Author: Ms Cave

Primary 1 are very excited about their learning next week as special visitors are coming to the classroom!

On Monday, live chicken eggs will be arriving for us to care for. We will learn all about the life cycle of a chicken and hopefully witness the chicks hatching too!

We talked about the things that we would like to learn about chickens and eggs next week.                                         Here are some of our questions:

Kayden: How do the chicks get out of the eggs?

Eilidh: Why do chickens lay eggs?

Aiden: Where will they sleep at night?

Primary 1 have been learning about travelling safely. We learnt about the different types of crossings we can use to help us to cross a road safely and made a variety of crossings to help the characters on our classroom street. We later went out into the playground to act out how we would cross a road, remembering to stop, look and listen.

This week we have also been planting potatoes. We are looking forward to seeing them grow and in the meantime we will be watering them every day and hoping the sun shines to help them along!

 

Primary 1 have been extremely busy this week, learning how to look after their community and environment. We started by making characters and a street to create our own community for our classroom.

On Wednesday morning, we were shocked to find that our new street was covered in litter! We learned how litter can affect the environment and then worked together to think of ways to clean it up and stop it from happening again. We made posters to show the characters on our street what to do with their litter and went outside with litter pickers to make sure our playground was tidy too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next week we’d like to learn more about recycling rubbish and practise sorting used containers and materials into recycling groups in class.

 

Primary 1 have been learning all about minibeasts this week. We talked about why we need minibeasts in the environment and worked together to create a bug hotel in the playground to give them a place to stay.

We learnt that some minibeasts, such as ladybirds, like to hibernate so we hope they will choose to spend the winter in our hotel!

In Maths this week, Primary 1 have been learning how to subtract numbers. We discussed the different methods we can use to find an answer, including taking cubes away from a group, counting down on our fingers and counting backwards in our head.

In Science, we have been learning about how different living things grow and develop. We grew plants from seeds, made a floorbook to showthe life cycle of a frog and sequenced the stages in the life cycle of a chicken. From Monday, P1 and P1/2 will have live chicken eggs to look after so we can learn about the development of a chicken in real time. We can’t wait!