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

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 🙂

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