Weekly Update From Primary One

I hope you have all had a good week. Some highlights the children wanted to share with you.

Writing

This week the children had to persuade the reader that we need chairs. To make the point and have some fun the children came into class on Wednesday morning and all the chairs were taped up!

There was a lot of discussion about what was going on. I explained what was going on and we carried out a little experiment. The children had to walk around writing and then think how different their handwriting looked when they were not sitting focusing.

       

In the end the children came up with lots of reasons why we need chairs such as, we would get sore legs and a sore back from standing, our work wouldn’t be as neat, we wouldn’t be able to concentrate as much etc. Some great finished pieces of work.

Non-Fiction Reading

As part of our Autumn topic we have been learning about hedgehogs. To find out more information about them we have been searching through a non-fiction book. The children really enjoyed learning about the hoglets and hibernation. Some pictures below of the book as well as their artwork ( we used forks to create their spikes!)

Maths – Symmetry

This week we have been focusing on symmetry. The children having been looking at objects that have lines of symmetry  and making symmetrical paintings. Some great examples below-

     

Numeracy

Some pictures of the children independently carrying out numeracy tasks to challenge themselves.

     

It was great to speak to all of you who made parent’s evening (telephone calls of course!)  Have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more highlights.