World Book Day

Last Thursday we all dressed up for World Book Day.  During the week we had enjoyed looking at and buying books from the book fair and altogether the school spent over £1000 on books!  This amazing amount will mean that we receive money to spend on new books for our library.  Thanks to everyone for supporting this and thanks to P5 and P7 for organising the week.

Sorting Shapes

In maths we have been reminding ourselves of the names of some 3D shapes and how to describe them.  We know about a cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone and sphere.  We made a Carroll diagram by sorting the shapes into different groups (cube or cuboid or not cube or cuboid).  Then we played a game where you had to close your eyes while someone swapped a shape around.  When you opened your eyes you had to find the odd shape out.

A Special Visitor

Sofia's granny came to school to help Sofia with her Show and Tell today.  She took in lots of things that belonged to her when she was a little girl.  She didn't watch TV or play computer games like boys and girls do now!  Here are some of the things that she played with.

 She showed us a little egg that had a chick inside.  You could only see the chick when the egg spun round.

When she went to Stromness Primary, Sofia's granny sometimes wore a school tie.  Here is Sofia trying it on!

Grandparents

We are learning about what life was like when our grandparents were peedie.  This week we have started Show and Tell and we are all taking in photos or objects to help us learn more about the past.

Emilie and her mum told us all about Emilie's grandparents yesterday.  Through the photos, we learned that cameras couldn't take colour photos, that wedding clothes are quite similar to present day and that babies didn't sit in car seats!  

Snowdrops

On Friday Miss Pirie noticed a sign in her garden that Spring will be coming soon - snowdrops!  She took in some snowdrop bulbs and we planted them in pots.  We spoke about the parts of the plant including the roots, bulb, shoot, leaves and petals.  We are hoping that they continue to grow outside the classroom.

Winter Weather

We have been learning about the seasons in P1.  

Some of us went outside to spot signs that it is still Winter.  We took some photos to show everyone else.  We had to wear our coats and put our hoods up because it was so cold and windy!

We matched pictures to the 4 seasons and put them in a circle to show the seasons keep on going round and round.

We drew pictures about A Windy Day.  Tomorrow we are going to start doing some writing to match our pictures.

Emilie is flying a kite and her hair is blowing in the wind.

Alida and her mum are walking their dog all wrapped up and with their wellies on.

The net on Rachel's trampoline blew away!  Look at her shocked face!

Liam's crisps blew out of his hand at playtime.

Kara had to hold on to the fence so she didn't blow away while she was waiting for the bus.  Her hair is blowing to the side because of the wind.

Double Trouble!

In P1 we have been learning about doubles.  We spoke about when we hear the word double - double doors, double buggy and double decker.

We looked at dominoes and spoke about what it means when you have a double domino.  We discovered it means it has the same number of dots on both sides.

We all took a number card and had to make two sticks with that many cubes - a double!  We counted up all the cubes to find what the total was.  We discovered you can double any number but the result is always numbers with a 2,4,6,8 or 0 and it misses numbers on the number line.

We played a good game where you had to roll a dice and either add one, take away one or double the number of counters you had!  Some people had lots and lots of counters.