The secret is finally out, we are able to perform our Nativity in front of a live audience this year and we are all beyond excited. I have sent home lines this week and would really appreciate if you could practise these at home. We are spending as much time as we can in class rehearsing and it makes such a difference if the children are confident in what they are to say, then all of the other components like when to say it and where to say it will hopefully all fall into place!

This week, we were able to use our fraction knowledge when we made pizzas – we halved tomatoes and mushrooms, some of the bits of pepper were quartered and everyone made sure that the whole base was covered in tomato.

In literacy, we continue to learn new sounds (this week was y and x), develop our knowledge of the common words and use all of our new reading skills in a variety of activities.

In the areas, we continue to consolidate our learning through play –

 

Our Growth Mindset activity this week was based around Incy Wincy Spider – we talked about not giving up and then the children created their own spider and then pledged something that they are going to try really hard to achieve. I’m sure you’ll be delighted to hear that there will be a lot of room tidying, bike riding, sewing and knitting being worked on at home over the coming months!

 

As the weather has turned really cold, just a wee reminder to send the children in with jackets, hats and gloves, they are always outdoors for playtime and at lunch break unless the weather makes it unsafe to do so.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

This week we have been celebrating Scottish Book Week across the school.

Our allocated STEMaStory was One Button Benny. The children created a friend for Benny using the metal loose parts.

In our writing lesson this week, we wrote about the friend for Benny that we created, giving him or her a name and describing them.

Outdoors, we created vehicles for Benny to travel in when he could not use his Boost Button.

On Wednesday, we walked to the library where we listened to the BookBag books and then voted on our favourite – we gave them 6 votes each so couldn’t choose our favourite, we just love all stories in P1a!

Today we jpined the author and illustrator Debi Gliori for a live drawing lesson. We learned to use graphite pencils to create penguins. Then we listened to Debi Gliori reading one of her stories.

We love spending time with our P6 Buddies and we were so excited when our buddies came to read to us today.

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I hope you have enjoyed this special Book Week edition of our blog and look forward to catching up with all the news on Monday.

This week in Primary One, the children in P1A have made me so proud. They all observed the minute silence for Remembrance Day and were able to explain why it is important for us all to stay quiet at the same time.

In maths, we have been investigating money.

In Literacy, we have been sound and word detectives, looking for our target words in a range of books.

We also tried a new reading position, some of us thought it was comfier and some of us prefer to sit with legs in a basket.

 

 

Our creative juices were flowing when we designed our own poppies.

Here are a few more pictures of this week’s learning.

Next week is Scottish Book Week, we have our trip to the library on Wednesday and lots of fun, book based activities to complete in class. We also have a book based STEM activity planned so if anyone has any boxes or cartons that we can save from recycling, please just send them into class and we will make good use of them.

It has been another busy week, but we all still found the time to relax, whether that was when “watching” the football or enjoying a spa break!

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend! I look forward to all the Monday morning news.

As you will see on Twitter (and possible heard in the playground!) P1A became environmental campaigners this week. We have been learning about the Polar Bears who live on Hudson Bay in Canada and how Global Warming is melting the ice that they travel across to find food.

We have been investigating the properties of water using lots of ice in our water tank – we have worked out how to get  bits of ice to  stick together and we’ve even made ice bridges, just like the ones we researched online.

We created habitats for the arctic animals – we know that Polar Bears and penguins do not live in the same place and we used the globe to track the routes that the Polar Bears take to head north.

For Diwali we have been making Rangoli Patterns, we learned that Rangoli Patterns are used to welcome visitors and so we made some outdoors in the playground to welcome our grown ups at the end of the day.

In literacy, we continue to learn new sounds and build words with the sounds that we know.

In Maths we are building our number knowledge using a range of different activities.

Miss Bishop has been teaching us to code using Scratch.

We have enjoyed being outdoors where we are learning to work collaboratively.

Our buildings in the construction area are becoming more detailed and elaborate all of the time.

This week we have introduced Learning Targets in our classroom – so just in case anyone has been hearing about blue and red people and wondering what we have been up to, this is our new target board. During some lessons, the children are set a task for them to complete independently. Once they have completed their task, they take their little person off the board. This is one of the steps towards building independent learners who are managing their own learning. It is very early days with this, but so far the children have been doing a fantastic job.

The take home folders came home today – please take the time to look through this with your child, fill out the form at the front and then please return the jotter and workbook (s) with the form in the folder on Monday. The worksheets should be kept at home.

Have a great weekend and I look forward to catching up with everyone in our Parent’s Night conversations next week.