Here is the homework starting on Monday 16th February for 4 weeks.
Author: Mrs Noble
Our Trip To The Kelpies
Today we went on our first school trip to the Kelpies. We went on the bus to Falkirk. Our tour guide was called Jennifer. She took us a walk up to the Kelpie statues and she told us lots of information about the Kelpie legend and the man who created the sculptures.
Jennifer told us that a man called Andy Scott created the Kelpies. He decided to create Kelpies because horses used to help pull the boats along the canal. Jennifer showed us photos of two Clydesdale horses. One was called Duke and one was called Barron. This is also the name of the Kelpies. A good way to remember which one is which is to think Duke has his head down so the other one must be Barron.
We played a game with Jennifer. We used our bodies to make sculptures of either Duke or Barron. Look at our pictures and see if you can tell who we are all trying to be.
Jennifer took us through a magic door and inside the sculpture of Duke. When we were inside we learned lots of facts about the sculptures. We all lay down on the floor so that we could look up and see how big the sculpture was.
We all had a great time on our school trip!
Andrew – We liked going inside the Kelpie and it has helped us with our artwork this afternoon.
Adam – We learned that the statues of the Kelpies are 30 metres tall.
Ewan – I learned that 100 elephants are the same weight as one of the statues.
Rebecca – I had great fun this morning.
Conor – I liked when we went inside, we found a horseshoe.
Jason – I learned that the water next to the Kelpies is called a Canal.
Eva – The Kelpies are made out of metal.
Lewis – The Kelpies were made out of a metal called Steele.
Niamh – My Dad brought the statues of the Kelpies into the school.
Erin – My favourite part was when we went inside the Kelpies and we lay on the floor.
Ryan – It was fun going into the Kelpie and seeing all the parts that it is made of. I liked when jennifer played a game of true or false with us.
Thank you to Jennifer and all the staff at Falkirk Community Trust at Helix park for making our visit so fantastic!
Our Kelpie Visitors
This morning two Kelpies arrived in P1/2. These Kelpies are little models but they are exactly the same as the ones that we are going to visit on Thursday in Falkirk.
The Kelpies is the last legend that we will be learning about for our Scotland Topic. In this story the water monsters come out and they look like beautiful, black horses but they are evil. We know that this is just a legend and that these monsters are not real!
Some other people in the school have been excited to see our Kelpie models. P1 came for a visit this afternoon and they really liked our models. Mrs Woodward, Mrs Hadden and Mrs Ross have also been in to see these amazing models. The Kelpies will be in our classroom until Thursday afternoon if anyone else would like to visit.
Erin – They felt soft.
Lewis – Inside the mouth of the model it was hard and rough.
Caiden – They are hard. I think they might be made out of metal bits.
Ayva – I think the models are nice.
Conor – The model is a little bit rough and bumpy.
Making Snowmen
Today was special because it had snowed last night. This afternoon Mrs Noble set us the challenge of making the biggest snowballs that we could. We had to work out how to make a small snowball and roll it to make it bigger. They were really heavy. We used our big snowballs to make snowmen. It was good fun. We are going to write about it tomorrow.
Rebecca – We had fun making snowballs.
Andrew – We all worked together to make our two snowmen.
Deonne – Mrs Noble helped us too.
Klea – I learned to roll a snowball to make it bigger.
Jason – I fell over a lot.
Big Maths
We are all working hard with our big maths. P2 are working on reading 3 digit multiples of 100 and are doing really well. We enjoyed working on the smart board to find the correct multiple of 100. We know that the first number tells us how many hundreds there are.
Wonderful Writing
We wrote about Nessie last week. We have been working on our narrative writing. Mrs Noble thought that our writing was brilliant and she told Mrs Woodward. She came to read our stories and she said that she was very proud of all of us.
This week for writing we have new writing targets. Primary 1 are all going to write more than 1 sentence. Primary 2 are going to try to use joining words like and, but, so and because and they are also going to spell common words correctly. We are all working hard to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
We were learning about Bruce and the Spider for our topic this week so we decided to write our own stories retelling this Scottish legend.
William – I was trying hard to write using finger spaces.
Niamh – I was trying to write a wee bit neater and spell my common words properly.
Jason – I was trying to be a bit neater and I was checking my sentences made sense.
Erin – I was writing my sentences without help.
Caiden – I was thinking carefully about my capital letters.
January Homework
Scottish Myths and Legends
We have been learning about Nessie as part of our Scottish myths and legends topic. We watched a video all about whether the Loch Ness Monster was real or not. We found out that nobody know if the Loch Ness monster is real. In the video we seen a picture of Nessie neck and head but other people in the video said that this could have been an elephant swimming when the circus came to Scotland. Another scientist said that Nessie could be a kind of dinosaur.
After our class discussion each of us drew a picture of what we think Nessie looks like. We had to write a sentence to say whether we thought Nessie was real or not. Everyone in our class thinks that Nessie does exist.
We made pictures of Nessie. We used ink mixed with water to make a sky and water. We made our water look real by dripping ink onto our pictures and then sprinkled on some salt. The salt made the ink look bigger some of us thought it looked like the salt made the ink grow. Mrs Noble cut out silver paper to make Nessie. We put the silver paper onto special bumpy paper. We used our thumbs to run back and forward to make Nessie look like she has scale. We put a googly eye on our pictures to finish them off.
Eva – Making our Nessie pictures was fun.
Daniel – I learned that Nessie might not be real.
Rhys – It was fun putting the scales onto Nessie.
The Start of 2015!
We are back at school after the holidays and we are feeling fantastic after a nice break. We have been sharing our news about our Christmas holidays and it sounds like we all had a lovely time. Now that we are back at school we are redy to learn some new things.
In maths we have started learning about addition. This is brand new for primary 1 but primary 2 are learning to do more difficult problems with a 100 square. We are still working hard with our big maths and we have new learn its to remember.
We are working hard with our reading too. We have noticed that our books are getting harder and we know that practise makes perfect.
Our new topic is about the Scottish myths and legends. We found out that a legend is a kind of story that has been passed along from a long long time ago. We have decided to learn about the Selkies, The Loch Ness Monster, The Kelpies and a story about a famous King and a Spider. As well as learning about Scotish legends we are also having a go at some events from the Highland Games during P.E.
The Scottish Book Awards – The Result!
On Friday we voted for which book we liked the most. Primary 1/2 and Primary 1 came to our classroom. We put 1 cross next to our favourite book. Mrs MacDonald read out our choices and Mrs Noble wrote tally marks. We learned that when you get to 5 tally marks you draw a gate. Primary 2 practised counting in 5s to help us to work out our winner. Robot Rumpus was the winner with 21 votes. Lost for Words got 9 votes and Princess Penelope got 6.
Caiden – I liked doing Scottish Book Awards work because it was fun.
Ryan – I liked that our winner was Robot Rumpus because this is the book I voted for.
