We have been learning about living and non-living things.

We can identify living things:

Cara – spider

Orla – worm

Blair – tree

Eva – flower

We can identify non-living things:

Josh – aeroplane

Sean – chair

Lucas – door

Robyn – table

We learned the name for each part of the plant and what job they do to help the plant grow and live. We decided to grow broad beans so we could see the roots and shoot growing before we planted them in soil.

After two weeks we could see the roots and shoots starting to grow.

So then we took our beans outside to plant into soil.

I hope all your  broad beans are being well looked after and growing tall. 🌱🌞

What a fun filled, exciting day we had to celebrate World Book Day. 📚

We really enjoyed showing off our fabulous costumes and sharing our favourite books.

Half the class went to visit a Primary 5 classroom where the P5 children read to P1. The other half of our class stayed in our classroom  and some of P5 came to visit and read to us.

We decorated bunting with our favourite characters and stories.

We absolutely loved the ‘Where’s Wally?’ scavenger hunt organised by Miss Rice.

We enjoyed reading ‘This is a Dog’ by Ross Collins. We all read along, laughted out loud at the silly dog and decided to become an author and illustrator for another page to be added to this wonderful book. 📚🐶

To finish off a fantastic day, we joined the whole school outside in the big playground. We danced, sang, paraded our costumes and favourite books to everyone and clapped and cheered while watching each of the other classes parade.

This month we started toothbrushing after lunch every day. We brush for 2 minutes along to our toothbrushing song.

We have been learning to add and subtract within 10 and we have explored this using various resources in our classroom.

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We have been working on letter formation, learning the alphabet and using our phonics knowledge to spell.

In writing, we have been giving story mapping a go! This helps us build on story sequencing skills, develop detailed drawings and retell a story.

We have also been learning about the artists and designers Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. We used their work to inspire our own art.

Finally, we have been learning about our local area. The children were very excited when  talking about their own houses and trying to remember their address that we decided design and build our own dream home.

Today we listened carefully to information about Robert Burns. We had to find the missing word to each sentence.

Then we listened to some of Robert Burns songs and poems. We enjoyed working out what the lyrics at the start of ‘To a Mouse’ meant and we joined in Auld Lang Syne.

After that we joined in some Scottish dancing and learned the Scottish songs ‘Three Craws’ and ‘Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes.’

We finished off our celebrations with a tasty piece of Scottish shortbread.

I hope you all enjoy a Burns Night feast this evening. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Love Mrs Brown x

It was lovely welcoming all the children back today after the Christmas holidays. I hope we all have a happy  and healthy 2022 ❤️

We all tried really hard to use our phonics knowledge to write our own holiday news today. Great work Primary One! 🌟🌟🌟

Then we continued exploring numbers up to 20 in Numeracy. It was tricky putting 4 or 5 numbers in order forwards and backwards.

After lunch we loved exploring the ice and frost outside. But our fingers got cold quite quickly!

Where does sea glass come from?

We have been using sea glass in lots of different loose part activities. Adam and Robyn wanted to find out how it was made and where it came from.

After some Google searching we learned that sea glass is made from glass objects that have been thrown into the sea or fallen in. The waves rub on the broken glass creating smooth edges and give it a frosted appearance. Most of the sea glass washed up on our shores have been in the sea for about 50 years.

We also discovered that lots of artists use it in collage pictures, sculptures and use it to make beautiful jewellery.  We decided to use it to create our own transient art pictures.

Well done boys and girls we all learned something new today.

We have really enjoyed learning outside each Wednesday. This afternoon it got very wet but that didn’t stop us having LOTS of fun 🌧💜🍁🎃 Please remember to pack a dry set of clothes in your child’s bag so they can get changed if they get wet.

We have been making our own staircase number lines, which we think we are brilliant! 🌟👏

We went on a bear hunt, designed our own maps and we are now planning to write a story using our maps 🐻📚

We enjoyed some Halloween themed activities outside today 🎃

Every Wednesday afternoon we go outside for Muddy Movers. We work together to build obstacle courses and dens, some of the children have created a ‘Secret Club’ which sounds very interesting and we explore lots of resources, investigating how we can use them.

Well done boys and girls, what great learning and team work! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

September has been a very creative month. Primary 1 have been designing and building using lots of different resources.

We also enjoyed our first Outdoor Learning Day. First of all we collected lots of natural resources to use in numeracy. We have been learning about staircase number lines and we all created our own. We played lots of fun number games and sang number songs.

I hope the children told you all about the tiger who came to visit the classroom! 🐯 After his visit we read The Tiger Who Came To Tea. Then we wrote about our favourite part of the story.

We all enjoyed playing in the rain during Muddy Movers. Some of us explored the gathered rain water, some of us wrote our names in the mud and others made their own seesaw.

We have been exploring patterns and designing our own and we continue to explore numbers to 20.

We are working hard to learn our tricky words. Please help us learn them at home by revising them each evening.

What a busy month we have had.

I am looking forward to our October learning 🎃 🌟 📚

Mrs Brown x

Welcome to Primary 1/2s Class Blog 👋

Important information:

– PE kit required on a Monday, please make sure you child has indoor shoes/sand shoes, shorts and T-shirt all labelled with their name and kept in a PE bag which can be kept on their peg. Children will be encouraged to bring PE kits home over holiday periods for a wash.

– Muddy Movers on a Wednesday, please supply welly boots with your child’s name on them and if they have their own waterproofs then please make sure it’s also labelled with your child’s name and kept in a labelled plastic bag. 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.

August Learning 🌟👏

During Literacy targets we have been learning sounds and letter formation for the letters s, a, t and i.  It is really important to revisit these on a daily basis.

We worked on our writing skills by over writing a sentence that Mrs Brown scribed for us.

During our Numeracy targets we have been counting forwards and backwards within 20, working on correct number formation 0 – 10 and counting how many objects in a set.

Over the first few weeks we have explored lots of different art techniques. We explored clay in the classroom and outside during Muddy Movers then we used it to make an Amazing Eight spider, we painted flowers for our number line flower pots, made a sparkly collage Rainbow Fish, printed symmetrical butterflies and after learning about our skeleton we used cotton buds to make our own skeleton picture.

We have also enjoyed our first Muddy Movers Wednesday, it was lovely and sunny. Please remember to bring in your welly boots if you haven’t already done so and waterproofs if you have them (we do have waterproofs that children in Primary 1 can use).

The children have had a wonderful start to Primary One and we are all very proud of them.

Mrs Brown 🌟🌟🌟