This week we have been learning the ‘o’ and ‘b’ sound.  We have been learning how to form the letters properly as well as working in an office, drawing an octopus, ordering the alphabet, making octagons, bathing babies with bubbles, reading books, playing Buckeroo, building bridges with the blocks and making ‘b’ with buttons!

We have started learning about Subtraction this week.  We have investigated different tools we can use to help us.  This week we used our fingers and cubes.

We continued learning about Scotland this week too.  We have been exploring Google Earth to find Scotland, Catrine and our houses…

During our weekly walk we were very lucky to pass Coila’s house and her mum very kindly showed us Coila’s new pet.  Look at little Twinkle!  Big thanks to Coila’s mum for showing us!

We have also been learning how to play the Glockenspiel along to music this week.

And not forgetting, we had GREAT fun with cardboard boxes!

Children should be ready to perform their poem on Wednesday 22nd January.

Thanks again for your support!

Please find attached (and sent home today) a copy of the Primary 1 Scottish poem for our whole school Scots Competition.  This should be practiced at home over the next two weeks.  The children will have an opportunity to recite their poem in class and then one pupil will be chosen to perform during our whole school Scots Celebration.

Bus Queue

By J K Annand

Waitin for the bus

A wifie made a fuss.

Said it wasna fair

To keep us standin there.

Seemed to think she spoke

For aa the ither folk.

Ach we dinna care,

Hou long we waited there.

We played the game ‘I spy’

And time fair stottit by.

We wadna get the blame

If the schule bus never came.

What a busy first week back!

In numeracy, we revised addition and tried out all our tools to discover which one we preferred using.  The tools we used were our fingers, cubes, Numicon, Numberlines and Rekenreks.

In literacy, we were learning the ‘f’ sound.  We painted flowers, drew foxes, built farms and played with food.  We also walked to see a farm during our weekly walk.

We also started reading our own books this week.  We were so excited to read!

We started our new topic this week, Scotland. We all made Scottish flags using crayons, paper and lollipop sticks. We also started learning our Scots poem for the whole school competition.  Look out on the blog next week for more information.

The class worked together as a team to create a fantastic building…

The children have had a great last week at school. We made paper plate snowmen, had great fun at our party and loved our cinema trip! Thank you for all your support over the last term too and we wish everyone a lovely holiday

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This week we have been revisiting our sounds ‘g’ and ‘l’.  We have also been making CVC words.

In numeracy, we have been learning how to use the Rekenreks to help us add numbers together.

Jessica helped make new playdough for the class and they loved making winter cookies.

We had a lovely walk on Tuesday wearing our Christmas and Winter hats.

This week we have been learning the ‘g’ sound. We had great fun creating golden g’s, glitter glue pictures, drawing and building houses for Goldilocks.

In numeracy, we have been continuing to use a Numberline to help us add.

We also created paper snowflakes to add to our winter display. Doesn’t it look fantastic!
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This week has been our Big Talks. Everyone’s talk was amazing and I want to thank you so much for the fantastic effort that was put in at home!

We have also been consolidating our sounds ‘r,d,m,e,c and k’. We made dens, McDonald’s, Kids play, cafes, ramps and rockets!

We also began exploring tools to use when we are adding. This week we used Numberlines to help us and we started completing calculations in our squared jotter. Look at our neat work.

Some children worked together as a team to complete six new jigsaws. Terrific teamwork!

This week is all about correct formation of letters.  We talk a lot in class about ‘Sky, Grass and Ground’ letters so please encourage your child to follow the example at the top of the page. Please complete by Friday 29th November.

This week we have been learning the ‘c’ and ‘k’ sound.  We have built castles, made ‘c’ with counters, drew letters with cars, set up a cutting station, made crowns for kings and investigated keys and locks.

In maths, we have begun to explore addition.

We were very lucky to have a visit from Darryl in P7 to show  us his amazing trumpet skills.  Thanks Darryl, I think you inspired a few of us!

We played outside again this week with the chalk.

We have been learning lots of owl facts this week and made fantastic Owl Fact Files.  We also started learning about Nocturnal and Diurnal animals.

We also had a lovely visit from some P7s to show us our fantastic Bookbug bags.  Caleb read us a story and it was SO funny!