We had a wedding this week in P1A, it’s amazing how well dressed we can be with some fabric and a box of clothes pegs!

 

In the Woodland we worked together to create homes for Mythical Creatures including Unicorns, Yeti, Mermaids and even a Kitsune!

We had so much fun investigating all of the resources in the Woodland Trolley – though we had to work together to bring it back up the hill.

We’ve been doing such a great job of learning the songs for our Nativity and have now started to learn where we need to be on the stage and when we need to move.

In Numeracy and Maths this week we have been learning about Money and continuing with our number work.

This week we wrote about our Mythical Beast habitats and these are now on our display board along with our Dragon Eyes which look amazing.

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

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

It is Anti Bullying week and the children have been learning about disabilities. P7 led a lesson where the children experienced what it is like to be unable to see and hear. They also tried running wearing ill fitting shoes and helped guide one another around. Back in class there was a lot of discussion about how to help people with disabilities and how to be aware of hidden disabilities.

In Literacy, we have been working on our Common Words and building them in a range of different ways. Our sounds this week were v and oo and here we are “driving Vic’s Van round the Village”

In Maths, we continue to investigate number.

Outdoors, we had Pokemon and Unicorns, a soup kitchen, some experimenting with lifting and dropping sand and a house for a slug.

 

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

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

This week we have been celebrating Scottish Book Week in so many fabulous ways.

If you have not yet done so, please check out our Marvellous Matilda dancing on our Google Classroom. (Mrs Dougall’s daughter Kirsty was assistant choreographer when a local theatre group performed Matilda earlier this year, so we invited her along to teach us one of the dances, she was so impressed with how quickly the children picked up the moves).

We used our reading detective skills to complete a literacy picture hunt.

We wrote about our favourite stories and we have been enjoying our new reading books together in class.

The highlight of our week though, was when our P6 Buddies came to help us read the contents of our Book Bug Bags. So many children in the one room, all focused on reading books!

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

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Apologies for the lack of blog last week, as the previous blog was all about our woodland experience, I thought it would be useful to put up a mini blog today about our learning over the last two weeks.

In Numeracy and Maths we have been working with number, finding the numbers before and after.

We have also been learning about time and the seasons and matching number words with the appropriate digits.

In Literacy we have been enjoying our new reading books, learning our new sounds and working with our Common Words.

Here are a few more pictures of our learning.

We had a brilliant, muddy time in the Woodland this week, here are a few photos of our Woodland adventures.

This week we marked Diwali when some of our classmates were able to tell us how they celebrated with their families at home. We made rangoli patterns in the playground with chalk to welcome our parents at the end of the school day.

We had Diwali activities in our creative area.

We racaped our number learning from before the holidays. Working with the number balls to find the numbers before and after.

In literacy, we learned about the sounds l,f and b and we are now able to use all of our sounds to blend and segment words.

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

I hope everyone has a great weekend – please remember to look through the learning folder, complete the questionnaire and return the folder on Monday – I have also explained to the children that I would like them to all start bringing their homework jotter in the plastic bag – we have some lovely new reading books that we will start sending home soon, and it’s really important that we look after them well, so rather than them being put into school bags, I’m hoping that placing them in the plastic bags will help keep them in good condition.

Thanks

 

This week in P1a we have been busy developing our Data Handling Skills – we have conducted two whole class surveys – we worked together to complete a hair colour survey, recording the information on the board using tally marks and then putting the information into a table, we then worked individually to gather information about everyone’s favourite colour.

 

 

 

We have been developing our mental maths skills, identifying the numbers before and after to 30, skip counting in 2’s and 5’s and counting across the decades.

 

Our sounds this week were g,o and u. We have been practising our blending and segmenting skills, building words and taking them apart, now that we have so many sounds to work with.

Our Story of the Week was One Button Benny and we used the metal loose parts to create our own versions of Benny, we then wrote about Benny in our Writing Jotters.

Here are some pictures from our Pop In and Play, it was so lovely to be able to share our classroom space with you all.

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

I hope everyone has a fabulous October Break – look forward to hearing all about everyone’s adventures when we return on Tuesday the 25th of October.

This week in p1a started with a visit from Mrs McGuigan and Miss Doig, the children were so excited to tell them about their learning.

There was also great excitement when we started using our Target Board. When the children are given a task, they are now able to remove their “wee man” to show that they have completed it.

In literacy, we have completed the second set of Jolly Phonics sounds r, m and d. The children have been practising writing their sounds and recognising them in texts.

We have been using the talking tins to help with recognising the sounds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And we have completed lots of sound related activities.

We have been writing in our new writing jotters, this week we designed robots and then named them.

In Numeracy and Maths this week, we have been working with numbers to 30, starting to learn about basic addition skills and working on our Data Handling skills.

Mr Eadie has been teaching us about colour blending.

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

I hope everyone has a great weekend and look forward to sharing our learning with those of you who can manage along on Tuesday for Pop in and Play.

This week we have been really busy developing our maths skills outdoors. We watched a live lesson on symmetry and then made a SymmeTREE. We also collected items from the woodland area and after lots of discussion, sorted them using a range of criteria.

We have also been investigating pattern.

In our number work, we have been ordering numbers and finding the number before and after.

We have learned another 3 new sounds – c/k, e and h and we have been consolidating our previous sounds with lots of activities.

In Art, we linked our Bridge topic with the art of Claude Monet and produced these lovely bridge pictures.

We went to the Adventure Trail and used our gross motor skills.

And we enjoyed exploring the woodland area, seeing how the woodland is changing with the seasons.

We undertook a STEM challenge to build a bridge between tables that would be stable enough to drive the BeeBots across. After a lot of trial and error and a few frayed tempers, the BeeBots made it safely across to the other side.

Here are some more pictures of our learning.

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

This week we had our first Woodland Learning Session. We started by “Going on a Bear Hunt” it was such a shame that the council had just cut all of the swishy, swishy grass, but we still managed to have an adventure in the forest!

Some of our P5 friends joined us and found lots of worms for us to investigate then we spent time exploring the woodland area.

 

In PE, we continue to work on Possession Skills and we were working in teams.

 

 

 

 

 

There was so much excitement in class when we started learning our sounds. So far we have learned s, a, t. We learned the Jolly Phonics songs, built words with our sounds and practised forming and identifying our sounds using a variety of activities.

 

 

 

 

 

We continued with our bridge topic and worked collaboratively to create bridges using a range of classroom construction materials.

Here are some more pictures of this weeks learning. I hope everyone has a good weekend and look forward to welcoming the children back on Tuesday.