

On Friday afternoon we had choosing activities. Some of us made models of things we had noticed during our walk through the village.

Some children worked in a team to build a train station like the one beside our school.

“We are making a train station” – Logan

“I’m making a tunnel for it. This is the bit where you buy the tickets” – Daniel

Eilidh was excited as we saw her house on our walk. She started building a house but then turned it into a wind farm!

“This is going to be a house. Some houses have pointy roofs”- Amber

“I flattened and squished the layers and made a pavement” – Gabriel

“This is the audience in the church. This is the door and the doorstep” – Marcy

Next steps – Next week we will be doing some art where we will draw some buildings found in Neilston. We are going to work in a group to create our own picture map of Neilston. Keep reading our blog to see how we get on!