In maths this week we have been focusing on making amounts using the best combination of coins.

On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day.  We had so much fun reading our books from home. We spent time chatting about our favourite parts with our friends. After break, some of the children from the Reading Leadership group had set up a Gingerbread Man themed treasure hunt for us.  We worked in small teams finding all the characters.  In the afternoon Mrs Robertson came down to read us a story. It was a lovely day and we were surprised with a book each to take home!

In PE this week we continued to focus on balancing and rolling.  Here are some of our amazing balances.

The children have been working really hard this week and have been using the iPads to capture their own learning. Check out their fantastic photos.

In Literacy we have been learning the ‘qu’ and ‘x’ sounds

In Maths we have started a topic on Money and have been working hard to recognise the coins from 1p to £2.  You can practice this at home by getting your child to sort and recognise coins and maybe even try to put them in order.

In PE this week we started our Gymnastics topic with Mrs Schendel and we focused on balancing and travelling on the mats.

We enjoyed another Cosmic Yoga session. This time it was Sonic theme! Can you see our little hedgehogs 🦔…

We have had a busy few days in Primary One. We have really focused on reading and have been trying really hard to sound out the words in our heads.

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’.

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.

We have had such a busy week preparing for our Christmas Fayre and practising for our Nativity that we nearly forgot to take photos.  Here are some pictures from today where we did lots of nice Christmas themed activities.  We also completed a drawing tutorial and learned how to draw some beautiful snowmen.

We are very excited for our last week in school next week.  On Wednesday we have our nativity in the morning during the Christmas Service as well as our party in the afternoon.  On Thursday we are visiting the Cinema to see the Trolls movie and on Friday we will be having a fun day of playing.

Primary One need your help for a special activity we are planning for next Monday and Tuesday.  We will be learning the ‘g’ sound and thought it would be fun to practice wrapping up gifts so we would love it of you could raid the recycling boxes and send in any small cardboard boxes you may have. nothing too big please, just about the size of a cat food box or biscuits, that kind of thing.  Anything that you think would be good to wrap up.  Thank you so much for your help.

What a busy term we have had. The children have all settled so well into Primary One and have been working their socks off.

This week we have been focusing on counting and ordering numbers in Numeracy.

In Literacy our new sounds this week were ‘p’ and ‘n’ and we have learned the common words ‘an’, ‘in’ and ‘is’.  Here are some songs to help you practise at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4N3f-heFM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ylStRZtas

In PE this week we had great fun playing different  games such as the Traffic Light Game and Dance Tig.

This was our student teacher, Miss Carr’s last week in school and we wish her the best of luck for the future and thank her for all her hard work.

Have a lovely week off and we will see you again on Tuesday 24th October.

Mrs Cook and Mrs Ferguson

erin.cook@eastayrshire.org.uk

jill.ferguson@eastayrshire.org.uk

This week in Primary One we have been very busy bees. In maths we have been focusing on writing the numbers 8 and 9 as well as working on counting and ordering numbers to ten.

In Literacy we have been learning the ‘s’ and ‘i’ sounds.  Here are some songs that we have been using in class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwupro4AVsY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xxne8DHvwA

In PE this week we played games with the parachute.

We also listened to different pieces of music and used our bodies to show how they made us feel. This is how we looked during a sad piece of music.

We have had another busy week in Primary One.  In numeracy we have been learning to write 6 and 7.

In literacy we started learning our first two sounds; ‘a’ and ‘t’.  We have been learning to form the letters correctly and identify the sounds in words.

In our People Who Help Us topic we have been learning all about nurses and how they help us.