Category: Primary 1 Blog

Your Pet Dinosaur

We have been learning how to care for animals. We learnt about puppies and how they are baby dogs. They need lots of looking after. They need to go to the vet, have food bowls, water bowls, you need to pick up their poo, they need lots of walks etc.
Today everyone has taken home a pet dinosaur to care for. Remember: 3 house points for returning the dinosaur and 3 house points for returning a diary on Monday.
The video shows what you could put in the jotter. Don’t worry, it does not have to be totally filled! It was the smallest jotter we had available.

Be creative, be imaginative, be researchers, be palaeontologists but have fun 🦖 😃

Next week, we will be beginning our learning about pregnancy and looking after a baby. CLICK HERE to see the RSHP learning we follow.

Phonics

Here are the words from this week. There is a new task on Education City to help you revise the /ow/ for brown sound. (Apologies – the oi/oy work is now on Education City too – It hadn’t scheduled properly)

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is in the hall on Wednesdays and outside on Fridays.
Girls may wish to wear trousers on these days or shorts underneath skirts/dresses.

There are 4 components to gymnastics: Jumping, rolling, travelling and balancing.

This week we have been working on travelling and balancing. We found lots of different ways to travel, inspired by animals. We can balance if we have 1 body part touching the floor, or 3 or 4 or 5!

Plant update

Leon has emailed in some photos of the plant he took home before Easter that he has been caring for. WOW! This is a sunflower. It is growing very tall! If you would like to share an update on your plant, email your photos to admin@royalmile.edin.sch.uk

Have a great weekend!

Miss Copeland

Phonics – oi vowel digraph – oi for turquoise

If the sound is in the middle of the word we use oi like c-oi-n
If the sound is at the end of the word we use oy like b-oy

Check Education City for the revision task 🙂

Maths – Money

What would you do if you had a million pounds?

Sorting coins
How many different ways can you sort coins?
Take a pile of coins – sort them using their size, colour, shape and the number that is on them.

Play this coin sorting game – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

Did you know that the number on the coin is the value of it? One 2p coin is worth the same as two 1p coins. Some children find this concept tricky. We will be working on this next week.

Dinosaurs

We start by finding out what we already know

We then had a chat about what the class wants to learn so we can cover this information in lessons.

A dinosaur came to school!

See the dinosaur that made all the mess, here > https://youtu.be/dmY8lu6ii-w

Some children decided to look in all of the books to see if they could find out more about the dinosaur who visited us. Some made posters to tell the other children that there is a dinosaur about!

Looking after eggs

We learnt how to look after an egg so we kept the box warm by putting it on a pillow and wrapping it in a blanket. We learnt about all the different living things that hatch from eggs and had a go at following some videos to draw these things. We then created a piece of art showing our knowledge of all of these hatching creatures inspired by the book Am I Yours? by Alex Latimer.

Water Display

Here’s last term’s topic – water! It is in the corridor for all the children to see.

Generation Science

Generation Science couldn’t come to our school but they made lots of videos for us to follow. On Monday, we had lots of fun learning about vibrations and sound. We made two musical instruments: a seagull squawker and a squirrel shaker.