Senses
At the start of this week we finished off our learning about senses by talking about hearing. We went on a listening walk around the school and made notes in what we could hear.
We then listened to music from different genres and talked about how it made us feel. Some songs made us want to dance whilst others made us feel like sleeping!
Electricity
On Tuesday we started learning about electricity. We began by making a mind map of what we already know.
We then did a sorting activity and separated items that use and don’t use electricity.
Next week we will be looking at electricity safety and talking about our ‘electricity free hour’ homework challenge.
Numeracy
This week we continued to look at multiplication and making equal sets. The children really impressed me when having a go at repeated addition.
Writing
We have made super progress with our ‘Owl Babies’ text this week. The children have been showing excellent retelling skills using the actions they made up. We also created a whole class and individual story maps which will help us to imitate the story before going on to the innovation stage.
Yesterday we made a tool box of owl adjectives and then had a go at writing our own sentences to describe one of the baby owls. We were focussing on using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops in our sentences.
We also had great fun making our own rice cake ‘owl babies’, and then enjoyed eating them of course! Contributing to our 5 a day! 😊🍌🍎🥕
Science
In relation to the focus on the importance of hand washing that has happening of late, we carried out an experiment to test the effect of using soap when washing our hands. We handled a piece of bread without washing our hands, then another piece after washing our hands with only water and finally a piece after using soap and water. Watch this space for the results….
Drakies Primary 1- Miss Graham (continued) 