P1 visited the school library again last Friday and have taken a book home, which I hope you have enjoyed reading together.

Please return all books by this Friday 13th December.

Thank you

Mrs Schendel

Miller brought in his rugby medal to show us and told us all about his team at Cumnock Rugby Club.

Well done Miller!

As part of our Information Handling topic we have been learning how to complete Carroll Diagrams.  We worked together on the board then completed some individually.

Last week Coila brought in her dancing medal to show us.

Coila told us all about her dancing show, her costumes and how she performed to a big audience.

Well done Coila!

This week’s homework task is story writing.

At the beginning of Primary 1 we have been focusing on adding details to our drawings in order to tell a story.  We have focused on facial features (eyes, eyelashes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, chin) as well as ears, hair, neck and body.  We then concentrated on what our arms and fingers would be doing then focused on our legs and feet.

Now that we are learning our sounds we are beginning to use these to make words and sentences focusing on letter formation, capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

The homework task this week involves pupils drawing a detailed picture for the story, ‘I am building bricks’.  Pupils should focus on all the details above as well as including their building blocks in the picture.

Some pupils may want to copy the sentence.

I look forward to seeing all the super drawings.

Primary 1 have been so independent in getting changed into their shorts and gym shoes. Parents, it really helps us if we have names on trousers, skirts, pinafores and shorts.

We have been learning to use opposite words such as high/low, fast/slow, big/small, narrow/wide to move around the gym hall. We played banana tig and have been working as a team to play ball games.

We also tried some yoga back in class.

Primary 1 went on a shape hunt this week and found lots of 2D and 3D shapes in our classroom and playground.

Can you spot squares, rectangles, circles and triangles? Or cubes, cones, cylinders and spheres?

Please note that P1’s gym day will change from a Thursday to a Friday for the next three weeks, starting this week.

This is to accommodate rugby sessions for our older pupils.

Please remember to remove any earrings on Friday mornings for the next three weeks and ensure pupils have their gym kits in school.

Thank you.

Mrs Schendel