We had a great day performing our assembly for Primary 1, 2 , 3 and our parents. We also performed our sound story – Goldilocks and the Three Bears with instruments at music. What a talented bunch we are!😀
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Sunshine!
Last week we enjoyed some warm sunny weather. We took our learning outdoors for maths and literacy in our groups as well as for gym and play!
Land ahoy! We played Pirates
We had mermaids and dinosaurs!
Some of us even cooked the lunch!
Bean bag races
Hurdles!
Following Directions
Today we were working in pairs trying to help our partner get from the start to the finishing line! We had to work our way around the chairs which was quite tricky. Our focus for the challenge was to make right angle turns, we traced our journeys using chalk and then we could then see the right angles on the ground.
Mandala Patterns
We created some fantastic Mandala patterns! Have a look!
Right-angles
We have been looking for right-angles around the classroom and yesterday we used twigs and cubes to make our own right-angles. Each group created their own design using squares and rectangles. We used the little cubes to show where the angles are.
Handwriting practise
Numeracy activities
Here are a few snap shots of our learning so far this week. We have been busy looking at 2D shape patterns, more than and less than, Carroll diagrams and number work.
We took our learning outside and created Carroll diagrams in groups while sorting 2D shapes. Another group used the wide open space to fill in missing numbers on huge number lines!
We finished S.T.E.M fortnight by taking part in five, fun S.T.E.M activities. We enjoyed our afternoon working together, learning and having fun!
The activities we did were:
3D Shapes – we used matchsticks and play dough to make some 3D shapes like cubes and cuboids.
Lego – we had to make our names using Lego.
Floating Ball – using a straw and a piece of paper we had to create something that would make a tin foil ball float! This was tricky.
Making Bridges – our challenge here was to create bridges for our teddy bears to cross using cups and lollipop sticks. How many teddies will our bridge support?
Marble run – We had to work together and use the pipes and try and get the marbles from one side of the sand pit to the other!
We will get a chance this week to try challenges we haven’t done yet.
Visitors in P1.4
We have had lots of visitors into Primary 1 recently.
Mr Tyler came in as part of STEM fortnight and talked to us about science and did some exciting experiments to inspire us to become interested in science.
Mrs Campbell was our mystery reader last week. We thoroughly enjoyed the story about The Carrot Cake Catastrophe. We are looking for mystery readers for the up and coming weeks so let us know if you would like to come in and read to the class.
As part of STEM week Mrs Heaton came in and told us about her job as an Environmental Health Officer. She talked to us about what she needs to wear when she carries out inspections and she showed us how we can see the dirt and germs on our hands using an ultra violet light machine.
Homework
This week’s homework is a whole school activity to celebrate STEM fortnight. Please ask your child to comment on how the photographs and statement make them feel and what changes could they make to help planet earth.
