We have been learning all about Robert Burns. Here are some facts we remembered.

“He had 12 children” – Mia

“His dad died” – Amber

“He was born on the 25^th of January” – Paige

“He wrote poems like my love is like a red, red rose” – Sam

“He died at an early age” – Sophie

“He had a brother”- Eilidh

“At a Burns supper they sing a song like Auld Lang Syne” – Jessica

“People eat haggis at a Burns supper” – Freya

“They drink whiskey” – Kayden

We worked with a partner to create these information posters about Robert Burns.

We also created amazing art work!

We looked at tartan and some of us researched our family tartan. We used different sized paint brushes to created our own tartan.

We also drew line drawings of Robert Burns.

“Our drawings were very realistic” – Scott

Take a look at our blog next week to see the rest of our finished artwork. We will also be showing you our Scottish dancing!

Thank you for everyone who attended our read, write, count workshop.

We loved sharing our learning with you and we were so proud of the video we created.

It has taken us a while to get a link to our video but we finally did it.

Please take a look at the video if you need any more ideas or if you were unable to attend our afternoon.

 

Thank you for all of your support.

 

Primary 2 and Miss McCabe

We have really enjoyed starting our first floor book!

We like to share our ideas by drawing and writing in it.

We are learning about directions. We are linking Maths, ICT and writing.

We told Miss McCabe that we wanted to know about pirates  and cars so we will also be linking social studies and technologies.

We wanted to share examples of our floor book so far as we are so proud of it!

We have been learning about directions. We know these are very important for real life. Lots of jobs like drivers and pilots need to know directions. We also think it is important for pirates!

We have learned lots of directional language including forwards, turn, left and right. We played different games, used technology and did outdoor learning with Miss Crook and Miss McCabe.

“We were trying to follow each other’s directions by using counters” – Eilidh

“We were using left and rights to get the same counters and at the right place. Then we would take the board away to see if they were the same” – Mia

“We were learning about direction and we had to get to the right place. We were using mats and a beebot, you had to press the buttons on it” – Jessica

“We were trying to go under stuff and over stuff.” – Dawson

“I was helping Marcy on the bench and I was holding her hand” – Amber

“I appreciate Miss McCabe putting me on the blog. It was cold out there.” – Marcy

“We were making directions how to travel around all of the equipment. We were going under, on, in and beside.” – Gabriel

“We did climbing, we had to choose what we liked to do so we had to go on and some people had to take pictures” – Stephen

“We were going across and balancing. I’m holding the boss tray to tell people what to do” – Kayden

“We had instructions to get on the obstacle course.” – Gregor

It was lots of fun being outside. We were very good as helping each other and risk-assessing ourselves. If things were slippery we slowed down and were very careful. Lots of us were proud of ourselves for trying something new.

 

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!

 

Here is our wonderful wall display, as promised!

We did 2 types of colours – Jessica

There are secondary colours – Gregor

Primary colours are yellow, red and blue – Kensley

I liked mixing the colours – Mia

I think the wall looks fantastic! – Logan

I like all the colours are really neat – Jessica

We also created our class charter.

We learned about the rights of the child. We chose 4 rights that were important in class and came up with promises we would keep to make sure everyone has access to their rights.

“Our class charter reminds us of our rights” – Sam

“We have the right to learn” – Freya

“We have the right to go to school “ – Dawson

“We have the right to play” – Gregor

“You have a right to have fresh air” – Kayden

“We used crafts and we chose whatever we wanted on the kites” – Eilidh

We revised our Primary 1 sounds on Monday and Miss McCabe helped us with the ones that we had forgotten over the summer. We love doing a variety of tasks and really likes hunting for pirate phonics in the sand.

This week our sound has been sh. Next week we will be learning ch.

 

 

 

 

We were excited to get into our new classroom. Here is a peek for you all…

Some of us were a little nervous… Miss McCabe read us a story called First Day Jitters. We then had some magic Jitter Juice which makes the butterflies fly away. We didn’t feel so scared and nervous after our special Jitter Juice.

We made some little rainbows all about us. We had to listen very carefully, do some writing and sticking! We loved the colours.

We also had some Maths revision stations. We were revising numbers to 20. We were writing, counting, adding etc.

We also had some literacy stations this week where we were revising sounds and CVC words from Primary 1. Our favourite activity was Power Towers!

We have been very creative and heard a lovely story called Mouse Paint all about primary and secondary colours. We were able to mix our own secondary colours and create a colour wheel. Keep reading our blog to see the fantastic wall display we create!

Visit our blog each week to see what we have been learning!