We began a topic on Our Local Community this week. We started by looking at Springfield School and where it is in our community. We learned about mapping and drew our own maps of the classroom. We had to pretend that we were birds flying around the ceiling, looking down, to allow us to get an aerial view. Our maps were really detailed and we spent a long time looking around the room to make sure we put everything in the right place. We shared our maps with a learning partner too, discussing what we had done. We really enjoyed being Cartographers, although it is a tricky word for us to remember!
Later in the week, Mrs Kennedy used her map of the classroom to plan a treasure hunt for us so we could practise reading maps too. Each team had different coloured tokens to find using their map. We then swapped our tokens for a reward.
Following on from this, lots of children have been choosing to draw their own maps during free play. The detail and discussion has been excellent and Mrs Kennedy is very impressed.
We have had three incredible helpers in P1B this week – A, A and A! They are P7s and they have been so helpful to all of the children and Mrs Kennedy. They even planned and carried out 2 lessons – PE and Maths. They did everything on their own, they were given learning outcomes to cover and then they researched and planned activities and wrote up detailed plans. They had thought of everything including organisation of resources and behaviour management. The children loved the lessons and I can’t believe how professional they were = A+ from me! You can come back anytime.
We had more achievements this week. C did really well in his Bambino race last weekend and came away with a medal and a trophy – fantastic driving C!
G got the Enjoy-a-ball trophy for trying very hard when playing tennis, he told he didn’t give up because he wanted to be resilient.
Another very successful week, we are looking forward to health week next week.
Have a good weekend, from P1B and Mrs Kennedy
