We got a lovely surprise this week when a card arrived in the post from Lauren and Alex’s grandparents. They have been enjoying our blog and like to see what we get up to in P1B. The card even had boats on it – the mode of transport we have been learning about recently. Alex told us all about the scene on the card. Here is a little clip of us saying thank you:
We did some peer assessment of our writing this week. We were looking at our friend’s work to check for capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, writing on the line and well formed letters. It was nice reading our written work to our friends and we were very honest in our assessment! We used the ‘tickled pink’ and ‘green for growth’ method by colouring pink the areas they had achieved and colouring green the things they should still work on.
A lot of what we’ve been doing this week is top secret – so there are no photos to show of us making surprises for Mother’s Day. We have all worked very hard to draw, write and create a couple of nice things for our mum’s and we hope they all have a lovely day on Sunday.
Continuing our transport topic we furthered our investigation into boats by carrying out a ‘Does it float of does it sink?’ investigation. We each chose an object from around the classroom, made a prediction as to whether it would float or sink and gave the reason why we thought this. We then carried out our investigation and compared the actual results to our predictions – most of them were accurate, the few that weren’t gave good opportunity for further discussion. We will look more at the reasons why objects float or sink next week, including making our own boats.
We were awarded class of the week again this week 🙂 Miss Baillie was really pleased to see all the play that has been happening in the classroom and she thinks that we play very well together. Play is important to us as it fosters curiosity, imagination and experimentation and helps us with concentration. It also gives us opportunities to speak and listen, often processing and putting into practice what we have been learning. We also learn to share resources, explain actions, negotiate plans and take turns.
We were working on balance, control and coordination in PE this week. Lots of activities whilst balancing beanbags on our heads – throwing and catching were quite tricky! We also had a few games of ‘Cups and Saucers’ which we love.
As promised last week, here are a couple of the finished spring pictures:
They turned out really well and the sheep are full of character.
Finally, two children brought in achievements this week. Clara brought in her swimming certificate and Haley won the Enjoy-a-Ball trophy – well done girls!
We hope you have a good weekend and the sun continues to shine.
From P1B and Mrs Kennedy
