We have had a lovely afternoon making our class advent calendar. We each painted our hands green and then made two handprints.
We each decorated a little box with Christmas and winter pictures.
We will put our Christmas boxes underneath our advent calendar tree.
We have been learning about healthy eating through our project about the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
This week we have looked at different kinds of fruit. Mrs Grant cut open the fruit in the middle so that we could look inside.
Then we painted a paper plate the same colour as the fruit.
We are going to make pears!
We are painting paper plates to make bananas!
We are making oranges.
We are making apples. We found some seeds inside.
We painted paper plates. Next we will use paper to add some details onto our plates, like the skin, pips and seeds of the fruit we cut up.
We met with our buddies on Wednesday afternoon to read the book Wanted! Ralphy Rabbit, Book Burglar.
Our buddies had read it in class in their reading groups and had prepared a follow-up activity to do with us.
We really enjoyed listening to our buddies reading the book. It was very funny!
We went into the ICT suite to read the story with our buddies. It was much quieter there than in the classroom!
The classroom was very busy. That’s where we made our Ralfy Rabbit bookmarks. We cut out two Ralfy Rabbits and then glued them onto a lollipop stick.
Next week we will be reading another one of the books which are nominated for the Scottish Children’s Book award and we will do another activity with our buddies – we can’t wait!
We had a special visitor in Primary 1 on Monday afternoon. Mr Grieve from the food bank came to speak to both primary 1 classes. He explained to us what the food bank is. When someone doesn’t have enough food to eat or money to buy enough then they can get some from the food bank.
Mr Grieve took in a big box of food to show us the kinds of things that they collect.
We heard that people can donate food to the food bank. We decided that it would be a good idea to arrange a collection of food in the school.
They particularly need boxes of cereal, tins of carrots, tins of peas and tins of potatoes.
We decided that we will speak to our buddies in P6 and that they could help us to collect in the food.
We have been learning how to wash our hands this week.
We had a special machine in the classroom. It let us see how well we wash our hands.
First we had to put special cream on our hands. Then we had to go and wash our hands. Our buddies came too. We all washed our hands in the toilets.
Next we got to look at our hands under a special light.
If there were parts of the skin on our hands that glowed under the light then we hadn’t washed them properly. We had to go back to the toilets to wash our hands again.
It was lots of fun. We all promised to wash our hands really carefully and to use soap every time. We will make sure that we wash carefully around our fingernails as lots of us missed this bit out!
We made pumpkin faces using shapes in our maths work.
We chose different shapes to make our pumpkin faces and then glued them on. Then we wrote out speech bubbles to show which shapes we had used.
We are very proud of our pumpkins.
On Friday 30th October we joined together with our friends from 1A, 2A and 2B.
We were dressed up in our guizin clothes. We played lots of games. We really liked the ‘Mummy’ game. We used toilet roll to cover one of our friends in toilet roll. We worked in teams and took it in turns to put the toilet roll around the mummy! It was lots of fun.
Here are some of our mummies!
We passed around pumpkins filled with cold spaghetti and had to hock inside it to find starburst sweeties! It was very funny on our hands!!
We also played monster musical statues and had to make scary monster poses when the music stopped.
We have been having lots of fun in the gym. We have been practising jumping from different heights onto the blue crashmats.
We have been jumping from two feet and landing on two feet. We also jump from one foot and land on two feet. We tried to jump from two feet and land on one foot and also jumping from one foot and land on one foot – we had to concentrate hard!
