Today we watched the story ‘Jojo Gnome & the Maths Challenge’. Like the characters in the story, we then took our maths learning outdoors and explored the woodland on the other side of our pitch.
We were gathering objects and comparing their sizes. We used words like; longer, shorter, taller, bigger and smaller. We were great at following instructions!
Today we wrote stories about Queen Elizabeth II, the things she liked, why she was important and what she will be remembered for: Tea with Paddington, jumping out of helicopters with 007, her love for Scotland and her cute Corgis were most popular.
We used our knowledge of repeating patterns and 2D shapes to create beautiful crowns! Thanks to Mrs McDonagh for helping us staple everything together. Well done Kings and Queens. 👑
We had lots of fun creating 2D Shape Robots, yesterday. We revised the shapes; circle, square, triangle and rectangle and learned 2 new shapes.
We counted their sides and talked about what we thought they might be called. After some great answers, the class learned they were called Pentagon (5sides) and Hexagon (6sides). We also talked about how sometimes the beginning of a number word can give us a clue about its meaning:
UNIcycle = 1 wheel
BIcycle = 2 wheels
TRIcycle = 3 wheels
We know that PENT- means 5 and HEX- means 6! We’ll need to ask P7 if they know their Greek and Latin number prefixes like us!
The pupils worked so well in pairs, they are beginning to see the benefits of teamwork and importance of compromise! Well done P1.4!
The sound we were learning about today was ‘e’. As part of our learning, we practised forming the letter ‘e’, identified objects beginning with this sound and listened to the story ‘Elmer the Patchwork Elephant’. We enjoyed our table task which was to make Elmers of our own by finger painting.
The pitch is currently closed whilst work is being completed so today we were unable to get onto it for Outdoor P.E. Instead, before heading for our P.E lesson in the street area we went to our playground. We had the opportunity to play in our outdoor roleplay area with friends or we could use the chalk to draw pictures beginning with the sounds the teacher called out. It got a little messy but we loved it!
Week 1 – Fruit Salad
After talking about our favourite fruit, we explored how a variety of fruits end up in our local shops using the videos ‘Farm to Fork’ . We were then shown the two different holds for chopping. These are the ‘claw’ and the ‘bridge’.
Before having the opportunity to use a knife to try these holds, we discussed health & safety rules to ensure we kept ourselves and each other safe.
We chopped and tasted pears, blueberries, melon, strawberries and avacado. Strawberries were voted our favourite!
Week 2- Fruit Smoothies
We have been continuing to refine our chopping skills, washing and preparing fruit before our teacher added these to the blender to make some delicious smoothies.
Our first smoothie had banana, mango, pineapple and apple juice. We named it ‘Sunshine’. It was delicious!
Our second smoothie included banana, strawberry, raspberries and apple juice. We named it ‘Rainbow’. We liked this one too!
Week 3 – Rainbow Salad
Now that we have tasted lots of fruit, we have now begun to explore vegetables. During this session we extended our skills by learning how to peel and grate a carrot safely . We made delicious salads which featured carrots, celery, tomatoes and three different colours of peppers (red, orange and green). We had the option to taste these and some of us even wanted to take ours home to share with our families. We were superstars!
On Friday we investigated repeating patterns! We looked for them around our classroom, then in pairs we created our own using loose parts. Lots of creativity and challenge whilst learning about patterns. Well done P1.4!
Today in 1.4 we learned the sound ‘i’. We practised forming the letter correctly and had the opportunity to make insects. We also tried blending the sounds we have learned so far to read words such as ‘sat’, ‘it’ and ‘sit’. Mrs Stephenson was very impressed with our efforts!
During Maths times, we have been focusing on forming the numbers 1-10 correctly. To do this we have been using our SmartBoard, whiteboard & pens and play dough. Today we also went outside and used chalk to form the numbers 1-6 and could make these as big or as little as we liked. Some of us made number 1s the length of the P1 playground, they were huge!
This afternoon we started our Mearns Masters Gastronomers programme in the school kitchen. We were thinking about where our food comes from and how to safely chop using the ‘claw’ and ‘bridge’ hold. Mrs Stephenson is saving pictures from this for when we have our permissions back so you can see some of our reactions to fruits we tasted. Avacado was definitely the least favourite!
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Mrs Stephenson & Mrs Hamilton 🙂
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