Well! Throughout my entire career, I have never had a snow day until now! I decided to prepare for some topical science lessons for next week and have got some snow bricks ready and sitting in my freezer. We will look at the properties of snow. ( How can snow be “ the wrong type of snow”? I left outside a container to see what happened to different items in freezing conditions, but I can’t find it now as it has been buried under the snow! The ice castles are also in the freezer ready to discover how to rescue the items inside them.
Ther are lots of things you can do at home too- write stories about the snow and their adventures in the snow; draw pictures about the snow; build snowmen and discover what happens in powder snow; go on Sumdog and Education City. ( Sumdog diaries are in the front of the Diary); read stories with an adult; take photos of the snow and best of all….. have fun in the snow!
Remember to wear snow boots / wellies when we return and for the children to have gloves, hats and scarves on as we will go outside for some outdoor learning in the snow. We will change into our gym shoes in class and let our wet things dry.
I look forward to seeing your stories and pictures.
Some ideas:
Photo from my house.
Photo from upstairs. I love the snowflakes patterns on the window.
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View from my hall window. I have never seen this happen before.
We love stories being read to us by Mrs Arbuckle. However, it is important to know that many people love to read too. We will be having Mystery Readers in class every Friday at 12pm.
Today, the fabulous Mrs McCann came to read to us. She is one of our brilliant classroom assistants and we see her friendly face in the playground too. She read ” Jonathan The Porcupine” by Cathie Gebhart and Chelsea Rae Meeker. Thank you Mrs McCann for coming along and sharing your story.
We are loving Sumdog in class. It is very clever and can change our level according to our ability. We have been learning to log on and all of our login details can be found in the front of our diaries.
Sometimes, though, there are technicical difficulties. If it happens, we just move on to other things. We recommend Scratch Junior ( coding), Education City and Nessy. We do put ICT learning in our homework programme. Mrs Arbuckle can see when we have been doing our homework and how long we have been doing it for. It’s amazing ( and brilliant) how many children do a quick Sumdog in the morning after breakfast just for fun!
Here we are on CBeebies to learn how to scroll and choose suitable learning games.
We visit the library every Thursday afternoon. Mrs Arbuckle scans our books, so we know who has what book. We need to remember to return our books. We have a look at the books and Mrs Arbuckle loves reading stories. We also love to share our books and show Mrs Arbuckle the words we know. 📚📚📚
We learn in many different ways in 1.3. We have child led activities, where we choose how we learn; ; teacher led activities , where Mrs Arbuckle sets things up for us to learn and child initiated activities , where we ask Mrs Arbuckle what we would like to learn and she does her best to research and find resources for us to learn.
Some of us were learning about directions today in maths. We pretended to be computers that had to be programmed to move correctly. If you give the wrong information ( directions) , then the computer won’t do what you want it to do.
We then looked at ” Hour of Code”, which is a beginners computer programming site. We had to give directions (commands) for BB-8 to move around. We loved it.
The children asked for a castle in the classroom, so this week it is slowly coming together. There have been cries of “Fi, fi, foe, fum!” and lots of role play. Today we looked at flags and their importance and linked them to the Winter Olympics. We then designed our own flags for the castle. It is a work in progress. We’ll keep you informed. 😁
Perseverance.
Putting the crown together takes great concentration.
If you fix the crown, I’ll hold the keys.
Loving the hat.
Opening the castle with the Giants keys.
The children tidy up the castle at the end of the day.
The children had decided that they wanted to learn about fairytales and they wanted to make a castle in class. We watched the story about “Jack and The Beanstalk” and talked about the story. We then printed with paint on paper to create the “brick” effect for our castle. We looked at the design of castles and drew pictures of them them and we built castles using the Lego and the blocks. We will be planting our own beans in science after Easter. Mrs Arbuckle loved the comment, “Well, this is fun!” Children should enjoy their learning.
It was a busy first day. It was important to keep the children in their normal routine to ensure a seamless transition. Some children were adding in maths; some were discovering all about right angles and some were learning about volume using the water beads. We read our new reading books and asked lots of questions. We also learn continuously through play.
Hello! It’s lovely to meet you! I’m Mrs Arbuckle and I will be with P1.3 til the summer. I have been working in P1.4 , so I am very familiar with how P1 works. Primary One at Mearns is a team effort with all the staff. I am also a very experienced teacher ( I have a lot of experience in P1 and I also taught the dinosaurs!!) I have taught in many different schools. This is my fifth year at Mearns. I am looking forward to working with the children in P1.3.
I enjoy using the class blog to share with you what goes on in class and you can see what and how your child learns. ( Ask them at home, and they usually say “Nothing!”)
I hope you enjoy our blog.
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