We had lots of fun on Children in Need Day.

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 🌟🌟🌟

Welcome to the Primary 1/2 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.