Another fabulous week in Primary 1D. Thank you so much to all the family members who managed along to our Open Afternoon. We hope you enjoyed hearing all about our Castle Topic and creating our Jack & The Beanstalk planters. We are excitedly watching all the magic beans to see which beanstalk reaches the castle first.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have been continuing to work on our number bond knowledge in Maths with Miss Adair and on our Measurement skills with Mr McDonald.

This week we said goodbye to Mr McDonald who has been with us for 6 weeks. We wish him all the best in his future studies. We celebrated the end of his placement with a Holi Colour Celebration.

Fortunately, Mrs Dougall was able to take the children back to class while poor Mr McDonald stayed behind to tidy up.

P1C brought their coding skills to life out in the woodland when they had to direct their partner/human Beebot to the treasure they had buried. They counted the number of steps they had to go and gave directions telling each other which way to turn and using positional language such as, forward 15, turn left or right. They had to evaluate and amend their instructions after watching their partner try them out, using skills such as counting on and adding. They also had to make sure they avoided any obstacles in their path.

P1C enjoyed taking part in lots of different activities as part of World Book Day. They put their detective skills to the test by going on a book hunt which was organised by P7 pupils. They had to find lots of different books that had been hidden around the playground.

They also brought in their favourite books from home to share with each other, allowing them to find out about different types of books and to give them some ideas and suggestions for new books they might like to read.

Inspired by the author visit we took part in with Christopher Duke who wrote Lucy’s Blue Day we looked at how authors get ideas for their stories and became authors for the day and had a great time creating our own books.

We have been very busy in P.1 and are making fantastic progress in Numeracy and Mathematics.

We are getting more confident with number stories to 10 and can use a number line to help us with addition. We can work out ‘missing numbers’ like 3 and what makes 7 using a number line.

We are also more confident adding 3 numbers and can look for easier ways, for example putting the bigger number first, to help us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We practise o’clock times (digital and analogue) and play games in pairs to do this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We can order the days of the week.  We sing a song to help us remember what comes before/after each day. In class each morning someone is chosen to change the day on our class calendar.

 

 

 

 

 

We are getting better at reading number words!

 

 

 

 

 

We keep practising our number formation!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have been learning to make bar graphs and can talk about what we find out looking at the graph.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have been learning to take away and are beginning to link addition and subtraction facts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well done P1a!