Look at our ffffffabulous writing of our sounds, a whole word and our names.
Primary 1- Learning through play
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!
P1 – learning to rhyme and write
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!
P1 – Different ways to show a number and estimating how many
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!
P1 – Daniel turns 5
We had another birthday in our class with Daniel turning 5! Happy birthday Daniel 🎂🎈
P1 – Our Garden Plans Are Well Underway
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.
Managing risk and having fun learning in the mud
We loved our muddy morning playing and learning together in the digging pit and mud kitchen. We worked safely and shared tools and resources, being kind and considerate to those around us. We saw lots of worms and placed them safely inside the tyres. We looked for treasure in the soil and saw how deep into the earth we could dig with the different sized tools. In the mud kitchen we used different pots, pans, bowls, bottles and things to mix and stir to make all kinds of tasty treats such as mud milkshakes, hot chocolate, worm soup and magic potions! We practised our pouring, measuring and comparing skills and best of all had lots of muddy fun! Continue reading Managing risk and having fun learning in the mud
P1- phonics and number learning
We have been learning to hear and recognise the initial sound in a word and are getting very good at this fun matching game. Look at all of the pictures we have matched up to their initial sounds!
We also focussed on learning all about the number 4. After watching our favourite video clip ‘Counting with Rodd’ who told us lots of fun things about the number 4, we worked hard at our 3 numbery learning tasks. One was being numicon bakers where we worked with a partner to spin a number, then ‘bake’ a playdough numicon biscuit for our partner to ‘buy’ with the correct number of counters, it was lots of fun! We also completed our giant ‘all about number’ workbook page, remembering how to hold our pencils ✏️and how to sit comfy to make sure our work was nice. Finally, we took part in a number talk with Miss Thompson and found her lots of ways to show 4. Look at all of our different groups of 4 in the photos!
P1- sound hunt
As part of our literacy learning we went out and about hunting for sounds. When we found sounds we knew hiding in the print around us, we practised writing them on our check list. We shared jobs with our partners. We found lots and lots of sounds everywhere!
P1 – Numeral formation
We loved using the foam to play with and write our numbers in, trying hard to remember how to form these correctly. We even matched the numicon tile to the numeral and wrote our names so as everyone knew which lovely work was ours.
It’s was a messy job but lots of fun!
