Our topic learning has been about nocturnal animals, today we sorted data about nocturnal animals into tally charts. We could remember this from P1 and we’re using the words ‘tally, total, heading, data, information’ – we were using our communicating cate meta-skill asking each other questions to gather data, giving instructions to support each other. We then used our tally chart data and put it into a bar graph which was new learning. We were able to answer questions about each others bar graph. Next, we will create our own surveys to ask our peers.
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STEM – IDL Town Hall Models
Our topic is Lerwick, pupils asked to learn about the buildings in Lerwick. Today we spoke about the Town Hall, its uses and how/when it was build and made models using pasta and playdoh. We were focusing on the meta-skill of collaborating and added our learning to our IDL working wall. Pupil comments:
‘if we make a square then it will make it stronger when we add walls’
‘you hold this part and I will hold this side and she can get the roof on, the roof is a triangle!’
‘My parents got married at the town hall upstairs!’
Meta-skill Link – listening to and valuing other people’s opinions and developing language of collaborative learning.
IDL – Topic Learning
This term our topic has been ‘Festivals and Celebrations’ we asked the pupils what they wanted to learn, they asked to learn about celebrations people have and the kind of beliefs they have, learners also wanted to know if we have the same beliefs.
We learned about remembrance day, birthdays, Diwali, Hannukah and Christmas. Here is a picture of our topic wall:
Our drawing club book has been ‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson. We have enjoyed every moment of drawing and writing about stickman, we have made a winter Stickman display and today we had a movie morning watching the BBC Stickman.
The last photo is our ‘Learning Journey Wall’ – the children choose photos to add and we decided to add some pupil voice quotes this term to tell the story of our learning.
Outdoor Learning – Posting Letters
Primary 1 have been learning about the post, we had a visit from a postman and last week we wrote ourselves a letter about the visit. We addressed our envelopes and spoke about the postcode, house names/numbers and the location our post would be going.
Today we walked to Sound Service to buy stamps, on the way pupils pointed out different environmental print and other interesting places/things:
Pupils were excited to get into the bus stop and look at the bus timetable, we spoke about the time the bus would be coming and how to get the bus to stop. We got to use the traffic lights for the first time today too.
‘Look that sign means 20 in your car, you can’t go faster!’
‘That is new houses being built… that sign says only workers and you have to wear a hat… that word says i…n… in.’
‘There is a Shetland pony, and is the baby one called a ‘foal’?
Pupils asked the shop worker for 15 stamps, they chose 2nd class stamps and then on the way back we stopped to look at frozen nature. We enjoyed holding the frozen leaves while they melted and crushing them near our ear to hear the noises they make.
Look out in the post for your child’s letter – hope you enjoy reading it together.
