What a busy start to Primary 1! Everyone has settled in so well and we are now well on our way with our learning journey.

In Numeracy & Mathematics we have been working on developing our number knowledge, focusing on numbers up to 20, by creating a human number line, drawing our own number lines in chalk in the playground and by making the most of the lovely new maths resources in the classroom especially the numicon.

We have investigated fractions and now all know that a whole can be split into two equal halves and we have been finding out lots of different ways of measuring, placing items in order of length and weight.

In Literacy and English we have started looking at our Mr Big reading books and finding lots of words starting with our new sounds P, N to add to last week’s sounds S, A, T and I.

In Art we have been learning about Autumn colours by looking at the trees in the playground. We have painted trees in Autumn colours and have had lots of fun opening horse chestnut seeds and finding the conkers inside. We have created patterns with the conkers and leaves and pine cones.

Our conker patterns

 

Finger painting autumn leaves onto our handprint trees

 

 

We have taken advantage of the recent nice weather and have spent lots of time investigating our outdoor spaces. We went on a Nature Scavenger Hunt to see what we could find, working in pairs, we discovered  flowers, leaves, clover, clouds, birds and lots of insects. We’ve been building castles in the playground, working together to make sure our friends could all reach the top, stacking tyres to make a den and investigating volume using the rain water in the tuff trays and the mud kitchen.

Off on our adventures

 

 

 

 

Teamwork

 

 

 

 

Creating number lines

 

 

And the winner is…Building dens and castles

 

Can you find us hiding in the woodland area?

What a busy time we have had! I hope everyone has a fabulous holiday weekend and can’t wait to see what adventures next week will bring.