Our Local Community – P1B

Hello, what a full week this has been! We began the week with a visit from three Police Officers – Heather, Leo and Liam. They gave a very informative talk and we asked them lots of questions. They even let us go into their Police van and press the siren, what a great way to start the week.

We have a new yoga resource and Mrs Kennedy has been on a course to help her to teach yoga to children. We tried it out during PE this week and we had good fun trying the proper yoga positions. It was quite tricky and we had to use lots of muscles, it was also relaxing and we had nice music on and practised being calm and breathing deeply.

In maths, we have been looking at capacity and symmetry.  We had fun playing in the water with measuring equipment and using cubes to fill objects around the classroom.  We were also learning how to estimate before we investigated.

Looking at our butterflies inspired our symmetry lessons.

Our topic ‘Our Local Community’ really stepped up a gear this week.  We had a meeting to decide what we would like to learn about our community, then worked in groups to write our plans. Lots of children want to learn more about local services – the Leisure Centre, shops and landmarks, and people who work locally – police, firefighters, vets, nurses.

    

We also discussed what we could turn our role play area into.  After a vote it was decided that we would make it into the Leisure Centre. We have worked hard making signs and gathering resources.  So far we’ve had great fun playing in it.  There are lots of swimming lessons taking place and they are very efficient at asking for people with a certain colour of band to leave the pool when their time is up.

It is lovely to see how eager and confident the children are at talking in front of an audience.  So far, they have all loved talking to the class about what Tess got up to at their house.  Three more excellent talks this week.

On Friday, we released the butterflies.  It has been nice having them in the classroom but it was also good to release them into their natural habitat.  We will be keeping an eye out for them flying around Springfield.

We hope you have a good weekend, from P1B and Mrs Kennedy