P1b – Page 17 – Mrs Oliphant and Primary 1b invite you to share in their learning.

Chryston’s Cafe in P1/2

We made a cafe in our imaginative area. We put in pretend food and even tomato sauce and mustard. We have a till and money to help us learn how to use money. We can have a turn at being the waitor or waitress and can write down orders for our customers. We have got menus for the customers to read. We have to change our special on the chalk board.

Caiden – I paid with a £2 coin.

Rhys – I can pay with £2.50

Ryan – I know how to take orders correctly and can ask what the customers want.

Eva – I have enjoyed playing the cafe.

Ewan – I know how to pay with a £5 note.

Learning About Money

This week we have started to learn all about money.

Primary 1 have been exploring money. We played a game called magic land if we landed on a magic wand we had to spin the spinner and choose the correct coin. Another game that we enjoyed was Market Street. We had to buy things with money from our purse and sometimes the shop keeper had to give us change.

Primary 2 have been learning how to put money into the right order. We learned that the £2 is the biggest coin that we can use and the 1p coin is the smallest. We created our own poster to teach someone about the order of the coins. We played a game called journey across. We had to move across the money board landing on higher or lower coins.

Benjamin – I enjoyed counting all of my pennies.

Daniel – I liked making our posters to show the order of the coins.

Jason – I liked our journey across game.

Klea – My favourite thing this week was playing with the money in the till.

Melting Ice Science Investigation

Today we were doing our melting ice experiment. We tested what makes ice melt. We tested whether hot or cold made a difference to how quickly ice melts and we tested whether the size of an ice cube changes how fast it melts. We used special jugs called measuring jugs that show us millilitres and funnels. We have learned that we can use millilitres to measure liquid like water.

The ice cubes that we left in the hot place melted first. We noticed that the funnel in the hot place looked like the mirror at home when it steams up. The ice cubes in the cold place were still quite big. We noticed that they melted a little bit. Today’s experiment has taught us that ice melts the fastest in a hot place.

We are surprised with the big ice cube because it is melting faster that the little ice cube. We know that the big ice cube is melting faster because there is more water in the big ice cubes jug, we know this because the water in this jug is rising faster. We still think that the little ice cube will be gone first but we are shocked that the big ice cube is melting faster.

Dionne – I enjoyed working in Mrs Noble’s team to keep an eye on the ice in the hot place.

Ewan – I enjoyed going outside to see how fast the ice cubes were melting in the cold place.

Caiden – I learned what a funnel was.

Ryan – I enjoyed looking at the measuring jug to see how much they had melted.

Rhys – The big ice cube jug is getting more water.

Klea – I enjoyed using real ice. It felt cold.

Homework February – March

Here is the homework starting on Monday 16th February for 4 weeks.

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!

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.