P1a

So far this week we have started to learn a little bit about money.  Mrs Noble started by asking us what we already know.  For our homework some of us had asked an adult at home to have a look at what was in their purse or wallet.  This helped us to have lots of good ideas.

We have started to learn about the different coins we can use.  We learned that coins are all different.  They have different colours and numbers on them.  They are worth different amounts.  They are different sizes.  They are also different shapes.

We had fun in lots of our stations exploring our coins.

Orlagh – I liked buying something from the shop keeper.

Joshua – I liked working out which key matched each padlock.

Maxwel – I liked putting the right amount of money into the purses.

Abigail – I liked buying milk at the shop.

This week we have started to think about Subtraction.  We learned that addition and subtraction are like brothers and sisters who always want to do the opposite thing.  We learned that you can use lots of words and phrases when you are working on subtraction like ‘minus’, ‘take away’, ‘subtract’ or ‘find the difference’.  We found out that when we subtract the number of objects that we started with gets smaller and we end up with less.

We worked in groups to start to think about subtractions. We enjoyed playing a jumping buses game where we rolled the dice and jumped our bus backwards along the number line.

The magician had to make some of the magic jewels disappear and we had to guess how many we missing.

In the dragon game the dragon had to hide some gems and the other children had to find out how many were missing.

For the memory game there were 10 different objects and we had to see if we could remember the ones that were missing.

The last activity was the dinosaur land.  We had to pretend that some of the dinosaurs were extinct and take them away.  The others had to guess how many were gone and find out how many were left over.

Now we will be learning how to do subtraction sums.

This week we have started our new topic which is all about travel and transport.  On Wednesday morning Primary 1a and Primary 1b went on a local area walk.  We were on the look out for all the different forms of transport that we could find.

We found cars, vans, lorries, bikes, taxi’s, buses and even spotted a plane in the sky.  We also spotted different things that help the traffic to know what to do.  We found out that these were called road signs and they do lots of different jobs.

To keep us safe when we were out near the road.  We held our partner’s hand and crossed at the traffic lights and zebra crossing.  We had a great morning and showed that we know how to stay safe near the road.

Today is World Book Day. We are celebrating in class.  We have all been given a £1 book token to spend on a new book.  Please check your child’s bag/diary for these.

World Book Day is so important because it gets us to think about reading. We think the token is a good idea because if someone didn’t have a book they could go and buy one.  World Book Day also gets us to go back and read some of our favourite books.

Today we have been thinking about our favourites and have shared them with the class.

Today we made fruit kebabs.  We learned that before we work with food we need to get ready.  We washed our hands, put on our aprons, we put our hair up and Mrs Noble took off her jewellery.

We peeled the oranges and took the segments apart.  We sliced the bananas using the claw technique to make sure we were safe.  We washed the grapes and took them off of the stalks.  We took the leaves off the top of the strawberries and Mrs Noble cut them up.  We put the different fruits into bowls ready for the afternoon.

This afternoon we each got a kebab stick and a plate.  We had to be very careful with the sharp end of the stick.  We each chose the kind of fruit that we wanted to.  This helps us to learn a bit about being respectful about what other people like to eat.  We put each little piece of fruit onto the stick.  When we were all finished making our kebabs we got to eat them up.

Ellie – I enjoyed eating the strawberries the best.

Jared – I tried the orange and liked it.  I haven’t tried orange before.

Liam – I didn’t like any of the fruit so I made a kebab for Miss Kinloch.  I tried some of the orange at the end.

Evie – I liked the grapes the best.

 

Today we finished off our Senses topic by exploring the story of ‘We’re Going On A Bear Hunt’.

We listened to the story and talked about the characters and what happens in it.  We went on a bear hunt outside in the playground using our imaginations to go through long grass, the cold river, the squelchy mud, the dark forest, the storm and we even found a bear hiding in his cave.

To finish our day we worked in lots of our areas using our 5 senses to explore different parts of the story further.  It has been a very exciting day in Primary 1a!

Yesterday afternoon was all about science. In science we have learning all about our senses.

We started the afternoon with a science investigation. We had lots of different kinds of crisps but there was a problem.  They weren’t inside their packets so we didn’t know what flavour they were.

We thought that sight might help us to solve our problem. We had some ideas about which flavour was which but we didn’t know for sure.  Next we tried smelling them.  This was a little better but we still weren’t absolutely sure which flavour each crisp was.

We eventually used taste to figure out which flavour was which. We really enjoyed this and found out that we all have different favourites.  Our favourite part of that investigation was getting to polish off the left overs.

In the afternoon we worked at lots of different senses stations. There was one station for each different sense.

For touch we had to touch lots of different things. There was a bowl of sand, cotton wool, polystyrene balls and the little cubes. There was also a book of braille to give us a chance to explore how someone without sight might read.

At the smell station we had to smell each cup and try to work out what was inside. This was a little tricky because we thought some smelled the same.

For taste we had to try different kinds of food. We tried sour sweeties, marshmallows, carrots and breadsticks.  We worked in our groups to tell Mrs Ryan what each things tasted like.

For sound we used our musical instruments to make lots of different sounds.

For sight we had to take a magnifying glass and look at different objects really closely. After that we tried to draw a picture of them.  We said that this was quite tricky because you could only see a very small part of each object with the magnifying glass at a time.

We had great fun during our senses afternoon.

This week we started to learn about time in maths.  To start our topic we have been learning about the seasons and the months of the year.  We know that there are 12 months in the year and 4 seasons.  We enjoyed exploring them using our new book called ‘One Year With Kipper’.  We worked hard with our play activities to practise saying, writing and ordering the seasons and the months.  Our favourite thing this week was learning the months of the year song.

 

This week all of the primary 1 children took part in the highland games. First we worked in the gym hall to compete in the shot put, the caber toss, the wellie toss and the farmer’s dash.  We worked in teams which we called clans.  There was clan Anderson, Bruce, Campbell and Douglas.  We made shields to show which clan we were part of.

After taking part in all of our events we went back to class for an athlete’s feast. We got to try Scottish cheddar and oatcakes, carrot cabers, shortbread and even had a little taste of Irn Bru.  Before we started eating and drinking we had a toast with our drinks and we all said cheers.

We think that we worked well in our teams by encouraging each other.  Our highland games was great, awesome and cool.