Over the last few weeks we have been planting seeds and beans and watching them grow. Here are just a few of the things we have in our classroom just now.
We are also watching some very special visitors…
We have been watching 5 caterpillars grow over the last 3 weeks.
We have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly so we know that our caterpillars are now in the pupa stage and we are eagerly waiting to watch their transformation into butterflies.
We have moved the cocoons to the net and we had a really good look at them. They wriggled about as we did this. Very exciting!
We were very lucky to have a visit this morning from Steph and Fiona who came to tell us about the Feis. This is a traditional music festival which takes place in Elgin every year to keep Scottish music alive. Children are allowed to come and try the instruments for free, once they are eight years old.
Steph showed us her beautiful harp, called a clarsach in Gaelic. Fiona played her penny whistle and together they played some Scottish tunes for us. It was then our turn to try playing them. We learnt all about the strings on the harp and how to play it. Some lucky people were chosen to have a go!
Fiona let a group of us play the penny whistles and we learnt how to blow softly to make a lovely sound.
We all enjoyed the sound of the harp – it sounded like Chinese music and made us feel very calm!
What a lovely visit – maybe we can try the fiddle, drum, harp and whistle!
Primary 1B and primary 1C got together to watch an episode of Percy the Park Keeper. We then talked about the features of Percy’s park. We made a huge list of the things we might find in the park.
Miss Harvey and Mrs Carey then split us into two groups and put down two huge pieces of paper and lots of felt tip pens, pencils and crayons. We then set to work recreating Percy’s park!
Our pictures were fantastic!
We have been learning all about measuring length and width. We started by thinking about the size of things around us and then we had a go a measuring the room using our hands or feet. We discovered that Mrs Carey had less foot steps to get across the room and Nathan had the most – this is because Mrs Carey has big feet and Nathan has little feet.
As our learning has progressed we have started to measure objects with cubes and on Wednesday we measured the length and width of some images and compared our answers with our learning friends.
Last Friday we had some willing helpers who were on exam leave from the high school come into school to help us with our cooking. Working in small groups we made yummy fork biscuits.
We made so many we were able to share them with our friends.
Not only did we make biscuits but we also washed up…we could do this at home too!
In primary 2A we have been learning about the jingles that ice-cream vans play to attract the neighbour hood children. We listened to lots of jingles from a long time ago and new, modern jingles. Then we worked in groups to compose our own jingles using various chime bars.
The caterpillars have been busy and they are now cosy in their cocoons. There are three hanging from the roof of the container and two lying at the bottom. In a few weeks, we will have beautiful butterflies.
This session saw us walking all the way from school to East Beach. We risk assessed the journey, thinking about the two main roads we had to cross.
On arriving at the old wooden bridge, we met James and Ruaraidh who took us to the beach beside the River Lossie.
We spoke about what makes a bird a bird and what some birds do in winter. We learnt that some birds migrate because our winter is too cold for them and they often fly long distances facing many threats on the way.
We played the Migration game where a large group of house martins and sand martins had to avoid threats such as pollution, hunters, stormy weather and habitat destruction.
We then worked with our leaders to learn about different birds and how their heads, bodies, wings and legs are similar and different. We made a crazy bird together, thinking about the type of features it would have.
After that we used binoculars to observe the birds beside the river. We saw bird tracks, discovering that birds have four toes. They have three at the front and one at the back. Some tracks showed us that a herring gull had walked over to an orange golf ball and then walked away when it found out that it wasn’t food!
Look what we spotted – a beautiful heron. It stayed in the river for the whole time we were there and waded in the water. We spotted it leaning forward and spearing a fish with its long straight beak! On the way back, we saw another heron at the mouth of the river!
Save our Seas! Support Sea Life! Save the Seashore!
Save our Sands !
Clean the Coast ! Clean our Coastline!
We hope we have persuaded you to look after the beautiful beaches in Lossiemouth!
