We enjoyed visits from the SSPCA and the opticians as part of STEM fortnight.
STEM fortnight
We’re going on a bird hunt
Primary 1.4 have been learning about collecting data. We went on a bird hunt and used tally marks to record the birds that we saw. In the outdoor classroom we counted up our tally marks and gave each bird a total. We discovered that the most common bird were blackbirds. We are going to use our data to create pictograms. We had great fun learning outdoors!
Obstacle Course
We had great fun doing the obstacle course.
Action shot!
Crawling under the net was hard work.
We had to work together to complete the course as many times as we could.
Busy bees in 1.4
It has been a busy few weeks in 1.4 with lots of exciting new learning experiences as our classroom is forever changing! Have a look and see what we have been up to.
Using containers, natural materials and a pan balance in the sand pit
Drawing some fantastic birds for our park area
Building and fixing
Counting using the interactive whiteboard
Feeding the birds in he school Eco Garden
Here we are making bird feeders for the Eco Garden
Using Cheerios to make calculations
Word building using natural materials
Ordering objects smallest to largest
Bird feeders
We put the bird feeders that we made outside in the Eco garden and around the school. It is important to help feed the birds as there is not a lot of food just now for them.
Percy the Park Keeper
This term we are looking at parks and our local environment. So far we have talked about all the different parks we have visited, what we can see and do there and what animals might live in the park. This will help us when we come to designing and making our own mini parks!
We have also been reading Percy the Park Keeper stories and have created our very own Percy Hut! However, silly Mrs Hamilton forgot to leave mugs and a kettle in the hut! Apparently Percy and the park animals need their hot cocoa!
Writing
We are always on the go in 1.4. Even during early entry, 1.4 are wide awake, busy writing words we already know, tricky words and attempting to write new words to make our sentences more exciting! Watch this space!
Active Maths -Collecting Data With tally marks
Forces – pushing and pulling
We had fun learning about forces by pushing and pulling toys around the classroom. Can you find some things that you push and pull at home?
Eightsome Reel
Our Ceilidh dancing is coming along nicely. Now we know the whole routine, we just need a little more practise before we perform in front of an audience. Dancing experts, Peter and Frank, said we were better than the Primary 7s!
(Please excuse my bellowing voice!)
