Thank you so much to everyone who made it along to our Meet The Teacher Evening.  It was so lovely to be able to show you where your child spends their time every school day.

This week in literacy, we finished our Helicopter Stories and then revisited them to illustrate them and create our own book for our library. The children are enjoying sharing their stories with their classmates.

We have also been working on Rhyme Awareness and Detection reading lots of rhyming stories and spotting the rhyming words.

In Numeracy and Maths, we completed our number zoo stories to ten and then practised our number formation. We have been sorting numbers into number lines and finding the missing number.

Our first beyond number concept of the year has been shape. We went on a shape hunt around the classroom and we sorted shapes in the tuff spot. We have also been investigating shapes outdoors.

In PE, we continue to work on our ball handling skills and developing our team working skills.

In our construction area we are beginning to develop fabulous building skills – and negotiation skills! Look at all of the detail we are now adding to our buildings.

Here are a few more pictures of our learning this week.

We have had another great week of settling in to Primary One.  We have had great fun creating and acting out our Helicopter Stories.

We continued learning about syllables and there was great excitement when the children realised that if you turn the visualiser camera round, they can see themselves.

We practised hopping our Word Boundaries.

In Numeracy we have been reading the Number Stories and we have started completing pages in our number workbooks.

Outdoors we began to plan our growing area at our classroom door – the children had some great ideas for developing the area. We harvested the rest of last year’s potato crop and then played with the contents of the potato sack!

We added water to the big sand pit and then tried to contain it in the same area.

We enjoyed playing together in the garden.

And then we all worked together to tidy everything away.

Here are some more pictures of this week’s fun.

Have a great weekend.

 

It was so lovely to see everyone who managed along to the coffee and chat this morning. Hopefully this blog will give everyone a further insight into the day to day activities in our classroom.

Our first few days in school were spent exploring our environment, making new friends and catching up with our friends from nursery

There are so many different areas for us to explore!

Our class book for the beginning of term was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We have our class caterpillar on our window, but some of us noticed that on the book the caterpillar is not just green, it has parts that are blue, yellow and purple too, so we worked together to create our collaborative art caterpillar who now has pride of place hanging from our classroom ceiling.

In our literacy lessons we have been concentrating on Phonological Awareness (the building blocks of early literacy). We have focused on auditory memory through our listening games, visual memory by playing Kim’s Game and we have been developing our knowledge of syllables in words.

 

 

 

 

 

We investigated our senses and went on a listening walk – we then drew pictures to represent what we Saw, Tasted, Felt, Heard and Smelled when we were outdoors.

There are opportunities to develop our literacy and story telling skills across all of the classroom areas.

In Numeracy and Maths we have been investigating numbers to 10.

 

 

 

 

 

And developing our maths skills through play – here we are discovering symmetry!

Miss Bishop has been teaching us about algorythms and coding using the BeeBots.

 

 

 

 

 

In our PE lessons, we have been learning how to move safely around the school PE areas, how to work together as a team and developing our listening skills.

 

 

 

 

 

In our first Outdoor Learning session, we spent time exploring the different areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We really have packed so much into our first few days! I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend and look forward to hearing all about it on Monday.