P1b

For day 4 of Health Week we focused on healthy eating and food preparation.  We had to wash our hands, put on our aprons, tie our hair back and take off any jewellery.

When we were making our smoothies we worked with our partners, our groups and Mrs Noble.  Each person in the group got to choose one ingredient for the smoothie.  We were able to choose from:  apple juice, orange and mango, blueberries, mango, raspberries, bananas, yogurt and pineapple.

We put all of our ingredients into the blender and made sure we put on the lid.  We turned on the blender to mix them up and it made a very loud noise.  All the ingredients mixed together and went all smooth.  Each group’s smoothie look a different colour and they all tasted a little different.

Some of us liked them and some of us didn’t. We enjoyed preparing a healthy snack for ourselves this afternoon.

Wednesday was Sports Day! We had great fun competing in the 3 different races. We took part in the flat race, hurdles race and bean bag race. We are happy that the rain stayed away!

Thank you to all our families who were able to come and cheer us on!

In the afternoon we had some time to think about how we are all special and unique! We draw beautiful self portraits using a mirror. They looked so good when they were finished!

This week in Maths & Numeracy we have been learning about Sharing.

We know that when we share it must even, the same, equal and fair.

We practised sharing into equal groups earlier in the week at our stations.

We have learned a special new symbol it looks like dot, line and a dot. It is called the Division Symbol but we know it means sharing!

We know that in the sum the first number is the ‘sweeties’ or amount that needs shared.

The second number is the number of ‘plates’ or groups or people they have to be shared between.

The answer is how many one person or group or plate will get.

Check us out doing our very TRICKY new sums!!

Today for health week we were thinking about what makes a good friend. We enjoyed using our skills in instruction writing to write our own recipe for a good friend.

This afternoon Primary 1 all went out to beat the streets. We found both of the boxes in our area. We even had time to play at the park on the way back. It was a great afternoon!

Today is the first day of Health Week. Today we got to go out on our bikes or scooters. We had to remember to wear our helmets so that we don’t hurt ourselves especially our heads.

Unfortunately it wasn’t a lovely, sunny day but the weather did not stop us! We had a great time out in the playground.

The boys and girls who didn’t have bikes or scooters did not miss out on the fun as they got to play fun games in the Gym Hall!

Here we are having a great time on our bikes and scooters!

 

We have been learning all about Capacity in class this week.

We know capacity is how much a containers can hold.

We have learned some useful new words to help us when measuring capacity. They are half full, full, empty, half empty, nearly full, and nearly empty.

We have learned the very important skill of estimating which means we make a serious guess and then check by counting.

We explored capacity further in some stations they were;

1.The water station. We were filling up little pots with little cups. We had to count how many cups filled the pot. We sometimes estimated correctly!

2. The jug station. We had to make some jugs half full, full, empty, half empty, nearly full, and nearly empty.

3. The Smart-board station. We played a game where we had to find the container that held the most in it. We were super at it!

4. The sand station. We had different sized bottles and we had to fill them with sand using little cups. We had to make an estimate and then count how many cups of sand it would take.

5. The cube station. We were trying to find out which container could hold the most cubes. The containers were all different sizes and some were even round.

Some new things we have learned or we have enjoyed are…

Eilidh & Blake – I liked the water station because you had to guess how many cups would fill the bowl.

Lewis W – I liked the sand station because I liked filling the bottles up.

Kacey – I liked the Jug station because it was tricky.

James & Brodie – I liked all the stations because they were all great.

Ava – I liked the SMART board station because I like getting the answer right.

 

Our topic at the moment is living things. Percy wanted us to learn how to look after living things.  He set us the challenge to plant some flowers and look after them.

On Thursday we learned what plants needed to grow and be healthy. They need water, light, air, soil and space.

Later in the afternoon we went outside to draw pictures of the living things we observed in our playground. We even went to see Primary 2’s butterflies being released.

Groups of 10 children at a time planted with Mrs Noble and Mrs Hansen. First we put soil into the pots using trowels.  Then we picked our flowers and put them in making sure there was space between them.  The last thing we had to do was cover the roots with more soil.  Mrs Noble said it was like tucking it in to bed.

Now we must remember to water our plants. We have decided that 4 children should water our plants each day.  We think it is fair if 2 children from each class get a turn each day.  We are going to look at them and see how well they are growing.  We will post some more photos when they get a bit bigger.

 

 

When we measure weight we are finding out how heavy something is.

We have been using some new words today they were heavier, lighter and balanced.

We have been using some new equipment. We have been using scales and bobbins.  The bobbins were our non-standard unit of measurement.

Things we have learned today:

Liam – I thought that the puppets would be very light but the puppets were heavier than the bobbins.

Jay – The paint was so heavy it almost broke the scale.

This week we have started a new topic in Maths about Measurement.

We know there are 4 areas of measurement we will learn about capacity, weight, time and length.

This week we have been focusing on length.

We know some new words for length. Some of them are bigger, fat, long, wide, narrow, thin, biggest, smallest, longest, large, big, tall, huge, tiny and short. We have been using these new words all week!

We have been using non-standard units of measure and have tried things like paper clips, play-dough, bricks, and cubes.

We know 4 really important rules for using non-standard units of measurement for length. They are…

1.Don’t leave gaps!

2. They all need to be the same size!

3. They have to go in a straight line. NO ZIG ZAGS!!

4. You need to measure the whole thing!

Some of the stations we have enjoyed doing for length are…

Roxana & Jay – measuring with paper clips

Ava & Ruth – measuring the class chairs

Matthew – using the play-dough to make things long and short

Lewis W – measuring the animals

Lewis M  & Holly- measuring with the building blocks

Check us out exploring our length stations…

Today all of Primary 1 enjoyed some sunny weather. We worked in teams to practise some of the skills we have been using in our tennis learning.  These skills include fast feet, speed, balance, aiming for a target and using a ball and racket. We had great fun!