We took time to share our ‘Story of my Learning’ books with our friends and our families yesterday. We were proud to show all of the wonderful learning, effort and achievements we have already made as big school boys or girls!
A huge thank you to all of the grown ups who came and gave such wonderful feedback, hugely appreciated!
After some help from our P7 buddies in how to use the laptops, we now have 2 of our very own in our class. They are available to use everyday but we have a 10 minute timer to ensure everyone can get a turn. We love to select from a range of learning games to help our learning across the curriculum and develop our skills with the use of technology. 💻
We were all excited to get a tricky number challenge in a secret envelope. We had to use our learning about the order of number and counting to sort out all of the cards that were in a muddle. The cards were either numerals or 10s frames. We worked on this all by ourselves but had our friends around if we needed to look or ask for help. We all did a fantastic job of this tricky number challenge and were very proud of ourselves!
We were learning the skills of balancing and teamwork in the gym.
Look at our ffffffabulous writing of our sounds, a whole word and our names.
We are always learning new and exciting things in P1.
At the playdough area we have been creating our own dragons like some of the characters we have met in a story this week. We have shared information about our playdough dragons with others at the table. Some of our dragons were ‘friendly but spikey’ and others with ‘eyes out on the side of their big heads’.
Linking to our french learning about colours, lots of us decided to design our own rainbows 🌈 at the art area and we have all been giving lovely wrapped gifts to our classmates after playing at the great gift wrapping station! It’s been exciting to see how many little surprises we can fit into the little gift boxes before we wrap them up all by ourselves.
Some others have been working on designing marble mazes. It’s tricky but fun trying to get the marble from the green to the red line but we can do it if we keep trying!
Another job has been investigating ice in our water tray. We discovered that the ice can float in the water, that when it melts it disappears into the water completely and that it melts faster if the water is warm or if it is broken off into smaller pieces!
We have been working hard on our understanding of rhyme. We know that words that rhyme sound the same at the end and we hear them lots in stories, nursery rhymes and in songs. We listened to rhyming stories, did some rhyming word matching jobs and worked with partners to spot the odd word out- the one that didn’t rhyme! Our funny rhyming hats helped us to stand up and explain to the others why we made our choice using the words and pictures to help.
We have also been trying hard to write our sounds and names in lots of different ways and our new favourite was water painting these outside. We had to be fast before the sun dried them up and made our hard work disappear!
We have been learning there are lots of ways to show a number including with spots on a dice, a tens frame, tally marks, on fingers, in a digit, as a word, as numicon and as a group of almost anything!!! We know that to count correctly we need to touch and count everything only once and the last number is how many. It doesn’t matter the size or the position we start.
We had lots of fun solving this number puzzle and also guessing what was inside the feely bags and estimating how many things were hiding inside! We then used our super counting skills to check if we guessed just right, too little or too much!
We had another birthday in our class with Daniel turning 5! Happy birthday Daniel 🎂🎈
We are independent learners who can make decisions, contribute to and influence our learning environment. We have been making grand plans to develop our very own P1 garden area into an outdoor learning space with lots of opportunities for us to grow and develop life and learning skills.
We have already focussed on what things we already have in the area, worked together to share and compare spaces we would like to play with those we wouldn’t, measured and figured out the shape of the space and came up with some ideas of things we would like to play and learn in our garden.
