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.
Scottish Book Awards- Our Final Week!
For our last Scottish Book Award Book we read Princess Penelope and the Runaway Kitten. The book was about a kitten who ran away. There was pink wool tangled around the kitten’s tummy and it ended up all through the palace.
Andrew – I liked the part of the story when the kitten wrapped the wool around the guard.
Erin – I liked the bit when the kitten was running about the plants.
Rhys – We made a book with pictures and sentences.
Christmas jumper day
We all look very Christmassy.
Symmetry
This week we have started to learn about symmetry. We found out that butterflies are symmetrical and so are our faces. For something to be symmetrical there needs to be the same on both sides. Ewan explained that if you draw a line down a face there would be half a mouth, half a nose and one eye on both sides.
Today we worked in pairs. We designed one half of a butterfly and then our partner had to try to complete the other side to make the butterfly symmetrical.
Caiden – I know that a circle is symmetrical.
Ryan – I know that a snowball is symmetrical.
Benjamin – Doing the symmetrical pictures was fun.
Rhys – The butterfly activity was fun because I got to work with Caiden.
We are looking forward to making some symmetrical Christmas decorations for our classroom.
Super Maths Games
Today we played some maths games to practise counting, ordering and number sequencing. We really enjoyed it and wanted to try some at home.
Here is the website so we can access them at home:
www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years
Scottish Book Awards Week 2!
This week we have been looking at a book called Robot Rumpus and we think it is super funny. One of our tasks was to design our own robot to help around the house. This book was a rhyming book and we became word detectives to find set of rhyming words. Some of us created robots for our homework task using 3D shapes from home and shared these with the class.
Ewan – I like the story because it is funny when the Mum and Dad screamed.
Dionne – It was tricky to write a book review about our favourite part because so many bits of the book are funny.
Niamh – I think Robot Rumpus is great fun.
Our Class Post Office
On Tuesday we worked as a whole class to create our very own post office in our classroom. P1/2 are going to to be Chryston Primary’s Christmas Posties. We will be sorting and delivering all of the Christmas Cards to the classes this year. We made signs for our post office. We decorated our Christmas post box. We sorted out a special basket for each class. We wrapped lots of parcels. We noticed that all of the parcels were different kinds of 3D shapes.
Caiden – I liked decorating the post post.
Lewis – I think all the children worked hard to make our post office.
Conor – I liked wrapping the presents and choosing a bow for mine.
Niamh – I liked puting the wrapping paper on the parcel. It was easy because Jason helped me.
