Today, we learned about the Good Samaritan. We learned that a ‘Good Samaritan’ is someone who is kind and unselfish towards others. We thought about different ways we could do this.
Jacob thinks we could be Good Samaritans by helping people who are injured. Zander told us that he helped his friend in the playground when he fell over.
James thought we could be a Good Samaritan by giving people money, so we discussed how we can do this (by donating to charity).
Emily thinks we can be a Good Samaritan by helping out at home.
Our target for the next week is to make sure we are a Good Samaritan at least once a day.
Thank you to all the parents who came to our Open Morning today! We hope you enjoyed finding out what we have learned this week and enjoyed doing some space activities with us.
Today we learned lots of facts about the sun. We already knew that the sun is a star, and today we learned that stars are big burning balls of gas! We learned that the sun is the biggest thing in our solar system and looks so big because it is much closer to Earth than other stars. We learned that you could fit Earth inside the sun one million times!
We also learned a bit more about the other planets in our solar system. We looked at the order of the planets, their names, size and colour. We enjoyed listening to some solar system songs on YouTube! We then painted the planets for our walk display.
We are looking forward to showing and telling you everything we have learned tomorrow morning at the open morning!
Painting the planets
Practising our fine motor skills with some space colouring
Practising our fine motor skills with some space colouring
This morning, Cosmos Planetarium visited the school. We had an amazing morning exploring the sun, moon and stars. We were taken on a journey into space, landed on the moon and looked at what space travel might look like in the future. We also took part in a rocket launch with Tim Peake! It was very exciting.
We then made some of our own rockets with our table partners, using the junk that was sent in from home (thank you to those who sent in junk!). We made lots of interesting rockets with lots of detail! We can’t wait for you to see them on Thursday at the open morning!
After break, we did some writing and made our own Space Passports, in case we ever need to go into space.
We enjoyed some time in the shared area today, making rockets with the construction blocks and pretending we were on a space mission on the climbing frame. We enjoyed reading some books about space and drew some pictures about what we learned.
After lunch, we learned about constellations. James knew that these are groups of stars that make a pattern or picture. We looked at some of the constellations in our sky and then made our own, which you can see on Thursday too!
This week is Science Week, and P1 are learning about space, in particular the sun, moon and stars.
Today we started our science week by thinking about what science is. Lexie knew that science involves experimenting, and lots of us knew that people who do science are called scientists. This week, we are going to be scientists!
We then thought about our science topic of space and brainstormed all the things we already know. Mason knew the names of lots of the planets. We knew that the sun is very hot and we can see it during the day, and that we see the moon and stars at night. James knew that the moon is made of rock (not cheese!) and that the sun is a star. We then worked in pairs to make a picture about space and shared these with the rest of the class.
This afternoon, we learned about the sun, earth and moon. We now know that the sun doesn’t move- it is actually the earth that spins (once per day) and that when we are facing the sun, it is daytime and when we are not facing the sun, it is night time. We also learned that the moon or it’s the earth – that means it goes around earth. We then did some art relating to this topic, which you will be able to see at our open morning on Thursday.
Today, the Primary 1 boys and girls from Stoneyburn came to our school to further our learning on litter and recycling. We started the day by having some free choice play in the classroom and shared area and got to know each other again. After break, we watched a programme about how bin lorries work and how paper is recycled and turned into newspapers. We then split into 2 groups and created Recycling Superheros to encourage people to recycle their waste. We planned our superheros first, thinking about the colour of their outfit, cape and mask then thought about logos for the front of our their outfits, thinking about what would encourage people to recycle. We thought that the green recycling arrows would be good, or a capital R for Recycle. We had great fun drawing then painting our Superheros and enjoyed getting to know the children from Stoneyburn.
On Wednesday, Rongrong came to visit us and told us all about Chinese New Year. We know that Chinese New Year is at a different time of the year to our New Year.
The Chinese Years have a different animal each year. 2018 is the year of the dog.
We made Chinese Lanterns and New Year cards. We did some Chinese writing.
The boys and girls who go to nurture shared their Chinese dragons with us and we danced to some Chinese music.
Thank you to all the parents and family members who helped us learn our lines for assembly, and thank you to those who came along to see us perform on Monday! We hope you have all made New Years Resolutions just like we have!
This morning we had our first assembly of the year. We welcomed some new members of staff and children. We sang ‘Welcome Everybody’.
We spoke about children’s rights, in particular, Article no. 19 – “You have the right to be protected from being hurt and mistreated, in body and in mind”. We discussed what this means – being kind, caring and respectful to others and using safe and gentle hands.
We reminded ourselves of our Key People, who can help us if we are feeling upset or need help with something.
We were sharing our learning with the school. Emily and Jacob showed their paintings of the four seasons and explained the differences between the trees. They also joined in with the nursery’s story “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”.
Well done to our certificate winner, Daniel, for being a Successful Learner for his wonderful writing.
