Today we had a visit from Katrina, the architect working on our new nursery building. She explained how she uses maths in her work. We learned lots about measuring and having to draw the plans on a smaller scale rather than real life size.  Katrina also showed us old and up to date maps of Barrhead, this linked to our current topic Our Community in which we’ve been looking at streets, buildings and our own homes around Barrhead.

Yesterday we created our own buildings. We used shaving foam to cement our bricks together.

Tomorrow we are going to plan and design our own dream nursery floor plan. Look out for our plans 👀

This month we chose Roald Dahl as our Author of the Month and we have really enjoyed listening to Fantastic Mr Fox 🦊 We made lots of predictions and altered them as we listened, we wrote character descriptions, made fox masks, enjoyed independent reading of various Roald Dahl books, completed word searches, and finally wrote a book review.

 

In maths we’ve been learning about right angles and giving directions through left and right turns. Programming Bee-Bot to complete a journey was much harder than we thought it would be but we had lots of fun trying.

We have also been learning about numbers to 100. We are learning to recognise and read each number, state what number comes before, after and between given numbers and we’re  also completing number sequences counting forward and backwards. Please ask us questions at home and let us teach you all about these numbers, it will help to consolidate our learning.

Muddy Movers has been great fun! We work well as a team to build obstacle courses and always enjoy exploring in the mud kitchen and sand box.

At gym we have been working on our ball handling skills such as rolling, bouncing, throwing and catching. We have also been dribbling the ball with our feet and started to control the ball with a hockey stick. We also enjoy team games.

We really enjoyed our introductory lesson to Tae Kwon Do with Hazel.  We all tried each move with enthusiasm and were excited to learn about a new sport.

Finally we would like to thank our JRSO team for organising a fun scooter and bicycle event for us to take part in.

The first couple of weeks back have been very busy in Primary 2.

In Numeracy we have been reciting, ordering and discussing special events in the months of the year.  We collected information using tally marks and displayed this in our own bar graphs.

We have also been working on learning our doubles up to 20.

Arya and James spotted some interesting facts about the answers 👍

Crome Books are a great way to consolidate learning. Lots of Maths games being played each day.

Some of the girls have spent time creating different patterns together and proudly show them off. Well done girls 👏👏

In Literacy we read the story ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ and then carried out lots of work relating to it.  We sequenced pictures, wrote in sentences to retell the story, wrote shopping lists, printed tiger stripes and even had a go at a jigsaw.

We have used loose parts to have fun spelling words.

  

In art we used celery to print scales on our fish 🐠 We have been learning to spell words with the ‘sh’ sound. We had to think about creating a pattern with the colours. We hope you like them 🐟

 

We hope you are enjoying the Blog.  There will be more to come next session as the Blog follows the class through their time at Cross Arthurlie.

In science, Primary 1 have been learning about living and non-living things.

To identify and group things which are living and non-living we explored our playground and created a list of the different thing we found.

Continue reading Living and Non-Living →

The weather has been so nice recently we took advantage and went outside. There was no mud in the mud kitchen so the children instead build dens,  created race tracks, built an obstacle course and much more.

 

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We sometimes enjoy listening to some music while completing our targets. Then sometimes having a little dance along to the music just makes the day even better.

 

Primary 1 were extremely excited for Easter so we decided to make some easter crafts to get in the spirit.

We designed Easter Bonnets and baby chicks.  Ordered alphabet eggs, had an easter egg hunt and designed nests for farm animals.

We made a big mess with feathers and straw but it was all worth it!

Even Miss Adam got into the spirit of Easter.

We even found a ladybird trying to join in our Easter egg hunt.

 

As part of our Space topic we used our imagination to create aliens from outer space and then used adjectives to describe them.

We used adjectives to write sentences about our aliens.

Well done Primary 1 your sentence writing is amazing!

 

Primary 1.1  have been  learning to lead, challenge and capture their own learning throughout the year. Here is some of the things they felt proud of and wanted to record using the class iPad.

All of the pictures are taken by the class independently. They choose what they want to record to show at a later time.

 

Story of 11.

Spelling and some close up pictures.

Relaxing in the library with a good book.

 

Using the chrome books to work on number stories.

Alphabetical order.

Using the Literacy Garden wall to practise sentence writing in the sentence stream.

Spelling in the sand.

Arts and crafts.