We were so lucky today to have a fantastic fun morning with our buddies before they head off to the academy!  Thank you for being fantastic buddies!

As part of the ‘Castles’ topic, the children will be using Junk Modelling materials to make their own castles.

Please bring in any junk modelling materials from home ie cardboard boxes, plastic tubs, bottles etc.

Thanks again for your support!

This week we have been consolidating our digraphs, ‘ch’ ‘th’ and ‘sh’.  We have worked hard to say, make and write these sounds.  We have also been shearing sheep, sorting feathers, and drawing ‘ch’ pictures to put in a treasure chest.

In writing, we were looking at our next traditional tale, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  This week we were thinking about what the characters were feeling and writing it in a speech bubble. We also had fun exploring measure through sharing porridge with the characters!

Our Big Talks were fantastic this week.  We loved hearing all about their favourite toys.  Well done everyone!

In maths this week, we have been continuing to look at number patterns.  We focused on counting in 10s.

In literacy, we are developing our understanding of the 6 Active Literacy comprehension strategies. This week we looked at ‘Main Ideas’. We were able to identify the most important parts of a story and the supporting details.

We have also been continuing to look at different ways we can organise data.  We made our own Carroll diagrams using shapes and animals.

We have also really enjoyed our visit from the ECC groups this week.  We have been showing them how we play, share and have fun in Primary One.

In our Castle topic, we have been looking at where castles are and have began to create our very own castle in our role play area.

This term our Big Talk topic is ‘My Favourite Toy’.

At home, your child should prepare and practise their talk.  They can bring in a toy, photos or poster to help them.

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 bg Monday 11th May.  More details will be given shortly (please check back to the Blog) about which day your child will be giving their talk.

We look forward to hearing them!

We’re had a busy week in Primary 1.
In numeracy we have been learning o’clock times on an analogue clock.

We have also taken part in all sorts of fun estimation activities including a hoops and beanbag game and estimating the length of ourselves using string. We are able to make close estimations and then count to check how close we were.

In literacy we’ve been continuing to consolidate our initial sounds. This week we focused on b and d confusion and the formation of p, j, g, f and l.

We also LOVED playing this tricky CVC word maze game on the Chromebooks. I’ve added the link below if you’d like to play at home too…

https://wordwall.net/resource/53108154/cvc-word-maze-chase

We had lots of fun this week too. Discovery Dens, finger painting, gymnastics, cardboard boxes and disco dancing!

Another busy week in Primary One! In literacy, we have finished learning all our initial sounds so we are spending the next few weeks consolidating these. We have been reading, making and writing cvc words.

We have also been continuing to learn how to write in sentences. This week we designed our egg for our Easter Egg Competition.

In numeracy, we have continued to investigate time. This week we have been exploring different ways to measure time. We had lots of fun working out how many things we could do in a minute, especially counting the many star jumps!

We have also been learning about estimation. We have been using lots of skills such as subitising and doubling to make good estimations.

“I can see an 5 and another 5, so I know it’s more than 10”

“I know it’s 12 because I can see 3 and 3. That makes six. If I double it, it’s 12”

“I think it’s more than 10 because I can see 10 in the middle”

We took part in some sweetie jar estimation and then made our own sweetie jars to challenge others in the groups.

The next day, we estimated how many bingo dabs we could fit in an outline of our hand. It was quite a challenge but we enjoyed counting 1 by 1 and checking our estimates.

We made beautiful Spring daffodil window art this week too. We can’t wait for you to see them at Parents Night soon 🌼

And we had lots of fun visiting the ECC to join them on the Teddy Bears Picnic.

We also continued our learning about emotions. We talked about different feelings and how they can look and feel. Can you recognise any of these emotions?

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!