It is still looking spooky in Primary 1B! Our classroom continues to celebrate the theme of Halloween!

We thought we should water the flowers in our pumpkin so our flowers do not die! We realised we cannot pour water straight on top, so we decided to flick water at the flowers instead.

We have been having so much fun learning how to bake different spooky treats. This week we made Vampire Oat Balls! We discussed the method of how to make them and applied our previous skills of making Rice Krispie cakes! However, this time it was more challenging because we had to learn how to cut grapes! We know how to hold a knife correctly and how to cut a grape safely!

Keeping in the theme of Halloween, we have been creating stories about Halloween, scarecrows and ghosts!

We are beginning to learn about finger spaces!

We continue to enjoy mark making in our classroom. We have nearly learnt all initial sounds and you can see letters in our mark making!

Using our fine motor skills, we had to free the bugs and animals from their web! With perseverance and patience we managed to free them!

Today, we made Magic Potions using a variety of materials and resources. They are a pretty sensory item for us to keep in our bedroom or to play with!

As it is Halloween tomorrow, Miss Amin created a surprise for us! She mad us Halloween treat bags to take home and enjoy on Halloween. However, we had to find them in the places that she hid them! We were super excited!

Have a great day tomorrow everyone! I cannot wait to hear what  you get up to at the weekend!

Happy Halloween superstars!

 

This week we have been having so much fun learning about baking! We made Rice Krispie cakes! We watched a video of Miss Amin baking them first and spoke about how to make them.

We learnt new vocabulary such as mixing, blending and learnt about different baking utensils like a spatula.

We were measuring the amount of Rice Krispies to put in the bowl.

We then added in chocolate and mixed it until every last bit of the rice krispie was covered in melted chocolate. We spoke about how the chocolate went from a solid to a liquid.

After, we poured our mixture into cupcake cases.

We used sprinkles to decorate them and make them spooky!

At the end of the day, we had the pleasure of eating our own creation! It was DELICIOUS!

As Halloween is approaching, we turned our classroom into a spooky and haunted house! We explored all the different decorations and decided where to put them all.

In our Home Corner, we were making scary dishes! We were cooking monsters, making mud soup and slimy cakes with bugs!

For the entrance of our spooky house we assembled the black net and made it scary by adding in bugs!

We are witches who are making potions!

As our Haunted House is a scary place to go to, we had to make danger and warning signs! Our signs said, ‘Zombie Zones’, ‘Keep Out’, ‘Ghosts and Skeletons’ and ‘Be Warned’!

In the Library we have been using our imagination to create horror stories!

We were using our fine motor skills to release the foam! We pretended that the foam were ghosts!

Be warned and DO NOT ENTER Primary 1B because it is SPOOKY and it has real life zombies!

THE END,

FROM THE ZOMBIES AT HAUNTED HOUSE OF PRIMARY 1B!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primary One, we have reached another school Holiday! This week you have blown me away. I have seen everyone apply all their learning across the classroom independently. For example, we learnt about Senses!

Using your knowledge of senses, I could hear you describing foods and its ‘taste’, you were exploring sound in your environment and were exploring all the different textures you could ‘touch’ across the classroom.

We were scared about what we were going to touch or feel underneath this cloth! Thankfully it wasn’t anything scary! We used our sense of touch to feel different objects. We had to guess what we were feeling!

‘I think I smell perfume, it smells so nice’.

‘I smell fruit like oranges.’

‘I smell strawberries. I want to eat a strawberry now.’

We were smelling lots of different items and objects, some were fruity and strong!

We were using our sense of touch. The play dough was soft, but the rolling pin was hard and so was the pasta!

We were carefully looking at the pictures to try and ‘see’ all the hidden words!

We were using our ‘hearing’  to create some music!

We are playing with all the different tinned foods in the home corner and discussed  what they would taste like.

To conclude our learning about Senses, we went on a Senses walk. We were mark making everything we could touch, see, hear, smell and taste.

We continue to learn about our sounds! We practise alliteration of sounds and letter formation!

We were printing peppers and that begins with a ‘p’!

We were having so much fun as we explored ‘c’ using cornflakes!

For ‘n’, we were reading and investigating newspapers! We could find other sounds we recognised in the newspapers too!

We love writing on our tummies! We are practising our letter formation. We had to circle which letter we thought we had wrote the neatest.

Creating and roleplaying stories is so much fun! Helicopter stories brings our own stories to life!

In Maths, we made our own Bar Chart. We remember what a Bar Chart is because it looks like bars of chocolate in a graph! Some are small and big! We made a bar chart about our favourite foods.

We made a bar chart about our eye colours!

Continuing our love of forces, ordinal positions and cars, Miss Amin created a target board! The highest score was the small circle in the middle which is 100! We worked as team to try and reach our car to 100!

We are sorting objects into the correct colour. We then practised sharing amounts equally with one another. We discussed what a half is too!

We love making stories outdoors! Here we are pretending to be Miss Amin and we are singing a number song!

With Halloween approaching, we were making potions. We discussed the different colours we could make by mixing colours.

What a super blog this week for super learners! You blow me away each week by how excited you are to learn. I hope you have a wonderful October week. Have lots of fun and stay safe!

See you soon,

Miss Amin xx

 

 

 

 

It is Maths Week! Our blog this week will show you all the excellent learning experiences we have had whilst exploring Outdoors!

We were super keen to play noughts and crosses, however, as we did not have any of the pieces for the game, we created our own!

We measured different plants and cut long strips to create a grid! We used stones and pebbles for the noughts and crosses. Whilst playing this game, we were discussing patterns, shapes and problem solving!

Whilst we were playing, we wanted to create an obstacle course. Although, we had to tell Miss Amin what shapes our objects and resources were before using them.

‘The tyres are circles and has no corners’.

‘The crates are rectangles and squares. They both have four corners and four edges.’

‘The pipes are like thin rectangles’.

We created a label at the beginning of our obstacle course which says ‘Start’.

Time for the fun part, completing our obstacle course and maintaining our balance and control!

The mud kitchen is the perfect place to explore volume! We were making potions and could identify if our potion was empty, half empty, full and half full. We were extending our vocabulary by using different measurement terms.

We love to use chalk for mark making! We are making number lines and practising our number formation.

We made a a number house!

We created our own hopscotches! We also played maths game. For example, if someone shouted out 6, you had to jump on that number!

As we were drawing pictures on the ground, we explored Symmetry. We realised when we draw a picture, if we draw a line straight down the middle, the picture is symmetrical. However, we know that both sides must be the same!

As well as learning and exploring Maths outdoors, here are some ways we explored it inside our classroom.

We were learning about ordinal positions using loose parts, tubes and cars. We were racing one another and solving which one would come 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th!

We were also trying to solve how to make the cars travel in a different way and faster! We were working together as a team to do this!

We have also been learning about weight. We were using different objects to weigh and were learning how to use a 2 pan balancing scale. We had to determine which objects were the heaviest to the lightest.

We were comparing numbers and determining which one is smaller and bigger! As a challenge, we had to determine how much bigger a number was for example if a number was 3 and a number was 7, by how many is 7 bigger than 3?

As we order lunch everyday, we decided to create a chart to see which lunch option is the most popular! We were learning about different ways you can record and document information.

Maths week has been filled with amazing learning indoors and outdoors! We will continue to work super hard in Maths everyday in class!

Tuesday was a super exciting day as  you were all given your first ever homework! I hope everything on Google Classroom makes sense and you have fun from week to week completing your activities!

Well done for working so hard as always Primary One,

Have a wonderful weekend!xx

Hello everyone,

We have reached our first school holiday! Although it has been a short week, we have still been super busy learning!

This week we have began learning our sounds. We have learnt the sound ‘s’ and ‘a’. When we learn a new sound, we identify words that begin with the same sound (alliteration), we practise sorting objects and practise forming the letters correctly.

We made snakes whilst we learnt about the ‘s’ sound!

We are using our hearing skills to splat the correct sound!

This week we have been exploring Money! We know money is exchanged to buy and purchase items. We are sorting the different coins to ensure we can recognise the value of different coins.

In our Roleplay we were buying items! Some items were expensive and some were cheap! Items were 1p and 2p but some were 10p!

We were using coins to make a character! However, we had to tell Miss Amin or our friends what coins we had used.

We continue to practise our subitising skills! Miss Amin will shout out a number and with our fingers we have to show the correct amount as fast as we can.

Although we were only to sequence the numbers to 10, we managed to do it to 20 without any help! We worked together as a team to do this!

We love using Digital Technology to enhance our learning! We used Bee-Bots to explore directions and movements.

We have made a house using elastic bands. The house is made using shapes such as squares and triangles.

For our Topic for Safari Animals, we went on an Animal Hunt! Some animals were high, low and just impossible to find. However, we managed to find them all and persevered!

 

We discussed how animals use ‘Forces’ whilst they prey on animals or fight because they push and pull! Using Bee-Bots again, we were exploring the movement of push and pull.

We also played with cars and a ramp to explore Forces! Using our measuring skills, we used a pen to measure how far the car had travelled after it had been pushed!

Whilst Outdoors, we used our knowledge of shapes to make an Obstacle Course!

We were also exploring how to travel water from different resources without it spilling!

You would never have thought this was a short week as we have been so busy learning and playing! I hope you all have a wonderful rest Primary 1B, you deserve it for working so hard!

Stay safe and I will see you all next Tuesday,

Love Miss Amin xx

Hello,

We have been super busy this week learning across all the different curricular areas. Our first Topic was all about ‘Under The Sea’, but we have now moved on to ‘Safari Animals!’

We have created our home corner into a Zoo. As a team, we made a roof for it!

In our play, we have been building Zoo’s in the construction area to keep the animals safe!

Whilst animals are exploring in the wild they leave their tracks (footprints). We were investigating how animals have different tracks and comparing their differences.

Also within our Topic, we realised that lions are orange and slightly red which resembled Autumn! Whilst Outdoors, we gathered leaves and looked at how the leaves are beginning to change colours and discussed the season of Autumn.

Worms worms worms! We love worms although Miss Amin is a tiny bit scared of them. We created a ‘wormery’!

After, we realised we made quite a bit of mess. Whilst splashing the water down the slope to remove the mud, we noticed that water has a force! We now know that a force is when an object is being pushed or pulled!

The activity trail is a great activity for us to develop our gross motor skills, co-ordination and control!

We are becoming more confident to correctly identify and write our name!

We continue to explore 2D shapes and discuss their properties such as edges and corners.

We made Pizza using Shapes!

We are working on our estimating and measuring skills. We explored a variety of objects and used different items to measure how long they were.

We explored each others heights to determine who is taller and shorter!

Wow, what a busy week of learning it has been! We hope you have enjoyed this weeks blog! See you next week 😀!

 

Hello everyone,

We cannot wait to show you how we work together as a team to overcome challenges. We carefully assessed whether or not it was safe to go on top of the sheds together.

It was a little tricky figuring out how to reach to the top or how to come back down without falling.

We guided one another and kept our balance to make sure no one fell!

There were so many tyres, pipes and tunnels. However, as a team, we guided one another and made sure it was stable enough for us to balance on when coming down.

We have been exploring Dance! We love being able to be creative and being given the chance to show off our awesome dance moves!

We are continuing to practise our flexibility with numbers! Including counting, finding the missing numbers and sequencing.

We have been super busy making Helicopter Stories. This is when we make up our own story and we have the chance to act it out.

We are Star Writers! We have been completing fine line drawings to tell stories too! We love sharing our stories to one another.

Boys and girls,

Well done for another amazing week in Primary One. You continue to work so hard and I am so proud of you all.

Remember on Monday we have our Outdoor Learning Period 1 and 2, so please remember to bring your waterproof clothing. Also, if you haven’t already, can you please return your ‘Special Book’ back to class. We are beginning to document your learning now in your ‘Special Book’ so it is important that it returns to school.

Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you all on Monday!

Miss Amin xx

 

 

Hello everyone,

We are so excited for you to have a look at our very first blog of Primary One. We are having so much fun playing with our friends, learning and exploring our play areas each day.

We have already encountered such special memories with one another and we have made a video for you to see some of those special memories! We hope you enjoy it and it puts a smile on your face! ☺️

See you next week in our next blog! We already cannot wait to show you what we have been learning!

 

 

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