We have had a fantastic week in Primary 1/2.

Tickled Pink

• Everyone loved our outdoor learning session with Rob from Kids Gone Wild on Monday. We went on an adventure to explore Seafield Law. The children walked safely with their partner and demonstrated great road safety skills as we crossed each road. After we entered the nature reserve the children were free to explore their surroundings and they found a muddy puddle. Before jumping in the children had to work together to find out how deep the puddle was – they found a great stick and dipped it in to measure the depth. After deciding that the puddle was not too deep – the children had lots of fun jumping in and splashing. We had lots of fun singing ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ and acting out the different parts of the story as we went through the long swishy grass and squelchy mud. We found some autumn leaves during our walk and so later on in the week we learned about the different seasons and how trees change throughout each year. We have some conkers in our classroom that the children have been enjoying looking at and feeling. They discussed how the shell is spiky and the conker is smooth. A couple of the conkers were still in their shell and so we discussed how they come out of the shell because it dries out as it is not getting water anymore. The children have been observing the conkers in our classroom as they have started to split open and one of the shells actually had TWO conkers in it – this was very cool to witness!

• It was European Languages Day on Tuesday and the children loved learning how to say hello in 10 different languages. The favourite was saying hello in Japanese (Konnichiwa). We also coloured in some flags which the children done a great job of, ensuring they used the correct colours.
• The children enjoyed watching a story about shapes where the character went on a shape hunt. There was a house in the story which was made up with lots of different shapes. The children were given time to think about what shapes they could see and then paired up with a friend to share answers and then share with the whole class. The children worked really well together and they came up with so many answers!

 

Green for Growth

• Some of the children found it a bit tricky to draw 2D shapes (particularly triangles). We will continue to practise this through mark making activities.
• For art this week we made autumn trees. We drew around our hand on brown paper and then cut it out to make the tree trunk. This was a bit fiddly for some children and we will practise our cutting skills regularly. The children had lots of fun stamping the leaves onto their tree using corks and paint (the children discussed the ‘autumn colours’).

 

Our Lead Learners were Miah and Lucas F, who set the class the target of keeping the classroom tidy. They were happy to say that the class have done really well and we earned smiley faces from the janitor each day which helped us reach the target of 10 faces so we could get an award (we had extra play outside on Friday with bubbles, chalk, football and lots of games of tig).

 

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace