November | 2018 | P1M Cults Primary

Greetings everyone!

It has been another busy week here in P1M. Miss Wilson has begun her third week with us and has been super – taking lots of learning experiences and activities with the boys and girls.

On Monday we saw Robbie become our ‘star of the week’ for always listening and following instructions – Well done Robbie! As well as this super news we were also chosen as star class in assembly 🙂 As a result we get to have the lovely shiny trophy in our classroom for a whole week!

Tuesday was a very busy day. Miss Wilson taught us a little bit about the Hindu festival ‘Diwali’. We heard a story about Rama and Sita and then we made masks and acted the story out.

Mrs MacKinnon filmed each part of the story and showed it to us in the class. It was really funny seeing ourselves on camera!

On Tuesday afternoon we had our second visit to the forest. The sun shone for us this week which made building homes for hedgehogs a great experience. We made sure the hedgehogs had a cosy home full of leaves, moss, ferns and even a few sticks. Some of us ended up making hedgehog penthouses complete with garage and swimming pool!!

On Wednesday morning we got some new fine motor jobs. Our favourite one was feeding the tennis ball monsters pom poms!!

Keeping in the theme of Diwali, Miss Wilson made ‘Diya lamps’ with this morning. We warmed up a ball of clay in our hands and then shaped it into a bowl shape. Some of us chose rain drop shapes, diamond shapes or round shapes. Next we used clay tools to make patterns in our Diya lamps.

*Important Information*

In service day is Friday 16th November. School will be closed to all pupils – enjoy!

Have a lovely long weekend everyone and we look forward to seeing you bright eyed and bushy tailed after three days off 🙂

Mrs MacKinnon and Mrs Moir

We hope all the boys and girls enjoyed a super first few days back in term 2!

We learnt the sound ‘h’ and so we got to make our very own ‘hats’ ! h for hat. Here we are with our fabulous hats on –

At the end of the week we were very lucky and played some Halloween games with Mrs Moir. We had a go of ”dookin’ for apples’ (apple bobbing). It was quite tricky but so much fun. We had to kneel on a chair with our hands behind our backs and a fork in our mouths. Then we had to drop the fork and try and stab an apple! We had to concentrate really hard.

We are now entering our second week with Miss Wilson and she has been taking some lessons this week as well. On Monday we learnt the sound ‘f’. We worked out that fireworks start with ‘f’ and so Miss Wilson helped us make a firework picture. Aren’t they fantastic?

If you look very carefully in our classroom at parents evening you might spot them!

In one of our maths sessions this week we learnt all about seasons and what different things happen in each of the four seasons. We were able to tell Miss Wilson that we are currently in Autumn. We know this because the leaves are changing colour and falling off the trees.

On Tuesday afternoon we had our first trip to the forest! We wrapped up warm in our waterproofs and woollies (thank you and well done everyone for bringing appropriate clothing!) and set off out to the forest. When we arrived we played ‘1,2,3 where are you?’ which is a bit like hide and seek. We were so good at finding the boys and girls in P1/2 and we thought hiding was great fun! Can you see us hiding?

Our main activity whilst we were in the forest was building our own team bonfires! We had to collect lots of twigs and sticks to go on the bottom and then we filled the top with autumn leaves. The leaves were the perfect colour to be our fire.