A gentle reminder that all jewellery and earrings should be removed for P.E. Our day for P.E. is a Monday🤸🏼‍♂️.

 

We started this month off with Back to Front Uniform Day!

In writing, we have been giving story-mapping a go. This helps us build on story sequencing skills, detailed drawings and retelling a story✍🏼📖.

We have been continuing to work on our addition stories and have enjoyed making these with the different resources around the classroom➕.

In Maths, we have also been learning about direction. We created our own direction sequences and enjoyed testing these out on the BlueBots. Some of us decided to swap with a partner and test out their directions too🗺🧭!

We have been investigating positional language and enjoyed using our class teddy ‘Arthur’ to explore this. We enjoyed putting Arthur on top of, under, next to, behind and in front of the table.

Our new Maths topic is measure. On Friday, we experimented with measuring worms and other non-standard units of measure to find out how long we were📏.

Primary 1/1 have also been learning about time and telling o’clock times. We made our own clock and changed the time on this🕰!

For our topic, we have been learning about our Local Area. The class have learned about different types of houses and experimented with different materials to build some of these🏠🏙.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have started brushing our teeth in class and can brush all of the teeth in our mouth, making sure we reach the ones all the way at the back. We do this everyday after lunch for 2 minutes to our teeth brushing song🦷🪥.

Finally, here are some pictures of our areas in the classroom from the past week💫.

Tricky Word Rockets🚀

Sorting odd and even numbers🔢

Pattern logic game🔴🔷🔺

Funky Fingers🖖🏼

Handwriting Station✍🏼

Tricky Word Practise📖

Word spelling☺️

Valentine inspired addition❤️

Cupcake case addition with counters🧁

Keep up the hard work Primary 1/1!⭐️

Primary 1/1 are back and have settled right back into our class routines and are working hard as ever!

 

We have been working on our digital skills. From this term, we will be accessing our DigiSpace every Tuesday to begin developing computer skills. The class have learned the importance of keeping passwords safe and have all been able to log into the computers using our class login. In just three weeks the class can also open the internet, click and drag to play games, close a window and log out. We love digital technology🖥⌨️!

At Muddy Movers, we have been getting back into team-working and using clear communication with others. Some of us made a water run together and used various parts to do this. The class love being inquisitive and exploring the areas outdoors🍃.

Making a worm pool🪱.

Cementing the mud kitchen back together with mud🧱.

Exploring push and pull forces with a car ramp🚗.

Trying to balance!

We have been discussing different emotions in Health and Wellbeing and sharing what makes us feel this way. We identified times we have felt happy, sad, scared, excited and worried. We read ‘The Worry Monster,’ story and we have our very own Worry Monster in class🌈. The class are free to write or draw worries, then the monster eats these! We have also identified ways we can help each other when we feel worried and identified people we can talk to when we feel this way.

Primary 1 are currently learning about our local area. We took a trip round to the big playground to explore our surroundings and compare our playground to this one. The class also made excellent links with Maths. We are learning direction and when showing the class the school on Google Earth, some were able to press the arrows to give directions to their house🗺. Super work!

We are working on our fitness in P.E. and have enjoyed stretching, races and games🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏽.

For Robert Burns’ Day, we learned about the poet and listened to some songs and stories in Scots Language. The class enjoyed listening to Scottish music and learning some Scottish dance moves💃🏼! We even had a piece of shortbread to celebrate🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

With Chinese New Year coming up, the class made Chinese lanterns with Mrs McMillan and have enjoyed exploring some traditional Chinese household items🇨🇳🏮.

In our Maths area we have enjoyed exploring these new, colourful shapes. These have been used on our light box to mix colours, used as goggles to see things in different colours, used for building things and for making patterns and faces😁☹️🔺◽️.

Here’s to a great 2022✨.

 

 

Merry Christmas from Primary 1/1🎄.

 

I hope you all enjoy a wonderful Christmas break and have a Happy New Year✨🎊!

Miss Payne🎄✨

This month, the class have worked extra hard at practising for our Nativity. They enjoyed dressing up and singing the songs together.

  

We have had an elf visitor in the classroom and the class enjoyed taking sELFies with the picture props he left!

We had a great time at our Christmas party where we played games, won prizes and danced to Christmas music! We also enjoyed watching the Pantomime.

Christmas Party🎄🎶✨

We even had a special visitor🎅🏼✨

Primary 1/1 have had a busy month! The class have continued to enjoy Muddy Movers and have been working on balancing, team-work and communication skills.

We have been enjoying listening to stories and discussing our likes and dislikes as well as beginning to sequence stories with and without picture cards📖.

Primary 1 are working hard to learn tricky words and have loved our roll and write/make station🎲.

The class enjoyed learning about Guy Fawkes Night and were able to identify different ways we could be safe on Fireworks Night🪄🎆. We wrote our tricky words in glitter✨.

We were lucky to be working with Miss Cherry during November and the class enjoyed learning about water during a mini-topic. This involved stories, water exploration and play💧. We also experimented with different water states, including ice, to rescue treasure🧊💎!

The class enjoyed taking part in activities during our Children in Need charity day, including some gym hall activities run by our Primary 7s and a toy and book sale🐻.

Children in Need Day 2021🐻💛

Primary 1 have been working hard in Maths and have learned about symmetry. They have enjoyed making symmetry pizzas🍕.

We have been learning our number bonds and loving exploring these through play✨.

The class expressed an interest in learning about maps. We made links with French, Maths and Social Studies when exploring this. They enjoyed looking at different types of maps in the class atlas and using the globe to find Scotland and France. We explored directions using maps outside and with the Blue Bots and mats in class🕹.

We have been developing our peeling and slicing skills. The class worked very safely when working with knives to chop fruit and peeled using their hands and a peeler tool. We made fruit salads🍎🍊🍌 and Scotch broth soup for St. Andrew’s Day🍲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

Primary 1 and 2 have been working really hard on our Nativity and working well learning our songs. We are excited to see it come together🎶🎄.

This month, the class have been enjoying learning in different ways. We have been learning how to say ‘My name is…’ in French and we have learned about the Eiffel Tower🇫🇷. We read a story called ‘Katie and the Sunflowers,’ which explores different French paintings and artists. We created our own sunflowers using 2D shapes.

The class have enjoyed learning how to scan QR codes to access some Maths and Literacy games they are familiar with, these are also available on our Google Classroom.

We have enjoyed working on skills like co-ordination, balance and ball skills in P.E. and linking this in with some Halloween games👻.

In Maths we have been learning to order our days of the week. We read ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ and used the sequencing cards to order our days.

Our class bee went on some exciting adventures and we worked hard at creating a story of where else our bee went. We used an iPad app called Chatterpix to act as the bee in the different places they visited.

We enjoyed exploring our 2D shapes by drawing these as characters and bringing them to life with an iPad app to watch them dancing around the classroom.

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We had fun outside at Muddy Movers in the rain. We are using good communication and team-working skills outside. Some of us worked together to fill buckets with muddy water to create a mud slide.

We also found a baby snail and took care of it by feeding it and making it a cosy home in the tree.

Patterns are so interesting. We have all still been interested in creating patterns with different resources around the classroom.

Halloween fun🎃👻

The class enjoyed their Halloween party. We dooked for apples, played party games and made banana ghosts!

The class had fun doing some Halloween science experiments🎃🧪

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This has also been posted on our class Google Classroom.

Reminder:

Bring tricky word tubs on a Friday💡.

 

Muddy Movers

We have been loving exploring outside at Muddy Movers, experimenting with the different toys and equipment and using our team work and communication skills. We are great risk-assessors and know how to keep each other safe when jumping from the crates and using other equipment.

Maths and Technology

We have been learning all about patterns in Maths using shapes, colours, natural resources, letters and numbers. We read the story of Elmer the patchwork elephant and made our own Elmer patterns. In Technology we learned about different materials and used some of these to create a bigger Elmer patchwork. We have enjoyed spotting patterns in our environment.

We have been doing excellent number work creating number lines and making numbers within 10 in different ways.

Literacy

We have learned 12 sounds in total. The class are enjoying doing the songs and actions and using the Promethean Board in class to write the sounds we have learned.

We are enjoying learning our tricky words and trying to spot them in stories we read. The class like to share their likes and dislikes about stories to give their thoughts.

In the construction area, the class have worked well with different materials to make models and use their imagination to build.

The class worked hard to create our class rules and picked some of the UNCRC Rights that we have focused on in our class charter.

I am excited to see what October brings for us🎃👏🏼
Miss Payne☺️

Some important information:

–Primary 1/1 have P.E. on a Monday. Please ensure you have indoor shoes, shorts and a T-shirt which are labelled with your name and kept in a P.E. bag which can go on their peg. Children will be encouraged to bring PE kits home over holiday periods for a wash.

-Primary 1/1 have Muddy Movers on a Tuesday afternoon. Please provide welly boots that are labelled. If your child has their own waterproofs, please make sure these are also labelled and these can be kept in a plastic bag on their peg. Don’t worry if you don’t have waterproofs we have some in school which children can use.

–Homework: just now Primary 1 children only have phonics homework. Each sound should be written at least 5 times and a picture of an object beginning with the sound should also be drawn on the same page. Please complete this on the day issued and return to school the next day.

-Tricky Words: these are issued on a Friday. Please make sure you have a tub to keep these in and go over these at home.

August in Primary 1🌻!

We have started to learn our first sounds s, a, t, i and p. We have worked hard at learning the songs, actions and how to write our sounds. It is super important to keep practising these each day.

Each day, we have been voting for which book we would like to hear and counting how many votes each of the books have. This is a fair way we can decide which story to have at the end of the day📚.

We have been working hard at learning numbers 0-10 and learning to form our numbers correctly. We have enjoyed listening to the Number Zoo stories and creating some art to go along with these. On our Numeracy wall, we have made our own number line and shown how well we can write our numbers🔢.

We have enjoyed team-working outside at Muddy Movers to stack the crates and move the tires, it’s tiring work! We have been working on our balancing skills and walking along different objects outside. We have also worked well at building things in construction🚧.

Primary 1/1 have enjoyed working with different materials in art and even made some super spiders from clay🎨.

What an exciting start to Primary 1 we have had👏🏼💡!

 

Miss Payne😊

Welcome to the Primary 1/1 Class Blog.  We will be adding posts throughout the year to tell you what we are learning about in class.  We hope you have fun viewing our blog.