Here is the last story for this week with another little appearance by Tufty!
Maybe you could leave me a message today  telling which story you liked best It would be lovely to hear from you even if you’re not in my class and I promise I will send you a message back!
Best wishes everyone and thank you all for watching and listening.
Miss McD 😺
I hope you enjoy listening to and watching today’s story which has another swimming theme to help P2 and P2/1 with ideas for this week’s writing.
https://vimeo.com/400743527
Miss McDermott
This is a short animated story to help explain very simply about social distancing.
Please click below for the story.
Click on the link to today’s story which also includes a little reminder about story writing targets.
Miss McDermott
Below is the link to today’s story. My apologies for the minor interruption by Tufty – I’m not sure if she was enjoying the story or just wanted to be on the video!
https://vimeo.com/399991340
Miss McDermott
Here is the link to our first Story Time from Home. Â I hope you enjoy watching and listening.
Miss Mc Dermott
https://vimeo.com/398974366
It may be the end of our last week together as P1c, but this afternoon we enjoyed sharing our many talents – telling jokes, magic tricks, singing and of course dancing!
We have been reading and listening to  the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
As part of our science learning  we also read a book about how beanstalks grow.
We each planted our own beanstalks seeds as you can see in the photographs.
And we have been amazed at how quickly they have grown!
As part of our social studies learning about people in the past, yesterday we visited Blackness Castle. We have been learning about how people in the past lived differently so we enjoyed a tour of the castle and also handling some ancient artefacts.
The weather was lovely so we also enjoyed eating our lunch outside!
As a surprise end to our day there was great excitement when Richard from Historic Scotland, knighted us – Lords and Ladies of Blackness!
A big thank you to our parent helpers ( Sophia’s dad and Lewis’s mum!)  and Mrs Smith for coming along to help us – we hope you enjoyed your day too!
Miss McDermott and Mrs Smith were delighted to see us all back safely for our last term together as P1c. We also welcomed 2 new children to our class and we hope that they enjoy learning and taking part in all the super activities at Linlithgow Primary School with us.
This term one of our topics is Fairy Tales and Traditional Stories and we have started this by reading a rhyming and lift the flap story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Unfortunately as you know, Goldilocks is rather naughty in the story so we made and displayed some WANTED posters.
Our first team challenge this term was based on the book “A Chair for Baby Bear”.
We worked in teams of 3 to design and build new chairs for our own baby bear using different construction materials. We had to make sure that he would fit comfortably on the chair and that the chair would not fall over. As you will see from the photographs most of the groups came up with fantastic designs to complete the challenge.
Our second team challenge was to retell the Goldilocks story using puppets and trying to use “character voices”. First of all we made the stick puppets and then decided who would be each character. This was quite tricky as there were 4 characters and only 3 of us in each group. Miss McDermott was very pleased as she did not need to help any of the groups to sort this out! We then had some practice time before we performed our puppet shows to each other. There was much laughter at our different “bear” voices!
We have also enjoyed reading the story “Who’s Been Eating My Porridge?” by Nick Ward which includes a very strange porridge monster and a porridge party.
So we decided to end the week by having our very own porridge tasting party, helped of course by Mrs Smith! We all tried some plain porridge and some sweet porridge to see which one we liked best. Some of us however, didn’t like any of them (as you might be able to tell from our faces!!) but we did try them which was the important thing.
Despite the poor weather in the last week of term, we were still able to get outside and take part in some Easter egg and spoon races.
Back in the classroom we have enjoyed combining some spring crafts along with our farm topic.
You may know that we have been particularly interested in goats after reading a story on the BBC news website. You can read the story too by clicking on the link.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47535311
We tasted some Welsh goat’s cheese on crackers for snack. Most of us quite enjoyed it!
As part of British Science Week we have been revisiting our learning about engineers. We love to build things but this week we have also been learning about designing things too.
Along with lots of other classes in school we are taking part in the Primary Engineers competition which is quite tricky for P1! We have been reading lots of robot stories to help us get some ideas for designing and making our own robots and also thinking about jobs that robots could do to help people.
We worked with a partner to make our robots and could choose whether to use construction materials or junk. Everyone’s model had to include a “button” to turn it on and off!
We drew pictures of our robots and labelled them for the competition. We also had to write a sentence explaining what our robot could do. Here are just a few of them.
Sophia’s mum came into class to tell us all about her job as a civil engineer.  We enjoyed looking at the fantastic photos of the Queensferry Crossing as it was being built and also seeing some real engineers’ plans. We asked lots of questions.
Thank you very much to Sophia’s mum for leaving her special Health and Safety clothing for us to try on too!
As part of our Percy the Park Keeper topic we had been learning about foxes and lots of the stories we have read recently have included foxes too. We have learned that foxes can jump up to 3m. We made these super fox masks and went out into the playground to see if we could jump 3m and had great fun trying – as you can see!
As part of Fair Trade Fortnight we had a visitor from Linlithgow Fair Trade group who told us all about different fair trade products.
This week our team challenge was to work together to create a puppet show telling the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. We had to decide who would be each of the characters and some people had to be 2 characters. We only had 10 minutes to practise before we performed to the rest of the class. Some of us were fantastic at speaking in “troll voices”!
On Thursday it was World Book Day and we enjoyed sharing stories with our P6 buddies. Some of us went upstairs to the P6 classrooms (that’s why there aren’t photos of everyone!) We also started our First Minister’s Reading Challenge – more information to follow soon!
This afternoon we read the story Charlie Crow in the Snow by Paula Metcalf. We learned that some birds like swallows fly away to warmer countries in the winter and some birds like Charlie stay at home in Scotland.
As you will see from the photographs we then took part in three different bird themed activities. One of these was a challenge to work with a partner to build a bird house that could stand up without support . After many attempts, some of the results were very impressive indeed!
We also made model birds using plasticine and craft materials. Some of the girls helped Miss McDermott to prepare the resources and practised counting in 2s at the same time.
Mrs Smith helped us to make bird feeders for our gardens so that birds like Charlie won’t go hungry in the winter. Some of us were not overly keen on this activity as you can see by our faces and we certainly didn’t want to eat them!!
PS
Apologies for some of the rather blurry pictures today – it seems the camera lens had some bird food mixture on it!
This week we have been listening to lots of Scottish stories and talking about Scots words. We learned that Robert Burns was famous for writing Scots songs and poems and today we celebrated his birthday by having our own Burns Supper in class.
This included toasts to the laddies and lassies which we had written ourselves and a toast to the haggis (crisps!) read by Mrs Smith. We enjoyed our Scottish snacks which also included shortbread and tablet that Mrs Smith had kindly made for us. As you will see from the photographs there was lots of dancing to Scottish music! At our Scottish assembly we sang Heid, Shooders, Knaps an Taes – not a traditional Scots song but a nice way to end our special Scottish morning!
