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.

What a party we had today! We had a special visit from Santa too!

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.

This week we have been learning the ‘g’ and ‘l’ sound.  We had great fun playing with green gloop, making golden g and glitter glue pictures, wrapping gifts and building a house for Goldilocks…

We have also been learning about more tools we can use to help us add.  We learned how to use Number Lines and Rekenreks…

We also decorate our Christmas tree and enjoyed playing with some new games…

Big Talk

What fantastic talks we have heard this week. We absolutely loved finding out more about all our families and the children did so well presenting to the class!

Addition

We have been learning how to use Part/Whole models to add two numbers this week…

Guitar making

This week we made our own band! We used the large blocks, strings and tape to make guitars to play along to the music…

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.

We had great fun on our walk this week. We played lots of tig games at the games hall cage.

We used the blocks to create some amazing buildings.

We played a sound game to revise our sounds ‘r, d, e, m, c and k’

 

We used the pegs to make numbers.

 

Gracie, Lillie-Rose and Leah told us all about their dance show. We were all so proud of them!

On Thursday we spent the morning making lanterns for the ‘Make Catrine Sparkle’ parade.  It was very sticky work but we all did so well.

Next week is our first Big Talk week. Please see previous post or letter for details.

Please send in any posters/photos etc on the day your child will be presenting their talk:

Monday 27th – Freddy, Harris, Ella, Gracie and Jaxson

Tuesday 28th – Ashton, Elleana, Meah, Dawson and Dalton

Wednesday 29th – Jay-Jay, Ethan, Ruaridh, Lillie-Rose and Savannah

Thursday 30th – Daniel, Blair, Leah, Jake and Emily