Author: Miss McLaughlin

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Barnaby Bear is off to Brazil

Primary 1 are very excited! Barnaby Bear received two tickets: one to travel to a hot place, and the other to travel to a cold place! Primary 1/2 chose the cold ticket and will be learning more about Russia. We chose the hot ticket and will be learning more about Brazil! Barnaby Bear will be flying out to meet children in Russia and Brazil and see how their lives are compared to our own!

But, before Barnaby Bear can go anywhere.. there’s packing to be done! We will be writing a list of things he needs to take to Brazil to make sure he doesn’t forget anything. Stay tuned for more!

Adeus por enquanto! (Goodbye for now)

Primary 1 🙂

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P1 Say Goodbye to Sochi

This week saw the end of the Winter Olympics in Sochi! We have been following the Olympics and Miss McLaughlin was so impressed with how interested we were in the events!

We wrote about Winter Olympic events during our Big Write sessions, watched clips of our favourite events (bobsleigh, ice skating and curling) and used mime to show events during Drama time (ask us to teach you our 4-man bobsleigh mime!) We have enjoyed watching the different events and they have made us interested in learning them ourselves! Perhaps we’ll have skeleton or ice skating champions in the future!

With the Winter Olympics finished, next up are Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games and Rio de Janeiro for the FIFA World Cup! Miss McLaughlin has a feeling P1 will be spending a lot of time thinking about Brazil 😉 ..

До следующего раза (Until next time..)

P1 🙂

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P1 Reflective Learning

This week, P1 were looking at our plants to see how they fared over the past few weeks. Each group started off with a healthy plant, and then we changed the way we looked after them to see what would happen.

Group 1 – Gave the plant everything it needed. We found that the plant grew taller, and that buds were slowly starting to open.

Group 2 – Took away light. We found that the plant stopped growing and the leaves drooped.

Group 3 – Took away water. We found that the petals and leaves dried up. It was a very thirsty plant!

Group 4 – Took away soil. We found that the plant had drowned as the water did not have anything to soak it up.

We were very close with our predictions! We have enjoyed learning about life cycles this term.

Also, a big congratulations to Summer Reid, who won our Commonwealth Art poster competition!

Til next week…

P1 🙂

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P1 Feel the Pinch

This week, Primary 1 have been getting to grips with clay and making pinch pots. First, we made our clay nice and soft, then rolled it into a ball. Then, we made a hole in the middle with our thumb and pinched the clay around the sides to make the pot. We have left them to dry and are looking forward to seeing how they look on Wednesday. If you’d like to try to make pinch pots at home, you can do it using clay or salt dough!

Happy Holiday Weekend 🙂
P1

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P1 & P1/2 Outdoor Language

This week, the Red & Blue groups have been taking their work outdoors! We have been playing ‘Spell a Snowman’ – a game which helps us learn our common words! We usually play it on our own with our jotters, but this time we worked as a team! We each were given a common word and if we spelled it correctly, we got to build a piece of our snowman. The first team to build their snowman wins!

The Yellow group are still waiting to play ‘Spell a Snowman’. The Red & Blue groups had some ideas for how they could do well at the game!

‘They could take their common words from their homework folder and maybe practise them at home.’ Abigail

Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 are looking forward to more outdoor learning with sounds!

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P1 Reflective Learning

This week Primary 1 have been learning about Robert Burns.

We drew portraits of him (which you can see in the picture) and wrote words and sentences about him.

We learned..

  • That he wrote poems and songs
  • We have a Burns Supper
  • We wear kilts at a Burns Supper
  • We eat haggis, neeps, tatties, oatcakes and cheese
  • Grown-ups drink whisky and they have a toast.

We are looking forward to our own Burns supper tomorrow!

Until later 🙂

Primary 1

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P1 Famous Scots

Primary 1 (and Primary 1/2) have been learning about James Watt and why he was a Famous Scot.

We learned…

  • James Watt made different types of steam engine
  • He needed fire and water to make steam to power the engine
  • Because he invented the steam engine for steam trains, we now have electric trains

Homework task.. Find out about a famous train! Use the email address in your homework diary to post what you find on the blog. Good luck!

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Primary 1

This week, Primary 1 have been creating pictures of the Forth Rail Bridge. We used strips of red card to make the shape of the bridge. We thought it was going to be tricky but were so surprised at how easy it was!

We also learned that..

  • The Forth Rail Bridge is next to Deep Sea World
  • There are lots of fish in the water
  • It is next to the Forth Road Bridge
  • Lots of men died when they were building the bridge.

We are looking forward to learning about more Scottish things next week!

Primary 1 🙂

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Nativity

Over the past few weeks, Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 have been learning about Nativity.

First, we heard the Nativity story, and tried to relate what we learned to our own ‘Wriggly Nativity’ story. We also looked at different versions of the story and talked about what was the same and what was different.

Then, we moved on to creating the programme for our own Nativity performance. We drew a picture of ourselves as our character, wrote our own name and tried hard to write our character’s name. They looked great! We photocopied them for our grown-ups to enjoy too!

Finally, after lots of singing and acting (and wriggling!) came our performance of ‘Wriggly Nativity’. After a slight delay from the fire alarm, we were ready to go! We loved the songs, especially the parts where we could wriggle! Mrs Andison and Miss McLaughlin were very proud – we’re sure we saw tears in their eyes! We really enjoyed our learning over this topic!

Miss McLaughlin and Mrs Andison would like to thank Nia Mullen (P5) and Lewis Paterson (P4) for being wonderful narrators; Liam Cavanagh (P7) and Zoe Evans (P7) for being super with our sound; Rebecca Lawrie (P7) and Alexa Renwick (P7) for selling our programmes; Miss Speirs for keeping the performance going; Mrs Hull for all the song rehearsals; all of the grown-ups who came to see our performance and bought the programmes, and finally, to the children in Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 who worked so hard to make the performance as special as it was. Thank you.

Merry Christmas from Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 🙂

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P1 and P1/2 Enterprise

This week, Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 have started their enterprise project: to design a ‘sweet treat’ to sell at the Christmas Fayre.

First, we talked about the foods that we eat at Christmas. Then, we looked at Christmas magazines and cut out all the sweet things that we could find. After that, we worked in groups to think of things we could make to fit into small sweetie cases. Some of the ideas we came up with were, gingerbread men, marshmallow snowmen, truffles and reindeer biscuits.

Next week, we will decide our top products and plan how we are going to make them.

Homework task.. If you have time this weekend, could an adult bake or make ‘sweet treats’ with their children to practise baking skills.

P1 and P1/2

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