Primary 1/2 are lucky to have a visit to help with the fundamentals of movement. This happened on Monday and will happen again next week too.
They had great fun finding different ways to move around. They had to balance, move in different ways, work as a team and be imaginative. Here are some pictures to show some of the activities.
They had great fun and are looking forward to some more next week.
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This term we are going to learn about challenging ourselves, how we can overcome challenge and how it will make us feel when we do. We started with a challenge yesterday. We had to make a tower using playing cards, it was fine if it was a small tower but a lot more challenging if we were to make it bigger! We decided that it’s good to work as a team. We have decided that it’s good to give ourselves some challenges, keep trying them until we can do them and then set some more.
Some of us have been wanting to work with letters and the alphabet so decided to make up the alphabet puzzle. We didn’t want our photo taken though! Katie, Nora and Lottie Mae all helped to make the jigsaw.
Others wanted to make their jigsaw a little trickier so decided to do it upside down so that they couldn’t see the picture. They worked together to make sure the piece all fit together correctly. Archie, Nora and Lauren all worked together as a team!
Others decided to make lovely patterns using the mosaics. It must have a been a camera shy day as they too didn’t want their picture taken. Maximus made these lovely patterns.
This also inspired Nora to make her own pattern.
Ollie decided he wanted to build a tower using the lego.
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Marie comes in each week to help us learn sign language. We love it and are doing well. We sign a story each week. Our story this week is Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
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We had some free time today and chose to do lots of different things. Nothing was set, it was all our own interest. This is how we kept ourselves busy. We had a picnic, made chilli chicken, pizza in a pan and used the pots for musical instruments.
Some of us made a city, an aeroplane, a car and people out of construction materials.
Others decided to write letters and colour in, taking great care to do their best, as always.
A few of us went fishing, designed tractors, did jigsaws and found dinosaurs.
Inventors and designers were also in the classroom. A tv is important in our eyes so it was important to design a tv with magical day and night tv screens at the same time. It was just as important to have the switches, control panel and sockets at the back of it!
We had a week where we read about The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. We read The Gruffalo’s Child too. We also heard them in Shetland Dialect. That was very interesting as there were some words we had never heard before!
After that we went out foraging for ingredients to make some Gruffalo recipes. Here are photos of us doing that. We had great fun and used great language and role play used in our cooking and searching.
We do a craft activity for every sound in our phonics. This activity always involves cutting as it helps us to improved our cutting skills and strengthens our hands. It also helps us to focus and builds on listening for instructions. Look at the concentration we put in.
We get to have soft start activities in the mornings before we begin any writing. Sometimes our learning begins outside, sometimes it begins inside. Here are some photos of us with a soft start activity. This helps us to build up our fine motor skills and is a pre-handwriting activity. It helps to strengthen our hands/fingers to help us with our pencil grip, writing etc. We loved it. What we had to do was build a tower using lego, but we only had a set amount of time to do it in. Then we got another go at it, the same amount of time and we had to see if we could get more blocks built on our tower to make it even bigger.
Have a look at the concentration while we were doing it! It was great fun and we rose to the challenge!
Some of us tried to make a house of straw for the three little pigs.
There were a lot of helping in different ways and teamwork was key.
Then we decided the wolf might be hungry and need something to eat, hopefully not one of the three little pigs!
So a group set to to make delicious soup that the wolf would like. With a little bit of this and a little bit of that, the soup was made and the trap was set!
Other people in the class set to building different types of houses for the three little pigs. These were made of branches or pallets of wood.
They thought if there were leaves on the branches, the wolf might think it was a home!
The wolf fell for the trap, climbed down the chimney and ended up in the pot so we were able to make wolf soup! It was delicious!
Here are some architects, planning their next houses to build. I think they decided on houses made of tyres!
Today’s challenge is to try and find as many different rhyming words as you can. The rhyming word is a nice easy one to start. The word today is bat.
Remember when you are rhyming, the end pattern at stays the same and the letter or letters at the beginning change.
To make it a challenge see if you can score as high a score as possible.
Post your final score up here and I will put up a list of rhyming words up on Friday. I will also put up a new rhyming challenge tomorrow.
