There have been some really spooky goings on in P1a this week.

Helped hugely by the new P1 play doh station!

In literacy we have been learning our new sounds ai, j and oa and developing our reading skills using all of the sounds we have learned so far.

In maths we have been learning to sequence the Months of the Year and further developing our knowledge of the seasons and days of the week.

Outdoors we were displaying our excellent gardening skills to prepare the garden for winter.

And we have still had lots of time for developing our taught skills through our play.

We’ve had another busy week. Thanks to everyone who has returned the profile books, these are now filling up with lots of learning experiences. We are now keeping the welly boots in the cloakroom so that the children can wear them on really wet days, like today. Can I just remind everyone that the weather is really changeable just now and it is really helpful if the children all have a rain jacket even when the weather is fine in the mornings (also, a wee change of clothes in school bags is useful for when accidents happen or when wee feet get soaked outdoors – or indoors at the water station!)

Have a great weekend!

 

I hope everyone had a great holiday week. It has been so lovely to welcome everyone back and  hear all of their stories.

This week in PE we have been working on ball skills, everyone loves using the blue bobbly balls!

We have been learning and working with our new sounds l,f & b.

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And we have been completing lots of activities to help us remember all of the sounds that we have been learning.

In writing, we have been creating story journeys.

And we have all now “written” a helicopter story so we have been putting them into our special profile books and illustrating them.

We continue to investigate Seasons in maths and have been discovering so much about weight, size, ordering and balance using the pumpkins, conkers and leaves in our Autumn display.

We took our maths learning outdoors, to investigate patterns.

And in the creative area, we created our own STEM challenges with the peas and sticks.

Here are a few more pictures of some of out learning from this week.

 

I hope everyone is managing to access our Google Classroom for homework information, any issues, please contact me through the school office.

I’m still waiting for a few Profile Books to be returned, we are now using these in class, so I’d really appreciate if they could be returned as soon as possible.

Thanks to everyone who has sent in wellies, our shelf in the welly shed is nearly full. I’m still missing a few pairs though, and we will be starting to investigate more outdoors really soon. I don’t want any school shoes getting ruined in the muddy woodland, so it would be great if all of the children had their wellies in school.

Have a great weekend!

It has been Scottish Maths Week this week and we have been extending our maths learning in so many different ways. We learned how to make a symmeTREE using items we found outdoors. We were going to create it in the garden, but the rain was so heavy that it was getting washed away, so we brought it into the classroom.

 

We had to make sure that we found two of each leave so that we could place them either side of our tree trunk.

We further explored symmetry using beads, buttons and paper shapes.

We made numbers using our Lego and number lines using pasta

We worked together to complete maths puzzles

And here are just a few pictures of what has been happening in the play areas this week.

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend and look forward to another great week of learning.