Another fun-filled week in Primary 1!

This week started off with our interval training challenge where a Commonwealth gymnastic came in and spoke to us all and we took part in a sponsored fitness challenge.  We all tried hard and found it very tiring!

Maths work this week focussed on subtraction.  We remembered that the biggest number always has to go first in a subtraction sum and that number lines are good for helping us to jump back and work out the answers!

The sunshine has made us all happy this week and we voted for an outdoor story in the sun.  We read ‘The Night Pirates’ and enjoyed the story very much!

Out topic work this week involved us in designing pirate treasure maps.  To help us do this we looked at some examples before working in small teams across Primary 1 to try out some ideas with chalks in the playground.  It was really fun!

In our Reading Routes groups we explored fiction and non-fiction texts and sorted out books under these two headings.  We had to work together in our groups to do this and looked for clues in the books to help us decide which was which!

Finally, we enjoyed our structured play this time when we worked in carousel groups to role-play being pirates and to explore different materials to see if they float or sink.  We needed to do this as we have received a letter from Captain Blackbeard who is stuck on a desert island and he has asked us to help him build a raft to help him.  We are going to work with a partner next week to plan and build our rafts.  We wrote to Captain Blackbeard to let him know that we will help him.  We are going to contact him via a letter in a bottle!