This week we received a very special delivery from the North Pole.

Santa had heard about our enterprise project.  He has a little word with the Elves and Mrs Claus.  They sent us reindeer oats and a special secret ingredient, candy canes and magic keys.  We have been very busy making these into Reindeer Dust, Candy Cane Mice and Magic Keys to sell on our stall on Saturday.

We are going to be looking at cost, mark up and profit next so we can decide on what we are going to spend our profit on.

We look forward to seeing you at our stall!

This week we had a taster session from Planet Soccer.

First we played a game like tig,  we had to dribble the ball to red cones.

Then the tig-ers were released.  If they covered our balls we had to hold our ball above our head.

But we could be freed.

After the warm up we played a mini match.

I liked scoring goals – Rory

I liked passing the ball to my team – Jacob & Riley

I loved my stamp – Olivia, Laycee & Chloe

I liked doing the match, I was a guard.  I also got a stamp – Nate & Lewis

The football match was brill – Kayden

I liked scoring lots of goals – Emma, Alfie & Poppy

I think we won – Libby

I liked kicking the ball – Mia

I liked playing football – Finn

We had so much fun thank you the the Team at Planet Soccer especially Coach Danny.

This week we were lucky enough to visit the library as part of the Book Bug experience.  We will all get a pack to take home with three books; I am Bat, Eric Makes a Splash and One Button Benny.

Here are some of our thoughts…

We read a story and got a sticker…it was smelly – Hannah

We saw around the library – Poppy

We saw how to return books – Mia

We will get the stories to take home soon – Oliwier

I had fun at the library –Riley

We were reading lots of stories – Alfie

We met the Librarian – Lewis

The bat liked cherries and pears – Emma

We got to choose a story to read too – Eoin

I liked hear the story and getting a sticker – Finn

I had fun…thank you!  – Olivia

I would like to also give a big thank you to the parents that were able to come with us.

So we were still enjoying Maths Week in P1 this week.  Our P7 buddies had been busy making us fantastic 2d shape jigsaw and 3d models.

I loved making my robot – Jacob

I liked it Isla – Olivia

I can’t wait to show mum – Oliwier

I liked working with my buddy – Florence

I made a nice robot – Mia

Thank you Caitlin – Ellen

I liked reminding the P7s of some of the shape’s names – Chloe

Thanks for helping me…I can’t wait to finish it – Rory

I really liked my robot – Dylan

I really liked my robot, thank ou for making it – Riley

I have two buddies so I got two robots J – Alfie

My robot was wobbly – Eoin

I would like to thank you very for the 3d and 2d shapes- Libby

Thank you for helping me to learn – Poppy

Thanks for all of you help – Hannah, Kayden and Laycee

I liked making my robot with Kayleigh – Emma

I made a robot and a robot picture – Finn

So the biscuits were yummy!

We continued the week exploring shape with the help of the Mr Men.  We have been exploring the properties of 2d shapes and went on a shape hunt around school to see real life examples.  We were even spotting shapes in the books that the maths’ fairy kept sending us, through the week we learned about money and days of the week.

This is what we thought:

I enjoyed making squares and rectangles on the peg boards – Libby

I loved having the MR Men help us – Hannah

I made Mr Strong, he is a square.  He has 4 sides. – Laycee

I made a triangular biscuit – Mia

I had fun spotting shapes in our classroom – Isla

We got a square book – Jacob (It was about money)

We saw lots of rectangles – Dylan

Mr Rush is a triangle – Rory

We read the Hungry Caterpillar, it was about days too – Kayden

Well done to Libby who won the Maths certificate this week and to Iris who won the School’s Values certificate, and is getting to have hot chocolate with Mrs Johns 🙂

Lastly, thank you for everyone who made meet the teacher this week….if you have any other questions please just ask at the end of the day.

We have gotten maths week off to a flying start! We have measuring and learning about our shapes!

Biscuit Recipe (shape) – maths week p

We will keep you posted!

This week we have been thinking about our Class Charter.  In school we want to be happy, safe and learn lots.  We are all going to try our best to be:

kind

friends with everyone, we are very friendly

try our best at our jobs

share

happy, be polite and smile at people

listen to everyone

celebrate our successes

to keep people safe we are going to help each other and tidy up

You can see our Class Charter beside our board

We have really enjoyed making our new friends.

This weeks extra special stars for following the Charter are Poppy and Oliwier!

We can’t believe that we have been at school for a week already.  We have had lots of fun meeting our buddies, playing counting games and we are already beginning to learn to read and write.

This is what a few of us think….

School is good…I like the messy area! – Riley

I love playing the games – Ellen

I like spending time with my buddy – Nate

I love it!  I like my buddy – Rory

I love it…it is fun – Lewis

Eoin gave it a big thumbs up

I love writing – Laycee

We like the toys! – Florence and Mia

I liked meeting my new teacher – Olivia

We have lots planned for next week; we are going to learn about c and k, counting and more about our senses!

We have all safely arrived in Oban and been very busy already!  We have been practicing our team work skills by completing challenges.  Just getting unpacked now before tea and off out for our evening activity.

Have a look at the Twitter page for updates each day….@Balbardie_PS

(you don’t need a Twitter account to see the posts)

Yesterday we went canoeing and shelter building. Some of our highlights include:

*working in teams in the canoes

*helping and encouraging each other to build our shelter

*drinking hot chocolate and eating lunch in our shelters

*learning to create a fire with strikers and cotton wool.  We nowknow that fire needs fuel,oxygen and heat to ignite.

Today we went coasteering and rock climbing at Ganavan beach.   We enjoyed walking and jumping into the freezing cold water with other people and conquering fears by climbing rocks.

Tonight we are looking forward to a quiz,swimming and a chippy!

Speak soon,

Valerija and Oliver

We have just finished a very informative 8 week block with Robyn and Theresa.  We learned about the importance of a balance between what we eat and how much we exercise.

We learned about the different food groups – why they are important, how often we should eat them and how much we should eat of each of one.  We are real experts now!

Our new favorite game is castles!  Miss Holwill liked watching us playing Pacman.

A huge thank you!

We can not believe that we are nearly Primary 2 boys and girls.  We have had a great time in Primary 1b, learning lots and having fun with other friends, buddies and teachers.

We have sooooooo many memories but here are some of our highlights….

• Luke – making new friends and learning about dividing
• Archie G – playtimes and learning about dinosaurs
• Archie M- playing and learning about adding and subtraction
• Eilidh – meeting my new teachers and learning about insects
• Grace M – I like watching videos to learn new information and the activities
• Sara – I can read now!
• Kayden – I like lunch!
• Sophie S – I like number work especially subtraction
• Charlotte – I liked learning about the stone age people
• Emily – I liked number work. I can do lots of new things.  I have lots of new friends.
• Jude – I like the Golden Club event…I am a step 5 boy!
• Max – I like coming to school
• Rhianna – I like lunch
• Grace Q – I like church
• Lilyrose – I liked learning about dinosaurs
• Sophie M – I liked number work
• Artjom – I loved sports day
• Keegan – I liked number work
• Hollie – I liked share with other people
• Fearne – I liked number work

Here are some of our funny moments….

• The magician had lots of stories
• Playing at school…don’t worry Mrs Hay you always give stickers 🙂
• Our dancing
• Danger Mouse
• Being silly at playtime
• Dinosaur that pooed a planet (it’s a book, it took 30minutes to read as we laughed so much)

We also had agreat time today….espically the teachers 🙂

Look at the next steps in the frog and butterfly lifecycle…

and us on a minibeast hunt

Yesterday we were very lucky to have Archie’s Granda and Uncle visit us in school today with their owls.  We learnt lots about them all and got to stroke them.  Some of the facts we learned were:

*owls can turn their heads 270 degrees

*if they have black owls they hunt at night

*if they have orange/pale eyes they hunt in the twilight

*they eat mice

One of our favourites was Skippy who came from Australia as he kissed our fingers.  But the best bit was when Archie’s Barn Owl, Stealy, flew over us.

It was a great afternoon and very exciting.  A huge thank you.

We have started our new learning context of Nature Detectives.  We know that plants and animals need water to survive.  We learned about the water cycle.  Some of the new words we have learned are precipitation, condensation and evaporation.  We learnt these words when listening for information, watch an experiment and making a model.  We have also become weather forecasters and are making daily observations.  We are looking forward to learning about the lifecycles of some insects.  We are getting some butterfly eggs and frogspawn to help us learn…watch this space for our updates.   New in our classroom – we have a tent with lots of ‘minibeasts’, binoculars and magnifying glasses.