P1/2's World of Wonder

This week has flown by! We have been super busy with our learning this week, exercising our brains (did you know your brain is a muscle?) and showing off how much we have learned since August.

We finished off last week with a lovely fruity party and a movie with our teddies. This was a treat for winning the school’s ‘You’ve been spotted’ competition a few weeks ago. We experimented and discovered that jam is not made by mixing honey and strawberries. We still have to find out how bees are linked to honey – a mission for us next week!

Before mixing:

After mixing: 

It was a very relaxing way to end the week.

This week we are finishing off with Art. Miss O’Keeffe has been really impressed with all the bee hives and clay bees that have been created by the whole class working together lately so this is also a really nice way to end the week.

Have a lovely holiday weekend everyone! Hope you get to enjoy the sun!

The class has not stopped this week! We have been learning about symmetry in maths:

Continuing on our topic work, we have learned about the different body parts of a bee. We have even investigated what turned out to be a wasp’s nest (don’t worry, we were very safe!)!

As it is Digital Learning Week we took part in a quiz using the tablets with Primary 1. Miss O’Keeffe was winning for a while because everyone was shouting out the answers but everyone learned to keep it a secret soon so she did not win:

We were also lucky enough to watch an Author’s Live event with Ross Collins, who wrote ‘There’s a Bear on my Chair’. He showed us how to draw the bear from the story and our pictures are amazing!

We are finishing off our busy week in style – keep an eye out to find out how!

BEES!!!!!

Today we went outside to plant some wildflowers to get a start on our bee-friendly garden, seeing as we know what seeds need now.

After we planted the seeds we had to water them:

When it is really sunny, we will have to water them again. (Skyla)

We decided to look at the fairy garden while we were out but then we saw some bees!

They were flying on the grass around some dandelions. We read in a book that they like dandelions so we did not stand on them. We caught one in a jug for a moment to look at. He started flying.

We could see:

• his wings
• his stripes
• his legs moving while he was flying
• fluffy hair.

We could hear:

• BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ (everyone) while he was flying!

We realised he was scared. (Iyla) So we let him out of the jug. (Cleo) We tipped the jug so that he got safely away from us. (Skyla)

P.S. We did this very safely where there was lots of space. DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME, please!

We also saw bees resting on the leaves of the bush:

Un-BEE-lieveable!

This week has been packed full of exciting things! We have had Parent’s Evening, which was a lovely chance to meet all the mums and dads again and tell them how amazing the whole class is, but we have also had lots of great things happening in school too.

First of all a visitor came in and told P1 and P1/2 a story in Mandarin (with a bit of help for us!):

Some of the boys and girls have been using their engineering brains to build even in their free time. Take a look at these straws! (Skyla’s was as tall as Mrs McGloughlin, who lots of people think is a giant!)

 

Finally we have begun construction of our playground to help all of our fairytale characters. So far we have a swing under construction, as well as a completed slide and seesaw. The class have been working hard on their teamwork skills and using all that they have learned to create these wonderful creations.

I can’t wait to see what next week brings!

 

As promised, pictures of our spectacular straw houses! We tried to make them just like the one in the Three Little Pigs story, which meant the roof needed to blow off. Unfortunately 2 of the groups ran out of huff and puff before they could blow the roof off their houses so only one group was totally successful at reaching their aim. However, as you can see, some of the groups got very invested in their houses, even creating gardens and chimneys!

Everyone enjoyed making these and can’t wait to attempt the next challenge; can you guess what it might be?

 

Meanwhile Iyla brought in a fabulous trophy to show the class on Friday. She got it for dancing (although she decided not to demonstrate any for us just yet!). We did all try and copy the pose from the trophy, with varying degrees of success!

Whew! It has been a very busy week here. We have been working hard to be kind to everyone and make sure we are talking nicely to each other.

When we do this we are able to make amazing things. Look at the shelters we built this week!

After this we also started to build straw houses like the ones in the Three Little Pigs story! Unfortunately they are not finished yet, but we will post pictures when they are!

After all our work this week, we are enjoying Golden Time a lot and are excited to get back to the library again now.

Working together to figure out the puzzle:

Finally back online after the Christmas break and we have a lot to show you! Everyone came back from the holidays well rested and eager to get back to work but it has to be said the biggest success is the revamped Play to Learn area. We knew it was being changed around and had seen glimpses of what it would be like but still did not expect to be as amazed as we were!

Almost all the same equipment is available but it’s been moved around to make it easier to use and there is even an ‘Engineer’s Yard’ where we can solve challenges which are set. Have a look at some of the things we got up to last week!

 

This week was another busy one with lots to report!

Charlie did a fabulous job of showing us some of his toys and how they move.

We started to plan a science experiment and because there was so many great ideas, we are now going to build 3 ramps for the cars!

Three people in our class earned certificates from different staff members this week so well done to them!

A big thank you as well to all who brought in their donations for the Christmas Fayre, they are much appreciated.

Everyone made road safety posters in Art on Thursday and they were amazing! Everyone listened very carefully to instructions and produced fantastic, detailed pictures!

Thank you to the gym across the road for the water bottles! (Iyla) Everyone really likes them – if you are using them in school, please write your name in permanent marker so they don’t get lost.

We built a tower! (Joel)

We built a tower house! (Ayoub)

We were talking about our favourite toys this week, in preparation for a design project we are going to be working on:

I play with Shimmer and Shine! (Lamar)

I like to play with my dinosaur. (Abdulrahman)

I like to play with my car. (Joel)

I like to play with my Barbie. (Iyla)

I like to play with my cars too. (Charlie)

At Golden Time today several people made pictures of fireworks they had seen last weekend:

Even Brian the Bear got to use our Creation Station before Iyla and Tala put him on a time out! He made a snake:

We have had a really busy couple of weeks and jumped straight back into our work so this has been our first chance to post!

We have been learning about toys and pushing and pulling (Iyla). These are part of learning about forces (Yashvardhan). I like pushing and pulling the cars (Lamar).

This afternoon we went to the library. It was our second visit to the school library. We had fun (Skyla). We choose books to read and take home (Iyla). Some people didn’t get books this week because they forgot their folders (Abdulrahman). It is a new activity so we all need to remind each other about it.

We made a toy snake this week. We used old cardboard tubes (Tala). We coloured them in (Cleo). We put string through the tubes so that we could move it (Skyla).

See you next time!

 

The first term is already over and it is hard to believe. I think the previous post about our Teddy Bear Party just about sums up the term – it has been really fun! Thank you to everyone who has come in each day with a smile, ready to learn! And goodbye to Jomanah who had her last day in Anderston today! Here are just a few pictures of the last couple of days in school to keep you going until the new term starts: