Today we have been learning about healthy food.

We had to say what we could have for a healthy dinner then we had to design a meal!  We drew broccoli, tomatoes, chicken, beef, potatoes and lots of other food which is healthy.

We also made chicken and ham wraps for our picnic tomorrow.  We spoke about the different things we need to do before preparing food such as washing our hands, tying back long hair and keeping our hands away from our mouths (and noses!).

We learned how to spread butter using a knife and how to safely cut our wraps into smaller pieces.

We have stored them in the fridge to keep fresh for tomorrow and  are looking forward to eating them all.

Today, we took part in ‘Relax Kids’ with Sharon.  She took us through 7 steps to help us relax and feel chilled out.  The 7 steps were:

1. Move – to get our bodies warmed up.
2. Play –  we played a game to help us get ready
3. Stretch – this helps up to be more flexible.
4. Feel – we massaged a partner (with their permission) or on our own bodies. Massage helps us to recognise kindness, empathy, positive touch.
5. Breathe – to help us have clear minds so that we can relax. We used a feather to help us control our breathing.
6. Believe – we spoke about one thing that we love and this helped us to feel confident and happy.
7. Relax – we lay quietly under a cosy blanket and listened to a relaxing meditation story.

It was great fun and many of us enjoyed the relax step the best.

Some of us enjoyed it so much that we almost fell asleep!

This week we are having a big focus on keeping healthy.

Yesterday the Fire Service came out to visit.  We got to look around the fire engine and speak to the fire fighters.

We enjoyed a bit of golf in the afternoon!  It was good fun!

Today,  we took part in the P7 Soccer Aid football challenge.  It was great fun and we all enjoyed it.  Thank you to P7 for organising it!

Last but not least, a big ‘well done’ to David who won our Healthy Homework challenge!

Keep checking back for more photos during our Health focus weeks.

P2/1

What a busy week in P2/1!

We have had a big focus on health and Eco this week as well as all of the other learning we do each each day.  In health we have been learning how to keep ourselves healthy by being active, eating or drinking 5 portions of fruit/veg each day, drinking enough each day and finding out why breakfast is so important to start the day.

We looked at how much sugar were in drinks and were surprised by what we found out!

We also took part in the Daily Mile each day and lots of Go Noodle during the day to keep us moving about!

We have also been learning about recycling.  We had to match up the different things that people throw out to the different recycling bins.  We looked at pictures of what might happen to our planet if we don’t recycle.  It was sad.

We took part in a recycling fashion show. We worked together in teams to make a costume for two of our classmates and Mrs Mackie!

Next week we will be taking part in lots of different activities which can help to keep us fit and healthy, including Golf, Soccer Aid (remember your donations) and Relax Kids!

Keep checking for more updates on our learning!

This afternoon in P2/1 we were exploring our sense of touch.  We have already had the opportunity to feel different textures with our hands to see if the were rough, smooth, hard, soft or bumpy.

So today we were finding out if we could sense a touch without using our fingertips.  We discovered that he can feel a touch on different parts of our bodies.  We learned that some body parts are more sensitive than others.

You can find out more about our learning later on this week.

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Hi all,

It has been such a busy few weeks in Primary 1 that we haven’t had a chance to update you all with all the fun and learning we have had!

We have been looking at our sounds “igh” “oi” and “ou” and working on doing lots of blending to help us read and write.  The boys and girls have been working really hard on their blending and it is coming across in their reading and writing lessons! 😀

We have also been working on jumbled up sentences so we have an understanding on sentence structure and use our blending skills to read!

We have been looking at ensuring we are remembering our capital letters, full stops

and finger spaces a LOT the last few weeks as we are nearly Primary 2 so we should be really good at remembering them in our writing! We are having more fun with writing now because of our super “mighty writer” mat where we can create our own imaginative (silly/funny) stories!  We have had so many funny and silly stories over the last few weeks like dinosaurs flying on a plane and Aliens eating banana cake etc.  Using the mighty writer mat has improved our understanding of adjectives and verbs, along with our word boost!  The boys and girls are trying really hard to write WOW adjectives instead of words like happy, sad, big etc we have been using words like excited, hyper, upset, furious, massive etc.  They have been working really hard to remember adjectives are describing words and verbs are actions so if you can re-inforce this at home, that would be amazing! 😀 If you want to know what a mighty writer mat is follow this link – https://www.mightywriter.co.uk/

The Primary 1s LOVE it! Those children that once dreaded writing are now so engaged! 🙂

We have been doing lots of revision with our numbers.  Lot’s of number recognition, counting forwards and backwards,  number bonds, addition, subtraction, 1 more/1 less etc etc.  We also started looking at equal sharing this week and can share items equally between 2 people :).  In maths we have been looking at 2d and 3d shapes and revised money.  We hope to move on to Measure this week.

In topic we have been looking at our senses and enjoyed our trip to the Glasgow Science Centre a couple of weeks ago!

I think that is enough reading for one day for you lovely parents! 🙂 We have had a FABULOUS week which was topped with a SUPER FUN Sports day today!  The class earned their first whole class Head Teachers’ award because that is how awesome a week they have had! 😀

I will update you all next week!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Akram

On Monday we went to the Science Museum in Glasgow.  We were all very excited and our journey began as soon as we got on the bus.  We saw lots of different things as we travelled to Glasgow.  When we were almost there we saw the Glasgow Armadillo, the Hydro (which we thought looked like a giant space ship) and the River Clyde.

Once inside the Science Museum we went to a workshop all about the senses.  We had to use of noses to smell different scents and see if we could name them.  We liked the chocolate smell the best!  We used our sense of touch to find out (without looking) what was in the box.  Granny used her ears to listen carefully as we tried to sneak up on her!  We had to use our eyes to look to see where the animals in Granny’s house were hiding and then we had to identify which ones disappeared!          

After lunch it was time to explore!

We had a fantastic day and saw lots of amazing things!

Have a super long weekend.  See you all on Tuesday.

Mrs M :o)

We are learning about 2d and 3D shapes and were set a shape challenge.  We had to build a model from recycled materials such as cardboard tubes, cereal boxes etc but they had to include some of the 3D shapes that we had been learning about.   This was also an opportunity for the children to talk in front of the whole class and they were all confidently able to discuss their models.

Have a look at our fabulous models below! 😀

Looking forward to our trip tomorrow! 🙂 Hope you have had a lovely weekend and thanks again for coming to our Assembly last week!

Miss Akram 🙂