After reading Room on the Broom we decided to write our own spells. First of all we had to decide what the spell would make us do, lots of great ideas came from the children like making them fly, turning them invisible and glowing in the dark. Then we decided what ingredients would be needed to make the potion. Again we had some fantastic ideas, such as crushed bones, bat wings, slime, fireflies and blood! Finally, we wrote the instructions which concluded with a magical word. 🧙‍♀️🪄🎃

After writing our potions and spells we read them to the rest of the class and enjoyed carving a pumpkin which had been donated to our class from Abbie in Primary 7 🎃

We recently enjoyed a taster session of Taekwondo with a visiting instructor. We all learned some new skills and had lots of fun while keeping active.

We started off October learning about numbers to 100. We can find the number after and before a given number, we can find the number between two numbers and complete a 100 square jigsaw.

We even enjoyed completing a scavenger hunt outside using numbers up to 100.

In Numeracy we’ve also been learning about symmetry and odd and even numbers.

In Literacy, we have enjoyed reading to each other, learning about proper and common nouns and we’ve just started learning about alphabetical order. Now we know the alphabet we are working on identifying the letter before and after a given letter. We can also put 3 consecutive letters in order.

Finley shared a fantastic book of his titled ‘All About Friends’ which lead to wonderful discussions about what makes a good friend and how to fix things when we fall out. We are all going to work on being a good, kind, caring friend who offers compliments and looks out for each other ❤️ The children had great ideas for qualities they look for in a fantastic friend ❤️

We all enjoying playing outside at Muddy Movers.

I hope you all have a lovely October holiday week and look forward to hearing about all your adventures when we return.

Mrs Brown 🌟

What a lovely start to the year having our Open Afternoon and we loved having so many visitors joining us.

The children decided that they would like to do a mini topic on Julia Donaldson.  We have read, listened to and independently worked on The Snail and the Whale, Paper Dolls, Monkey Puzzle, The Scarecrows Wedding, A Squash and a Squeeze and What the Ladybird hear so far.

After reading Monkey Puzzle we enjoyed playing ‘Who am I?’

Can you guess what animal we would like to be?

Our Scarecrow pictures are work in progress…

We started this term working on throwing and catching and team games at PE.

Just a wee reminder that PE day is on a Monday and Outdoor Learning is on a Wednesday.  Please provide children with a spare pair of clothes, especially socks, on a Wednesday just in case we get wet and muddy.

Thank you,

Mrs Brown

Primary 1/1 have had a busy month.

In P.E. we have been working hard on our athletics skills. We have practised the relay race, running and jumping over hurdles and throwing skills.

Well done to everyone for taking part in Sports’ Day. A day full of sunshine, sports and team spirit!

In Maths we have been learning how to use tally marks. We all created our own tally charts and gathered information from each other. Everyone recorded their tally marks and could give a total for each option. We can all identify the most and least popular choice.

We have been learning all about different environments. Rennie the Park Ranger came for a visit and told us all about his job at Dams to Darnley Country Park. He showed us pictures of different wildlife found in the park and told us lots of interesting facts! Here are some we remembered:

“If we didn’t have house spiders, we would be up to our knees in maggots!”

Rennie also brought in some different things found in the park. He had a badger skull and a bat!

He told us how important it is to pick up our litter as it can be harmful to nature. We have been recycling and re-using our snack wrappers in our Art area.

We have had Miss Wu, our Mandarin teacher, in to help us learn numbers, animals and colours. We have enjoyed joining in with Mandarin songs and trying to write in Mandarin.

Primary 1.1 have been learning all about data handling.

We read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and discussed the different things Goldilocks tried out. Then we sorted things into categories like colour, size and object🥣🪑🥄.

This week we have also been learning about pictograms. We all drew our favourite animal and coloured our favourite colour. These were added to our pictogram which we helped to label. Lots of us could pick out which was the most/least popular!

Primary 1 have worked so hard at home to research different inventors. They all shared these in front of the class with their poster or presentation.

Thank you for all of your help at home and well done to everyone for presenting!

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Over the last few months we have been learning to  explore digital
technologies and use what we have learnt to solve problems and  share our  ideas and thoughts.

Linking with artist such as  the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso we explored how we can use digital technology to be creative.  We have been mastering the skills of opening up Word Documents, interesting Word Art  and inserting shapes to create artwork inspired by both famous artist. We can change the colour and texture of the shapes. All very impressive!

When learning to paint like an artist we used the website TatePaint to work on our digital painting skills. This has also helped improve our mouse control skills. https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/tate-paint

We have also been exploring simple coding using Bee-Bots.  We put our engineering skills to the test to build a race course for our Bee-Bot friends and successfully navigated them from start to finish.

We transferred our coding skills  to the computer using the website https://beebot.terrapinlogo.com/.

This helped us work out turning left, right and moving forward and backwards.

We have been working on identifying  the icons for Google Chrome so we can access website such as Chrome Music Lab.  This  makes learning music using digital literacy more accessible with  hands-on experiments.

Have a go at home if you are brave!

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com

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We have been learning all about people who help us in our community. Last month, we enjoyed a visit from the Fire Service and this month we were so lucky to have PC Lorraine come to visit us to tell us all about her job in the Police.

We learned all about the different parts of her uniform.

We learned the names of different equipment the police use and what they are used for.

We all got a chance to try on the police hat!

We are excited to learn who else can help us!

On Thursday we had a very exciting visit from the firefighters at Barrhead Fire Station.

They came into our class and answered some questions we had. We learned all about different jobs they do, why they have to wear their uniform and helmet, and how they know they need to go out to an emergency.

We were all very lucky to have a shot at using the hose. It was super heavy!

We even got to go inside the fire engine. We spotted a little rubber duck firefighter!

Thank you so much to the staff at Barrhead Fire Station for giving your time to help Primary 1 learn more about your very important job!