Tag Archives: Hands On

Scholland Farm Soup

September 16, 2019 Mrs Inkster 1 Comment

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.

What will you play with?

April 26, 2019 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

Play is a really important part of our P1/2 class. The children have free choice during Task time to learn through their play. Play opportunities provided in our class often relate to the learning taking place that week or developing a specific skill but also takes account of their interests. Play opportunities are changed regularly, with some activities being left out longer if they prove popular! We are encouraging the children to suggest what they would like to play with so we can cater for their interests. Have a look at the play activities set out for this coming week…

P1 have been working on capacity in Maths. This activity is helping to reinforce finding “half”. They also have the opportunity for free water play, pouring, filling and estimating how many.

A popular Task! Park the cars by working out the sum or counting. The children can also create their own sums to match the answers on the cars.

We are going to start letter writing. This task asks the children to create questions they might use in a letter. They will use question words to start their sentence and a ? to finish it.

P1/2 will always do a Task if they think we need their help!

Fine motor skills are being developed as we use the tweezers to feed the chicks some worms.

Imaginative role play in our school classroom!

P2 have been working on number to 100. Our 100 chart lets them find missing numbers, practise counting backwards and forwards and lets them explore the number sequences they have been learning.

Number Fun!

September 5, 2018 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

P1 have been busy counting and learning how to write some numbers over the past couple of weeks. Numbers 2 and 3 are quite tricky so we had fun making them in lots of different ways. We are in the middle of making our own number line too to hang up in the classroom.

Using whiteboards to write is a great way to practise new letters and numbers.

Freya wanted to use the easel to write numbers up to 10.

Outdoor Education

May 17, 2018 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

Yesterday, Mrs Tait took advantage of the fine weather to take the children outside to work on science activities. They explored our nature garden and worked together to find examples of living and non living things. Back in the classroom, they sorted the examples they had found in different ways and recorded their findings. What a beautiful day to be outside, exploring and learning in our outdoor, school surroundings!

Robot Rumpus!

February 22, 2018 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

P1/2 have started to prepare for World Book Day. We have read and enjoyed “Robot Rumpus!” by S.Taylor and R.Collins. Today, the children were asked to think about what jobs they would like a robot to help them with. They named their robots and started to create them using different craft materials. The next step will be to write about what their robot does for them, to accompany their pictures. Here are a few photos of our work in progress!

A Colour-Bot and Birthday-Bot in the making!

Scott wanted his robot to help him with his toy cars and Jessica wants her robot to help her keep clean!

Every robot was different! Everyone had their own creative ideas!

A busy morning making our robots come to life.

2D Shape

February 15, 2018 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

Today small groups have worked around different 2D shape stations. They were busy playing a shape game with Mrs Sutherland where they had to spot shapes in the environment. Some had to create and continue repeating patterns and in pairs, they worked on describing shapes for their partner to guess. The final station asked them to create 2D pictures and patterns on an iPad and count how many of each shape was used. Everyone enjoyed the Maths session today!

Georgia and Kate worked well. Georgia even added shapes on top of her repeated pattern!

Ryan took time and care over his design.

Alexander used two shapes in his pattern.

2D shape game naming and spotting shapes.

Scott is describing his shape for the boys to guess.

Kate is counting how many of each shape she used.

Our Senses – Touch

December 9, 2017 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

We have been learning about the 5 senses. With me, they have been looking at our sense of touch. We measured how far our skin would stretch if you laid it out flat. The children were fascinated to see how big an area it would cover! We have been naming parts of our hands and skin and looking closely using magnifying glasses. We have talked about the “receptors ” under our skin that send messages to our brains to help us make sense of what we are touching. Very carefully, we tried using paper clips to help us feel which parts of our bodies were more sensitive to touch. We have tried using just our sense of touch to name hidden objects.

Using a magnifying glass to help us learn about our skin.

We all enjoyed using the magnifying glasses to help us with our work.

Skyler is feeling the hidden object with socks covering her hands!

It’s much harder to tell what it is when your skin is not touching it!

Using our skin to touch, it’s easier to guess. When more than one sense is used together, it is easy! Archie shows off our hidden object. There were some close guesses!

Music

June 2, 2017 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

I was called in at the end of P1/2’s Music lesson with Mrs Inkster today to listen to their beautiful singing and instrument playing. I was really impressed with how they were able to keep the beat! We had a few missing pupils today. We hope they are feeling better very soon!IMG_2072

Outdoor Education Day – 18th May

May 18, 2017 Mrs Smith 2 Comments

Thanks to the glorious Shetland weather, we were able to do all our planned activities today! We started off at the Boddam play park to do an experiment on forces. Then, in groups, we had to show forces at work using the play equipment. After some time inside looking at Electricity with Mr Rose, it was back outside to do a spot of reading before we joined the rest of the school on our whole school walk. A full day of learning and fresh air!

We wanted to test what would happen if we let a tractor run down different heights of slope.

We needed to make sure the tractor would run off smoothly.

On the flat, with no push or slope, our tractor was going nowhere.

We measured how high up we wanted to start our test.

To be fair, we had to let go and not push the tractor.

We tried it again, but further up this time.

We could easily see that the higher the slope, the further the vehicle would run.

We just had to try it right from the top!

The girls had to use a force to get the spin started.

Denley and Christina had to PULL hard to get up!

A steep, smooth surface was perfect to get our tractor moving!

This group had to find smooth surfaces that would make the tractor run easily and quickly.

Anders and Ryan were looking for rough surfaces that would slow their tractor down.

P2 read in the sunshine. Lots of them chose to read topic books on forces.

Forces – Magnetism

May 17, 2017 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

We enjoyed another visit from Mr Rose on Thursday 11th May. He spoke to us all about magnets and magnetism and the “invisible” force they use to attract certain types of metals. We learned the word, “repel” and used the magnets to test out how this felt. We had fun working with our partners and testing objects around the class.

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