What a fantastic Health Week we have had! Throughout the week, we have enjoyed a wide range of exciting activities, including visits from Childsmile, the Fire Service and Opticians, litter picking, laser tag, a silent disco, Kurling, food tasting with the Cotton Trail and our amazing family fun day!
We would like to say a huge thank you to all of the visitors, organisations and community partners who gave up their time to make Health Week so special. Your support helped provide memorable experiences and valuable learning opportunities for our children. They all had a wonderful week!
This has been another busy week in Primary 1 with lots of exciting learning taking place.
In Literacy, we were introduced to the ‘ph’ digraph. We learned that two letters can work together to make one sound and enjoyed taking part in lots of activities to help us recognise and use our new sound. You could ask us if we can think of any words containing ‘ph’ at home.
It is wonderful to see how much progress we have all made in Primary 1. We are so proud of our work and are recognising our own progress with our writing targets.
In Numeracy, we have been practising counting in 10s and becoming more confident at spotting number patterns. We have also been learning about symmetry. We explored lines of symmetry and created our own symmetrical pictures by making both sides match.
As part of Health & Wellbeing, we have been learning all about our bodies and how they help us every day. We also discussed personal boundaries and learned about our “space bubbles”. We talked about the importance of respecting other people’s personal space and how we can help everyone feel safe and comfortable.
We all enjoyed singing this wee song about personal space and boundaries.
Here are some more pictures from across the week, including art with Mrs Ferguson and some parachute fun in P.E!
This has been another fantastic and very busy week in Primary 1. This week we say goodbye to our student teacher, Miss Kockaya who has had an excellent six weeks with us in Primary 1. Miss Kockaya would like to share some snaps of just some of the exciting activities and new learning that P1 have experienced during her placement.
Next week is Big Talk week. Please find below details of when your child will present their talk. They should bring along any notes, pictures, posters or toys for their talk on this day.
This has been another busy week in Primary 1 with lots of new learning. We were introduced to the ‘th’ digraph which we learned is quite special as it can make two different sounds. You could ask us about this at home.
We took part in lots of activities to practise this sound. We also continued our work on ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ and learned about summarising. We were able to retell the story, using only the most important details, to a friend. We then were able to sequence the story in the correct order.
In numeracy, we continued to develop our knowledge of number patterns and have been focussing on counting in 2s.
We also began some new learning about ‘Data Handling’ with Miss Kockaya. We went outside on a lovely sunny afternoon to collect some objects which we then counted and sorted. We also began to learn about pictograms. Take a look at some of our pictures!
We have also started to learn about ‘Castles’. We had lots of ‘wonders’ about castles and can’t wait to find out all about them!
We also had a visit from some of the boys and girls from the nursery as part of their transition. We had a great time welcoming them into our classroom and showing them some of our favourite toys and activities.
This week we began learning to use digraphs, we had a focus on “sh”. We have been talking part in lots of activities, including shape art, building shops & ships, as well as reading and writing lots of words containing the sh digraph. We also enjoyed reading in our groups and creating a visualisation of the characters from “The Tiger Who Came To Tea”.
In numeracy, we are beginning to look at number patterns. We explored counting in 2s. We also continued to use different strategies at our calculation station and had a fantastic time creating our own ‘snakes and ladders’ games on the 100 squares. This helps us with our counting, number awareness, dot patterns and turn taking!
We got creative and designed some wonderful spring themed art for the Catrine Show competition. We talked about all of the wonderful things about spring, including the lovely weather, beautiful flowers, baby animals and buzzing bees. We tried to include lots of these in our design.
The highlight of the week however, for Mrs Hasson, Miss Kockaya and lots of our pupils was definitely stopping by the park during our Thursday afternoon walk. We had a fantastic time.
Twice a year, the children take part in our whole school ‘Big Talk Homework Challenge’. This is where your child gets the opportunity to prepare and present a talk to the class. The topic will change depending on the focus for that term. This term our topic is ‘My Favourite Toy’.
At home, your child should prepare and practise their talk. They can bring in a toy, photos or posters to help them. Please see below a great example of a poster that was made. They used lots of drawings instead of writing which helped the child remember what to say.
Some ideas to include in their talk might be:
What is your toy? why is it your favourite?
where did you get your toy? How long have you had it?
How does it work? what makes it special?
The talk should be ready to be presented the week beginning Monday 11th May. More details will be given shortly (please check Blog) about which day that week your child will be giving their talk.
As Term 3 comes to an end we would like to let you know how proud we are of the effort and progress that has been made by our fantastic Primary 1’s this term.
We can hardly believe that we will soon be heading into the final term of Primary 1.
Here are some pictures of the wonderful creations for our annual Egg Design competition and our ‘shared play’ with Primary 2. All of our designs were absolutely brilliant. We really do have some very creative boys and girls in Primary 1.
Congratulations to Hannah, the P1 winner of the competition. Hannah’s entry ‘Little Bunny Bun’ was imaginative, creative and had lots of attention to detail. Go Hannah!
We hope everyone has a lovely and restful Easter Holiday. We will be looking forward to seeing all of you after the holiday.
In literacy, our focus were ‘q’ and ‘x’. We learned all about the sounds they make and how to form each letter correctly. We used our new sounds when reading and writing words. Here are the links to the Jolly Phonics songs we use to practise.
To practise our sounds, we took part in lots of activities including playdoh, noughts and crosses, bingo, designing a crown for a queen and using the blocks to build her a castle!
In maths, we continued our learning about sharing. We have been exploring halving. We set up our own pizza shop and had to carefully split our pizza into two equal parts. We know that both parts need to be the same size for it to be a half.
We also had a chance to share objects out fairly between two people. This is also called halving. We learned about some pesky pirates who were not being very fair and helped them share their treasure equally.
We have also been continuing to learn about the months of the year and the seasons.
This week we have been working on something special ahead of Mother’s Day. In the middle of the week we drew portraits of our Mum and added lots of detail. At pick up time, we put each drawing in the window. We asked our families if they could guess which drawing was ours from all the details we added.
On Thursday and Friday, we worked on some beautiful drawings of flowers in a vase. We used paint sticks in lots of vibrant colours to bring our flowers to life. We then cut these out and stuck them onto a card. If you are a mum of a Primary 1 who would like a little surprise on Sunday, then look away now!
