Category: Primary 1M

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! 

This week Primary 1 and 1/2 went on a walk to the Post Office. We posted a letter to Postman Pat and learned about what happens to a letter at the Post Office. We bought a stamp for our letter and saw the scales that are used to weigh letters and parcels. We also saw big sacks at the back of the Post office where letters go so that they can be taken to the sorting office later.

In Art this week, we have been learning how to create observational drawings. We had to look carefully at the shape and lines of pieces of fruit and vegetables to draw them in detail. We can’t wait to practise our drawing skills again next week!

As part of our Scots week, Primary 1 have been exploring Scottish stories and singing Scottish songs.

We read ‘Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted’ and used the book to inspire our learning this week.  We had lots of fun taking on the role of Katie Morag in Drama, showing her behaviour and emotions in different parts of the story.  When Katie Morag’s teddy got tossed into the sea we used our writing skills to create a poster to help find him for her. Today in Art we had to look carefully at the illustrations of Katie Morag’s island to create a stormy sea picture. We had to mix lots of different colours of paint and use wavy brush strokes to make the dark sky and choppy waves.

In Maths, we have been using counters and other objects to find different ways of making 3, 4 and 5. We managed to write sums to match the number facts we found.