P1B have really enjoyed their train topic. We have created our own train station and have played in it lot. We also enjoyed learning about trains old and new as well as writing about a magical train journey. We have a teddy called Tess who has been in our class all year, sitting quietly on the shelf. She was really enjoying our train topic too and has been writing us letters and postcards and leaving books for us to read. We are helping her to learn more. She has has us to learn about different forms of transport now.
We have now moved onto learning about aeroplanes (at Tess’ request) We really liked the history of aeroplanes – especially the funny film clips about all the people who tried to build flying machines but they didn’t quite work. We have been learning about the Wright Brothers and how they invented the first aeroplane. Daniel and Noah have been playing at being the Wright Brothers and they made a fantastic plane too! 
We have also been learning a bit about Fairtrade. We have entered a competition organised by the Linlithgow Fairtrade group where we had to design our own faritrade crest, drawing pictures to show what fairtrade is about. To learn a little bit more about what fairtrade is we have been thinking about where our food comes from before it gets to the shops and supermarkets. We read a book called ‘The World Came to My Place Today’ which explained it really well and told us lots about where the things in our shopping trolleys come from. We played with a big map, putting pictures of food in the right countries. We also had a think about how the food might travel to reach Scotland.
We played a game to help us to understand what ‘fairtrade’ means. Daniel was the owner of a banana farm, we were his workers and Mrs Kennedy worked for a supermarket. We had to collect lots of bananas very quickly and then we wanted Daniel to pay us for all our hard work. Mrs Kennedy hadn’t given him much money at all so he had hardly any money to pay us. Then the supermarket gave Daniel a little bit more money – enough to pay all of his workers. The workers were much happier then.
Here are some more pictures to show you a little more of what we have been up to. We have been so busy – even fitting in a visit from a real hedgehog on Friday!
Finally, we were class of the week again last week as Miss Baillie was very impressed by our magical train journey stories (although I think we’re class of the week every week!) Have a lovely weekend.
