Author: Mrs Barker
Ms Wylezalek and I would like to thank all families for their kindness and generosity this week. We have thoroughly enjoyed working with your children in their first year of school and we absolutely love the wee books you made for us. Thank you!
We hope that you all have a lovely summer break.
We have done lots of exciting things this week including den building, creating a mural to record our learning in P1 and painting with bubbles:
Tomorrow morning we will all move to our teacher’s new classroom. One of the last jobs before we move is to clean our trays ready for the next class that will use the room. P1B found a way to have fun while getting the job done!
We used straws to blow bubbles in the water. There were some huge single bubbles and some people managed to create mountains of bubbles. Great fun was had by all, and now the trays are clean, so we’re ready to move. (We even cleaned parts of the carpet while we were at it – turns out trays of soapy water get quite slippy!)
Wow! What a wonderful day we’ve had!
We started with a forest walk, then we searched for minibeasts, then we went to the play park, then we had lunch, then we did some pond dipping (and found lots of interesting things).
It has been a fantastic day out!
This afternoon we learned lots about ways to help animals.
We’ve enjoyed adding things to our map as we’ve learned more about our community.
On Wednesday afternoon P1B went across to the Meadows with the other P1 classes to practise some of the things we will do at sports day. We all had great fun.
All of Primary 1 enjoyed a visit from P.C. Fowler this morning. She told us about all of the equipment she carries with her and she answered lots of our questions.
Thank you P.C. Fowler, we really enjoyed you your visit.
We were very lucky to have Sue come in to talk to us about puffins – we learned loads from her. Thank you Sue.
On Tuesday morning we all enjoyed a relax kids session with Ms Anderson.
We had a wonderful time over on the nature strip this morning. We learned how to make a fire and we learned that fires need air to keep going. We made hot chocolate and popcorn, we listened to a story and we sang campfire songs. Many thanks to all the adults who helped us.
This time one of us went home and used playdough to creat a colour wheel. He started with the primary colours and mixed them really carefully to create the secondary colours. Super work!
We had great fun this morning. We practised catching bean bags in cones, catching bean bags with tennis racquets, catching tennis balls in cones and bouncing tennis balls on tennis racquets.
On Tuesday P1B learned about primary colours and how these could be mixed to create the secondary colours. We also had a look at the colour wheel.
One of us went home and created her own colour wheel – SUPER work!
P1A and P1B made several new creations using the new construction equipment. It was lovely to see groups working together and cooperating to complete their structures.
We had great fun celebrating Edinburgh’s City of Superheroes today. The children brought lots of wonderful costumes and accessories and did some fantastic superhero writing. In the afternoon everyone used their imagination to create extra superhero accessories to add to a superhero head band.
Great work P1B!
P1A and P1B had great fun rescuing the teddy bears from the ice (and then had fun playing with the left-over ice).
We read our fairy tales to our buddies and they gave us two stars and a wish (two things they thought we’d done well, and one thing they thought we could work on improving in the next story we write). They were very impressed that each of us had written a whole story in primary one!
When we went to the library this afternoon we were joined by a primary seven class. Some of us read books to them, some of us listened to stories they read to us, some of us shared books with each other and some of us chose to read by ourselves.
We experimented with tin cans connected with string. Great fun!
Well done boys!
We have added 3 QR codes to one of our displays. To use them you need to have a ‘QR Reader’ app on your phone/tablet. When you scan a code you will be taken to Vimeo where you can press the play button to hear one of the children talking about their learning.
Watch one of our P4 pupils demonstrate how to do it:
IMG_3621 from Mrs Barker on Vimeo.
We used Red Riding Hood’s air-drying clay to make magic fairies in the wildlife garden. we are wondering if the magic will work and they will turn into real fairies.
Gold medal from a recent gymnastics competition.
Fantastic!
Very well done!
We have been investigating the weights of various objects.
We chose which materials we would use to build our bridges, worked out how to make everything stick together/balance, then we tested to see if they would hold the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Success!
P1A and P1B made pictures and objects using natural materials. We had amazing flags, butterflies, picture frames, fires and a big spider. Super work everybody!
We iced skeleton biscuits and made masks:
P1A and P1B collected different coloured leaves in the Meadows this afternoon. They took them back to school then sorted them into groups according to colour. The final task was to create a leaf rainbow – super teamwork from everybody resulted in this fantastic rainbow.
Our buddies are reading to us!
Yesterday P1A and P1B decided to help the birds (and squirrels) find plenty of food to help them prepare for the colder weather. They tied string around pine cones, rolled them in lard, then pressed them into a tray of bird seed. When plenty of seeds had stuck to the pine cone the girls and boys chose good places to hang them up in the nature strip.
Ms Christie has kindly arranged for all classes in Primary One to have a cycling session this week, starting with balance bikes and moving on to two wheeled bikes. Some children have never ridden a bike before, others have ridden many times. Some children can already cycle with two wheels and they have been learning greater control. Some children have managed to ride a bike without stabilisers for the first time. Super work everybody!
Sciennes Primary Six 
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