Room 1

P1s listening to The Whale and the Snail by Julia Donaldson on our new fabulous listening banks.  We all listened to the story through the headphones.

P1 are finding out about how people help us. We are starting with our school. The children walked around the school finding out which adults worked in the school, where they were based and what they did.

They managed to cut and stick the correct person next to the picture of what they do in school.

The children also made a video of themselves where they asked one of the adult’s  a question, which they replied back using the ipad too.

The children in P1 have been looking at signs that Autumn is here. They copied the different coloured leaves when painting pictures of their own Autumn trees, applying the paint with their finger. The children have been collecting seeds and leaves for the Autumn topic table too.

P1 have been learning how to use scissors to carefully cut along a straight line. They have been practising turning the paper as they cut. They have done a brilliant job of cutting out the robot shape without any help.

We have started a new topic in Science – Space.

Today we learned that the earth spins around and experiences day and night. It is daytime when a point on the Earth is facing the sun and night-time when it is facing away from the sun.

As it was a really sunny day we decided to go outside to explore how the sun creates shadows. We used chalk to draw around each others shadows. It was tricky to stay still while our partners were drawing!

We also drew around the shadows of some of the stationary objects in the playground, they didn’t move as we were drawing. However we learned that because the Earth is spinning, the position of the sun in the sky changes and the shadows would eventually move.

This term we have been exploring symmetry in a variety of different ways.

We have learned that a Line of symmetry is the imaginary line where you could fold an image and have both halves match exactly, like a mirror image.

We created symmetrical patterns using the Numicon boards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We explored symmetry through ICT

     

We worked together to complete each others patterns.

Butterflies are always great when learning about symmetry.

 

 

A Giant visited us today and left behind some footprints and a note.

So we set to work. We used the giant footprints around the class to find things that were longer, shorter or the same size.

We managed to find a lot of things so we recorded the information in a chart.

Next we decided to guess how long the giants footprint was. Then we measured the length using cubes, counters, dominoes and links.

Finally drew round each others feet to get our own footprint to measure.

 

 

 

 

 

What a busy day we all had measuring length.

This week we had the chance to try out some old playground games and play with some old toys. Everyone had lots of fun and there wasn’t a pokemon card in sight!

Primary 1 have been doing some sorting as part of their Maths lessons. Working in pairs, they were given a selection of different things and asked to sort them however they wanted. There was lots of different sorting happening around the classroom. Some children chose to sort an item by colour whereas others decided to sort the same item by size, shape or pattern. It was super to see so many busy children working hard along side their partner – Postman Pat might be interested in hiring some of them for his sorting office!

I can sort in a variety of different ways

Sorting by Colour

Sorting by Size

Sorting by Shape

Sorting into a Venn Diagram

 

Primary 1 have been learning all about the people whose job it is to help us.

We were very excited to go on a trip to the Fire Station. We learned all about how impotant the job of a fire fighter is and we even got to sit in a fire engine!

We also got to visit the bus station which is just a short walk away from the school.