Primary 1 Yester Primary School 2014/2015 

Well done! Looks like a tasty cress lunch!

We have been learning about our 5 senses today. We played a game on the big board to help us. The children wanted it to be put on the website so they could play at home….so here it is!

*The children will need an adult to play this game with them as the text is too difficult for them to read alone. The grown-up might like to change the wording a wee bit too!

http://www.bestschoolgames.com/educational-games/five-senses/

Great fun this afternoon doing some experiments to find out about the air in our lungs!

We used blow pipes and the air in our lungs to hold a little ball in the air. When we breathed out, air was pushed out of our lungs and then pushed the ball into the air.

Next, we had a competition to see who had the most air in our lungs. We used a cup of water with washing up liquid and a straw to see who could blow the most bubbles. If you have lots of air in your lungs, you will be able to make lots of bubbles.
Blowing Bubbles on PhotoPeach

The children put the straws in their schoolbags afterwards to use for HOMEWORK…..
Next time you have a bath, can you ask Mummy or Daddy to put some bubble bath in the water? Use your straw to blow air into the water and make the biggest bubble mountain in the world!

Please leave us a comment to let us know how you got on. Have fun!

Great excitement this week when we joined with our Nursery Buddies to see some creatures from Zoo Lab – snake, rat, giant snail, cockroach and toad. Some brave children even held or touched them!

 Zoo Lab on PhotoPeach

This week, we have been learning about the names of some of the organs in our bodies. We have also been finding out where they are inside us. We watched this little clip to help us.

http://www.turtlediary.com/grade-2-games/science-games/human-body.html

We have also had fun putting “The Body” back together …

We have a new challenge in Primary 1 – to make a fact book all about “My Body.” We need to include facts about our bodies, our skeleton, our organs, our senses and the measurements of our bodies.

This week, we have been finding out about diagrams. They are pictures that give information. A diagram has a picture, labels and arrows pointing to the picture.

We made diagrams about our bodies. First, we had fun singing and doing the actions to a song about our bodies…

Then we made labels to match the pictures. We used arrows to point to the correct part of the picture.
Body Diagrams on PhotoPeach

Our last mission from the Alien!

We were very excited to have two scientists working with us this afternoon. They were called Jack and Billy. They put on a show called “Night and Day.” It was great fun to watch – some of us even got to take part. We learned about the Earth orbiting the sun and how different parts of the world have night and day at the same time.

 Day and Night on PhotoPeach

Thank you Alien xxx

Sorry – still no camera! I believe that it has been dispatched to the council IT department and will be with us shortly – fingers crossed.

Just in case you haven’t heard, an alien has landed in Primary 1!

He is currently sitting in a small space station in our classroom. He left us a letter explaining that he has been sent on a mission to find out facts about Planet Earth and he needs our help.

His first mission was to find out about the different seasons. There was a picture puzzle left in the space station for us to complete. We finished it today and gave it to the Alien, along with some alien drawings and stories. We hope he likes them!

Our final Autumn Challenge was to go and gather signs of Autumn and make a picture with the things we had gathered.

We took some bags down to the woods and gathered leaves, berries, cones and nuts. Back in the classroom, we sorted our bags and made pictures using the things we gathered.

 Autumn Art on PhotoPeach

We opened our second Autumn Challenge envelope today. Dinosaur Dan has asked us to make a non-fiction book about a hibernating animal. He also left us a short film to watch to help us.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-changing-seasons-hedgehogs/10448.html

 We are very busy writing our non-fiction books – hopefully Mums and Dads will get to see the on Parents’ Night. We are going to read them to our P7 Buddies on Friday too.

 This afternoon, we made model hedgehogs using playdough, pasta shapes, googly eyes tissue and paper plates. We are going to use the photos of them for the front cover of our books.

Hedgehogs on PhotoPeach