This week’s learning in P1a – 26 January

It has been another very busy week in P1a!

This week as part of our  health and wellbeing curriculum we learned all about germs and the importance of washing our hands properly.  Here is the video we watched and discussed in class – it’s got quite a catchy little song at the end too!

We practised washing our hands and singing the song  and now that we are “germbusters” hopefully we will all stay healthy.

Well done to the boys and girls who sang the handwashing song as they washed their hands!

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This week’s team challenge had a winter theme,  At nursery,  we had learned how water changed into ice when the temperature was really cold.  Our challenge was to free a little dolphin from a block of ice without damaging it.  We were not allowed to smash or chip the ice but we had lots of other good ideas as you will see from the photos.  It was not quite as easy as we first thought!

And here is the winning team!

This term in PE we are practising throwing and catching.  Our PE day is now Wednesday, however over the next 2 weeks we may need to use some of our hall time to practise for our assembly.  Miss McDermott was very impressed with our throwing and catching skills already! If the weather is not too cold or wet we can hopefully practise this outside too.

We have been learning all about Scotland this week and have enjoyed lots of Scots stories, poems and songs.  We made  Saltire flags for our special Scottish celebration on Thursday.

 

 

P1a Scottish Celebrations – 25th January

This afternoon we got dressed up in tartan and held our very own special Scottish celebration.  We have learned how Scottish people all over the world remember Robert Burns today by holding Burns suppers. So we did something rather similar!  We had lots of Scottish music, Miss McDermott read the Selkirk Grace, Mrs Ritchie read the toast to the haggis (crisps) and we even had written our own toasts to the laddies and lassies! After our haggis crisps and shortbread snack we had lots of dancing which you can see on the video clips! Happy Burns Day everyone!

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This week in P1a!

This week in P1a we have been learning about staying safe near electricity.  We made posters to show things that you plug in to the mains and things that use batteries and then we talked about staying safe.  We looked at a special safety website and tried to spot all the things that might be dangerous in the different rooms of the house – here is the link so that you can have a look too.

http://www.switchedonkids.org.uk/

As well as learning about money in maths we are still practising addition.  We are getting so good that we are now doing mental maths and playing bingo using the whiteboards.  The prize is a dojo point and getting to do the funky chicken!

Wednesday is our day for visiting the school library so we were very excited to finally go and do this.  We need to try hard and remember to bring the books back next Wednesday so that we can choose a different one.

You might have read on last week’s blog that we are learning all about emotions and feeling this term.  Our first team challenge of 2018 was to make posters with faces showing different emotions and here are the results…

P4 Electrical Engineers

This week in P4 we have been learning about Electricity and creating our own circuits.

We found out about James Bowman Lindsay (1799-1862). A Scottish Scientist who was said to be one of the earlier inventors of the incandescent lamp.

Here we are creating our own circuits to light our lamps and trying to match electrical symbols to their names. Did you know that electrical symbols are universal symbols, recognised Worldwide?

 

Hats off to P1a!

Before Christmas we read a story all about Kipper trying on different hats and Miss McDermott brought in lots of different hats for us to try on. We then drew pictures of ourselves wearing the hats and wrote a sentence about the hat we liked best.

However with all the excitement of Christmas Miss McDermott forgot that she had taken all these lovely photos …

So here they are!

And here is just some of our super writing and pictures!

Happy New Year from P1a!

Miss McDermott and Mrs Smith were delighted to see P1a back safely after the holidays and as ever we have had a busy week!

This term in maths as well as continuing our number work we are also learning about recognising and using money.  We have been talking about how grown ups often use debit cards as opposed to cash so we made our own debit cards for using with our Chip and Pin machine (which was kindly donated by Present Time in Bathgate!) We have been sorting coins and playing lots of games as well trying to make different amounts of money.  This is quite tricky and something we will need to keep practising!

In health and wellbeing our focus for this term is emotions.  We enjoyed listening to a story about Betty and the Yeti and discussing how the Yeti felt and why.  All the classes  in school are learning about the emotions “cogs” and in P1 we are learning about three cogs  in particular.  These are

  • emotion words
  • triggers
  • body sensations

You can see the cogs on our posters which will be in our profiles when we bring them home at the end of January.