Last week in P1, we were learning about weight. We were sorting items into light and heavy and were using balance scales to find out which items were heavier, lighter and which ones were the same. Here are some photos of the children in action!
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Science Week
As this week is science week, P1 have been busy learning about floating and sinking. We devised a floating and sinking experiment using a variety of fruits and predicted whether the different fruits would float or sink. Yesterday, we carried out our experiment and recorded our results. Harvey thought the experiment was amazing while Izaak found the results really puzzling!
Outdoor Maths!
Mrs Lloyd’s maths group had fun in the sun last week when we were using the outdoor area to work on our counting in twos. The children were split up into four groups and rotated around a variety of activities to practise their skills in counting on in twos. One group, used the big number lines to jump forward and backwards in twos, another group painted numbers with water and counted on, another group used chalk to practise jumping in twos and the last group enjoyed a seat at the picnic table with their whiteboards and showed off how good they were at counting in twos. Good work everyone!!
Sunshine Maths!
Mrs Lloyd’s maths group had fun in the sun today when we were outside counting in 2’s, getting into groups to show either an odd or an even number, running to the correct side of the playground when either an odd or an even number was called and using the natural environment to collect and find groups of objects and deciding if they had collected an odd or an even number. It was a lovely morning and made maths even more fun!!
What’s the Time P1a?
Over the past two weeks, Miss Hewit has been teaching the class about telling the time on analogue clocks. She has been concentrating on o’clock times and has been very impressed with how well the children are doing both with reading the times and setting the hands on the clocks to show a variety of o’clock times. Today the children played some time games on the laptops and smartboard and were even making their own paper plate clock. Here are some photos of the children in action! Well done everyone.
Dobbies Visit P1a
Today, we were very lucky to be visitied by Laura from Dobbies. She taught us lots of different things about plants and berries and even brought in some blueberries and raspberries for us to taste – they were yummy! After our tasting, she let us plant a broad bean which we were allowed to take home. We need to make sure we put our bean somewhere where it will gets lots of sunlight and need to remember to water it regularly. It would be great to have some photos of the beans sent in as they are growing. I wonder whose bean will grow the tallest? The competition is on!!!
Vowel House in P1a
P1a really impressed Mrs Lloyd today with their fabulous vowel house work. The children worked independently at a number of different stations while Mrs Lloyd worked with small groups to play the Swap vowel house game. The independent activities included playing vowel house bingo, reading tricky words, playing vowel sounds games on the laptops, using the big interactive vowel house on the wall, matching sounds and words to the correct positions on the vowel house and drawing the vowel house on the big paper (as suggested by Josh). Try asking your child to tell you all the sounds in the vowel house and the vowel house story – I bet you will be impressed! These sounds are helping us with our reading and writing work. Here are some pictures of us in action!
The Big Bad Wolf Arrived in P1a!
This week, P1a worked hard to finish their technology projects. Their target was to plan, design and then build a house for one of the three little pigs which would withstand the big bad wolf (aka Mrs Lloyd with a hairdryer) huffing and puffing to blow it down. After predicting which houses would stay standing and which would fall we tested them out and noted down the results. The big bad wolf was getting more and more annoyed as she only managed to blow down one house! Lots of good teamwork and problem solving skills have developed over the course of the project and the children should be proud of their work throughout the whole process. Here are some pictures which show the finished houses and us testing them out!
Meteorite Master!
Last week to celebrate the solar eclipse, Sarah brought in a meteorite from home to share with the whole class. She was very confident standing up in front of the class where she enjoyed telling the class how old the meteorite was and pointing out that it was much older than her dad! Sarah passed it round and let everyone have a hold before showing us some pictures from her meteorite book. She did such a good job telling us all about it that we thought she should go through and impress Mrs Thomson and P1/2. Thank you for teaching us all about meteorites Sarah – you did a great job!
Reading Skills in P1a
This week, the children in P1a have again been using their teamwork skills. The children worked in groups after we all read a text about butterflies. They then had to work together in their groups to form a question which would help them to better understand the text. We discussed question words and the children really impressed me with their fantastic questions, examples of which included:
- What do butterflies like to eat?
- Where can you find butterflies?
- How do butterflies hatch?
- Who nurtures the butterflies?
Here are some photos of the children co-operating in their groups. Well done P1a, you worked hard together to think of quality questions!
