Saving Fairyland

Primary 1 have been so busy trying to save Fairyland. We have been learning all about the life cycle of a plant, and we learned how to plant and care for seeds and beans. We did this by planting our very own Beanstalks, which we will be taking home at Easter time. Hopefully you will have fun planting them somewhere outside.





As part of our many challenge areas the children have been constructing castles for the dragon and moving wagons to take Cinderella to the ball. They had to develop their fine motor skills by using screws and bolts.
 

We completed STEM challenges in relation to the three little pigs, and explored what material was strongest.
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An important part of construction challenges is to complete the design process. We have been completing a number of design challenges using a variety of media. Cinderella has had a number of ball gowns designed, and we even designed new ladders for Jack.


 At our writing station we have been creating lots of functional writing. We have created; Wanted posters, For Sale posters, Recipes and Instructions for planting. We are becoming really good at using our common words and word banks to help us become more independent writers.







Through our Small World and Role play stations we have been learning to act out scenes from our favourite Fairyland stories. One of our favourite stations has been the Farm shop learning to recognise and add money.

Bricks and Blocks - Generation Science

Primary 1 loved the opportunity to take part in the Bricks and Blocks session provided by Generation Science.  

The children were given the opportunity to develop their programming and construction skills.  

Primary 1 joined the robot sports training camp where the Generation Science Coaches put them through their paces. 

The boys and girls were given the challenge of working with a partner to build and programme a robot goalkeeper.  Once the children had done this it was time to test their skills in the robot world cup penalty shoot-out.

The children learned to:

• Describe what robots are and why they are useful

• Recognise that the order of instructions is very important

• Identify that a computer program is a set of instructions

• Create basic computer programs for robots to perform simple tasks

• Recall that a robot will only do what it is programmed to do

World book day

World Book day

On World Book day the boys and girls in Primary 1 enjoyed reading their favourite stories with their Primary 7 buddies. They loved dressing up as their favourite story characters. All of the children enjoyed participating in story themed activities throughout the day.

 Two boys in Primary One have loved Fairyland so much that they decided to dress up as Jack. We especially loved their home made Beanstalks!

 Our Spider men enjoyed reading action books with the Primary 7's.

The children enjoyed going to Faifley Library to explore books that they could act out. They also enjoyed reading a rhyming book with the Librarian who was dressed up as the worst witch.