October has been another busy month in Primary 1.2.

We learned a song about our rights to the tune of ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ and some of the nursery children visited us so we could teach it to them too.

We learned about being fair and unfair by learning about Rosa Parks. We did some role play where people with hats were only allowed to sit and speak to other people with hats and discussed whether this is fair or not.

This month we learnt how to be weather forecasters and we drew pictures of the weather every day for a week, we collected the information into tally marks and pictograms.

We’ve also been very independent with our phonics and have learnt to work in partners to use blending boards independently.

After learning about Fairtrade items and different foods, we were inspired to try some cooking! Primary 1 made apple crumble and pumpkin soup.

In Primary 1 this month we have enjoyed learning about colours in French. We read the story ‘Katie and the Sunflowers’ and together with the Primary 2’s made a big sunflower display.

Primary 1 were visited by their primary 5 buddies who had designed a ‘Mr Men’ book to read with the Primary 1s. Everyone enjoyed reading the stories and the Primary 1s and 5s then worked together to create their own Mr Men character.

The boys and girls have all settled really well into Primary 1 and have enjoyed exploring the classroom and making new friends. I will be able to post photos of the children’s faces for our next blog post.

We’ve begun to learn our sounds and have been learning how to work independently on our ‘targets’.  We’ve focused on writing our names, and drawing about stories we’ve been reading together.

We created a class charter and talked about ways we can make sure the class is a happy place for everyone. We all contributed excellent ideas.

We have  a class bear we’ve named Rosie. We’ve played lots of games with Rosie and taken her on a tour of the school. She’s started to go home with different members of the class at the weekend and we’re all enjoying reading what she’s been up to!