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Events

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.

 

-My Achievements, Numeracy and Mathematics

What a Challenge!

 

The green group were using their before reading strategies to discuss their new reading book: The Magic Trident.

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We noticed a Killer Whale was a character in the storybook. Noah explained that a Killer Whale is also called an Orca Whale.

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“I also know that Orca’s are 800cm long!” – Noah.

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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.

-My Achievements

Celebrating Wider Achievements

We regularly celebrate the wider achievements of all members of our class in Primary 1 through our Achievement Wall and Proud Cloud.

 

On Friday you will have received an envelop home with a Wider Achievement record on the back. Please complete this and return to school on Tuesday 2nd May to share and celebrate the successes of our class.

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Events, Literacy and English

Welcome Back!

A warm welcome back to all of Primary 1 and our families after the spring break.

We hope you had a restful and fun filled break.

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This week we will be developing our writing skills of account writing and logical sequencing of events by writing postcards from our Spring Break.

To help with this can we please ask that if possible a photo or diary note of an exciting event that took place during the holidays can be brought into school to help us with this.

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Miss Dunn and Miss Lindsay will also be bringing in a holiday snap to share with the class!

 

 

Events

Our Tour of Glasgow

We had a fabulous time yesterday on our tour of Glasgow in the open topped bus. We stopped of at Kelvingrove Art Galleries and the Riverside Museum. We are writing an account of our trip today, check back tomorrow for some examples of our writing on the blog!

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!