This week our Numeracy Homework is all about money.  Please complete and return by Friday 6th March.

Another busy week in Primary One along with lots of fun! In literacy we have been learning the ‘y’ and ‘z’ sound.  We have worked on recognising the sounds, forming them correctly and using them to make words.  As well as building yachts, designing yogurt pots, zoo building, drawing Zog lots of zig zags!

Please clink on the link below for the Jolly Phonics songs to practise at home.

In maths, we have been continuing to learn our days of the week.  We have also been continuing to talk about equal sharing.

Through our Forces topic, we have been investigating forces in everyday objects.  We used fantastic vocabulary when we were experimenting with forces.  We were pushing, pulling, stretching, rubbing, squashing, twisting and bouncing.  The children were also really interested in gravity so we enjoyed watching videos of astronauts eating in space!

We’ve also been busy being very creative this week.  We created wonderful watercolour art and had lots of fun playing the glockenspiels along to music.

This week is the start of our next  3 week Numeracy Homework Block.  This weeks homework is ‘Play Beetle’.  Please complete and return by Friday 27th February.  We have had lots of fun playing it in class so we’re sure you’ll enjoy playing it at home too.  Don’t worry if you don’t have a dice, you can use a phone/tablet to search for a dice online to play along with.

Happy playing!

This week our focus sounds were J and V. We practised recognising, saying and forming the letters. We consolidated our learning by building jets, jungles, doing jigsaws and crafting jellyfish! We also created lovely artwork of flowers in vases and used vegetables to do some printing! We also had lots of practise reading and writing words with our sound in them, as well as playing games with our common words.

In numeracy, we have started to learn about sharing. We introduced our new concept using a lovely story called ‘The Doorbell Rang’. We listened to the story and took on roles to act it out. We got to share out some delicious cookies between our characters but just when we had managed to share them out fairly…uh oh! The doorbell rang and in came some new guests! We managed to share them out again but just as we did… the doorbell rang, AGAIN!

We had so much fun taking part in this activity and enjoyed combining literacy, numeracy and drama skills! We were also able to use our learning to work together and ensure that the Gingerbread Men had a ‘fair share’ of buttons.

We have also started to learn about time. This week we had a focus on the days of the week.

This week we took part in a push experiment in science and also watched a perfomance of ‘Oliver Twist’ in the hall. What a fun week!

Although it has been a short week, it has been another busy week in Primary One.

In literacy, we have been working on our writing.  We have been learning to write in sentences and have been talking about our writing targets. We have also been word building and had a common words disco!

In numeracy, we have been continuing to learn about money.  This week we discussed change and calculated change from 10p.

We have also had Discovery Dens again this week.  Here is a little look at the music den playing the Glockenspiels.

Here are a few pictures from our gymnastics…

On Friday we talked about Valentines Day and made beautiful cards to take home.  I’m sure you’ll love them as much as I did!

It was digital learning day on Friday too so we used the Chromebooks to play lots of games.  We are really enjoying the Pay for It game.  Click on the link below to play at home too…

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/payForIt/index.html

P1 had a lovely first week in February with lots of excitement on our trip and as usual, lots of new learning!

This week we focussed on the ‘h’ and ‘w’ sounds. We practised forming the letters and word building. We enjoyed creating headbands, hand hedgehogs, building hospitals, drawing Mrs Watt, making wands and enjoyed some Where’s Wally books!

We have been enjoying reading and writing 3 letter CVC words!

Here are a few pictures of just some of the other things we have been up to this week!

Make sure to check our previous post to find out all about about our trip!

What a great day we had at Dumfries House today.  Working together as a team to build shelters, setting campfires carefully and a visit to the farm to learn about different animals.

Here’s our thoughts  from our trip:

Ava – I liked seeing the pigs

Jorgia – I liked the chickens

Ayla – I liked seeing the pigs too

Phoebe – I liked seeing the pigs

Nuala – I liked playing the underwater warm up game

Daisy-Mai – I liked starting the fire

Murray – I liked all the eggs

Jack – I liked seeing the pigs

Ashlyn – I liked the fire and the den building

Hannah – I liked feeding the animals

Carter – I liked getting the bus to Dumfries House

Jayden – I liked the pigs

Lawson – I liked feeling the eggs because they were nice and warm

Kobee – I like making the fire

Tommy – I like setting the fire

Freddie – I liked seeing the water coming down on to the dens

Here we are at the end of a wonderful month in Primary 1. We have been celebrating all things Scotland and this week had the chance to attend the Scots Verse Celebration. We heard all of the winners recite their poems and were especially excited to hear our P1 winner, Freddie, perform. Here is a video of Freddie performing. We are so proud of you!

In numeracy, we have continued to work on money. We have also been learning about doubling! As a class we came up with useful little prompts to help us remember the “doubles” which will help to speed up our calculations.

We have also been working on reading and writing CVC words. This week we also started reading Bug Club books in small groups. Some of us made fantastic drawings of our the character “Sid”.

We have also been busy in the gym, continuing our gymnastics block.  We got a chance to use some of our large equipment including the monkey bars and ropes! As part of Scotland topic, we have been making maps. Some of us used the blocks to make a fantastic map of a town!

This week we have been continuing to learn our new sounds ‘b’ and ‘u’. We’ve worked on recognising, writing and word building as well as bathing babies, designing butterflies, bikes, bagpipes and umbrellas, building with the blocks and playing with under the water sea creatures.

Please click on the link below for the jolly phonics songs…

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/4rIbTZHZak4

https://youtu.be/RRdzsvPUMh0?feature=shared

Here’s is a wee clip of us singing our ‘u’ song!

In numeracy, we’ve continued to focus on money and subtraction. This week our focus has been learning to make different amounts using the correct coins and subtraction using a number line.

Through our Scotland topic, we all took part in the Scots Poem competition. Well done to everyone for working hard to learn and perform their poem.

We had another fantastic ‘Discovery Dens’ session this week. This is where the whole school get a chance to discover a range of activities and develop new skills, in their house groups. Here are a few photos from our pancake making from Den 2.

Here are some picture from our gymnastics session. We enjoyed using the equipment, practising different jumps and balances.

Please remember to keep practising our class poem ‘Corrie Doon’.  In class judging will take place tomorrow and the final judging will be on Thursday 22nd.

Good luck and have fun!