As it was British Science Week we had great fun exploring and playing with the plasma machine.
In literacy we were doing some revision of the previous sounds and really focusing on letter formation. In maths we continued to work on coin recognition.
In PE we practised throwing , rolling and kicking towards a target.
Please remind the children to check their bags on Sunday morning as there may or may not be a nice wee surprise for all the Mummies in the class if they were here on Friday afternoon.
What a busy week in Primary One! This week in numeracy we started our money topic and the children have been learning to identify coins up to £2. We have been doing lots of different money related activities in class such as sorting coins, coin rubbing, creating a shop and playing different games. If you could continue to practise this at home that would be amazing as it’s quite a tricky concept to learn.
In literacy we learned the letter q which is part of the ‘qu’ phoneme as well as the letter ‘x’. We made crowns fit for a queen. We drew quacking ducks and quad bikes and we played at doctors giving x-rays as well as making treasure maps with X marking the spot.
This week we are starting to focus on money so our homework is all about different coins. It is called ‘Recognising Coins’. Please complete and return by Monday 13th March.
We have had a short but busy week here in P1. The highlight of the week was definitely welcoming the families in to see the new class and have a wee play. Here are some pictures of the lovely morning we had. Thank you to all who were able to attend. The children loved showing off their new class and getting to show you their favourite activities.
In literacy this week we have been focusing on writing. On Monday we wrote a set of instructions to tell people how to wash their hands and on Thursday, we wrote a book review for world book day. We reviewed the book ‘Dogger’ by Shirley Hughes and the children wrote about their favourite part of the story.
For World Book Day we teamed up with the Primary 7s to do some paired reading. We loved cosying in with them and reading some of our favourite stories with our buddies.
We had great fun in PE this week. We practiced shooting a ball into the goal, threw javelins, threw beanbags into hoops and practiced skipping.
In numeracy this week we have been so busy doing addition and subtraction assessments and in literacy we have been learning the ‘y’ and ‘z’ sounds. We painted beautiful yellow sunflowers and we made a zoo.
This week is all about organising the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Hope you enjoy this activity and if you’d rather chose a more familiar story – then feel free to change it!
Please complete and return by Monday 27th January.
A short week here in P1 but we still managed to work our socks off. In numeracy we learned all about missing number addition and subtraction calculations and we used number lines and Numicon to help us work them out.
In literacy we were revising letter formation and writing silly sentences. We also tried to make letters using the big wooden blocks.
Just before the holidays we got a beautiful new Promethean board in our classroom but I think we were more excited by the giant box it came in and all the bubble wrap, foam and metallic foil used to protect it. We had so much fun creating things with all the packaging and lying on the floor drawing on the boxes.
We have had a busy week in P1. We have been making jam sandwiches and learning some Scottish country dancing as well as our usual numeracy and literacy work.
For P.E this week, we learned the St Bernard’s Waltz and the Canadian Barn Dance. We had great fun partnering up and whirling each other round. The children were brilliant and following the steps as well as putting their own spin on things!
In literacy we learned ‘j’ and ‘v’ and had a great time making jam sandwiches, creating jellyfish, painting volcanoes, making a village and pretending to be vets. I have put new sound cards in the book bags for the children who brought their book bags today but still need quite a few in next week if you could try hard to remember to bring them in.
In Numeracy we have continued to learn subtraction and have been trying different ways to work our calculations.
Last week we started learning about Subtraction so this is a fun way to talk about numbers getting smaller/less. It is called Roll Over . It should be completed and returned to school by Monday 6th February.
If you would like to listen to a version of the song included in this task, please follow the link below:
We absolutely love being down the ‘Wee End’ again in our new classroom. Here are some of the areas we have in our class. We have a cosy book corner with our own couch, a new loose parts and block play area, a maths area and shelves full of games and puzzles and an even bigger creation station as that is one of our favourite areas.
In Numeracy this week we have been working on subtraction. We started by looking at taking away one and realised that this is just “the number before” or “one jump back on the number line”. When we looked at taking away 2 we could see that that was just “two jumps back on the number line”.
In literacy this week we learned the ‘h’ sound and the ‘w’ sound. We have had great fun playing at hospitals and wrapping each other up in bandages.
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