Over the past few days we have been enjoying our I-Play sessions. For this, we are given the opportunity to sign up to one of the following five options; I imagine, I create, I discover, I problem solve or I go outdoors. Each week we are able to change and sign up to a different option where we will be met with a variety of exciting learning opportunities through play. It was lots of fun visiting different rooms and playing with other boys and girls from primary 1 🤩
Our coders pathway is now coming to an end. Today we enjoyed making links to our local area by placing photographs around our bed-bot mats and navigating to these different places in Newton Mearns.
Mrs Stephenson is so impressed with our amazing coding skills, no bee-bots got lost on their journey!
On our SmartBoard we also had Google maps set to street view. We enjoyed ‘walking’ around Newton Mearns and some of us even saw our own house!
For story writing this week we took our learning outdoors. We trekked to the wooded area by the pitches to find a cosy spot to listen to a story. Unfortunately Mrs Stephenson didn’t anticipate how muddy it would be! Thankfully Ollie had the great idea that we should travel along the fence. This was lots of fun!
Once we found a place to set out our covers, we sat and listened to the story ‘Stickman’.
After the story, we adventured some more and tried to find the perfect stick. We then chatted with our friends and used our imaginations to pretend the sticks were different objects.
We returned to class and wrote some fabulous stories! Our sticks were lightsabers, pens, swords and there were even some magic wands!
In the coming weeks we will be exploring the outdoors more as part of our story writing. This will take place every Tuesday so please pop our wellie boots on us just in case!
We have now completed week 4 of our ‘Coders’ pathway in Mearns Masters.
We are feeling confident in operating our Beebots and coding them to move to different parts of our mats. We can also successfully complete the first few levels on the Beebot and Code-a-Pillar apps on the iPads. These continue to increase in difficulty as we progress through.
This week, we linked our learning about people who help us in the community to our Mearns Masters project. We created jackets for our Beebots to turn them into different vehicles we may see eg ambulances, police cars or mail vans. We are excited to see how this progresses next week!
Today we looked at the weather forecast and observed the weather throughout the day.
We have seen heavy rain showers, sunshine, rainbows and windy spells all over the course of a few hours. How lucky are we?
As our independent craft, we created wind measures. We loved taking these outside and watching them dance in the wind!
For Literacy today we wrote a story about a Windy Day, considering what we might do or what we might see. Here is an example of one of our fantastic stories.
Literacy
Today our red task was to build sentences. Mrs Stephenson wrote sentences on the board and we had to find the words and order them correctly. We were super! We were then responsible for having our efforts photographed as evidence. 🎯
Mearns Masters
Today we started Coders, our 3rd Mearns Masters pathway. We were focusing on inputting instructions into both the Bee-Bot & Code-a-pillar apps to make them move to a desired spot. We demonstrated excellent teamwork and are very excited to be trying out the actual Bee-bots next week!
Here are a few snaps from our Christmas Party yesterday and our visit from a very special guest! 🎅 Check out our video of Beck and Gladys – our future Strictly Come Dancing professionals! Grace and Archie were also excellent!
It’s safe to say fun was had by all, and excitement levels are off the scale. Mrs S and I are ready for lie down 🤣. Have a lovely Christmas with family and friends. See you next year!
Mrs Hamilton & Mrs Stephenson x
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December
At the beginning of December, we loved decorating our class Christmas tree and showed excellent teamwork whilst assembling it 🙂
Nativity
We have been practising lots for our upcoming Nativity show. We are doing really well even though our song has lots of words to learn. One week left of rehearsals and then you will get to come and see us perform. Woohoo! Please practise with us at home if you can.
Topical Science
It has been very cold lately and in the past week temperatures dropped to -10 through the night. We wanted to see if objects would freeze in water if left outside overnight and all predicted this would be successful. We were right! We discussed which of the objects floated and which sunk and also tried to problem solve the fastest way to set the objects free.
We briefly went outside to look at our playground and discuss how to be safe on frosty days, paying close attention to ice on the ground. We quickly snapped a picture then went back inside to get cosy.
Christmas Fayre
Thank you for purchasing our Christmas crafts. We were able to choose whether we wanted to make a reindeer, Santa or a snowman and demonstrated excellent gluing and cutting skills. The money raised by primary 1 will go towards resourcing play in our classrooms 🙂
Each fortnight, at our assemblies, pupils will be presented with a Star Pupil or curricular area certificates recognising pupil achievements. This could be something inside or outside of school. Well done to Lillie, Zeeshan, Zoeya and Ollie who were awarded certificates today. 👏🏻
Please continue to upload any photos of pupil achievements in our Google Classroom. Look in the classwork section to find the achievements assignment.
We all observed a minute silence on Friday to mark Remembrance day. We also learned about why we wear a poppy. In the morning we worked in trios to make our very own poppies for our Autumn window display.
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