Our maths work this week is all to do with weight.  We are learning how to weigh objects using non standard units and use the language of weight.  How do we know if something is heavier or lighter? What happens to the scales?  What does it mean if the scales are equal?  Ask us-we know the answer!

NYCoS-We were very lucky to work with Mrs Gray today.  In P1M we have sung throughout the year in class and with Miss Bain. Today we learned some new NYCoS songs.  We listened carefully, tried our hardest to sing in tune and keep a steady beat.  Over the next few weeks we will continue to use NYCoS songs and games to develop our skills in Music.  We’ve even been singing when we’ve been doing the register.

We have been learning about weather in primary 1. One of our homework tasks was to make a musical instrument which represents a type of weather.  It has been fantastic to see how creative the boys and girls have been. We’ve had wind chimes, rain sticks, storm drums and snow sticks.  Next steps in our learning will be to create weather tools to measure different types of weather.  We are planning to make these in class. Parents beware-we might have weather forecasters or meteorologists of the future!

P1M and P1S children visited the Botanic gardens in Edinburgh for a very special teddy bears picnic today.  We learned what bears need to survive-ask us about SWAF (Shelter, Water, Air and Food).  We hunted for paw print clues, played games and built our own islands in groups.  Tosca, our school teddy, had a great day out and was very well behaved.  We were even joined by some ducks this afternoon!

The children are desperate to go back again-maybe you could visit at the weekend or during the summer holidays?

You were commended on your super behaviour-well done boys and girls, it was a pleasure being part of this great day with you.  I’m sure we’ll all sleep  soundly tonight!  Tosca is already snoring!!

A special thank you to our parent/adult helpers-we hope you enjoyed your day out too.

We have been out and about this week. In our maths work we have been collecting data to create simple graphs and analyse our results. It was lots of fun looking for mini beasts in the playground.  It was quite difficult to find some of the minibeasts on our sheet as they were camoflaged -as pointed out by Oskari.

We went on a Spring Scavenger hunt.  It was lots of fun looking for signs of spring-we found lots of new things growing in our playground.

We hope our sunflower seeds grow soon!  We know what they need to grow, they have been watered and are now on the windowsill to get warmth and light from the sun.  Will they grow as big as us, or will they grow bigger than Mrs McKay? We can’t wait to find out!

Questioning our friends about their favourite things-more data handling.

What is your favourite colour?

What is your favourite pet?

What is your favourite colour?

I am extremely proud of each and every one of you in P1M-you worked so hard to remember your lines, words to the songs and the dance moves!  You looked fantastic-the excitement of dressing up for Comic Relief didn’t affect your performance.  You have absolutely loved learning about dinosaurs this term and wowed your audience with lots of facts and dinosaur information.

Look out there’s a dinosaur behind you!

The ‘Palaentologists’ had lots of fun digging for dinosaur bones and examining them.

The Dinosaur Stomp was very popular with our audience today-maybe you could teach someone at home our dinosaur moves!

We had visitors from the Royal Bank of Scotland in class with us today.  We enjoyed the different activities and learned some important lessons about money, needs and wants.

‘We can give money to charity, that means we give it away to help people or animals’-Katy

‘We can save our money to buy something we’d like’-Quin

‘We need air, clothes, a home, food, drink and gravity’-Max W and Cameron

‘It is nice to have treats like ice cream and visits to the cinema but we do not need them to survive’

‘I liked the story about the Billy goats birthday the best’-Quinn