What a busy, but strange week!
It started calmly with our reading lessons where we were working in teams to sequence our stories without picture clues! We were also learning about true and false with Miss Proudfoot.
In maths we continued to learn about subtraction using a bug game and a new ipad app.
In phonics we learned about the letter ‘x’ and Miss Diamond’s mum kindly donated some real x-rays for us to use.
On Wednesday we observed the 1 minute silence to remember those who died in the war, we used our candle timer as a visual reminder. Everyone was very respectful.
Then things started to go wrong…..we went back in time to the 1950’s and learned about school life in the past. The teachers were really strict, the children had to write with slates, everyone sat in rows, if you were naughty you got the belt or had to wear the dunce hat (Miss Proudfoot was very naughty and we made her sit in the corner!). We also did a drill lesson for PE and it was tough, lots of press ups and star jumps.
We also learned about playground games and had a go at different activities – hula hoops, marbles, throwing the bean bag and hopscotch. Mrs Roy loved hopscotch!
Things got even stranger on Thursday morning when we came in from break to find our classroom upside down. We came up with lots of suggestions as to what had happened – a bad man broke in through the windows, the time machine had an explosion, the naughty fairy from nursery did it!! Everyone wrote a story about their ideas (on the floor as we couldn’t use our tables), Miss Smyth and Mrs Beattie came to help us investigate, Mrs Beattie left us the good fairy in her little fairy house to help us clear the mess. Thankfully when we were at PE she must have used her magic fairy dust to put our class back to normal, phew!!!
All in all it was a fantastic but strange week!!!!!! I wonder what will happen next week??????
What a brilliant idea!! Alice talked about the upside down class for hours!! Great to see the kids imaginations sparked in this creative way.
Keep up the inspirational learning !
Phew… I’m so glad the good fairy arrived! Primary 1R, you were amazing with all of your fabulous ideas, your imagination, writing,discussion and excitement was electric. I was so pleased to have been able to help, and I can’t wait to come back next week to see what is happening! PS….Mrs Roy was more excited than the girls and boys!!!
Primary 1 sounds like great fun!!