Tag: Social studies

Vegetables!

We started to think about our new topic. We are going to be learning all about vegetables and where they come from. We worked in groups to think of all the vegetables that we know and we drew what we thought they looked like.  We thought about what we wanted to find out during our topic and here are some of the questions we are going to try to answer.

How do tomatoes grow?

Where do carrots come from?

Do potatoes come from Scotland?

Where do beans come from?

Where do mushrooms come from?

Where do baked potatoes come from?

How do vegetables get to our supermarket?

Where do all of our vegetables come from?

What is the scanner for in the supermarket?

Where do chillies come from?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We all had a great time on our school trip!

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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!

Our Kelpie Visitors

This morning two Kelpies arrived in P1/2. These Kelpies are little models but they are exactly the same as the ones that we are going to visit on Thursday in Falkirk.image image image image image image image imageimage

The Kelpies is the last legend that we will be learning about for our Scotland Topic. In this story the water monsters come out and they look like beautiful, black horses but they are evil. We know that this is just a legend and that these monsters are not real!

Some other people in the school have been excited to see our Kelpie models. P1 came for a visit this afternoon and they really liked our models. Mrs Woodward, Mrs Hadden and Mrs Ross have also been in to see these amazing models. The Kelpies will be in our classroom until Thursday afternoon if anyone else would like to visit.

Erin – They felt soft.

Lewis – Inside the mouth of the model it was hard and rough.

Caiden – They are hard. I think they might be made out of metal bits.

Ayva – I think the models are nice.

Conor – The model is a little bit rough and bumpy.

 

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.

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