What a busy week in Primary 1/2! We have finally finished our role play area and it looks fantastic. We have really enjoyed playing in our train station and our cafe. We have practised writing lists, menus and taking orders. We have also been using our maths skills to sell train tickets using the cash till.
In PE this week Miss Mudd was teaching us some new team games. We used the giant ball to practise dribbling and had to use our listening skills to identify the different instructions. We learnt how to support our team mates and how to motivate and encourage them.
In Maths we have been learning about our numbers to 20. Miss Mudd put out some new activities to help us practise ordering, sequencing and comparing. We were learning how to count bigger numbers with accuracy. Miss Mudd set us a tricky challenge to practise our fine motor skills. We had to turn a number card over and carefully count that amount of cheerios onto the stick. It helped us with our precision and co-ordination.
Some of us were learning about subtraction. We got to play skittles and had to write subtraction sums to show how many had been knocked down. We also played ‘subtraction smash’ with the playdough and got to squish the balls as we subtracted them.
In Literacy we were learning the ‘qu’ and ‘x’ sounds. We used our bodies to make a giant X, as well as treasure maps with our X to mark the spot. We made crowns and pretended to be queens for the day for our ‘qu’ digraph.
We also played common word splat. We used a spatula and had to splat the common word that Miss Mudd shouted out. It was a race! We loved it.
We were busy doing some Winter art work. We looked at mixing colours and thoroughly enjoyed creating all of these wonderful new and interesting colours.
After our visit from the RSPB we were inspired to try and help the birds this winter. We used lard and bird seed to make our own bird feeders that can be put in our gardens.
We also conducted some science experiments to look at how animals keep warm in the winter waters. We learnt that they have a layer of fat under their skin to help insulate them. We tested this out using bags of lard and oil and discovered that these fats did help keep our hands warm in the icy water.
Wow! We are tired out just telling you all about our week.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
From Primary 1/2 and Miss Mudd
Primary 1/2 and Miss Mudd! Wow! I am always so inspired and proud of all of the exciting learning that you do! I absolutely love your train station and as promised will come down to share in the ‘play’ and learning soon. Thank you for your hard work!
Miss Baillie xx