Nocturnal Animals

This term, our first project is 'Day and Night'. We have started learning about nocturnal animals. These are the short movies we watched today:

Art inspired by Kandinsky

Today we looked at pictues of paintings by Wassily Kandinsky.
This is what the children said:

"I can see squares and circles"

"He likes circles"

"I can see a big triangle"

"Its rubbish and scribbly"

"It's good"

"I can see an alien"

"It's curvy"

"It's spidery and a wee bit scary"

"I can see a space rocket"

"It's horrible"

"I like it"

The children gasped at this one - they said it was colourful and nice.
Each child got a square piece of paper and tried painting their own circles. We're going to put them all together to make our own masterpiece!

Creating our masterpieces

Phonics

This week we have been revising the letters we have learned this term, by singing our sound songs, practising writing them, and making words with them.
This term we have learned the letters s, a, t, p, i, n, d, h, e, m, o, and g.
We have listened to lots of nursery rhymes to help us be able to listen to rhymes which helps us be able to hear the sounds in words.

At home, it would be great if children could listen to more nursery rhymes, and lots can be found here:

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/rindex.htm

If children are able to hear and identify rhymes, it helps them to write their own. We have tried making these rhyming words with magnetic letters:

pat cat rat mat sat hat

pen hen den men ten

tan man pan ran

pot hot dot

It's quite tricky! Primary 1 are a very clever class!

 

Fire Safety Visit

We had a visit today from the Fire Fighting team from Tollcross fire station, to tell us about firework safety. We learned that we must always use gloves if we are holding sparklers, and never to pick up sparklers if they fall on the ground. We know that we must never touch any other fireworks.

Planting daffodil bulbs

On Wednesday, each child in Primary 1 planted a daffodil bulb into a pot, and we will care for these over the winter months, ready for them to grow next year.
This is for a fundraising activity for Marie Curie nurses, called Mini Pots of Care.

This activity will help the children understand the importance of care, and help raise some money for the Marie Curie nurses. Once the bulbs grow next February, the children will bring home envelopes and ask for a small donation.

French Lessons

Bonjour! We have started having French lessons every Monday afternoon with Mrs Mathevet. She has been signing wonderful songs, telling us stories and bringing toys and puppets to help us learn some French words.

Baking Bread

Today we baked our own bread. We followed a recipe and used flour, yeast, water and a little salt and sugar. First we mixed the ingredients into a dough, then we kneaded it, and rolled pieces of the dough to make rolls. We left the dough to rise then Mrs Sutherland put it in the oven. We had such fun eating our rolls with some butter and jam that Mrs Sutherland forgot to take pictures! The children said it was tasty and delicious!

Keeping Healthy

We looked at this story today. It's about a little girl who has a cold, and her big brother tells her this is because of germs. We wash our hands before we eat at lunchtime, and try to remember to cover our mouths when we cough or sneeze.

This afternoon we went to the ICT suite - this is a room full of computers. We worked with a partner to try playing a game  about germs. We are learning to hold the mouse properly, and to click and drag to make things happen.

We enjoyed the ICT suite so much that we stayed for a bit longer to draw pictures on the computer too.

Autumn

We have a new autumn tray to play with, with some woodland creatures, so that we can have fun playing and talking about autumn.
We've been talking about harvest time, and looked at some pictures of wheat. We tried making our own pictures, using warm autumn colours for the sky. Tomorrow we're going to learn more about what wheat is used for, when we make our own bread!

Autumn Time

This week we have been discussing, singing and learning about Autumn. We have made an Autumn table, and lots of children have helped collect leaves to display on it.
We have been singing these songs:

Oats and Beans and Barley Grow

Oats and beans and barley grow,

Oats and beans and barley grow,
Do you or I or anyone know
How oats and beans and barley grow?

First the farmer plants his seed,
Stands up tall and takes his ease,
He stamps his foot and claps his hands,
And turns around to view the land.

Chorus

Next the farmer waters the seed,
Stands up tall and takes his ease,
He stamps his foot and claps his hands,
And turns around to view the land.

Chorus

Next the farmer hoes the weeds,
Stands up tall and takes his ease,
He stamps his foot and claps his hands,
And turns around to view the land.

Chorus

Last the farmer harvests the wheat,
Stands up tall and takes his ease,
He stamps his foot and claps his hands,
And turns around to view the land.

Chorus

Conkers

Conkers, I'm collecting conkers

I'm trying hard to find the biggest and the best
Conkers, lots of lovely conkers
I'll do my best to find one bigger than the rest