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.
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.
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!
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!
Archie’s Number-Bot!
Every robot was different! Everyone had their own creative ideas!
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!
Emily made super patterns!
Ryan took time and care over his design.
Well done Innes! Happy at his work!
Skyler made lots of wonderful examples!
Jessie worked with care.
Alexander used two shapes in his pattern.
2D shape game naming and spotting shapes.
Playing with Mrs Sutherland’s help.
Scott is describing his shape for the boys to guess.
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.
Drawing what we see.
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!
Deep in concentration!
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!
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
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.
A little further up.
We watched how far it travelled.
It worked well.
Measuring the distance.
We tried it again, but further up this time.
We had to measure how far it travelled.
We could easily see that the higher the slope, the further the vehicle would run.
How far will it go?
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!
Gravity is all around us!
This group had to show using a push.
Gravity pulls us down!
A steep, smooth surface was perfect to get our tractor moving!
We applied forces to make things twist.
Some pushes can be good fun!
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.
Testing the wooden ramp for friction.
P2 read in the sunshine. Lots of them chose to read topic books on forces.
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.
Inara slowly moves her magnet closer until her paper clip is attracted to it.We tested lots of objects around the classroom. We were surprised at some of the results we got.
We had a great time last week learning about the journey food takes through our bodies. Everyone was surprised to learn that our small intestines are 6 metres long!
Later on we had fun exploring the different exhibits on offer. We tried out a thermal camera, a memory game, a multi tasking game, a body puzzle, an X-ray activity and much, much more! One exhibit even showed you what you might look like in 10 years time if you lived an unhealthy lifestyle! It was pretty scary!
Here is a pretend stomach full of food!We played a small intestine race. Each person had to squeeze the ball through the small intestine, acting like the muscles pushing real food through the body.
This exhibit showed what happens to your lungs if you smoke cigarettes. It was much harder to pump air into the black lung.It was great fun using this special magnifying camera.The multi tasking game.This machine let us listen to different people breathing. One person had asthma and we had to guess which one it was.The memory game involved pushing a sequence of colours in the order shiwn. A new colour was added each time it the sequence which made it it’s tricky!
Leighton and George worked as a team to put the body back together again.
Great fun was had by all with the thermal camera.The poor person in this X-ray had barbed wire stuck in their hands! Ouch!
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