Author: WLCarolyn.Ewart@glow

It’s been a super short week but we have managed to cram lots of fun learning into a short space of time. Here is a little snapshot of one of our learning experiences this week.

One of our learning highlights this week has taken from our focus on a new maths topic  ‘Measure’. We have been exploring all the different things we can measure both inside our classroom and outside in the natural environment. On Wednesday we took our learning outside to find natural resources as units for non standard measure. We had lots of fun experimenting with all the different things we found. Here are some pictures to explain further.

We were lucky enough to have Mrs Anderson teaching us some more yoga this week also. We focused our yoga on one of a favourite texts ‘The Wonky Donkey’. There was lots of stretching and breathing but also an awful lot of giggling!!

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

This has been an exciting week in Primary 1B.

A pleasant Surprise!

On Monday we had a very extraordinary occurrence! After lunch we returned to our classroom to find a very suspicious trail of sparkly green glitter.

We followed the glitter all the way to our library corner, only to find a very burnt and stained rolled up piece of paper. It was such a mystery. We didn’t know what to think. Some of us thought a fairy or a leprechaun had been in our room. Upon reading the letter we found out it was actually from a very sad dragon, who had lost his home ‘Fairy Land’.

We have decided to help this sad dragon and rebuild Fairy Land in our classroom. We wrote some letters to ask Mrs Stewart if that would be ok because it’s going to be quite a big change!!

One of the problems the dragon had was that nobody was reading any Fairy tales anymore. We thought we would help out by reading the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. We decided that Jack definitely needed a beanstalk so we have started to make one alongside some sparkly magic beans because we all know that is how the beanstalk started! We used all sorts of different materials like, paint, collage and crayons, putting our artistic skills to good use. Some of us even added little beasties to the leaves in black pen. We definitely think the dragon will be impressed.

Watch this space for our final result, we think that Jack will be very pleased that he can climb his beanstalk again.

Health and Wellbeing

We were also very lucky this week to have the opportunity to meet Mrs Anderson (who has been delivering online Yoga sessions to us) in person!! Lotus Learn Yoga (her fabulous company) visited our playground on a very sunny Wednesday morning. We took part in a fun, energetic and dramatic yoga session. It was lots of fun and we cannot wait until our next session!

Thank you for reading our blog. This is only a snapshot of our very busy a super packed week in Primary 1B. We are looking forward to a lovely long weekend and hope that the sun shines for us.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

We have had a wonderful and very busy first week back in Primary 1B. It has been lovely to see so many smiling faces and see so many of the children so eager to resume their learning.

Health and Wellbeing

We have begun to explore a new topic this term focusing on ‘Healthy Me’. We started by discussing what the word Healthy meant to us. We drew some pictures of us making our own healthy choices and wrote about what we do to keep our bodies healthy.

The children all had fantastic ways to suggest how to keep our bodies healthy. We are a healthy bunch in Primary 1B.

Kellan – Brush your teeth twice a day.

Leighton – You should eat bananas.

Reuben – You can eat lots of vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes and cauliflower.

Kaleb – We can keep our bodies clean by washing our faces and hands.

Cooper – We get fresh air and exercise.

We read a wonderful story about a very unhealthy wolf called Wilfred who managed to turn his life around to become fitter and healthier.

This story inspired us to pledge to make our own healthy choices. Here are some of our ideas…..

Writing

This week in writing we had a go at writing a ‘recount’ piece of text. This is where we think of an event which has happened and we retell it in our own words. To begin with we kept it simple and wrote about ‘playing’. We talked about a time we had great fun playing and simply wrote about it. Have a look at some examples below, we are very proud of our hard word.

Numeracy

This week we have been working on our subtraction skills. Seeing the weather has been kind to us, we decided to take our learning outside to practise this skill. We had lots of fun making up our own subtraction number stories.

We hope that the sun continues to shine for us next week too. We hope you enjoyed reading our blog.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

What a busy and quick week it has been in Primary 1B. We have had our special Christmas lunch and we would like to say a huge thankyou to the dinner ladies for working so hard to ensure we had a delicious meal.

This week in Literacy we have been learning two new words, ‘go’ and ‘into’ alongside the new sounds ‘l’ and ‘g’. We have  also been writing to Father Christmas to share our Christmas lists with him. We explored how to write a letter and what details we needed to include, like Dear and From.

We have been working hard to develop our reading skills. This week we have been introduced to two different types of reading skills tasks. The first task was called a cloze activity. This is when a word is missing from the text and we need to figure out what the missing words are. Here are some examples of our work.

The second reading task was a fun one! We were given a jumbled up sentence from our reading book. We had to read the sentence and put the words back into the correct order. We could use the clues in our book to help us and knowing where a capital letter and full go really helped us too.

During our yoga session this week we went to the Winter Olympics and were learning to move our bodies around in a safe space. We made different shapes to represent particular winter Olympic events, such as, snow boarding and skiing. I still think that our favourite part of yoga is the sleepy and relaxing savasana at the end! A big thank you goes out to Sonja and Ruth at Lotus Learn Yoga for planning such fun activities for us to complete in the safety of our classroom.

We are looking forward to our final week of term when we can take part in lots of Christmas craft activities and maybe even bring home a few Christmas presents for the adults at home.

Have a lovely cosy weekend everyone.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B.

Health and Wellbeing

This week in health and wellbeing we have been focusing on the word bullying, what it means, what it looks like and what we should do if we ever encounter it ourselves. We discussed that bullying is something which, happens over and over again, is deliberate and can happen when more than one person is doing the bullying. We decided that we would definitely not tolerate any bullies in Primary One and we made up slogans to prevent this from happening. Our class slogan is ‘No Bullies Here’.

We have also continued to focus on recognising our emotions and how we deal with different emotions. We have been drawing portraits of ourselves and how we look when we are feeling a certain way. We discussed strategies to help us and shared ideas of different things we can do when we feel sad or scared. We had some wonderful suggestions, such as, find a friend to talk to or play some music.

Literacy

In literacy this week we have been working hard using the magnetic boards to blend and segment words like, cat, fat, mat. We have learned about word rhyming families and how we can use them to help us to spell these new words.  Our new sounds this week have been e and f. On Thursday we made some fantastic e ‘Elmos’ to decorate our class and to help us recall the shape of the letter as it can be a tricky one to get right!

As we continue to work on developing our persuasive writing skills this week we were giving our opinion on whether we like pets. We wrote 2 sentences,  I like pets. Pets are… and we had to fill in the last part of the sentence with our opinion.

Here are some of our opinions.

Finlay – I like pets. Pets are friendly and are cute.

Jake – I like pets. Pets are cute and cuddly.

Arianna – I like pets. Pets are nice.

Jack – I like pets. Pets are cute.

We continue to enjoy reading our word boost stories. This week’s words are from Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers. These words have definitely been the trickiest so far but we have made a great attempt at remembering their definitions and trying to use them everyday when we are talking. These are the words we have focused on.

Preparations

event

furious

fascinated

Numeracy

We have been exploring different ways to represent teen numbers this week. We have used Numicon, ten frames and made cube towers. We continue to develop our addition skills through making and counting out collections of numbers.

It has been a very busy week in Primary 1B and we are ready for a break at the weekend. Please remember to bring in reading books everyday and a gentle reminder that as a health promoting school children will only be allowed to drink water in class.

Have a fabulous weekend.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

Health and Wellbeing

This week in health and wellbeing we have been focusing on completing activities for children in Need. We are very excited to dress up in colourful spots on Friday! We have been thinking about how we can ‘connect’ with our friends. We discussed all of the different things which make a good friend. We shared with the class examples of how we feel about our friends.

Saatvik – Kaleb runs with me so he is my friend and I like him.

Alfie – Leighton is always kind to me.

Kellan – Saatvik always plays and includes me in his games.

We also have been learning all about why we take part in Children in Need activities. We watched a powerpoint and learned some very interesting facts. Did you know that since Children in Need started it has raised over a billion pounds for children who are less fortunate than ourselves. That’s pretty amazing!We had a chance to decorate our own Pudsey bears with bright and colourful spots.

We were also very, very lucky to have an exciting online yoga lesson from the fabulous yoga teacher Mrs Anderson from Lotus Learn Yoga. We got to meditate at the start wearing our special yoga glasses and then we learned some new super stretchy poses like the cat, cow and the horse. Finally, after all that stretching and breathing we got to have a ‘savasana’ which is when we could lie on our backs and blow out little air bubbles. It was very relaxing and we look forward to taking part in another session again soon.

Literacy

This week as we continue to work on the Persuasive writing genre we have been sharing our opinion on why we like to play. We learned and used the fancy new joining word ‘because’ to explain our opinion and link up our ideas.

Cooper – I like to play because it is fun and I play with Finlay at the park.

Alfie  – I like to play because it is friendly.

Jake – I like to play because it is fun.

This week we wrote ‘I like to play because it is……’. We had some excellent writing examples from all the boys and girls.

Numeracy

This week we have been movie stars during our numeracy time. Mrs Stevenson has been recording us playing our favourite number games. We are very excited to share this learning with you all very soon. Watch this space for our film debut!!

Remembrance Day

This week we celebrated Remembrance day. We discussed all about why we celebrate this day and what the poppy flower means. It was very interesting and we were incredibly respectful during our 2 minute silence on Wednesday. One of our activity stations this week was to create a poppy picture using a printing technique. These are some of our fabulous creations.

To round up our weekly blog I would like to remind parents and carers to continue to send in the red reading folders everyday so we can continue to deliver quality reading experiences for your child.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B