P1b

This week we have been learning all about our sense of smell and taste!

We know that on our tongue we have tastebuds.

We know that it can taste 5 things savoury, salty, sweet, bitter and sour!

On Wednesday we did a taste test with a difference because we had to wear blindfolds! We were trying to guess how it tasted with only our taste buds!

Take a look at our faces!

What we thought…..

The chocolate was yummy and sweet – James

The cheese was yummy and savoury – Jay

The lime was yucky and sour – Rory

On Thursday we did an experiment! We had to use our senses to work out the flavours of crisps that had lost their packaging. We used our senses of smell and taste to solve the problem! There were 3 different types to sort.

Here are the results…

What we learned from the experiment….

The ready salted was hard because it didn’t have a strong smell – Ruth

The prawn cocktail was easy because it had a very strong smell – Zak & Callan

Salt & Vinegar was easy when we tasted it but not when we smelled it – Alfie & Gracie

We learned on Friday that when you hold your nose you can’t smell or taste! Crazy!!

This week we have been learning all about 3D shape! Some of the 3D shapes that we know are…..

Cylinder – Matthew

Triangular Prism – Roxana

Cube – Jack

Cone – Zara

Sphere – Donald

Pyramid – Ruth

Cuboid – Callan

On Thursday and Friday we explored our new 3D shapes. We had 5 stations.

1. We made a toy using 3D shapes for our 3D shape catalogue (we even took a picture)
2. We sorted out the 3D shapes that roll or don’t roll
3. We sorted the 3D on to the correct name and photograph
4. We made 3D shapes with the playdough
5. We printed with 3D shapes to make 2D shapes

Something new I learned about 3D shapes…

I learned about a sphere – Jay

I learned that tins are cylinders – Eilidh

I learned about cuboids – Zak

I learned about cubes – Ruth

I learned that a cube is made of squares – Rory

I learned about triangular prism – Brodie

I learned about cylinders – Ava

Yesterday afternoon we were learning more about our Senses. We found out that the brain receives messages from parts of the body (eyes, hands, tongue, nose and ears) and makes senses of the messages. Nerves carry the messages around our body.

We had stations for each of Senses and we knew which sense to use by looking at the body part picture. 

I liked looking at the sand with a magnifying glass – Zak

I liked hearing the music, the instrument sent a message to my brain – Rory

I liked the food tasting because my brain got a message from my tongue – Ruth & Zara

I liked the feeling station because some things were nice and soft – Jay

I liked the smelling station and the coffee smell was my favourite – Holly

Today Miss Kinloch and Mrs Mutch tried to trick our brains!!

Mrs Mutch showed us a tray with lots of things on it. We had to look at it for 10 seconds and then she covered it. She asked us to remember what was there. This was easy! But then she made it trickier she had taken some things away! We had to try and work out what was missing. It was fun!

Miss Kinloch had three cups, one hot, one cold and one room temperature. She asked for a volunteer and they had to hold the hot and the cold in different hands. They had to do this for 1 minute. Miss Kinloch checked to see if one hand was hot and the other was cold. Then they had to hold the room temperature cup, the hand that had been hot got cold and the hand that had been cold got hot! It was crazy! Our brain was confused because our nerves were sending mixed messages!

We really like our senses topic and we can’t wait to learn some more!

 

This week we have been learning all about shapes. Some of the shapes that we know are…

Square – Matthew

Circle – Kacey

Triangle – Lewis M

Oval – Holly

Diamond – Zak

Octagon – Callan

Pentagon – Ruth

Hexagon – Roxana

Triangle – Ava

Rectangle – Brodie

 

On Wednesday we went on a Shape Hunt around the school we were able to find lots of the shapes that we know and we took pictures on the i-pads to show this. We even found Primary 1a making a shape! They were sitting in a circle. The shape hunt was fun!

On Thursday and Friday we were doing our stations in class for our shapes. Some of the stations were: making playdough shapes, on the smartboard we were finding the missing shape, we sorted the shapes, we were counting shapes, and we were able to use stencils to draw our shapes.

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Today we had our first ever golden time and it was fantastically awesome!

We got to go to a station that we had picked on Monday. We had to be good all week so that we didn’t get a warning card and lose time off our Golden Time.

We had been so excited all day and we finally got Golden Time this afternoon!

We got to pick from Construction, Sand, Library, Painting and i-pads. We all had so much fun at our choices. Look at us having a great time during Golden Time…

We can’t wait to choose our next stations on Monday! Golden Time is the best ever!!!

In gym this week we have been doing Obstacle Courses. They make it tricky for us to cross the hall. They make us do lots of different movements like, jump, over and under, balancing, running, zig zagging, and sliding.

On Tuesday we were the ones making the obstacle course because we were showing that we could be safe with the equipment. We worked in groups to pick our equipment and decide how to build the course.

We got to try all of the obstacle courses and we thought they were all great and easy! It was fantastic!

Our favourite parts were:

Jumping over – James & Lewis M

Zig Zagging in the cones – Kacey

Sliding – Callan

Under and Over – Zara

 

Today Miss Kinloch brought in her gold fish bowl. Inside the bowl there was some fish and they were special because they had our common words on them. BUT in our class we have some very naughty kittens and they were trying to take our common word fish!

The boys and girls shouted ‘Naughty Kittens!’ and we tried to make the kittens put them back. To do this the kittens showed us their words and we had to say what it was. If we got it right the kittens had to put the fish back.

It was fun – James

It was great – Zara

It was fantastic – Donald

Excellent – Zak

I didn’t like the Naughty Kittens – Rory

This week we used Goldilocks and the three bears to help us do our sorting. We were sorting by size.

We got to sort the pictures from the story from big to small, sorted the bears on the smart board to get them ready for a walk with the right size clothes on, we sorted what the bears needed by size and we sorted the compare bears into daddy bears, mummy bears and baby bears.

We thought it was fun!

On Thursday we started learning something new in Health & Wellbeing. We started to learn about staying safe. Our friend Oscar asked us where we feel safe and we had lots of ideas like being with family or adults, in the school, in our bedrooms and in our houses. We learned that it is very important to be safe in school too especially in the gym hall. We made up some rules, here they are..

 

Here we are in the gym hall being safe!

Yesterday we were Rhyming in P1b and we were AWESOME!!

The words we were rhyming with came from our story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We had to think of words that sounded the same. Some of them were easy like ‘stick’ and ‘pot’ but some were very hard like ‘straw’ and ‘pig’. Thankfully Miss Kinloch had an ideas page in case we ran out of our own ideas. Take a look at the picture of our hard work…