Interdisciplinary learning

Our new topic

We started a new topic which is all about keeping healthy.

We talked about moving and thought of different ways we move without thinking about it. Things like, climbing trees, playing, scootering to school, even just walking to go from one place to another!

We mimed some movements then we played a game where one person acted a movement and the others in the group guessed what we were doing.

Later in the week we started talking about healthy fruit. We looks at the fruit and we learned where it came from. Erin told us that the fruit we had needed to come from a hot country.

Our pineapple and bananas came from Costa Rico which is really far away….all the way over the sea in the same direction as America! Our mango came from near there too, a country called Peru. The oranges came from Spain and the Kiwi from Italy.

Next Mrs MacDonald showed us how to cut them up (we are going to do it next week!), and we got to taste them….mmmmmm!

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.

Taste

Today we were learning about different tastes. The four different tastes are sour, sweet, salty and bitter.

first we tried sour. We had lemon, grapefruit, sour skittles and sour rainbow belts. Sour made our faces laugh and scrunch up. We liked the sour sweeties but not the lemon or grapefruit.

We tasted crisps with no salt and crisps with salt. We liked the crisps with salt best.

For bitter we had some dark chocolate. Some of us liked it and some thought it was just ok!

For sweet we ate some honey which was tasty. We also had some normal milk chocolate.

We voted for what flavour was our favourite:

Sour – 8

Salty – 3

Bitter – 4

Sweet – 4

We made some funny faces when we were tasting today!!

Apples

Today at fruit time, we didn’t just eat our apples, we used our senses to talk about them first.

Touch – some words we used to talk about what it felt like were hard, smooth, cold.

Sight – red, circles, spheres, shiny.

Smell – sweet, nice, juicy, fresh.

Taste – juicy, crunchy, sweet, yummy, delicious, nice.

Sound – they sound crunchy and are noisy!

Apples are healthy and good for you!!

Sound walk

We went on a sound walk inside and outside to listen for all the different things we could hear.

Before we went, we made listening ears!

We had to be very quiet to hear everything.

We heard some very quiet noises and some loud noises.

We made a list of things we heard inside and outside. We have out a picture on but our list didn’t fit on one page!

We heard a siren and a plane when we were outside. Teachers knocked on the window very loudly while we were outside!

We heard the radiators and scissors cutting inside. We heard lots busy people in school. Children were working and teachers were talking.

ICT

We have been learning to use the laptops and the iPads.

On the laptops we have learned how to draw in a program called TuxPaint and now we are learning to type using word. We need to remember how to put a capital letter, a finger space and full stop.

We typed sentences about our school superheroes!

Busy bees

We have so much to fill you in on!!

last week we did lots of work on the th phoneme. Some of the words we came up with were thin, thick, bath, maths, path, thumb…maybe you can tell us more if you see us at lunch or in the house at home!

We also did some highland dancing at gym. Look at us dance!!

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!

Robot Rumpus

This week we have been reading a book called Robot Rumpus by an author called Ross Collins. We did lots of activities using the book.

Mrs MacDonald read us the book but we also got to see the author reading e story for us on the smart board.

As a homework task some of us made robots…we have them in the class and they are brilliant. We also wrote a story about what we would like a robot to do for us!

We did some drama and pretended to be robots.

We thought about healthy food to eat so we could tell cook-bot and he could make healthy meals.

We wrote review of our favourite part of the story. Lots of us found the story really funny.

Look at some of the pictures of our work!