Primary 1a weekly update

Good afternoon,
The Scots poem `Robin Robin Reidbriest’, by JK Annand provided the hook for this weeks learning.
The week begun with our daily poetry practise and the children are remembering the words so well and are becoming excited about taking part in Monday's Scots poetry recital competition. We agreed that a good recital is one where the speaker remembers all of the words, speaks at a steady pace, uses a voice which is loud enough for everyone in the audience to hear and uses actions or facial expressions which entertain. Mrs.Davie, Mrs. McIntosh and Mrs.Howie are all certainly looking forward to being entertained next week.
The poem made us wonder if robins visited our school garden, just like they visited the garden of the poet, JK Annand. We went outdoors to look but were disappointed to find none. Reflecting on what we had learned in Science about how animals depend on each other for food and how the seasons affect the supply of food, we deduced that food must be scarce for the robins. We decided to attract the robins to our garden by making fat balls and placing them daily, on our bird table. Our fingers are crossed that we may see a robin soon.
Our maths topic of ` learning to tell o`clock times on a digital clock’, was motivated by an email from Mrs. McIntosh informing us that 11.00 was the best time for placing the fat balls in the garden. Despite digital numbers being more difficult to recognise, we displayed good learner attributes:  giving it a go like Gordon Gorilla, concentrating like Colin crocodile and persevering like Percy Parrot, and can now all confidently tell the time in whole hours on both analogue and digital clocks.
Have a lovely weekend and look out for Monday's` story-time book choice on Seesaw and remember to vote before 9 o`clock on Monday morning by commenting on the post.
Mrs.Davie and P1a