At the end of the afternoon, have a chill out to this tune as we normally do in class. Remember to concentrate on your breathing. You can even show your parents, brothers, sisters etc how to do this.
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Animals from cold countries
Find out about these animals from cold countries. Draw a picture of them and then write some facts about them.
Animals from cold countries
- Polar Bear
- Reindeer
- Bearded or Weddell seals
- Penguin
- Arctic Hare
- Orca (Killer Whale)
Send a copy of your work (photo) to the school email and post your facts on here.
Weather report
Can everybody please record the weather and write a sentence or a couple of sentences to say what it is like today though comments please. If your children are able to type the comment then even better! You can continue to comment on this and record the weather for the next week too.
E.g. – Friday 20th March – The weather today is warm and bright. The temperature today is 12C.
These words below may help.
Word bank: sunny, rainy, windy, cold, dry, cloudy, temperature, direction.
Anyone for tea?
Primary 1/2 were learning how to write instructions. Before they began writing, they made some tea so that they knew what to write. They also took the pictures of them making the tea. Have a look, they really enjoyed it.
World Book Day
We celebrated World Book Day by bringing our favourite stories in to school. We shared them with each other. Please have a look.
Just chilling
After a busy morning partying, primary 1/2 asked for some calming music to chill out to. Some chose to lie down, others chose to sit up and some chose to focus on moving things quietly.
It was nice and soothing.
Scholland Farm Soup
We made soup using the vegetables from Scholland Farm. First we washed the vegetables ready for peeling.
Then we carefully peeled the carrots and parsnip. We peeled away from us to help keep our hands safe from harm and we did it carefully.
We added the onion to our pan. Mrs Inkster chopped that for us and it made her eyes water!
Then we chopped some carrots and parsnip.
Some of us watched while others prepared the vegetables.
Then we chopped and added some neep .
Next it was the broccoli and cauliflower.
Then we put the soup on to cook. We decided to have vegetable soup and lentil soup using the vegetables too.
While it was cooking we were being good listeners and following instructions for our activity.
We had a break and tried some raw carrot and raw neep. Some of us had never tasted raw neep before and it was delicious!
Once the soup was cooked we tried the lentil soup first. We thought that was delicious.
Then we tried the vegetable soup. Some of us didn’t like it but some of us like it so much we had another bowl!
It’s been a busy morning in our class but we really enjoyed using the vegetables that we got from the farm and we all agree that it tastes great when we know and have seen where the produce comes from.
Friday fun
Friday morning started with some Lego fun. We were strengthening our hands and grip as well as working with partners.
Farm visit
We have had a fantastic trip to Scholland Farm today. Mrs Leslie was showing us around. Jamie was busy doing what farmers do at this hectic time of year. We were lucky to catch him for a little while and he came to tell us about some things before heading back to continue with some bailing. Here are some photos.
Jamie is baling straw so Mrs Leslie is telling us all about the barley and combining and then the straw being put into big bales to be used for animal bedding.
Then we went to see the cows. There were lots of them along with their calves. They were being moved so we’re running and kicking their heels with delight!
We stood back and watched. It was funny!
Then we got to see some of the farm machinery. Some of us knew what it was and some us learned what these were called and what it was used for.
After that we went for a short walk along a track to see Jet caa the sheep. Jet was lovely and did everything she was told. We asked how she knew what to do and Jamie told us what commands he used to get her to do what he wanted. She’s very clever!
Next it was the vegetable patch and we were very lucky to see lots of different types of vegetables. We even got some to take back to school and will use them this week.
Finally we passed the smelly slurry spreader and went to see the caddy lambs, hens and one of the horses.
We had a great time and even managed to see a few planes and helicopters take off and land. What a fantastic day we’ve had.
Busy days in P1/2
We have been busy doing soft start activities to help strengthen our hands to help with writing as well as get us ready for our learning through the day. Here we are using Lego.
Later in the day we did some topic work about the farm.
