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Events, Expressive Arts

Eastwood Theatre Trip

We visited Eastwood Theatre today with our Fab Friends from Primary 2!

 

We have been exploring friendships and emotions with our Fab Friends recently, and a trip to see a production of the moral tale The Boy Who Cried Wolf was an excellent way to conclude our learning.

We got the bus to the theatre with our Fab Friend and then sat beside them in the production.

 

There were lots of actions, mine and expressive movements in the show and the sound effects were all being made by the three man cast alone! We will be using our Fab Friends time on Friday to try making some of our won sound effects to films and clips.

After the show we all got the opportunity to go up on stage if we wanted to, the cast even made Miss Dunn get up on stage too!

We had a fantastic morning, learning about morals, sound effects and rhymes. Primary 1 would like to say a big thank you to Alice’s, Becca’s and Joshua’s mums for coming to help out on the trip.

 

-My Achievements, Literacy and English

World Book Day

World Book Day is being celebrated on Thursday 2nd March 2017 this year.

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As part of our experiences for this event we have a special World Book Day themed homework coming home!

There are suggested activities that you can do together as a family to celebrate world book day.

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We have also set a World Book Day challenge! See below for instructions:

  • Choose your favourite storybook.
  • Read this book with an adult
  • Have a look at the ending in particular.
  • Discuss an alternative ending with your grown up.
  • Record this alternative ending on the challenge sheet attached to your homework.
  • Bring challenge sheet into school on Thursday and we will read out all the alternative endings by our fantastic Primary 1 authors.

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-My Achievements, Social Studies

The World of Work

dsc00786  dsc00788As part of our skills for learning life and work exploration we decided to look at job descriptions and interview for our classroom roles.

We discussed the skills and qualities needed for each job such as great communication and how to speak to others in a kind and respectful way.

We decided which classroom role we wanted to out ourselves forwards for and then we interviewed for it.

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There are only 9 classroom role titles so we knew some of us would not be successful this week. We talked about this and agreed we did not have to get upset because it would be our turn another week.

Who would have thought we would be interviewing for jobs in Primary 1!

 

Celebrations, Events

JNF donations

img_7815We joined the upper school for a whole school Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday to celebrate the total amount raised for JNF through coin wars, donation boxes and our Tu B’Shevat dress as you please day.

The whole school raised over £400 and each class got a certificate showing that trees h e been planted in Israel in our name.

We were very proud of our fundraising efforts in Primary 1!

 

 

 

 

Expressive Arts

Vincent Van Gogh

This week we have been exploring the artist Vincent Van Gogh.

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Through his paintings we learned the phrase ‘self portrait’. This is a painting an artist does of themselves. Jasper said this sounded a bit like a selfie that we take nowadays.

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Here are some facts we learned:

  • He painted over 900 paintings – Ian
  • He became one of the most famous artist – Korin
  • He was Dutch but moved to France – Isaac
  • No one liked his pictures when he was alive but after he died people really liked them – Joshua
  • He did paintings of the flat he lived in – Noah
  • He painted with bright colours and sunny colours on a big paintbrush – Becca

Image result for vincent van gogh self portrait with bandaged earLots of us found out about Vincent Van Gogh’s ear. Nina explained that he had a fight with his friend and chopped his own ear off!

Expressive Arts, Social Studies

Check Bags Today!

Primary 1 will be going on an exciting educational outing on Tuesday 7th March 2017! Check bags today for permission slips, information letter and lunch orders.

We have spaces on the bus for one adult per child to accompany them on this trip for a £5 contribution.  To secure an addtional adult place please return attached tear off slip in your child’s communication jotter.

Primary 1 have been exploring Social Studies and Expressive Arts experiences and outcomes through the contexts of Glasgow, Famous Artists and Travel and Transport.

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To enhance our learning within these areas we will be participating in a jam packed education outing following including the activities below:

  • Guided tour of Glasgow in Glasgow Sightseeing Bus

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  • Snack at Kelvingrove Art Galleries

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  • Famous Artist Task at Kelvingrove Art Galleries

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  • Lunch at Riverside Museum

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  • Travel and Transport Task at Riverside Museum

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Wonderful Weighing!

Today, The Squares were exploring weight during Numeracy and Maths.

The children already had great prior knowledge of weight from weighing ingredients for baking and cooking at home. They enjoyed sharing their experiences!

We discussed how different items from the shopping bags felt when we held them and decided items were either heavy or light. We enjoyed sorting them into these groups as a team.

Nina decided the cous cous packet felt 'light' to carry.
Nina decided the cous cous packet felt ‘light’ to carry.
'Heavy' shopping
‘Heavy’ shopping
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Light shopping

The children then ‘brought their shopping home’ into the House Corner, where the discussion of heavy and light continued as the shopping was put away.

 

dsc00752We are looking forward to Wednesday where we will be using a two pan balance to compare the weight of different objects!

-My Achievements

Terrific Taskboards

Miss Dunn and P1 have been working as a team to develop the learning environment and ways of organising our learning in Primary 1.

We have looked at changing the layout of our room to one which the children decided, with a more cosy and welcoming book corner and new use of the sand and water trays.

Today we launched a new morning routine and use of terrific task boards in class.

In the morning we now have increased responsibilities to develop our sense of independence. See our morning routine below:

  • Communication folder and water bottle out of bag and into tray
  • Self register at classroom computer
  • Order lunches at interactive whiteboard
  • Collect Sidurim
  • Practice learning and writing our words of the week

Try asking your child about this new routine and how they feel about their new task boards at home!

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Expressive Arts

Artist Study Week 3

This week we are exploring the Dutch Artist Piet Mondrain. We found out the following interesting facts about Mondrain and had a look a some of his interesting work.

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This week really challenged our views on what artist’s works look like. Not all famous art work are paintings or interpretations of objects. In fact not all famous art work even uses paint at all!

  • At first Mondrain painted landscapes like Monet. Then he decided he wanted to make pictures his own way and they turned more and more into shapes. – Toby
  • Mondrain said if you look at objects and really look you can see them just as shapes. We tried it with things in the classroom and out the window. Trees I thought were more like triangles. – Issac
  • Mondrain used yellow, red and blue. We learned these are called Primary Colours. – Becca

Can you try looking at the shapes in objects at home and making your own Mondrain inspired art?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSCmWnIoRpI

Ivrit

Incredible Ivrit!

Miss Dunn, Miss Lindsay and Mr Guetta were all hugely impressed with our recall of Ivrit vocabulary today.

We have been learning all about animal names in Hebrew, not only how to say them but also how to use our Hebrew letter knowledge to decode and read the words.

Mr Guetta and Miss Dunn challenged us in groups to match the Hebrew words to the English translation.

We were so speedy and accurate we tried it again in different groups to beat our previous time!

Remember to check out Mr Guetta’s Blog for updates on any vocabulary we learn in class.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/mchclivrit/