P1b

This week all of the primary 1 children took part in the highland games. First we worked in the gym hall to compete in the shot put, the caber toss, the wellie toss and the farmer’s dash.  We worked in teams which we called clans.  There was clan Anderson, Bruce, Campbell and Douglas.  We made shields to show which clan we were part of.

After taking part in all of our events we went back to class for an athlete’s feast. We got to try Scottish cheddar and oatcakes, carrot cabers, shortbread and even had a little taste of Irn Bru.  Before we started eating and drinking we had a toast with our drinks and we all said cheers.

We think that we worked well in our teams by encouraging each other.  Our highland games was great, awesome and cool.

This week we started learning all about Time and we looked at the Months of the year. We know there are 12 months and they are all different and they all have different names even though some start with the same letter. We talked about some special times in the months some are Christmas in December, your birthdays, Bonfire Night in November, and in October it is Halloween.

At our stations we have been learning the correct order for the months of the year.

Here we are making a puzzle that has the months of the year. We worked together to put them in order.

At the computer we were trying to put all of the months in the right order and then we could play a video of the months. We could also check if it was right or wrong.

At this station we were trying to match Kipper’s pictures to the right month. We used the story book to check we were getting it right. 

At this station we were ordering the months of the year. We could use our song that we have learned, Kipper’s book or the time wall. 

At this station we used our play-dough to practise spelling the months of the year. Lots of us enjoyed finding our Birthday months.

Primary 1b have had a great afternoon exploring the story of ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ through our stations.

We had 5 stations….

In the library there was a cave, we used torches to see the pages of the book so that we could read it.

At the water we were putting our hands in freezing cold water, we imagined what it would be like to swim in the cold river!

In the playdough we were making bear foot prints using other animals (and some dinosaurs). We made a path so that the people could follow the tracks!

At the hearing station we were playing instruments to try and match the sounds to parts of the story. It was very noisy!

In the construction area we were making the trees for the deep dark forest. We used big bricks, little bricks, and building blocks.

I really liked…

using the torches – Rory & Holly

feeling the freezing water – Jay and James

making tracks in the playdough – Roxana & Ruth

playing the instuments – Brodie

Lots of us liked EVERYTHING!!!!!

Here are some pictures of us enjoying our stations for ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’…

Today we went on a BEAR HUNT!!! 

First we went through the long wavy grass! We could hear SWISH SWOSH SWISH SWOSH!

Then we came to a deep, cold river! We could hear SPISH SPLASH! Next we found some thick, oozy mud!! We could hear SQEALCH!!!!!!

After that we came to a big, dark forest! We could hear stumble trip stumble trip!   

Then there was a snow storm!! It was swirling and whirling. We could hear Wooooooo Hooooooo!  

After that we found a NARROW GLOOMY CAVE! All we could hear was tip toe tip toe!! 

When we found a Bear we all screamed and ran away!!!!

We would never have found the bear without our ears and our super hearing!

 

Today the boys and girls in P1b magically turned into elves! Look out for your lovely little elves coming home in school bags today!

We have been learning all about symmetry. We know this means that something is the same on both sides. This would also mean they are the same height. There is a line of symmetry in the middle and it splits the picture into two halves. We can tell when something is or is not symmetrical we did lots of stations to show this.

At the Smart board we played a game where we matched pictures to make them symmetrical. To make it a little trickier we also looked at shapes and patterns that were symmetrical too.

At the creative station we made a symmetrical shape with paper and when we opened it up we saw the line of symmetry. To decorate the shape we had to do symmetrical pictures. They looked really great!At this station we used the counters to make symmetrical patterns. When we put a counter on one side we then had to do it on the other side. Some of us made very fancy patterns.  Working together as a team we had to match the ladybirds and butterflies with the correct patterns together. It was tricky because there was lots of pictures so we really needed to use our eyes. 

In this station we had to use the peg boards to make symmetrical patterns. To make this a little easier we had a line of symmetry on the board. 

Today we got a bit messy and created our own symmetrical paintings. We had to paint only one side! The paper had a line of symmetry and when we folded over the paper and gave it a magic rub the painting became symmetrical and wonderful!

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Today is Christmas Jumper Day! Don’t we look great?!

We had a parade in the hall to see all the jumpers! We got to dance on the stage too!
Check us out playing a Christmas edition of Naughty Kitten Common Words! It was so funny! Later in the day we got to make our own Christmas jumpers but they were extra special because they were symmetrical! We designed one half and a partner finished it by making it symmetrical. We did a great job!

We love Christmas Jumper Day!

We have been doing Christmas stations on class because it’s nearly Christmas! We are all very excited and happy about Christmas!

At this station we were to build Santa’s sleigh. We used the big lego bricks and worked together with our friends to make a super sleigh. We were even able to go on our sleigh. It was great fun!

At this station we had to pick out a Christmas bauble. The baubles had our common words on them. If we could read the word we got to write it on our Christmas Tree.

The other part of our literacy station is you need to match the capital letter Gingerbread Houses with the lowercase Gingerbread men!

In the Library we have been busy reading Christmas Stories to our friend Elf. Elf is an important friend because he works for Santa and is telling Santa who is great at reading him stories!We have been so busy helping Santa in his workshop. We can wrap the presents, write naughty and nice lists, and we can design our own toys. We have also been pretending to be Santa, Rudolph and the Elves!
At this station we have been sorting out odd and even numbers that are on baubles,  we give them to either Odd Tod or Even Steven. On our ten frames we need to count out the number with the cubes.

With the Snowmen you have to give them a number hat and then count out the buttons to match the hat. Then you get to play again.

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As part of RME we have been learning all about Diwali.   We have been colouring our rangoli patterns, building bridges, just like the one in the Rama and Sita story and we have had great fun using our role play face masks. 

Today is Children in Need! We all got spotty to celebrate! We all got dressed up like Pudsey or Blush! It was great, fantastic AND BRILLIANT!

Here we are in the Gym Hall having fun…