P1a

Today we had to make our own obstacle courses.  We are learning about how to be safe in the gym hall.  We are learning how to get and organise the equipment.

Each person in the team had to take a turn at choosing something to make our obstacle course. At the end we had three very different obstacle courses.

We used lots of skills like jumping, moving, balancing and climbing.  We thought our obstacle courses were fun, great and a bit tricky.  We are looking forward to making some more tomorrow.

This afternoon we worked hard to sort in lots of different ways.  We sorted lots of objects into whether they were rough or smooth.  We found it hard to sort some of the things because parts of the object were rough and parts were smooth.

We sorted in the water tray to check which object floated and which object sank.  Lots of us thought this was our favourite area.

We sorted out the socks on the washing line.  We had to look at the patterns and the colours and match them up.  Some of us found it tricky to get the socks on the washing line.

We used the shoe laces to investigate which objects had holes and which objects didn’t.

We sorted the compare bears by what size they were.  Some were big, some were middle sized and some were small.

We enjoyed our sorting afternoon.  Mrs Noble thinks we are super sorters!

We have been sorting by colour. We learned about the words for red, yellow, blue and red. We went on a colour hunt around the classroom to see what we could sort by colour.

Today we had a play afternoon to investigate our story in lots of ways.  We used the playdoh to think about the three little pigs.  Some of the boys decided to make the ‘pig’ bad wolf.  It was very interesting. The children enjoyed playing in the imaginative area pretending to be the three little pigs and the big bad wolf.  They were very good at acting out the story.  We were in the library reading the story and playing with the puppets.  We were building houses and testing them with our big bad wolf.  Lots of our houses were too strong for the wolf to blow down.  We used the letter beads and cubes to make the words on our three little pigs word mat.  We have all worked very hard and had lots of fun this afternoon.  Mrs Noble says we are all superstars.

This week we have been thinking about ‘a’. We have been investigating it in lots of different ways. We know that it is a small letter. We need to remember to curl it round like a caterpillar. We have been working hard to sit our letters on the line. We have also been thinking about things that start with ‘a’ too.

We have been working hard to think about what our classroom rules should be.  We think we have created some important rules.  Our rules are there to help to keep us safe and happy. Each of us have put our handprints on our charter to show that we will try to follow them at all times.

This week we have been working on the number 0 and the number 1. We have been practising counting, reading and writing our numbers. We enjoyed using the marbles with our roll and write activities. We have been using the iPads to form our number properly. We have learned some number rhymes to help us. Ask us to tell you what they are.

This week we have been working hard to investigate our names. One day our names were hiding all around the classroom and we had to find them. We have been making our names with the alphabet blocks and the letter beads. We cut out our letter and made name trains. We have even been outside using the chalk to write our names in the playground. We are all getting really good and writing our names.

 

Welcome to our blog. We have been very busy since starting school. We will share our learning throughout the year with you and hope you enjoy finding out what we are up to.

Primary 1 are enjoying health week so far.  Yesterday we walked our first daily mile and we made our own healthy snacks.  Today we were practising some athletics for our sports day races on Friday.  We think we are as fast as lightening!

We used pancakes, grapes, bananas, strawberries and yogurt to make ourselves a healthy snack.  Our snacks were a little bit funny.  Mrs Noble set us the challenge of making funny faces.  We found it a little hard to put the yogurt where we wanted it to go.  We think that it would have been a little easier to use a smaller spoon for the yogurt.

We used scales to make sure every group had the same amount of fruit so that it was fair.  We showed Mrs Noble how we could use our measuring skills to weigh the fruit.  We measured out 100 grams of each kind of fruit.

It was fun making our snacks but it was even more fun eating them!