October 8, 2015
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This week we began the mummification process of some chicken legs.
First we cleaned the legs, then we covered it in salt (natron) and we have left it for a few weeks for the salt to absorb all the moisture from the legs.
We can’t wait to wrap our chicken leg mummies!
October 7, 2015
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October 6, 2015
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This week we have had an unexpected visitor in P5S. While the children were at P.E. Miss Solomon came across a big spider in our classroom so we decided to put our research skills to the test to work out what sort of spider ‘Steve’ is.
We had a few clues. Miss Solomon found him in the sink, he ran really fast to get away when she tried to put him in his container and he must have been a spider found in the UK. We all had a really good look at him and started researching in our groups using the netbooks.
We learned we had to use our clues to be successful in narrowing down all the spiders in the world to just one and decided that he is probably not a Mexican or New Zealand spider who went for a holiday. In the end it was very close but Nicholas, Molly, Amina, Lleyton and Amy worked it out the fastest.
Steve is a Giant House Spider!
We all shared some fun facts about Giant House Spiders. We learned that boys like Steve leave their webs looking for a girlfriend inside houses and sheds, they can nip you if you pick them up but their venom won’t harm humans, they are one of the fastest running spiders in the world, they appear around Autumn time and they are often found in sinks and baths after they fall in while on their quest.
We know that we need to be careful and not touch or bother spiders. Wwe noticed that Steve was more scared of us than we were of him.
Ethan suggested that we let Steve go so he could keep looking for his girlfriend and we got to see him sprint away!
October 3, 2015
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Another busy week in P1S!
In literacy we have been learning our new sounds f, u and b. We are becoming more confident in making words on our magnetic boards and we are remembering to use our sound boxes to help us. This week we started learning our common words, these are words that we can’t sound out. Miss Stebbing was very happy when we started to find these words in our books. We have been using the mini whiteboards to practise writing our sounds correctly. Here is a link to a game to help us remember how to form the letters correctly.
http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/letterformation.html
In maths we met three new animals in our Number Zoo. Ask us all about Snappy Six, Spotty Seven and Amazing Eight. We all found it a bit of a challenge to write 8 correctly but we know that good learners never give up so we have been writing this number on the whiteboards, the smartboard and even with the little coloured lights!
In art we were looking at different patterns, it was great fun to find patterns inside our shoes, on our jackets, our socks and even on the clothes mums and dads were wearing when we were getting collected at the end of the day! We had a look at home for patterns too and we shared this with the class during carpet time. Miss Stebbing helped us to learn all about repeating patterns. We made our own repeating patterns using the penguins and cubes. We also had to complete some repeating patterns by using pictures of dinosaurs and the characters from Frozen.
Last week we went on a tour of the school and saw all the different areas. We met some of the teachers in the upper area and Mrs Johns was talking to us while we were sitting in the reception area. This week we looked at a bird’s eye view of the school using Google Earth. We noticed that the pictures of Google Earth were old as we couldn’t see the trim track, the hill, the MUGA or the sandpit.
In PE with Mrs Paterson we have been working hard on our throwing and catching skills.
On Thursday we had our first visit to the woodland for some outdoor learning. During this lesson we got a chance to explore the woodland and to learn about the rules for keeping safe. We also had to use leaves and twigs to complete pictures of hedgehogs and owls. We even had our story time outside! Miss Stebbing was very proud of us as we listened well to instructions and made fantastic pictures.
Here are some photographs of our learning experiences this week.
October 2, 2015
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In P5 we have been reading the hilarious book ‘Mr Stink’ by David Walliams. We have read the book, analysed the characters, looked up the ambitious words and thought about the issues of friendship and homelessness raised in the book. Now we are making a dream shed for Mr Stink using materials we have found around the classroom and at home.
Miss Solomon has been so impressed with the way all the children used their problem solving skills, selected materials and worked from their plans to create a deluxe pad for Mr Stink to luxuriate in. Well done P5!
October 2, 2015
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This week we had some visitors who came to see our Woodlands all the way from Australia! We remembered what we learned about our rights and our Mr Stink sheds. Then we showed off our shelter building and cooperative working skills by making little houses using found materials for some woodland creatures!
We found some brambles and had a taste of the sweet and sour berries!
It was a great opportunity for us to use our forest skills and learn some principles and rules that we have to remember when we go into the woods. We had a wonderful time!
September 29, 2015
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In P5 we have been investigating helpful and harmful microorganisms. We decided that Mr Stink has very poor personal hygiene and that he was probably covered in lots of different microorganisms!
We conducted an experiment to test how many microorganisms we have on our hands before and after washing them. We wiped our hands all over bread after playtime, then washed our hands and wiped them on a clean piece of bread. We left the bread in a moist bag and left the microorganisms to grow over a couple of weeks.
The results were quite disgusting! We noticed that there was more microorganisms on the bread we touched with dirty hands and that there were many different types.
P5 did a super job of making a hypothesis, recording their observations and making a conclusion. It was a great start to our scientific enquiry this year!
We will all be washing our hands with hot, soapy water much more regularly!
September 26, 2015
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Hello Parents and Families,
As you will see from the photos below, the children have been learning about 2D shapes recently. They were able to identify squares, circles, squares and rectangles in their classroom environment and enjoyed making each shape using paint, chalk, elastic and straws. Next time they will make a shape house using their cutting skills and patterns using shapes they have cut out.
We have had a noisy classroom of late with making instruments from recyclable materials brought in from home. We had a range from violins to drums. The children were very creative! Our sense of sound was tested to the limits with the loud and quiet sounds we made :-). We moved onto learning about the sense of smell this week. We experienced the smell of honey and orange peel, coffee beans, vinegar and curry powder. We discovered that some people like smells that we do not and vice versa. We also learned how our sense of smell can alert us to danger such as a fire and how a skunk squirts a bad smell when it feels it is being hunted. This made us giggle.
We have been busy making words with the new sounds we have learned and also have been introduced to ‘tricky words’ that we cannot sound out. This week we met ‘the’. We put it in a sentence, wrote it on white boards and formed it using playdough. Next week we will meet ‘I’ and ‘to’.
Now that we are familiar with our classroom, we decided we would take a school tour. The children had to search for different things that we see in school each day and tick them off as we discovered where they were.
September 22, 2015
by Maria Brown
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Hello Parents and Families
We have finally received all of the P1D permission slip letters for photographs. I hope you enjoy this video that was shown on the Parents Information Evening which include photos of some of the learning in P1D so far. All future Blogs will now have photos :-).
September 13, 2015
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Hello Parents and Families,
Another exciting and busy week of learning has taken place in P1D. The children have been actively reading and forming their sounds taught so far. More and more children are taking in words written at home so that we can celebrate their learning further. This week we have been writing a story about our head teacher, Mrs Johns. We had a model to copy over and under and used lolly pop sticks to remind us to make a space between our words. This proved successful. Next time our focus will be finger spaces as well as writing on the line. I know we can do it!
In Maths lessons this week as a follow up to meeting our new Number Zoo character, Butterfly 3, led us to exploring symmetry (as we discovered that butterflies have the same designs and colours on both sides of their body). We enjoyed colouring our own butterflies and cutting them out. Mrs Devlin said they will make a lovely display.
We have continued to learn about our senses with the exploration of touch this week. We put our hand in a magical mysterious box and had to guess what we could feel. We talked about what we like to touch and what we do not and had a look at our finger tips using magnifying glasses. We learned that when God made each of us, he gave us all individual finger prints. Amazing!
On Wednesday the boys and girls looked very smart in their uniforms for their P1 photo that will soon be in the West Lothian Courier newspaper. We wore our prettiest smiles and said, “cheeeeese” as we watched for the little birdie to appear.
On Friday we experienced 2 new things in our classroom. The first was something called ‘Fun Friday’. Fun Friday happens every Friday where the boys and girls have fun playing with the different games Mrs Devlin brings out. It is a way to celebrate the good behaviour during the week. The second thing was called ‘Vertical Groups’. This gives the children the opportunity to experience further learning in other parts of the school, with other teachers and with other children from other stages. Ask your child what Vertical Group they are part of and see if they can remember.
Finally, we had another pupil join our class called Lauren. She is very welcome and is settling in very well. The boys and girls are being very helpful showing her around and playing together.
I look forward to our Parent’s Information Evening this coming Thursday (17th September) where I will get the opportunity to meet with you all and speak to you about the exciting and extensive learning experiences your child will partake in this year.
Photos of the learning experiences in P1D will be entered into the Blog once all parents have completed the permission form for photos to be taken that was in their ‘Welcome Pack’.
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