100 Days of School – Doesn’t Time Fly!

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Wow we can’t believe that it has been 100 days since we started school… but  it has! On Monday we celebrated our 100 days of school.

The first thing we did was count all of our numbers on our number square then we added our last bear which said 100 and we all gave a cheer. Next we all took out our magic pencils and helped to write it on our chart. That got our celebrations off to a great start.

Next we counted out how far we could travel if we just used 100 steps. Mrs Bell helped us and we all went in different directions. It was so much fun that Mrs MacDonald even joined in and that helped us to see that the people with longer legs could travel the furthest.

We all took turns at seeing what models we could make with 100 bricks. Some people made a road, others made rockets and someone even managed to make a car. It was lots of fun and we had to plan what we wanted to make so that we didn’t run out of bricks.

When we were in our classes we had to use our brains to think of all of the words we knew how to write and spell. Our teachers asked us to think of 100 words, 50 words from P1a1 and 50 words from P1a2 because we learned that 50 + 50 = 100. We really amazed our  teachers by thinking of some fantastic words and showing them we could write and spell them!

We decided that at a party the important person usually gets to wear a badge, Dylin in P1a2 got to wear a special badge this week because he got to be a big brother and he was very proud. We thought that we would make necklaces instead of badges and that we would wear them all day. They had all different patterns on them but all of them looked very special for the rest of the day.

We also made ourselves a 100 day hat. We counted how many rows there were on our number square and found out that there were 10 and each row had 10 numbers in it. We all took ten strips of paper and put ten spots on each strip and that all added up to 100 spots! We think they are pretty cool!

In the Active Learning Zone we made our centipede cake with Mrs Munro. It is very long and has 100 legs and 100 spots we are very proud of all our hard work.

In the afternoon we had our 100 Days Party! We played lots of games our favourites were 100 Corners which Aamir won and our 100 Pennies Treasure hunt! Mrs Mackay and Miss Davies hid 100 shiny pennies all over the hall and we all had to find them and fill in our 100 Near Square. It was lots of fun and got quite tricky but we all got there in the end. Once we had finished our party games we went downstairs to have our party food. Before we could eat anything we had to make the food into 100! Some of us used crisps and some of us used carrots and grapes. After we had finished our challenge we got to eat our food and have a slice of the delicious cake we made earlier.

  

It was a brilliant way to celebrate our 100th day of being at school!

Week Starting 13th February 2012

  • P1a1  have gym on Thursday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have music on Thursday afternoon.

The school will be closed  Monday13th February. We hope you all enjoy the long weekend and we will see you on Tuesday 14th February.

Please send in your child’s Fruit Money in a named envelope  £2.60 until the Easter Holiday. Thank you to those who have already paid.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will learning about sharing in maths!

Mars, The Moon and Floating Through Space!

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What a busy time we have had in Primary One this week. We have been learning lots more about space and astronauts! We have been learning lots about the Moon and we read a story called The Man In The Moon ( A Day In The Life Of Bob) it is all about the man who looks after the moon and the adventures he has during his day. We filled out a fact file page all about the moon and we thought it was very funny that there are craters (where the aliens in the story like to hide) and ‘seas’ on the moon which don’t have any water in them!

  

  

We have also been learning all about the planet Mars. We used the Microsoft World Wide Telescope to get an amazing look at Mars and Rory thought it looked a bit like a potato! We discovered that there is a North Pole on Mars and Aiden wondered if it has its own Santa Clause and if it did how he would breathe. We loved using the thermal seeking camera to look at the planet because we could see where it was cold and were it was hot. We were amazed to discover a volcano called Olympic Mons which was HUGE! Emily told us that it must be very hot because it was lots of different colours of red. Next we made posters all about Mars using lots of facts… Do you know why  all the dust looks red on Mars?

We have been having lots of fun playing in our Space Stations which have docked in P1a1’s classroom and the Active Learning  Zone and we are really looking forward to see the spaceship which is due to land in P1a2 classroom on Monday.

In maths we are still learning all about time but we have found out that there are two different types of clock. One type of clock has a big hand and a little hand this is called an analogue clock. We also learned about digital clocks. We thought about where we have seen these clocks and looked around to see where we could find them. We saw some on our families alarm clocks, radios, mobile phones, microwaves and videos… can you think of any more places you have seen digital clocks? We have been playing lots of fun games to help us match the o’clock on the written, analogue and digital clocks.

We are all looking forward to our 100 day party on Monday!

Week Starting 6th February 2012 

  • P1a1 and P1a2 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.

The school will be closed on Thurday 9th, Friday 10th and Monday13th February. We hope you all enjoy the long weekend.

Please send in your child’s Fruit Money in a named envelope £1 until the Mid February or £2.60 until the Easter Holiday. Thank you to those who have already paid.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be having our 100 Days of School Party!

Scottish Week

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This week has been a really fun one in Primary 1 as we have been learning all about Scotland.  We started the week printing our own tartan which we think you will agree looks fantastic.  We even designed some tartan on the Promethean board.

   

We enjoyed listening to stories all about Hamish the Highland Cow, Katie Morag and The Loch Ness Monster.  We had a go at making Highland cows out of playdough.

We had lots of actvities to do at the writing table. Mr Haggis helped us to learn lots of things. 

  

We have been learning about Robert Burns and we are going to be having a poetry competition.  Primary 1a1 are learning a poem called Skatin by J.K. Annand and P1a2 are learning a poem called The Crocodile also by J.K. Annand.  Mrs McDonald will have the very tricky job of choosing a Primary 1 poetry competition winner.

On Friday we had a Fit Friday day.  In the afternoon the whole school got together to have a Highland Games.  Aamir, Bethesda, Abigail and Abdul Malik did us proud by takinhg part in lots of Scottish sports.  The hurled the haggis, tossed the wellie, leapt the burn and climbed a munro.

In the Active Learning we have been listening to Scottish music and learning some Scottish dancing.  Some of us even played instruments to go along with the dancing and music.

We have been learning how to tell the time this week.  We are getting really good at telling the time on analogue clocks and now know what o’clock it is.  Some of us even know half past times.  We enjoy using the clock fans to help us tell the time.

We are still practising adding up and Nessie helped us this week.

Week Starting 30th January 2012

  • P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have gym on Thursday afternoon.
  • Book bags will go out on Friday this week, please read with your child and return it with them on Monday morning.

Friday 27th January will be a Fit Friday so please wear your sporty clothes to school all day.

Please send in your child’s Fruit Money in a named envelope £1 until the Mid February or £2.60 until the Easter Holiday. Thank you to those who have already paid.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be learning about  the Moon and Astronauts!

Gong Xi Fa Cai – Happy Chinese New Year!

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In school this week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year. We have been learning all about the different ways that people celebrate and we have been hearing the story of how the animals each had a year named after them. 2012 is the year of the Dragon and so we each made a Chinese dragon. Chinese dragons are special because even though they can fly- they don’t have wings. We listened to the story of Chopsticks the mouse who, with a little help from Old Man Fu, helped a beautiful dragon to fly! We LOVED the story and all agreed that Chopsticks the mouse was very kind, brave and clever. In our role play areas we have made a Chinese Restaurant. We take it in turns to be the chef and  the customers. We have been practising using chopsticks too but they are quite tricky.

  

 In the Active Learning Zone we have made laterns which our teachers put up over the restaurants. Some of even tried out Chinese writing on them, just like people in China might do when the send their laterns up into the sky.  At the water tray we had to try to collect the noodles with chopsticks, this made us laugh alot but some of us got quite good at using them.  In the sand tray we had to build the great wall of China and we watched a film about the Terracotta Army and were amazed at how many of them there are  and how big they are.

  

  

In number work we are still learning to add. We have been learning the stories of 8 and 9 and we got a Dragon Adding Sheet for homework to show what we know.

Week Starting 23rd January 2012

  • P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
  • P1a2 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
  • Book bags will go out on Friday this week, please read with your child and return it with them on Monday morning.

Friday 27th January will be a Fit Friday so please wear your sporty clothes to school all day.

Please send in your child’s Fruit Money in a named envelope £1 until the Mid February or £2.60 until the Easter Holiday. Thank you to those who have already paid.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be learning about all things Scottish!

Reading Partners, Earth and beyond…….

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This week we have been learning all about the planet Earth.  We learnt that it is millions of years old and that when it is seen from space it looks blue, green and white.  We made a fact file sheet.

We watched the NASA Junior films which helped us to see and learn lots of exciting facts about space.

We enjoyed the story of Noah and the Space Ark and had great fun making slatter paintings of space.  We even drew our own planets with chalk and blended them to look just like the real ones.  P1a1 made spaceships with Mrs McLean and the are now zooming round the classroom flown by aliens!!! P1a2 are really looking forward to making them next week.

  

This week we met our Primary 7 reading partners. We read them our reading books and showed them all the sounds we knew from our sound boooks, then the Primary 7’s read us a story from our story box. It was lots of fun! Primary 7 were really impressed at how well we could read and we were really impressed with them when they read us a story. We are looking forward to reading with them again.

In maths we are still adding up and we have doing lots of work on the stories of 6 and 7.

Week Starting 16th January 2012

  • P1a2 have gym on Monday afternoon.
  • P1a1 have gym on Thursday afternoon.
  • Book bags will go out on Friday this week, please read with your child and return it with them on Monday morning.

Remember to return your gym bag and kit to school on Monday please.

Please send in your child’s Fruit Money in a named envelope £1 until the Mid February or £2.60 until the Easter Holiday. Thank you to those who have already paid.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be learning about Chinese New Year.

Happy New Year – Back down to Earth …..

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It has only been two weeks but we have been very busy.

On Thursday we told our teachers all about our holidays and we picked our favourite thing that happened and wrote it in our new writing jotters. We had to concentrate very hard to make sure that we remembered to use our best writing and fabulous finger spaces.

We also counted how many days we have been at school for and talked about the New Year date. We learned about New Year Resolutions and Miss Davies and Mrs Mackay asked us to think about what we hope to do this year. We all took a turn to tell them and they put it on the computer. We are going to print them to put into our Folios.

We learned that our new topic is going to be Space. To help us get some ideas we read the story of Winnie in Space where Winnie the witch goes into space with her cat, Wilbur. They had lots of adventures and even meet some naught alien space rabbits! After the story we used the computer to make a mind map. We had lots of great ideas about what we already knew, what we would like to learn about and what we would like the different areas of our classrooms to be. John was very clever at moving the mouse to help Mrs Mackay when P1a2 were thinking about their plan. We are so excited about our new Space project.

Week Starting 9th January 2012

  • P1a2 have gym on Monday afternoon.
  • P1a1 have gym on Wednesday afternoon with our new gym teacher.
  • Book bags will go out on Friday this week, please read with your child and return it with them on Monday morning.

Remember to return your gym bag and kit to school on Monday please.

Please send in your child’s Fruit Money in a named envelope. Thank you.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be learning about Space and the Planet Earth.

Last Few Days of Term…

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Our last few days of school have been really busy!

On Monday afternoon we had our Christmas Party. We all went to the upstairs hall and played Christmas Corners, Pass the Parcel and Musical Bumps. After all our dancing we needed a drink. So we all went down to the dining room and had our Chrsitmas party food. There was lots of carrot sticks, grapes, yogurt and a cookie. Yum, Yum!

On Tuesday morning we had M & M Productions in who did a panto called Beauty and the Beast. It was great fun. They sang songs and we all clapped and had a great time. We have been adding lots of photos to our folios to show all our learning so far this year.

We have still been couting how many days of school. We have now had 77 days of school. We are well on our way to 100!

One Wednesday we all went to the church for a service. We dressed up with costumes for the nativity scene and sang some songs with our teachers and friends.

We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year.

See everyone on Thursday 5th January 2012!

Week Starting 5th January 2012…

  • Bring a clean gym kit to school

We will be learning about a new topic this term….but it’s s surprise!

Christmas is coming…..

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What a super busy week we have had in Primary 1. 

On Tuesday we all walked to the Steps Theatre to watch a film. The film was organised by Coldside Community Forum and a huge thank you to Eddie Holmes who organised it for us. We were very lucky that the whole school got such a lovely gift of going to the cinema.On Wednesday we put on our costumes for the dress rehearsal of the Christmas show.  We loved dressing up as builders, reindeer, jinglers, kings, Santa, Mrs Claus, Mary and Joseph.  Thursday was the big day and we sung our hearts out on stage for all our families and friends.  We were fantastic and got a HUGE round of applause.

We have been working our way through our Christmas book which has got lots of activities to help us get in the Christmas mood. We have been finding sounds and counting in our book.

We have also been working hard to get ready for our Gruffalo Party which we had on Friday. We made special Gruffalo Menus and Gruffalo Party Invitations for our friends in class. We had to draw pictures  of the Gruffalo food and write our friends name using a capital letter. We all got to take home a special present of our Gruffalo Videos and we are are able to watch our videos at home with our parent and carers.

     

Then today we had our Gruffalo Party. We started by listening to the story of the Gruffalo. Then we went to the hall to play Gruffalo Games. We played Gruffalo corners, Foxes Tails and pass the Gruffalo. Next we went to the class to have our Gruffalo party food. It was tasty.

   

 

Next Week…..

Monday – Christmas Party in afternoon. Remember to bring your party clothes in your bag. Remember to pay your £1.

Tuesday – M & M productions are coming to do Beauty and the Beast. Please make sure you have paid your £3.

Wednesday – Morning – Church service 9.30am – All Welcome

                               Remember we close at 12noon sharp. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you all on Thursday 5th January 2012.

Nearly Christmas Showtime

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This week we have been really busy practising for our school Christmas Show. We want to keep our rehearsals under wraps just now but here is a little sneak preview of our costumes and props.

   

We have been doing lots of activities to help celebrate Christmas. In the Active Learning Zone we have been decorating a Christmas tree and taking a photo of it. We have lots of new Christmas apps on the iPad and have been doing Christmas jigsaws, listening to music, decorating a Christmas tree and listening to Christmas stories. We have been counting on the Promethean Board. In the reading corner we have been reading Santa stories. We have also been making pictures of Rudolph on a game on the internet. Why not have a try at some of these to practise your mouse skills…

Build a Snowman

Build Rudolph

Make a Christmas Tree

   

   

We have been continuing to learn new sounds and this week we learned ‘oo’. We must remember to practise our sounds books every night as it helps when we are reading. This week we have also made our Christmas cards. We don’t want to spoil the surprise but our handwriting is super! We have also been making cards are the writing table in the Active Learning Zone. We have lovely stamps to put on our envelopes and have been making cards for our family and friends.

   

In maths we have been doing more work on our adding stories. We have been practising writing them on our whiteboards and playing games in the Active Learning Zone.

Week Starting 12th December 2011

  • Please check homework/school bag for any letters which need signed and returned.
  • Tuesday 13th December in the morning is a trip to Steps Theatre to see Cars 2 for all the infant classes. Normal pick up time for infant children on that day.
  • Thursday 15th December is Christmas Show day. There is a performance in the afternoon and one in the evening. Remember we would ask you to bring your child back to school at 6pm for the evening performance which starts at 6.30pm. Children will need collected from their class at the end of the performance which should finish at about 7.30pm approx.

Next week we will be learning all about the story of Christmas.

PLEASE REMEMBER!!! OUR GRUFFALO FILMS PLEASE REMEMBER!!!

Please look at our Gruffalo films in the post below. We only have one comment from a parent. We would like lots more. Please tell us what you think of our Gruffalo films. We worked really hard on them and would love to hear what you have to say.

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