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Monthly Archives: November 2017
Primary 1 – Children In Need and Outdoor Learning
Today was an extra special day – we were raising money for children in need. The boys and girls came dressed in spots and took part in lots of lovely spot-tacular activities during the day. We finished our day by sharing what we had learned about Children In Need and what happens to the money we donated. The children enjoyed a teddy bears picnic.
Outdoor Learning
We have been engaging in a lot of outdoor learning opportunities and today the children were learning about where different animals live. They were learning that some animals sleep during the day and others sleep at night and were introduced to the words – nocturnal and habitat. The children enjoyed going outside to collect sticks, stones and leaves so that they can have a go at creating some habitats next week.
Primary 1
Welcome to our Blog update this week, we hope you enjoy it 🙂
ICT
In ICT this week the children were much more confident at using their mouse to point and click. With a partner they successfully opened up the internet page and selected a programme from the ‘favourites’ section.
STEM
In STEM this week we were learning all about different forces. The children were becoming familiar with and confident with the words – push and pull and how to use them in the correct context. They had great fun exploring how toys moved and how we use the forces of ‘push’ and ‘pull’ when playing games – tug of war, climbing the wall, basket ball and playing with a ball.
Maths
We started the week off by having a number hunt outside and the boys and girls were great number detectives and managed to hunt out the numbers 1-10 and they used their clipboard to record the numbers they found.
This week we were learning to add. We explored the language of addition, familiarised ourselves with the symbols and came to the understanding that when we add we are creating a bigger number. The children did this by counting to see how many objects there were ‘altogether’.
Language
This week the children were introduced to some words – some words we can sound out and some are tricky and we just need to try and learn them.
The Enchanted Forest
The boys and girls used the talking tub to decide what they wanted to learn about for their new topic – ‘The Enchanted Forest’.
The picked an item out of the box that interested them and told us what they knew already and what they wanted to learn about next.
Another busy week…
Literacy
This week the children were developing their ability to draw a detailed picture to match a short story. If they wanted to they could ‘have a go’ at copying the sentence too. Lots of detailed pictures and some wonderful letter formation!
Nathim and Poppy were letter detectives and used the magnifying glasses to search for some of their initial sounds in the books.
It’s been another busy week in Primary 1. We went to the ICT suite for the first time this week. We were learning to name the different parts of the computer and why it is important to have a password.
The children had to use the mouse to point and click in order to navigate their way around the Cbeebies site.
Outdoor Learning – We’re going on a Bear Hunt
Mrs McVey and the boys and girls enjoyed getting outdoors and re-enacting the famous story ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’. They used different parts of the playground and their imagination to bring the story to life – the sand pit was the mud, the playground was the river, the bamboo was the forest and the bubbles were the snow. Mason was our bear – I’m so glad we found him 🙂 what a wonderful afternoon we had!
Term 2
As we head into a new term we will keep you updated of our learning journey.
This week has been a busy one so far – we celebrated Halloween on Tuesday and we had great fun. We made spooky crafts, spooky biscuits and had fun at our party.
We had great fun!
