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!

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

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

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!

This term we will go back to:

Tuesdays: walking

Thursday : inside PE

Please dress appropriately for our walking days, ie jackets with hoods, sturdy shoes and remember gym kits on Thursdays, removing any earrings too.

Thanks again for your continued support.

Happy New Year! It was lovely to welcome everyone back this week, ready for another exciting term in Primary One.

In literacy, our sounds this week are ‘g’ and ‘o’. We’ve been working hard on our formation, building words, building houses for Goldilocks and the 3 bears, creating octopuses and working in an office.

Please click the link below for the Jolly Phonics songs.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cL3lgNps-Xc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-qI9VnFqjM

In numeracy, we have started learning about money. We talked about what money is and why it’s important we learn about it at school. We have been learning to recognise coins to £2. We’ve also been continuing to work on our number formation and counting.

We began to learn about subtraction. We know that when we subtract, the total gets smaller and the amount we have is less.
We were able to read and work out the answer to some subtraction calculations. We especially enjoyed the ‘squashy subtraction’.

We have started our Scotland topic. We talked about what we already know about Scotland and what we would like to find out. We also had great fun listening to lots of Scottish poems when we were voting for our class poem.

We also began our new topic at P.E. We will be developing our gymnastics skills. We began by learning how to move the equipment we need safely. We worked together in small groups to lift the mats and benches into the right place. We were then able to clear away and store the equipment in the right place at the end of our lesson.

As part of our whole school Scotland topic, each pupil will learn a Scots poem. In class we had fun listening to lots of poems and then voted on the one we would like to learn. The winner was ‘Corrie Doon’, by Jill Bennett. All children have been given a copy to practise at home. Please practise with your child and keep an eye on the blog for judging dates and Scots Celebration events 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿