We have had a very busy week in Primary 1b. Here are some of the things we have gotten up to!…

Hamish: “We have been learning about shapes and numbers as well as learning the sounds m and c”
Lily: “We have been learning Writing”
Taylor: “We have been writing about Room on the Broom”
Gracie: “In Room on the Broom the dragon tries to eat the witch!”
Jacob: “We have been learning numbers”
Caitlin: “And we have been going to stations in class to take turns. I like the tricky words”
Evie: “I like colouring”
Matthias: “I like learning stuff on the tablets”
Noah: “I like when we draw”
Kaiden: “Learning letters”
Kyle “Learning numbers”
Emma: “We have been learning on the tablets and playing different number games”
Maksim: “I like to play the tablets and I like to draw”
Reiss: “I like to play with the play-doh and the iPads”
Lewis: “I like playing with the puppets and with my friend, Max”
Zara: “I like to play with the Room on the Broom colouring pictures”

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This week was very exciting in Balbardie PS because all the new Primary 1 boys and girls started school. It was a very happy and fun day for everyone. We would like to share our favourite parts of our first week in Primary 1.
Our favourite parts of the week are:
Maksim – “I came to school to write”
Hamish – “I like Golden Time and everyone gets to bring something in except from tablets”
Matthias – “I liked playing with my buddy and I liked playing with the toys”
Kyle – “I like playing with the play-doh”
Caitlin – “I like to draw”
Noah – “I like it when it’s Golden Time”
Jacob – “I liked when our buddies came”
Max – “I like to play with my friends”
Kaiden – “I like when it’s going to be Golden Club”
Evie – “I like Golden Time”
Scott – “I love to play with my friends”
Lily – “I like to play with the play-doh”
Rose – “I like playing with my toy at Golden Time”
Gracie – “I love play time”
Taylor “I love school!”
Emma – “I like playing with play-doh”
Josh “Playing with the puppets”
Ava – “I like the classroom”
Reiss – “I like my teacher, Miss Wilson!”
Zara – “I like when Ava and I play with the dragon”
Marcus – “I like playing with the play-doh and I like to play with my friends”
Natasha – “Playing with play-doh”

We are all very excited for our next week at school!

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Today was the Golden Club! We have been looking forward to this for a very long time and it was so much fun. We were given 4 tickets and we were allowed to do 4 things at the event. These were:
– throwing wet sponges at the House Captains
– a bouncy castle with disco lights inside
– a bouncy slide called the “Terror Slide”
– we got a delicious ice lolly
We also got to dance at the disco when we were between the different games!

Here are some of our favourite parts:
Elena – “soaking the House Captains”
Ehan – “having my ice lolly”
Lexi – “I liked going on the bouncy castle”
Brandon – “the bouncy slide”
Lily – “I liked when we got to soak Miss Holwill and the House Captains”
Isla – “disco trampoline”
Akasha – “I liked the ‘Terror Slide'”
Rosie – “I liked when I found lots of tickets on the ground”
Eva – “I liked the slide because I touched the roof”

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This week we were so excited to set our butterflies free. If you looked at our blog last week, you would see that they had all emerged from their cocoons. We took our butterflies into the garden and set them free. We named them Bob, Scooby Doo, Storm Trooper, Peter Pan and Darth Vader! It was lovely to see them all fly away and we even got to touch Darth Vader as he was so well behaved.

On Wednesday it was our class trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. We were very excited to take our teddy bears with us so that they could join in on a Teddy Bear Picnic.

When we arrived we discussed SWAF. SWAF stands for:
Shelter
Water
Air
Food

SWAF is what animals need to survive in nature.

We went on an Edward Bear hunt next to look for clues as to where he was! There were some paw print clues hidden around the garden and we had to find them to try and find Edward Bear.

When we finally got back to the meeting room, Edward was waiting on us with our lunches.

After lunch we played a couple more games and had to create our own SWAF island!

We had a wonderful time at the Royal Botanic Gardens and have made sure to put a picture of us eating our lunch with our teddy bears inside our pink Learners Journey Jotters.

*Learners Journey Jotters will go home today and please return these to school by next Friday 24.6.16 with the “highlights of the session” sheet completed

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This week was very exciting for our class as we got to see our butterflies emerge from their cocoons. We had 5 cocoons at the start of the week and by Wednesday we had one butterfly already!

TUESDAY:

WEDNESDAY:

When we came into school on Friday morning we had 3 more butterflies! Only 1 butterfly was still in its cocoon. We could see its patterns and Miss Wilson said that the butterfly would be out very soon. We kept an eye on it all morning.

Only 10 minutes later, it emerged! We finally have 5 butterflies.

In the final picture you can see some red liquid on the lid. You might be wondering what this is. We thought it might be blood, but we researched it further and found out this was meconium! Lots of this means that your butterfly is healthy and is a normal part of the process. It is just leftover waste material stored in the butterfly’s abdomen.

We are very excited to set them free on Monday in the garden and can’t wait to see if they will land on our hands and heads!

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We have been learning so much this week that we wanted to share all of the exciting things we have been learning and doing.

Sports Day was on Tuesday and all the boys and girls walked to Balbardie Park and took part in lots of races.
Tiana – I liked doing the sack race
Eden – My favourite part was doing the sack race as well. I also liked when I came 3rd
Teigan – My favourite part was at the end when everyone did the running race
Lily – I liked when me, Isla and Lois won some of the races
Scott – I came 4th in the potato and spoon race
Isla – I liked when I got 1st place 3 times and got 2 medals!

Here is an update on how our caterpillars are coming along:
Akasha – They are in their cocoons
Ehan – I am excited for when they turn into butterflies
Lily – I am excited for when they are going to turn into butterflies and when we are going to let them go
Eden – I am excited to see them fly all about
Eva – I am excited to see the butterfly patterns

This week we went on a minibeast hunt!
Elena – On our first minibeast hunt we didn’t find that much, but when we went again we saw a red spider
Ehan – We got into groups – Group 1, 2, 3 and 4
Lily – We had lots of fun trying to find the minibeasts in the garden and I had lots of fun in my group

Pupil of the week: Rosie Chalmers for using positional language accurately and confidently in Maths.

Playground Pupil of the week: Orlaith Stirling for being helpful to all her friends and tidying the playground.

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This week we have been learning a lot about healthy eating and the foods you should eat a lot of, foods you should eat sometimes, and foods you should eat a little of.

We had Shared Start on Wednesday where parents and grandparents were invited to come along. We had a bunch of “Very Hungry Caterpillar” games and everybody really enjoyed the colouring in pictures the most!

Here are some healthy eating tips:
Brandon – Pasta is a food you can eat sometimes and it can make you big and strong
Akasha – My healthy eating tip is that you should eat strawberries because they are my favourite
Kyle – Eat soup every day
Freya – Eat vegetables so you can grow very strong
Elena – Look after your body so you can grow very big
Teigan – My healthy eating tip is to eat apples
Scott – Exercising so you can get big and strong
Rosie – You can drink milk so you can be nice and strong
Isla – Eat lots of green stuff because my dad says it’s healthy to eat lots of green stuff

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We have been learning about being Nature Detectives! So far, we have been learning about the different parts of a plant and last week we labelled a picture of a plant to show our understanding. This week we have been learning about minibeasts and insects that you can find in nature. We got to create our own minibeasts with paper and glue and created some fantastic creatures!
We have also been learning about the water cycle and how rain is created. We learned some really big words such as:
-evaporation
-condensation
-precipitation

Isla – Evaporation is when the sun heats the water and it rises into the sky
Lois – Condensation is when lots of tiny raindrops come together and it gets too heavy
Ehan – Precipitation is when the clouds get too heavy and rain falls down

We created a model that showed the water cycle. Miss Wilson was very impressed with how well we worked independently.

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On Tuesday, P1a went to visit the local library. We were extremely lucky to meet the author, Laura Jackson, of the book series “Badger the mystical mutt”.
Eva – Some children ordered some books and the author signed them! I liked when Badger had the big maracas.
Akasha – I liked the story.
Orlaith – At the start of our visit, Badger patted all the adults heads.
Eden – I liked when Badger got the maracas!
Lily – I liked when Badger shook his tail at everybody and some people were trying to catch it.
Isla – I liked when Badger got the big maracas.
Elena – Badger showed us some magic tricks.

We have been reading some of the stories in class and love hearing about Badger’s love for toast!!

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This week we were reminding ourselves of all the months of the year. Miss Wilson muddled them up on the whiteboard and we had to put them in the correct order. Then we discussed how many seasons we have in the year and put the months into the correct season. We found out that some months were overlapping two seasons!
Finally, we talked about what the seasons would look and feel like. We used some fantastic describing words.
Winter – snowy, cold, icy
Spring – rainy, wet, sunny
Summer – warm, sunny, cold in Scotland
Autumn – orange and brown, windy, yellow
Then we got a picture of 4 blank trees and we had to show the difference on the trees in each season. We know that in the summer the trees were very green and had flowers and grass at the bottom, and we know that in Winter the trees were very bare and had nothing on them! We created some fantastic pointillism seasonal trees and really enjoyed comparing how they looked.

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This week we have been learning about symmetry in our class. We have learned that symmetry means something is the same on both sides of the mirror line.
All of the boys and girls were very excited to use the mirrors and to try and find symmetrical and non-symmetrical objects.
We have created symmetrical butterflies, symmetrical patterns and tried to create symmetrical eggs. We all really enjoyed learning about symmetry with our buddies also!

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