We were learning all about rounds in our singing practice today.
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Welcome Back Primary 1/2
Welcome back to term 4 of our school year. I hope you all had a lovely Easter holiday and didn’t eat too many chocolate eggs from the Easter Bunny, like I did! oops!! I’d better get logged onto Joe wicks everyday at 9am!
I hope everybody had a go at Mrs Stewart’s Easter STEM challenge this morning, I can’t wait to see all of your creations, you can email any pictures you have into the school email address.
You should now be onto week 3 of your home learning packs this week but as usual I will be posting additional activities on here on a daily basis.
Science/ Talking and Listening
With the appearance of the sunshine at long last, we have well and truly entered into the season of Spring. Spring officially starts on March 1st and runs until April 31st, although it’s been so cold lately that it’s only now that it’s beginning to feel like Spring to me. Today, on your daily exercise, or if you’ve already been out to stretch your legs go into your garden or open the window, I would like you to think about Spring and what happens during this season of the year.
Here are some key questions to discuss with an adult whilst on your ‘Spring Walk’.
What changes do you notice from the previous season (Winter)?
What do you notice about the trees, grass, flowers, fields…etc?
What sounds can you hear as you walk?
Look up! what can you see in the sky?
Look down! What can you see on the ground?
How does this season make you feel?
What can you smell in the air?
What is your favourite thing about Spring?
What foods do you like to eat during Spring?
What type of clothes do you wear?
What different activities do you do during this season and how are they different to other seasons like winter?
Once you have been on your walk, take a look at this short clip from the BBC outlining some of the changes in behaviour of plants, animals and the natural environment during the season of spring.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/science-ks1-ks2-seasonal-changes-behaviour-animals-growth-cycle-plants/zfynvk7
Music/Art and Design
Here is a link to one of my most favourite ‘Fischy Music’ songs. Primary 2’s you might remember this one from last year. Have a listen… can you join in with the words and even come up with some actions.
https://youtu.be/TKEwyLCKLwI
Can you make your own spring chick? A really easy but effective technique is using a fork and some yellow paint. I might even try this today with my little boy, although I think it might have to be a blue chicken as we’re all out of yellow paint, if you can use real life colours that would be great but don’t worry if you are low on resources like me! I will post a picture tomorrow to show you how we get on!
Good luck with all the tasks for today. I will be back tomorrow with some more activities for you all. Enjoy the sunshine.
Primary 2/1 Weekly News
First of all thank you to all the parents and carers who attended last Friday’s Scottish assembly. We very much value all of your support.
Let’s start off our blog this week with a Homework Superstar. This wonderful model of Edinburgh Castle has been created with such attention to detail that all of Primary 2/1 think it deserves pride of place at the start of our blog. There are so many wonderful details which reflect all of our fabulous learning, from stained glass windows, the Scottish Thistle to Mons Meg the famous cannon! I think you will all agree that it is simply fantastic!
We have had an incredibly busy week in Primary 2/1 with all of our continued learning surrounding Scotland and our little friend Hamish. This week we got our thinking caps on and wanted to send Hamish off on another adventure. We all used our imaginations to think of places in the world that Hamish might like to visit.
Robyn wanted Hamish to visit Disneyland.
Ethan wanted him to visit the cinema to see Toy story.
Kayden wanted him to visit Legoland.
Here are some examples of our wonderful work. We are really getting to grips with writing extended sentences using full stops, capital letters and finger spaces and also being able to sound out the trickier words all by ourselves.
We have been working on a few new sounds, h, g and v. The boys and girls are all very eager to lead our learning when we are focusing on a new sound. We take it in turns to stand up beside the smart board and sound out each letter to help each other blend them together to make a word.
In maths we have been learning to tell the time to the hour and half past. Mrs Stevenson set us a challenge to make our own clocks to use. We worked together to position each numeral in the right place and to arrange the minute and hour hand correctly. We then had to change the hands to reflect the time which was called out.
Euan was happy with this activity because he took turns with his team mates, everyone having a go at writing the numbers and changing the time.
We then had a go at playing a whole class Time bingo game, it got quite competitive in the end, but it helped us to read the time with more accuracy and speed!
Robyn loved this game because everyone took turns.
This week we have also been busy applying our artistic skills. Lennon articulately shared the story behind the Thistle becoming Scotland’s national emblem. We had a go at creating our own thistles using chalk and a picture on the smart board as a stimulus. The end result looks fantastic and they are now proudly displayed on our classroom wall.
Elkie said that she loved her thistle once she had made it.
Ashley commented that she loved hers too and felt proud of her work.
Keeping with the same theme, we tried our hand at weaving to create a mini kilt effect. It was super tricky and really required us to use our fine motor skills and concentration. We really enjoyed the challenge and found that it was actually not that difficult. Some of us even created a pattern with the colours.
Sai found this task very very hard, but in the end he did a great job! Well done Sai!
Lastly, we have enjoyed joining in with Primary 1 this week to take part in some Health and Wellbeing and some emotional literacy. We have been discussing ‘Success’ and what it looks and feels like. We all happily shared our own successes with each other and talked about how we can reflect this in the classroom. One of the main messages that came across was that we should never give up! We watched the story of Robert the Bruce and the spider who kept trying to build her web, it took her 7 attempts! It really made us think about when we find something tricky we should keep going and see it as a challenge! We then moved on to learn the Fischy Music song ‘Encouragement’ we enjoyed singing along and performing the actions. We were able to suggest ways in which we can support or encourage our own friends in the classroom.
P3 enjoy music
We’ve been learning about different instruments in music this week. We were listening to Peter and the Wolf, and while we were listening we were trying to identify the different instruments. We had the opportunity to handle a flute, a clarinet, a violin and a drum in class. We made a lot of noise with the drum. It was funny to feel the violin when it was making a note as it vibrated.
