We began the week with a very active PE lesson, working on spacial awareness and dodging around objects. We also played a few team games. It was really good fun and got our hearts pumping!
On Tuesday, Laura and Sarah from RSPB came in to do a Bioblitz session with us. We were learning about wildlife in our immediate environment and thinking about birds and all the things they need in the environment to survive. We watched a powerpoint and had a discussion in the classroom at the beginning of the session, then went outside to take a closer look in our school grounds.
We have been learning the sounds y and z this week, making yellow submarines and zebras, we really like the Yellow Submarine song and have had it as our tidy up music all week. We also tried lots of other activities as we learn the sounds and how they work with other sounds to make words.
In maths, as well as working on numbers to 20, we have also been looking at 3D shapes. We had a shopping bag with lots of things you find around the house and we were looking at their properties – do they roll? how many edges? how many corners? How many faces? What shapes are are the faces? We also experimented with 3D shapes to build models, working out how the shapes best fit together.
There was great excitement on Thursday as we waited to see if it would snow – with great hopes of building a snowman! When it came there wasn’t quite enough for that but we still had a lot of fun playing outside, making mini snowmen and snowballs and making patterns in the snow.
Next week we will be learning the only sounds of the alphabet we haven’t covered so far – qu and x, we will be working on numbers to 20, trying quick recall of numbers before, after and in-between and continuing our work on 3D shapes. The whole school are beginning a focus on famous Scots, we will be looking at James Watt.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Kennedy and P1B
