Yet another busy week in Primary 1.

In Maths & Numeracy we have been investigating addition in lots of different ways, for example, the children have been counting items into groups and putting them together, rolling dice and writing number stories, working with numicon to explain their number stories and we were all very excited to start to use our new Scottish Heinemann Maths workbooks.

We have also been learning all about gathering data with Miss Gourlay.

In literacy, we continue to look at books by Julia Donaldson. This week we have been reading Night Monkey, Day Monkey and learning about nocturnal animals and the differences between day and night in the jungle. We have been acting out stories, finding rhymes and are now starting to build all of the sounds that we have been learning into words that we can then use in our own story writing.

We turned shaving foam, glue, flour, paint and glitter into puffy paint and made firework pictures.

As part of our Keeping Safe Topic, we have been learning about Food Safety and Food Hygiene and this week we have been focusing on Road Safety in the run up to Road Safety Week. We have been practising crossing roads safely, created road maps with safe places to cross and then went down to the school cycle track and acted out being safe drivers and pedestrians.

I’m sure you will agree that we have had another busy week with lots of learning and lots of fun.