We have been working so hard this week. In literacy we have been learning the ‘h’ and ‘w’ sounds. On Monday and Tuesday we made happy faces with hair and hats, we built a hospital role play out of the blocks and had fun dressing up to care of each other. We also played hopscotch and then made it ever harder by adding an obstacle course first.

In maths we started learning to subtract and have been focusing on “taking away” 1, which we realised is just the number before, or a jump back on the numberline.

We also started looking at different tools we can use to help us subtract. So far we have used our fingers and cubes…

For our Scotland topic we have been reading Scots versions of some of our favourite stories and learning lots of new Scots words. One of our favourties is ‘tapselteerie’ which was in our class poem and means ‘upside-down’.

This week we have been learning the ‘b’ and ‘u’ sound. We worked hard to form the letters and make words using these sounds. When learning the ‘b’ sound had great fun bathing babies in bubbles, building bridges, ball pit fun, playing bingo, reading books and creating beautiful butterflies with a buddy. When learning the ‘u’ sound we played with underwater creatures, made ‘u’ umbrellas, designed underpants and built blocks up that we could go under.

In Numeracy, we have been learning how to add one and two as well as starting to learn about doubles.

It was a bit slippy for our walk this week so we decided to do some Cosmic Yoga in class. We loved moving our bodies to the Teenage Ninja Turtles video! 🐢

Primary One have worked so hard this week.  We have started our topic on Scotland and talked about what we know and what we would like to learn.

We  sent home our Scottish poem “Jock and Jean” on Wednesday.  Please practise this as much as possible as we will be performing it as a class at the Burns’ Celebration on Wednesday 31st January.

In PE we started learning some Social Dances and this week we tried the St Bernard’s Waltz and the Canadian barn dance.  The children were absolutely fantastic and had great fun twirling about the hall.

In Numeracy we have been learning all the different ways to make 10.

In Literacy we have started using our sounds to decode reading books and we have learned the ‘o’ sound.  We had great fun building offices with the blocks.