Expressive arts

Fair trade

We started our learning about fair trade today by using fair trade chocolate to make top hats to sell at our fundraiser tomorrow.

First we we had to wash our hands. Then we put out the paper cases. Next we broke up the chocolate and melted it in the microwave. Then we put some chocolate in a paper case, added a marshmallow and then put a smartie on top!

After break we had a whole school assembly and a lady from the Co-op came to tell us all about things they sell that are fair trade. They sell lots of fair trade things like bananas, chocolate and coffee.

In the afternoon we learned about what fair trade means. It means the people who work hard growing things get a fair amount of money. This means they can look after their family, send their children to school and use some money to help their business. This makes them happy!

we made some fair trade products in art using collage!

Drama

Our reading group read the story of Pirate Pete keeps fit. In the story Pirate Pete can’t button up his trousers. His tummy was too big. Beaky the parrot helped Pirate Pete by showing him some exercises. After he did his exercises he could button up his trousers. But then he ripped his trousers at the bottom and we saw his green spotty underpants.

After we read the story we acted it out. We showed our little shows to the rest of the class.

We thought their shows were funny.

I liked when his trousers got ripped.The shows made me laugh.

The actors and actresses had to be nice and clear when speaking.

The audience had to watch and listen carefully.

Our week

Wow, what a week…we’ve been busy bees in P1.

At the start of the week we planted seeds as part of our living things topic. We learned what the seeds would need to survive and wrote about it. We know that the seeds will need water, light and air to grow and survive. We also thought they would need our love and care!

we also started learning about symmetry in maths. We made symmetrical butterflies for our living things wall by painting one wing of the butterfly then folding it over to make the other wing exactly the same. Symmetry is like matching only the other way round. The two sides are the same but one will be back to front of the other. We also made symmetry patterns with pegs and with lots of art materials.

At the end of the week we were printing with the bottom of bottles. We made lovely spring blossoms using beautiful spring colours. They are up in our classroom and it looks very spring like!

this morning we watched the eclipse with P1/2. It looked like the sun was actually the moon. It looked like it was night time but it wasn’t! We then used pastels to draw pictures of the eclipse!

Smelly play dough

Today we did another experiment. We made play dough but each group made their play dough smell different. It is important when doing an experiment that we only change one thing. Today we changed the smell.

one group made mint smelling play dough. One group added cinnamon to change the smell and the last group made lemon smelling play dough.

The smells were not strong but we could tell the difference.

The cinnamon one smelled strongest.

Directions

We are learning to follow directions in maths. We have been learning forwards, backwards, left turn and right turn.

we use the bee bots to practise, the gym hall and we learned a left right song in music!

we have to program the bee bots. That means we give it a few directions and it follows them.

in gym we gave each other directions to follow.

Music

Today in music we got the percussion instruments out. We were using instruments and actions to help us learn about the beat. We were repeating 4 beats.

Snow fun

We built snowmen today. -Aydin

we liked building our snowmen. – Lewis

We went for a walk to see the other playgrounds and look for snowmen. – Erin

Primary 1 had lots of fun building snowmen. – Riley

This afternoon we went outside to play in the snow and build snowmen. It was hard work, we were bending up and down and running all around to find things to help us make great snowmen. It was cold but were kept warm by moving around all the time!

Look at the pictures of the fun we had.

Santa’s workshop

We have been having lots of fun learning in our class. We have made our classroom into santa’s workshop. One of the stations we can do it wrapping presents for Santa to put on his sleigh. We used our learning about shapes to design presents that boys and girls might like at Christmas time. We can go to the toys hop and there we learn to buy stuff. There are shopping lists and money and we can add prices together. There is a station where we can design and write a Christmas card.

Jaymi – I like learning in Santa’s workshop.

Michael – I loved designing a card.

Erin – I am looking forward to designing a card and writing a card.

David – I feel good when I come into the classroom because it is Christmassy and colourful!

Have a look at our picture gallery!

Day and night

We started a new topic called day and night. We bought about how we know it is daytime and how we know it is night time.

The moon and stars come out and night and the sun goes down.

I go out and play with friends in the day time.

The sun is out in the day time.

Owls come out at night.

We learned about animals that come out at night. They are called nocturnal animals then we made owls.

We made beautiful day and night sky’s and wrote about them.

Halloween art

We used our learning in maths to help us make witches. We have been learning about shape and used a circle, a triangle and a rectangle to make to witch. Then we drew round our hands to make the hair. Look at us at work…