This week we made self-portraits. Self-portraits are a half drawing of your face with your name in bubble, block or cartoon letters beside your face.

Before we started Mrs Emslie showed us how to measure our paper into sections so we could draw our face in proportion. She also put on the board a step by step slide show to make it easier for us.

Next, it was time to do our names. Mrs Emslie showed us how to write it in different types of fonts (I chose block writing). All of us got to work writing our names.

All of our portraits were looking good, but they were missing something… the colour! We each chose our favourite colours then started colouring it all in.

They will make a really nice display in our school

We  also made fingerprint pictures.  A fingerprint picture is a picture or drawing of a finger with all its little lines, swirls, indents and marking. Instead of drawing our prints on paper, Mrs Emslie handed out a pieces of paper with a big, black fingerprint printed right on the middle of the paper. It was like a blank canvas waiting for our personality to fill it in!

Mrs Emslie also gave us a sheet of paper with four boxes to write in (first box) people or things we love (second box) Appearance (third box) personality (fourth box) hobbies. And on the back it had sentence fillers like, I’m happy when, I’m sad when, I’m excited when.  Sentences we could share and talk about our emotions.

Next, we wrote down all of the words or things that are important to us. Some people filled their print with their family’s names, but others wrote their pets name or their favourite TV program characters names. Everyone’s was a little different, just like every fingerprint is.

This project was a great reminder that all of us have different opinions on what is special, like things we love and things we like.

By Merryn

This week for Buddying we did time capsules so the P1s can open them up at the end of the year.

Our buddy coordinators planned all of the activities.

First the P1s got to decorate a big envelope with their name, pictures and stickers! The envelope was where they put everything inside at the end.

Next we got to dress up in funny costumes.  Some people were: pirates, builders, princesses, police officers and some of them just wore silly hats!  We took silly selfie pictures to put in our time capsules.

We had a drawing station and writing station.   The P1s had to write their name and I would say they all did a pretty good job.  They also drew a little picture of something they liked.

At the last station they got to pick a colour of string and we measured how tall they were using a tape measure.

When they finish P1 we can open up the envelopes and compare how tall they are, how well they can write their name and how they have changed.

By Livia

This week we did a STEM challenge. A STEM challenge is a team building exercise were you win one of our class trophies (only if you came in first).

This STEM challenge was a marble track. There were three teams (red, yellow and green)

The teams were Saoirse, Bobby, Isla and William on the yellow team. Mia, Livia, Andrew and Jensen on the green team. Grace, O-Jo and Merryn on the red team.

Every team had a landing spot the marble had to land on. You had to try and get the marble in the landing spot any way you could and you got extra points for how far it travelled.

We had creative freedom. You could build something around the landing spot or build nothing at all and just roll it yourself.

Finally, it was time to put them to the test. For the first roll if you got it on the landing spot you could win 100 points, for the second roll you could win 50 points but you could win an extra 25 points in you swapped the roller, and for the last roll you could win 25 points with an extra 25 points if you changed the roller.

At the end all the scores was added up and the yellow team just won.  It was very close!

We have all learned the importance of being a team player, listening to each other and solving problems together.

By Merryn

This week we have been setting up the classroom economy.

The class room economy is when we all have 2 jobs (a category 1 job and a category 2 job) Some of the category 1 jobs are: Class Assistant, Buddy Coordinator, Banker and Tech Monitor.  Some category 2 jobs are: Board Cleaner, Plant Caretaker and Time Table Displayer.

Mrs Emslie gave us coloured wallets to keep our money in and every one has a different colour. When we get payed we have to pay  rent and bills so it’s £20 for desk rent, £10 for chair rent, £3.50 for stationery, £6.50 for laptop hire, £5 for tray hire, £3.30 for water and £6.70 for electricity. We also have special privileges you can buy with your left over money.  Some are privileges are Homework Holiday, Toy Time, Seat Swap Special and many more.

We can earn extra money for doing our jobs really well, showing our school values and putting a lot of effort into tasks.

Me and Merryn are Class Bloggers for Term 1 so we will be reporting on our class learning.  We get paid £150 because it is a busy job!

By Livia

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