As part of our context, Primary 1 wanted to know how rainbows appear in the sky. This was quite tricky to understand but we explored different ways of using reflective materials and sunlight or torches to make rainbows appear. We made Newtons Discs to show reverse rainbows, if you spin them really fast the discs look white which shows what happens to our natural light!

• We learned that rainbows are actually full circles! We just cant see the other half as it doesn't reflect onto the ground!

• We learned that the light we see outside is actually made up of all of the different colours but we cant see it because it moves very fast!

• Did you know... nobody sees the same rainbow because we are all looking through different rain drops!

We were using the readin strategies to explore 'The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark'. We used our visualisation skills to paint what Plop the owl might have seen in the night sky. We used play dough to make our own little owls and can sort animals and pictures into categories of day and night.

We also used our summarising skills to draw the main points of the story on the story boards.

We have been learning all about money.

We know what each coins value is and have been learning to use a variety of different coins to make different amounts. We are starting to realise that it is the same as just adding numbers which we can do already!

We enjoy playing different games and role playing to learn how to count and use money.

We have been learning our first sounds in Primary 1.

a, t, s and i

We have been playing games and using different resources to help us identify, hear and use these sounds.

In numeracy we have been learning about the numbers 0-10. We have also been learning about measure and have had lots of fun exploring ways we can do this. We also made guesses for how many cubes long our feet would be and than checked to see if we were right. Most of us were on or very near our estimate!

We have been using the story 'The Colour Monster' to help us learn about our emotions.

We have been exploring each emotion and finding out how we can best understand and show these. We created a happiness wall to show what makes us all happy :-)