1. This week, we have been practising the sounds we know and have learnt three new ones r, m and d. We played some games and carefully tried to write the letters. We added lots of detail to our writing, which was all about kicking a ball. We took time to discuss what would be in our drawings which really helped us when we sat down to write. Mrs Denholm is keeping our writing in a special green jotter which we will get to take home later in the year to show you.

We were celebrating Maths Week in Scotland with the theme being ‘our world’. In P1b we decided to think about gathering and sorting. We were able to share our ideas of what jobs you would need to sort lots of objects including a postman, rubbish collector and supermarket. We collected lots of natural objects when we were outdoors and worked as a team to decide on the criteria to sort them.

We even had some time left to splash in the puddles.

For our topic this week we looked at sea and land turtles. We now know they have four flippers and a head if the live in the sea and limbs that can retract into their shell if they live on land. Sea turtles can hold their breath for up to 5 hours and they lay their eggs on the beach late at night. We made our very own turtles using paper plates, paint and collage. We can’t wait to hang them in our classroom for everyone to see.

We have had lots of fun building models out of junk materials this week. Lots of focus and creativity has went into them and it has been lovely to see the children working together on these mini projects. Can we ask if you have any junk materials (kitchen roll tubes, cereal bar boxes, tissue boxes etc) that you send them in for our junk box to enable our designs to continue. Here are some from this week…

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Denholm x