18.03.19

Following on from a busy week last week, we started this week with a fantastic ‘Toy Workshop’ with Mrs Legdon who came to visit and brought a wonderful selection of old and new toys. The whole class had two sessions. In the first session we heard a lot about how toys have changed over the years. The children already knew quite a bit about different materials that toys, past and present, might be made of. They watched and listened carefully to our visitor. In the afternoon we went back for session two and had fantastic fun trying out all the different toys. We learned how to control a diabalo, loved spinning tops and decided we like white boards and pens much better than slates!

Hopefully everyone can spot themselves in some of the photos.

Morning Session

Afternoon Session

We wrote Thank You letters to Mrs Legdon in our writing on Wednesday.

We have also really enjoyed making some of our own toys in class.

Last week we made mini rockets and this week after or Toy Workshop we found out more about a toy that has been around for at least 400 years and then made our own version of a ‘Ball and Cup’ toy. They need good hand-eye coordination to use them!

We are looking forward to showing some of you round our busy classroom when you visit us on Open Day next Thursday, 28th March

 

7.3.19 – 13.3.19 and a final farewell!

It is with sadness that I write my final P1M blog post.  I have very much enjoyed recording all the exciting activities and experiences we have had during our time in P1.

The final few children presented their talks to Mrs Charleton and the class

and we celebrated ‘World Book Day’!

What a lot of fun we have had!

 

This year in P1M has been fun, exciting, never boring, adventurous and has kept me on my toes!  I will hold great memories of all the lovely times I have had with the boys and girls over the past 9 months and I hope I have been a little part of shaping the wonderful little people they are after their first year at school.

Thank you so much for the generous gifts you presented me with this morning, I will wear my bag with pride and always remember the super little people who gave it me!

I wish all the children and their families all the best for the future and thank you all for making my time at Cults Primary School so special.

Mrs MacKinnon 🙂

1.3.19 – 6.3.19

Hello everyone,

I trust you have all had a lovely weekend and start of a new week.

The boys and girls have had another action packed week full of fun activities and experiences.

At the end of last week they had a lovely couple of days with Mrs Charleton and met Mrs Nolan on Friday.  They worked very hard for the two teachers and were all very helpful.

We heard our final couple of talks on Monday ;

All the boys and girls produced the most beautiful props and posters and all tried their very best to deliver their talks.  I was very proud of them all! Well done everyone 🙂

This wee we had a very fun Tuesday!  In light of pancake day we started the morning with a pancake day themed fine motor activity.  We were developing our cutting skills by cutting out pancake toppings to stick on our pancakes!

In the middle of the day we had a lovely time crafting with Mrs Welch whilst Mrs MacKinnon was hearing the reading.  We made ‘sock-tapillars’!  They were an instant hit and the children had a great time making them.

In the afternoon we went out with P1/2 to play some pancake themed outdoor games.  Miss Moyes and Mr Taylor played ‘pancake, pancake, waffle’ and the crocodile game. Mrs MacKinnon led some pancake races and a pancake flipping competition! (The frying pans were plastic tennis rackets and the pancakes were rubber circles!)

After all that running around we were all ready to go back inside for some refuelling!  We all had pancakes with our milk – they were delicious!

What a fun few days it has been!

I look forward to seeing what next week will bring in P1M.

 

Have a lovely week,

Mrs MacKinnon

22.2.19 – 27.2.19

Another week has gone by in P1M and as usual the children have been busy little bees!

In Golden Time on Friday they had a great time building and dressing up;

This week I have been delighted with the wonderful talks and posters that have been provided.  The boys and girls have delivered lovely talks about their favourite toys.  I hope the talks on Thursday and Friday are just as fabulous as the ones we have heard so far this week!

When delivering our talks we had to use a loud, clear voice and make good eye contact with our audience.  The audience members had to show the person talking that they were listening and gave positive feedback at the end of the talk. We asked questions to find out a little more about our class mates favourite toy.

On Tuesday afternoon the weather was beautiful! We spent the afternoon outside with P1/2.  When we were out we did our daily mile.

After our daily mile we learnt some ‘old fashioned’ playground games.  This was to link in with our ‘My Historical World’ topic.

We hope the sun continues to shine and look forward to another fun week in P1M.

 

*Important Information*

-Please could the children all bring an old sock to school in time for Tuesday 5th March.  This will be used for an art craft – so it will not come home still resembling a sock!!

 

I wish you all a wonderful week,

Mrs MacKinnon

14.2.19-20.2.19

Welcome back everyone! I hope you all had a relaxing mid-term break.

The boys and girls returned on Thursday raring to go. They made beautiful tartan heart Valentine’s Day cards with Mrs Moir.

On Monday the children made lots of lovely phonics crafts; snails, sheep and plates of food!

 

The boys and girls have been working hard at home with their RM Easimaths – one of our boys has received his second certificate!

In ICT we have been getting creative on Microsoft Word! We now know how to change the size, colour and font  of our words.

On Tuesday we got very crafty and we made our own clocks – we now all know how to read o’clock on an analogue clock, and we made wind catchers! They were beautiful and colourful .

*Important Information*

Week beginning 25.2.19 the children are to present a talk about a favourite toy. We can’t wait to hear them! (More information will follow in their homework jotters)

I hope you all enjoy the rest of your week,

Mrs MacKinnon and Mrs Moir

30.1.19 – 6.2.19

Another busy week has gone by and as always the children have been enjoying some wonderful experiences!

We went to visit our paired reading buddies from P5/6 in their classroom. They helped us use a new maths program on the laptops.  We really enjoyed the RM easimaths and it was made even more exciting by our buddies joining us.

We have had a go at solving more problems in our maths slot with Mrs MacKinnon this week.  We had to see how many different outfit combinations we could put on the doggy.

Following this we had to see how many colour combinations we could find for the flags using the same 3 colours for the job.  We worked out that their were 6 different flag colour combinations.

On Tuesday afternoon we put our ‘science hats on’ and did some experiments with toy cars.  Our first experiment was testing how far a pull back car would go when you pulled it back a little way and then a long way.  We measured the distance using our feet.

Our next experiment was testing materials that the car could drive over.  We talked about ‘predictions’ as we had to predict whether the car would go fast or slow over a variety of surfaces.

We used a towel, a bean bag, a jumper, Mrs Simpson’s scarf, tin foil, the carpet and a table.  We decided that the smoother the surface the faster the car would go.

As it is Children’s Mental Health week this week we have been focusing on our feelings and emotions.  Last week we looked closely at fear and anger and this week we looked at sadness and joy.  As a plenary activity the boys and girls coloured in 4 different hearts to represent each of the emotions.  We talked about colours that would match each of the feelings and the children made beautiful pictures.

*Important Information*

The week beginning 11.2.19 is a short week.  Monday is a holiday and Tuesday and Wednesday are In-service training days for teachers only.

We hope you all have a restful long weekend and look forward to seeing the children bright eyed and bushy tailed on Thursday!

Mrs MacKinnon and Mrs Moir

17.1.19 – 30.1.19

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all well and keeping cosy in this wintery weather!

In the past two weeks the boys and girls have been learning lots.  We have looked at new sounds, ‘There’s a volcano in my tummy’, Chinese New Year and have almost all learnt how to log onto the computers independently!

Last Thursday we woke up to a sight to brighten the children’s day – snow!! Even though we had a later start to the day we still got a chance to play outside together.

In circle time and expressive arts we have begun talking about feelings.  We are identifying the different feelings and what they do to our bodies. Mrs Moir shared a story with us called ‘A Volcano in my Tummy’ which is all about anger.  It was a great story that helped us think of ways to calm down if ever we feel angry.  We even got to make a volcano experiment to show the feeling of anger exploding from inside of us.  It was really great!

Over the past few weeks during ICT with Mrs MacKinnon we have been learning how to type.  Specifically, typing our usernames and passwords so we can log on to the computers independently.  We are all getting so much more confident with this and have now started using Microsoft word.  On Microsoft word we can type our names and change the size of it!

We have been doing ‘Beat That’ timed mental maths sheets on a Tuesday with Mrs MacKinnon.  She is so impressed that we can do all seven sums in only 60 seconds now!  Next week she tells us she is going to give us even less time!!

*Big Maths is a mental maths scheme used within the school for the children to develop their automaticity of a selection of sums.  These sums are called learn its and the P1 ones are ; 1+1, 1+2, 2+2, 2+3, 3+3, 4+4, 5+5.  Please feel to practice these at home with your child.

After our Beat That test we have been doing some problem solving and experimenting.  We had to sort 2D and 3D shapes;

Test to see which shapes could roll or stack (occasionally both!);

We were also talking about symmetry and making our own symmetrical pictures;

This week in problem solving we had to work in teams.  Mrs MacKinnon gave us each a tray, a ruler, a paint brush, a sponge and a cup.  We had to work together to free a playmobil man from a block of ice.  We stopped every so often to share our ideas until we worked out the best way to free our victim!

We decided that we needed heat so tried using our hands and breath – this started working but our hands were getting awfully cold!

Mrs MacKinnon then told us we could all have one more resource and we had to decide as a team what we would like.  All the teams decided they would like warm water in their cups.

This really worked and soon our victims were free!!

We worked so well as a team 🙂

One of our sound groups made ‘green crowns for the queen of sheep’ (ee sound)

Whilst the other group made a ‘quilt for a queen’ (q sound).  We very much enjoyed choosing which pyjamas to have our queens in and decorating her patchwork quilt!

On Tuesday afternoon we looked a little bit at Chinese New Year.  We now know a few things that happen for the people who celebrate Chinese New Year. This year is the year of the pig so we wrote the Chinese symbol for ‘pig’ on a red piece of card and then folded it into a fan.

As well as this we made some springs and a bright colourful dragon face that we turned into a festival dragon.

*Important Information*

Week beginning Monday 11th February the children are only in school Thursday 14th and Friday 15th February.  Monday 11th is a holiday followed by two in-service training days.

 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend when it comes! Take care one and all,

Mrs MacKinnon and Mrs Moir

7.1.19 – 16.1.19

I hope everyone has got back into the routine of being at school and work again and had an enjoyable first week back.

In P1M we launched into our mini topic about Scotland which we will be doing in the first three weeks of the term ending on Burns Day.

The boys and girls have been experienced lots of lovely activities to develop their prior knowledge of Scotland.  In art lessons with Mrs MacKinnon we have made collage kilts;

and ‘Highland Coo’ inspired by the Scottish artist Steven Brown.

During our music lessons on a Wednesday we have been listening to different Scottish instruments.

Learning clapping songs;

And we also learnt the Canadian Barn Dance!

With Mrs Moir we have been thinking about resolutions and have made our own New Years Resolutions;

We will make sure we try our best to keep them!

On Friday all of the boys and girls in P1 were lucky enough to hear a real Scottish piper!  The bagpipes were really loud but we really enjoyed listening to them.

As you can see the children have hit the ground running this term and we hope to continue with the enthusiasm and good work!

Mrs MacKinnon and Mrs Moir

 

Welcome back!

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a well deserved break and are feeling refreshed and ready for term 3!

*Timetable*

Monday: Assembly with Miss Catlow (am), ICT with Mrs MacKinnon (am) and Yoga/Dance with Mrs MacKinnon (pm)

Tuesday: Art or Science with Mrs MacKinnon (pm)

Wednesday: Music/Drama with Mrs MacKinnon (pm) and Library/Paired reading with Mrs Moir and P5/6(pm)

Thursday: PE with Mrs Moir (am)

Friday: Let’s Move with Mrs Moir (pm) and Golden Time (pm)

These subjects are all spread in amongst the core maths, literacy and health and well being.

 

We look forward to another term with the children and look forward to getting stuck in!

Mrs MacKinnon and Mrs Moir

13.12.18 – 19.12.18

Well, we have reached the end of term 2 (how I don’t quite know!!) It has been busy, exciting and full of fun.  The boys and girls have continued to learn lots of new things and have shared many wonderful experiences together.

Christmas jumper day on Friday was awfully exciting and saw the boys and girls show casing some very snazzy Christmas jumpers!

Coming into the final week of term the boys and girls were set to work crafting like little elves.

We have made repeating pattern candy canes;

And lovely symmetrical snowflakes! (If you want to see them they are stuck on our classroom windows so it looks like snow!)

On Tuesday we had our photo taken to go in a special card to say ‘good luck’ and ‘we will miss you’ to Miss McKay;

And the most exciting of all we had our P1 Christmas Party on Tuesday afternoon.  Our buddies were there to join in with the games, dancing and fun. We all left with rosy cheeks and full tummies and so much fun was had by all.

We showcased some of our best dance moves;

Played some super party games;

And finished off the party with some fine food 🙂

 

What a lot of fun we have had together in 2018.

Mrs Moir and I would like to thank you all so much for your kindness and generosity and wish you all a wonderful Christmas and all the best for 2019.

 

Take care one and all,

Mrs MacKinnon and Mrs Moir

 

 

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