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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

What a day! Mrs Hasson and I are both so proud of every one of our little stars! Our nativity ‘Prickly Hay’ was fantastic. The performance today showed off all their hard work over the past few weeks. Well done everyone! ⭐️

What a great time we had at our party this afternoon! We danced, played lots of party games and had some yummy party food. We even managed to sing Jingle Bells so loudly, Santa must have heard us as he came in for a visit! 🎅🏻

Well, this has certainly been another busy week in Primary One! Our Nativity rehearsals are in full flow and we can’t wait to share our performance with everyone at next week’s Christmas Service on Wednesday.

In literacy, we have been consolidating our sounds r, m, d, e, c and k. We’ve been thinking of things that start with the sound and blending our sounds together to read words.

In numeracy, we’ve been learning about the numbers ‘Before’ and ‘After’.

Through our Tiddler topic, we investigated another ‘I Wonder’, Electric eels. We learned lots of facts about these amazing creatures and even made our own ‘electrifying’ artwork!

We’ve also been learning some Scottish dancing with the Primary 2s, ready for our party next week. We learned the steps to the Canadian Barn Dance.

And we had so much fun at our Christmas Lunch on Wednesday! The Christmas tunes were playing and there was definitely plenty of Christmas cheer!

It was lovely to see everyone back this week after a quiet week last week. We have had another busy week learning new sounds, exploring numbers, buying new toys at the P7 toy fair, practising nativities and getting crafts ready for the Christmas fair!

This week we have been learning the d and e sound. Please see the link below for Jolly Phonics songs to practise at home.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wvgbhMy4KSE?feature=shared

https://youtube.com/shorts/7lVv5vbsmsg?feature=shared

We also practised our formation, created dotty dinosaur ds, continued to practise our word building and created some lovely ‘eggs in the pan’ crafts!

We’ve continued to explore place value and addition this week. We learned how to use the Logico Boards and did some ‘switcher’ calculations.

We’ve also been working on adding lots of details to our drawings. We made fantastic ‘Missing’ Tiddler posters. Look at our wonderful drawing and writing.

We are also having fun taking part in creative dance lessons. We are acting out the Gruffalo story through dance. This week we were tiny mice strolling through the woods, sly foxes and powerful, flying owls.

We loved attending the P7 Toy  Fair. The children were absolutely buzzing with excitement with their new toys! Thank you P7 for organising such a great event!

On Thursday afternoon, during our class walk we visited the nursery! We were so delighted to visit and even got a little chance to play.

This week we had a very special visit from Freddie’s uncle, also known as PC Shirkie! He talked to us about all of the people who can help us and we learned lots about being a police officer. We  talked about road safety and were given a lovely gift bag which contained special reflectors which will help to keep us safe in the dark winter months!