Hello,
P1B have been learning about Fairtrade this week. We played a game called ‘Go Bananas!’ On Tuesday afternoon our classroom was covered in bananas. Our job was to be banana pickers, we had to collect the bananas as quickly as we could and put them in the basket for Farmer Euan. We worked very hard but were disappointed when Farmer Euan did not get enough money for the bananas to pay us. We thought about all the problems we would have if we didn’t have enough money – no food, clothes and maybe even no house! We had worked very hard, it just wasn’t fair! Luckily, he managed to negotiate a better price for all our lovely bananas – one that was fair – then he was able to pay us.
We also took part in the Linlithgow ‘Design a Fairtrade Football’ competition. There were 3 top entries selected from each class, K, A and E were our winners. They each worked very hard and spent a lot of time to make their designs the best they could.
To help us think about where the food we eat comes from before it is in the shops, Mrs Kennedy read us a book called ‘The World Came to my Place Today.’ It is about a boy called George who receives a supermarket delivery and his Grandad helps him to learn about where all the things in the shopping bags came from. At the beginning of the lesson we were discussing were our food comes from, lots of us knew that food can come from a factory but this helped us to think about where is comes from before that.
We also have a farm set up in our corridor play area, this has been helping us think about our food too. We have been enjoying playing with it and re-arranging it as we like. We have also been colouring fairtrade pictures and painting our own fairtrade signs.
In numeracy this week, we started ‘Number Talks’ these are daily, short exercises to help us improve our number sense. We share our thinking with our friends, helping us to develop our problem solving and mental maths skills. It is good to talk about numbers and to see the different ways others work things out.
To begin with we have been looking at ‘ten frames’ and discussing how to work out how many spots there are without counting them (subitising). There has been lots of great discussion, for example, “I see five spots and three spots so I know there are eight, ” “Well, I see six spots and then two spots so that’s how I know there are eight.” This is also a great way to revise number bonds.
We tried lots of ten frame and subitising activities in the classroom too.
In literacy we learned the sound ‘igh’ as well as practising all the sounds we have been learning over the past few weeks. We’re getting very good at them. We really like spotting these sounds in words and using highlighter pens to highlight them.
M got an award from his Masterbuilders Lego club this week. He built two boats, one small one and one ginormous one!
During Golden time on Friday, K, G and M made a treasure map, I overheard them discussing some of the places on it, they mentioned the Star and Garter and Tesco as well as lots of other places in Linlithgow. They took it along to Mr Wells to out up in his office. A great map boys!
Have a good weekend everyone, from P1B and Mrs Kennedy
