We now have an engineer’s corner set up in the classroom and are enjoying using  this for both building and designing our own constructions.

This week’s team challenge also involved building as we had to work together to build a bridge for the Three Billy Goats Gruff.  The bridge had to be 50cm wide and be able to carry the weight of the three goats.  As you will see from the photographs, the groups used different construction materials so in some ways the challenge wasn’t very fair! However we have been learning all about being “resilient” in P1c and none of the groups gave up.

This term our topic is The Farm and part of this  has been learning about different animals.  We have particularly enjoyed learning about sheep and were rather surprised to learn that sheep can give us milk!

In RME we read the story of The Lost Sheep and drew some fantastic pictures to show different parts  the story.

We were delighted last week to welcome Mrs Burns (who is a parent of another P1 child at our school) into our class to read us a story.  We are currently taking part in the First Minister’s Reading Challenge and we are trying to read 100 books before the summer holidays!

Mrs Burns read us a story in German and it was all about goats!

As part of the First Minister’s Reading Challenge we all received Reading passports. Each week we complete a review of a book that we have read and give it a star rating. This week’s book was My Big Brother Boris by Liz Pichon.

Here are a few of our reviews.

This term as part of our learning in RME we have been talking about the golden goal “Do be kind and helpful”.  In particular we have been talking about people that who are special to us and how we can be kind and helpful to them.  We have been reading lots of stories about special people and being kind including the story of St Valentine on the 14th of February.

We liked finding how he helped people to get married even though the Emperor had forbidden it and this is why people now send cards and give gifts on St Valentine’s Day. We hope our special people liked our gifts!

One of this month’s team challenges was the Penguin Rescue.   During the challenge we had to  use  our thinking skills and work together to free the penguin from the block of ice.  However we were not allowed to smash the ice on the floor in case the penguin got damaged. As you will see from the photographs we had lots of great ideas. These ranged from everything including blowing, rubbing, and shaking.   And yes all of the penguins were rescued and none of them were damaged!!

We also completed a very different team challenge  –  to make a  farm animals poster.  In this challenge we had to practise our talking and listening skills as well as our thinking skills as we had to make sure that everyone in our team  drew different animals.  Miss McDermott was very impressed because she thought that there might have been a lot of doubles and we proved her wrong!

This week we have been reading the Funnybones stories all about 3 skeletons – a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton.

We have been learning why the skelton is an important part of the body and have been getting quite good at naming some of the different bones including skull, spine, ribs and pelvis.

We  practised our cutting skills to make these super Hallowe’en skeleton decorations which are going to be put up for the party in the hall.

We also enjoyed taking part in a special outdoor team challenge with our P6 buddies to make skeletons using sticks and stones. Everyone had to take part in finding the materials and then building the skeleton.

Here is a link to the Go Noodle “Bones” song that we have been singing and dancing along to in class!

https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/dem-bones-1

Thank you to P7 for organising the super bake sale this morning. P1c enjoyed buying lots of lovely cakes and hopefully we have helped to raise lots of money for charity.