This week we have been very excited because our bean stalks have started to grow. There is lots of excitement around who is going to have the tallest beanstalk. We have even been measuring them so see who is in the lead with the tallest one so far!
In literacy this week, we have been exploring the well known fairy tale of ‘The Three little Pigs’. We had a go at writing the main events of the story in sequence. We have been using our own wow words and listening carefully to all the sounds in the words to help us spell them. We are becoming so much more confident at this skill with all the practise we are getting.
We have been working hard this week with the challenge of ‘We always try our best‘- meaning we never give up even if we find something a little tricky – we have been developing our resilience for learning and life! If a member of staff catches us trying our best (in anything we do!) our name gets added to the ‘Recognition Board’ – it has been very motivating for us to keep going and to focus on always doing the best we possibly can. We love counting how many post-it notes we have at the end of the day.
During one of our busy start session this week, we were working on spelling tricky words. The whole table had their names added to the recognition board for their super efforts in reading and spelling tricky words independently.
We have also taken part in a very exciting STEM challenge where we had to design and build a house for one of the three little pigs. We have been learning all about different types of materials and their properties so we used this learning to help us think about what we would like to use in our task. We worked together as a team to try and create a house strong enough to withstand the huffs and puffs from the big bad wolf! We had lots of fun trying to figure out how to make our houses secure and stable. We definitely learned all about the phrase ‘Trial and Error!’
On Thursday afternoon, there was a strange noise coming from the classroom cupboard. Upon further investigation we discovered that there was a special package for us. The Friendly Dragon had heard about our amazing writing and left us some Castle Books so we could write and tell him about all the wonderful things we have been learning in class.
We very much enjoyed writing to the dragon to tell him what we have been doing.
We hope you enjoyed reading about a little of what we have been learning this week in Primary 1. We will see everyone back in school on Tuesday 25th May – enjoy the long weekend and hopefully some sunshine.
Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B
