We achieved an astonishing 1000+ dojo points as a class this term. As a reward we had a fun afternoon at the park!
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What a busy weekend!
Learning in P1 goes far beyond the four walls of our classroom during the week.
This weekend many of our class supported our community whilst living a healthy lifestyle at the Macabbi Community Fun Run.
We ran, walked, skipped, used scooters and push chairs to complete the course as a team (not forgetting those who braved the elements to join Miss Dunn in supporting the team 😊).
Calderwood Lodge would like to say a big thanks to all who took part.
The weekend also saw many of our class visit Greenbank Garden to vote for our Greek Mythology themed wheelbarrow entry. Miss Dunn and Mrs Watson were spied having a scone and tea as well by Isaac and Lucy!
Staff at the show commended us for our contribution and we have been informed the event will be covered on STV news on Monday or Tuesday when results will also be announced.
Worm Cafè
In our latest Forest School session we were inspired by our recent visit from Eco Drama group. Through drama we learned all about worms, particularly what they like to eat! 
At Forest School we decided to use the materials in the park and food sources for worms in the environment to create our very own Worm Cafè. Korin quite rightly pointed out the people have the Dandelion Cafè so let’s make a worm cafè! 🐛
What a Challenge!
The green group were using their before reading strategies to discuss their new reading book: The Magic Trident.
We noticed a Killer Whale was a character in the storybook. Noah explained that a Killer Whale is also called an Orca Whale.
“I also know that Orca’s are 800cm long!” – Noah.
That got us thinking! It was such a large measurement we couldn’t really imagine it in our heads.
Miss Dunn suggested using a meter stick to help us out.
Miss Dunn: We have a meter stick! One meter is 100cm.
Lori: But the whale is 800cm, not just 100cm.
Toby: We can’t measure it with that stick.
Miss Dunn: I wonder what we could do then…?
Lucy: We will have to just use that one. Like over and over.
Noah: One stick is 100cm. There are 800cm. I think we could use the stick 8 times or something.
We trialled this theory out. It turns out 800cm was using the meter stick 8 times.
Noah also told us that a giant squid was 1800cm.
Miss Dunn: Another way of saying that number is eighteen hundred. Can anyone make a prediction about this measurement?
Alice: There will be 18 sticks! Not 18 sticks, we don’t have 18 sticks. We will like have to use it 18 times again and again and over.
It turns out Alice was correct….. and a giant squid is the length of the fire escape at our classroom to the girls toilets – 18 of the measure sticks in total.
Shabbat Shalom
Primary 1 took part in a very interesting Kabbalat Shabbat today where we learned all about Shavuot and got a sneaky peek at P2’s Ten Commandments rap!
Book Bug Week Fun
We have bene celebrating the joy of reading all week in P1 as part of Book Bug week 2017.
Today we took our reading for enjoyment outside into our sunny garden.
We read Shh..we have a plan by Chris Haughton.
“This was a differnt book because there were not many words and you had to really look and listen to the pictures to know the story” – We asked Miss Dunn to share some pictures from the book on the blog so we could discuss these at home.Joshua.
We asked Miss Dunn to share some pictures from the book on the blog so we could discuss these at home.
Forest School Rota
Please find below the rota for parent helpers at Forest School sessions.
We would like to take the time to thank all of the parents and grandparents who have volunteered to help out at sessions, it is much appreciaited.
| Session | Session Leaders | Supporting Adults |
| Friday 19th May | Miss Lindsay | Miss Brown
A Friel L Gurevitz S MacInnes |
| Friday 9th June | Miss Dunn | Miss Lindsay
A Friel |
| Friday 16th June | Miss Lindsay | Miss Dunn
R Edgar S MacInnes C Byrne N Hollyman |
Teamwork!
Within our Forest School session on Friday Miss Dunn gave some groups a problem solving challenge! The groups had to make it from one side of the pitch (which we pretended was shark infested waters!) to the otjernusing only the stepping stones provided.
To start with we were all in a muddle but we soon got the hang of it by communicating our ideas with our classmates.
Miss Dunn then made it harder by taking away some of the stepping stones. That one required a bit more trial and error to complete!
Forest Schools 12 May 2017
Primary 1 were excited to hear that there are little robin chicks in the nursery garden. We tracked how quickly they have grown and Isaac was concerned there would not be enough room in the nest for all of them soon.
We decided to make our own larger nests for the robins using natural material from Forest Schools. We had some great justification for our answers.
Alice made hers using twigs as that would be familiar to the chicks because their current nest has twigs and sticks.
Zac and Ian considered safety from predators by cameoflauging their nest with the surrounding environment.
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We walked around everyone’s nests discussing the great qualities in them and practiced giving constructive feedback to our peers.
Forest Schools Term 3
Primary 1 will be continuing their Forest Schools sessions into Term 3.
Forest Schools Sessions will take place on the following dates:
We require one parent helper for the sessions to go ahead. Please indicate on the return slip in your child’s bag if you can support a session.
