P1b

Today was the second day of health week. We spent time outside today doing a flag hunt. The flags are from the countries taking part in the Rio Olympics this Summer. We worked in teams to take pictures of the flags in our iPads. Then we did our Daily Mile it puffed some of us out! In Gym we had our last practise of races before Sports Day. We timed ourselves on the i-pad and tried to beat our best time!  We think Health Week is great fun!

From P1/2

Today was the first day of Health Week. We got to make a healthy snack, We decided to use vegetables because they are healthy. We made vegetable funny faces using cucumber, pepper, carrots and tomatoes.We really enjoyed designing and trying our vegetable faces. Miss Kinloch was really impressed at all the empty plates! We then used our healthy snacks to do some of our data handling. We used Tally Marks to find out which vegetable was everyone in the class’s favourite. We counted up the tally marks to find the total and then worked out which had the most and least. We showed the information we found out in a bar graph.

Some of our thoughts and favourite parts…

• It was fun
• It was exciting
• Making the faces was great
• Trying the food was fun

As part of our world explorers we have been learning about Towns and Cities. We know that we live in a town called Chryston and that our nearest city is Glasgow. Our capital city is Edinburgh and it has a castle.

We got to do some junk modelling to create our own cities. We added extra details like escalators, flags and sky scrapers.  We thought about how we could take care of our city environment. Locking your doors and cars, not dropping litter and walking instead of driving were all excellent ideas. We made persuasive posters…

Then we got to be a bit silly! Miss Kinloch had us pretend to be a monster and destroy our cities like in the movies. It was loud and crazy but great fun!! Even if we did scare next doors P1 a little bit!!  Thank you for reading our blog!

We have been very busy learning all about measurement in class. We have investigated length, weight and capacity. We learned lots of new words to help us with our measuring.

We used lots of resources to measure length around the class. We really enjoyed using the building blocks to measure how how tall and small things are…

The we moved on to weight where we used the pan scales to explore heavy, light and balanced. We used real weights that had grams on them too, it was great fun!

Finally we learned about capacity. This is how much something can hold. We used words like full, half full, nearly empty and empty. Using the water was amazing but very messy so we learned to be gentle when pouring too…

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This morning was a little bit strange because we got to play with toothpaste. We squeezed it out and we rubbed our hands through it. We got into a BIG mess!

But then Miss Kinloch put on the tidy up song and told us to put the toothpaste back in the tub! We were all a bit stuck and puzzled because we couldn’t do it!

We learned that some mistakes can’t be fixed. Just like Jonah when he didn’t go to Ninevah like god told him to. We were lucky because we never got swallowed by a fish all we had to was tidy up!

We know to always say sorry to try and make things better just like Jonah said sorry and was spat out by the fish!

Take a look at our crazy pictures of this morning…

 

Today we used QR codes to correct our work about the farm.  First of all we had to write our names on the sheet and then had to try to spell the words to match each picture.  We also had to try to guess two other farm words that weren’t on the sheet.  After that we had to  go on a hunt to find a QR code and write it down.  We used an iPad to scan the QR code.

 

Here are our thoughts…

Darryl – It was tricky to think of the missing ones.

Ethan – It was a little bit hard to find every QR code but at least we still had fun.

Eilidh – I found it tricky to write all the words down first but me and Darryl worked as a team to get them correct.

Katie M – We found it a little bit tricky to write down the words.  I enjoyed finding the QR codes.

Today we got to go on an Obstacle Course in the gym hall. We were feeling very very excited.

When we went into the hall first of all we met helpers Chris and Lee. Lee told us what to do and Chris showed us what to do.

We had to climb over a wall. Some of us found it easy but some found it hard. Some boys and girls got over it without help!

Next we climbed up a triangular scramble net, it was very high.

After that we had to cross the tight rope bridge. You had to have good balance to get all the way across. Then there was the plank bridge and we had to jump off it.

Next it was the swinging rope and then through the tyre. Last of all you had to run through the tyres.

P1/2 really enjoyed it. We thought it was amazing, fantastic, awesome and fandabidossy!

This morning we have been very busy making Cacti. We were not growing them we were making them in art.

To start we got two bits of paper one blue and one green. Then you had to draw around a cactus template on the green paper and cut and stick on to the blue paper.

After that we used PVA glue and sand shakers. To stop us making a big mess we did this in trays and Eilidh very kindly helped to fill the shakers.

Before we finished we had to put spikes on our cactus. We used a fork with yellow paint and we dabbed it on our cactus. Last of all we painted a sun because the desert is sunny and hot.

Please come and visit us to see our fandabbydosey artwork!

We have been busy learning all about Fractions. We all know about halves and that they can be written in numbers like 1/2. We can find half of a shape by splitting or cutting it into two equal halves which means they both need to look the same. P2 know that to find 1/4 of a shape you need to spilt it into 4 equal parts and this can be a bit trickier.

We also know how to half a number. We worked with a partner to half some even numbers up to 30. Miss Kinloch taught us a trick, ‘one to me and one to you’. We know that both people should end up with the same number. P2 are going to be learning how to 1/4 a number very soon!

Today we started our new topic World Explorers. We started by looking at the desert environment. We thought up some words to describe how the desert looks and would feel if you were there. Some really good words were dry, sunny and very hot.

To show off our learning about the desert we created our own pic collage. We learned how to save a picture from the internet. We are very good at using QR codes to get on the internet using the ipads. We worked hard to add words, pictures and background. Here are some pictures of us working hard on our new topic.