This week we explored the work of Piet Mondrian. We shared our thoughts on what we liked and disliked about his work and used the examples as an inspiration for our designs. We used various shades of the primary colours blue, red and yellow and circles and rectangles to create our designs.

We looked at making amounts with different coins using items from our shop. We started thinking about coin equivalents we could use to make amounts and will continue this next week to develop our understanding further.

It was a chilly slot in the MUGA on Tuesday but we continued our target practice and played lots of running games to help keep us warm.

We celebrated Book Week Scotland with a trip to our local library where we are all very excited to receive a special bookbag to keep at home. The children did very well walking up the hill with a partner and were all superb in the library, enjoying a couple of stories and songs led by the librarian. Thank you very much to our lovely parent helpers. We then welcomed our buddies down in the afternoon to help us choose our favourite book and write a book review together.

Enjoy your weekend and stay safe in the snow!

Mrs Denholm x

We have been working hard on learning our common words this week through various games.

We spoke about our experiences of Bonfire Night and how to stay safe around fireworks. We made some pictures using pastels and black paper and even made a collage poster where we all worked together to add some colour and design.

We started toothbrushing this week and explored the importance of looking after our teeth and regular trips to the dentist.

We made playdough this week trying to follow the instructions and patiently waiting our turn to give it a mix. We definitely need more practice as it was very runny but we persevered and got there in the end.

We are now independently working through our literacy and numeracy targets and Mrs Denholm has been so pleased to see everyone working together as well as on their own to learn through play.

We explored a growth mindset and the idea that when things are tricky we keep practising so we can get better at them. We tried to lift and move pom poms using chopsticks which was very tricky at first but had smiles all round when we experienced success.

We took our literacy learning out into the P1 garden this morning to practise our sounds and blending. We had good fun working as a team to identify sounds and read simple words.

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you all next week.

Mrs Denholm x

We have had a busy few weeks in Primary 1 as we are now starting to use our knowledge of sounds to help us in our play and as we read and write.

We have been looking at repeating patterns in our environment and using a variety of resources to make our own patterns. We have enjoyed asking each other questions and gathering the results using tally marks. We have been able to talk about what we have found out using comparative language. We have continues to practise number formation and used subitising within our play to become more familiar with this concept.

We are still continuing to work on object control within our PE lessons, learning to move safely in a space and control the ball.

And here are a few snapshots of the children leading their own learning with their peers in the class…

Another great week!

Mrs Denholm x

This week we have celebrated Maths Week Scotland where we have spoken about the importance of numbers and maths within our daily lives and have used lots of stories to help us with our learning. We based many of our activities around the story Ten Terrible Dinosaurs which we enjoyed reading and acting out together. It supported us with counting backwards and recognise number names to ten.

We have played games, completed jigsaws, ordered numbers and used a number line to develop our understanding further. We all voted for our favourite dinosaur and completed a table using tally marks which we later turned into a pictogram.

We have practised writing our numbers starting at the correct point and enjoyed playing some number games on the ipads. Here are some pictures of our learning…

We were also very excited to welcome our buddies down to the class to listen to stories they had created. Here are some pictures of us with our buddies…

Have a lovely long weekend and I will see you all on Tuesday to hear about your adventures.

Love Mrs Denholm x

This week we have started learning our first three sounds ‘s, a and t’ through jolly phonics. We now know a song to help us remember these sounds (which you can find online) an action for each sound and even started to blend these sounds together to make the words at and sat. We have started looking at reading books and took our time to refresh our knowledge on how to look after the book, different aspects of print concept and had a good go at predicting the story based on the picture clues.

We have continued to develop our number knowledge and have been working on identifying the missing numbers.

We are thoroughly enjoying our learning of all things space and have thought about some questions we would ask an astronaut if we were to meet one. Mrs Denholm is going to teach us a little more next week about the important job of an astronaut.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing everyone on Monday.

Mrs Denholm x

This week we have been thinking about the initial sounds of words. We thought carefully about the sound our names begin with and tried to find others in the class who had the same starting sound. We then played games to match and group the objects together by initial sound.

We continued to practise our rhyming words by making lists, listening to stories, identifying the odd one out and playing rhyming bingo and we worked hard to include lots of details into our black line drawings. 

We learnt the correct number formation for seven and eight using our number zoo animal stories to help us remember what they look like. We then tried to make our own giraffes (spotty seven) in our play.

In PE we travelled through space in our rockets with three astronauts allowed in each rocket. We raced and had to communicate with each other to change direction and alter our speed as needed. We developed our throwing and catching by trying to keep the ‘moon’ in the air and tried to throw shooting stars as far as we could through space.

We were super excited to get to work designing and building rockets out of junk materials. Thank you for all of your junk you have sent in. We will always gratefully put it to good use. The children have shown fantastic creativity and teamwork as they work hard to solve design challenges and support one another with cutting, sticking and balancing objects on top of each other. Next week we will continue to work on our designs.

We ended the week with ‘Fun Friday’ where we had some fun in the sun listening to a story in our garden and playing on the activity trail.

Have a lovely weekend in the sunshine. See you all next week!

Mrs Denholm x

We have had another busy week practising our syllables and learning more about rhyme. We have been able to listen and clap the beat in 1, 2 and 3 syllable words and have been playing games to match rhyming pictures and the odd one out. We enjoyed reading Stickman to find lots of rhyming words in the text too.

We have been reading number stories about ticklish two, butterfly three and feathery four and have used the characters from these stories to help us with learning the correct number formation.

Our story of the week focused on the theme of difference and provided a good stimulus for discussion about the importance of being yourself. We all agreed life would be very dull if we were all exactly the same. Based on the story we designed our own underpants using different colours and designs and have displayed them on our story of the week display.

We worked on developing both our listening and fitness this week across PE with a variety of games where we worked individually and ass part of a team. It was great fun!

We are having a great time getting to know each other and are making new friends as we play. Here is a little snap of some of the learning taking place across the other areas.

Have a lovely weekend! See you all Monday.

Mrs Denholm x