Yesterday in class we were using our art skills to make our own baby owls.  We used torn up paper to make the owl head and body shape and stuck on eyes, a beak and some feet.  They are so cute and we can’t wait to put them up on our owl babies display!

In maths we had a go at number talks.  This is where we look at a problem/question and have a think about what we think the answer is.  We then share our answers and talk about how we worked it out so that we can find the most efficient strategies.  There are some hand signals that go along with number talks and we are looking forward to using these again next week.  The hand signals mean I am thinking, I have a strategy and I agree!  Can your child show you the correct hand signals?

Last Friday, P1b were awarded ‘Sammy the Sloth’ which is a reward for being the class who brought in the most healthy snacks during the week.  Well done boys and girls!

Last week P1/2 enjoyed an exciting eco week.  On Monday, we learned all about worms! We had Joanne visit us with her wormery.  We found out that worms are good at recycling and they even make compost.  We enjoyed working in groups to create the life cycle of a caterpillar before our trip to see ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ later in the week.

We also learnt about the 3Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and even designed some new bag ideas for ASDA!

On Thursday, we went to see the performance of ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ and it was amazing!  Mrs Lloyd was very impressed and we all thoroughly enjoyed our trip and represented Bankton Primary really well!

On Friday, we performed our P1 assembly to our families and spoke with confidence and with our big loud, clear voices.  We shared lots of our learning that we have done this year and look forward to telling the nursery children and their parents about this on Wednesday!

On Monday we had a great start to health week.  We started the day taking part in some multisports activities and had fun practising our steps up, dribbling, throwing and rolling.  It was really fun!

We also enjoyed a visit from Lisa from Childsmile.  She brought along Dexter the Dragon to help teach us about how to brush our teeth properly.  We all got to have a turn of brushing Dexter’s teeth and know how important it is to brush our teeth twice a day.

In the afternoon, we discussed healthy and unhealthy foods and completed the healthy lunchbox competition and today we found out Caleb was the P1/2 winner!  Well done!

On Tuesday, we learned about how to save a life and what to do in an emergency.  It was really good fun and we also learned that we should all be able to say our addresses incase we ever need to tell someone.  Can you tell someone your address?

We also learned about the importance of sleep and good bedtime routines.  We learned about how much sleep lots of different animals and people need and about what we can do to make sure we have a good sleep.

Mrs Sinclair took us to learn about yoga.  We all took part in some hungry caterpillar yoga and loved it!

On Tuesday and Friday morning Miss Dyet led our ‘Shake and Wake’ which was really good fun.  Even mums, dads, brothers, sisters and grandparents were allowed to take part!  It woke us all up in the morning!

Finally, today we went for a lovely ‘Daily Mile’ walk around Dedridge pond and some of our parents even joined us too!  It was a great health week!

Last week in maths we were busy practising counting in 2s.  We used magnetic numbers, cubes, lego and much more to help us to do this.  Mrs Lloyd is impressed with how we are doing!

We also practised using positional language to give directions.  We went outside to the playground and Mrs Lloyd pretended we were robots and programmed us to move and follow her directions!

On Tuesday, we welcomed parents in to see the super work that we have been doing in maths during our last PATPAL event of the session.  We were the teachers and were teaching all the parents and grandparents!  Thanks to everyone who was able to come along and join us.  It was so much fun!

In our topic work, we were learning about the different parts of a pirate ship. We used our cutting and sticking skills to label a picture.  We are getting really good at remembering the different parts.

Finally, we were developing our ICT skills and used a computer programme called Clicker 6 to turn ourselves into pirates! Only a few of us have had a go so far but everyone will get a turn!

Primary 1/2 have been working very hard this week.  In maths, we learned about greater than, less than and equal to and used lolly sticks to make these symbols.

We also practised talking about 2D and 3D shapes.  We talked about the sides, corners and faces and even felt the shapes in a feely bag and described them to our friends to see if they could guess the shape we were feeling!

As part of our technology work, we planned and designed a raft with our partner to help save Captain Blackbeard and help him get back to his ship.  We used the results of our science investigation into which materials could float or sink to help us choose suitable materials to make the raft with.  It was really fun!

Thanks again to Olivia’s gran who gave up her own time again this week to come in to read us some stories.  The boys and girls always enjoy this and appreciate you coming in to work with us.

P1/2 have done themselves proud this week as they were able to talk to our special visitors about their learning with great confidence.

In maths, we worked on finding lots of different ways to make 10.  We used rekenreks, cubes, bead strings, numicon and much more!

We have also been learning how to read and set half past times on analogue clocks.   This has been tricky but we will practise this again next week and will remember that our marvellous mistakes help us learn!  We particularly enjoyed designing and making our own watches with our brilliant parent helper Ms Graham.  Thank You!

During our reading routes work this week we used our question words to make up questions that would help us to find out more about pirate ships.  We came up with some really good questions to help us learn even more!

We were astonished when we received a message from Captain Blackbeard asking for our help! He wants us to make a raft to help him to get back to his ship so we wrote back to say we will help him.

As we continue to work through our pirate topic, we had fun again out in the structured play area.  We enjoyed dressing up as pirates, playing with the small pirate ships, hunting for tricky word treasure, building a pirate ship/treasure chest with the lego and lots more!

Thanks also to Chloe’s gran who came in to read to the boys and girls again this week.  We love having your in our classroom.

Finally, we enjoyed the lovely weather yesterday by spending lots of time practising our co-operation and kindness values as we played and helped each other outside. It was so much fun!

We played on the new trim trail.

We enjoyed starting our Bankton marathon and completed our first half mile!

We had fun on the tyre park.

We also enjoyed reading in the sun with the new comfy cushions!  It was the best day ever!

Keep up the good work!