P4.12 Blog 2023/24

Lots of Primary 1.2 expressed an interest in animals, farms and springtime. We have enjoyed lots of activities this week linking to these themes. We used the book ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson to help direct our learning. Listen to the story here. 

We have really enjoyed our outdoor time this week. We are building up our stamina on the Daily Mile.

 

After reading ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ we created our own farm maps for Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh to help them steal our own prize animal. We learned all about what makes a ‘fine prize cow’ and also did some listening and talking activities about different farm animals. We then used our maps to create instructions for Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh to help navigate them through the farm. Our focus was instructional writing with the use of bossy verbs and numbers to give our instructions an order. Look at our wonderful creations!

 

Spelling our sounds for this week using Pom Poms

Messy play, explorative play or outdoor play, it doesn’t matter, we love playing in P1.2!

 

Primary 1.2 are off to a busy start this week and have been enjoying lots of new learning opportunities. It has been wonderful having the learners back in the class and we are all looking forward to new adventures in our final term.

 

Today was Wheelie Wednesday and lots of us made our way to school in a more Eco friendly and healthy way.

What a busy week in P1.2! Lot’s of purposeful play and amazing learning has happened this week. Last week some of the learners expressed an interest in jellyfish. This week we learned about the parts of a jellyfish and created our own ‘word’ jellyfish where we had to practise writing our words onto the jellyfish oral arms and tentacles. Our tuff spot was transformed into a rock pool where we can use the rocks, shells and other materials to explore and play.

We are all looking forward to some exciting Easter activities next week!

We finished off STEM week by finishing our parachutes and launching them off of the balcony above the street. We discussed how our landings went and how we could improve our parachutes in future. This helped us understand the purpose of a parachute on rover landings in space.

We also did the Coca Cola and Mentos experiment where a physical reaction takes place. Lots of hydrogen gas is expelled from the drink causing a huge explosion! This looked very similar to the rockets on the bottom of the Perseverance lander. The force of the rockets prevents the lander from crashing into the surface of Mars.

When thinking about space we also read some books about aliens and then did a collaborative drawing where we created our own aliens.

We finished off our space art today and added images and pictures to our galaxy background. Some learners added the rover itself, astronauts, space rocks and the craft which the rovers were launched in. A parachute is used to safely land the rover and stop it from crashing into the surface of the planet.

We also started engineering out own parachutes which we will finish tomorrow.