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Outdoor learning

Last week we started learning about using tally marks to record data in a quick way. The children were able to think of some questions they wanted to find out the answers to for example what is P1b’s favourite flavour of ice cream? with an overwhelming result favouring chocolate.

We enjoyed a Scottish story in the garden enjoying our snacks and talking about the new Scottish words we have learnt including loch, wee and lassie.

We also found time to build a swamp, a Jurassic park, do a spot of hula hooping and collaborative art.

Remember to bring back the outdoor clothes for this Wednesday!
Mrs Denholm x

 

Seasons

This week we have developed our understanding of the seasons and the changes that occur around us as the months pass. We have thought carefully about events that take place such as Halloween Christmas and our birthdays and linked these to the seasons also. We worked hard to create our own calendars with a tree representing the colours we would see in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

 


From the Sahara to the Arctic…

Inspired by an interest in snow animals we have been finding out about life in the Arctic. To help us find this freezing habitat at the very top of the world, we used a globe to locate the Arctic Circle. We discovered the Arctic is home to many amazing animals including polar bears, Arctic foxes, snowy owls, beluga whales and seals. We even tried to make some of our own snow.

Have a great weekend!
Mrs Denholm x

December in P1

What a busy wee month it has been in Primary 1.  Here are some pictures to show you what we have been up to…


We have had lots of fun in the garden making yummy hot chocolate recipes, testing different heights for ramps for the cars and making zoos and swamps for the animals we have been learning about to play and live in.

We have been following and giving directions using Bee-Bot and a beebot app.

Our building designs have reached new levels with rooms, ramps and even labels.

We’ve shared stories by the fire.

We planned, practised and performed our nativity and oh what fun we had whilst singing, acting and dancing.

We have been super busy crafting, completing challenges, writing, junk modelling and playing with our friends.

We threw a party in for good measure and a special visitor even stopped by. How lucky are we?

We finished our super busy month with a relaxing movie morning watching The Grinch, all snug as bugs.

I wish you all a very merry Christmas and hope you all have a lovely holiday and well deserved rest.

love Mrs Denholm xx

 

Singing practice

Today we met together in the hall with the other P1 classes and practised singing our nativity songs. It was lovely to hear such beautiful voices and see some interesting dance moves 🙂

 

Developing number sense

This week we have been developing our understanding of addition using our fingers to help us add numbers together accurately. We have tried to record our own calculations with a plus symbol and equals sign. We have played games to help us recognise numbers without counting (subitising) and have used lots of different language to talk about numbers.

Drama

We have been bringing our own stories to life through drama. There has been lots of hilarity as the children take on the roles of different characters and think about how they can use their body and voice to act it out to the class.

 

Trip to the library

We were very lucky to be invited up to Mearns library to receive a bag of books to enjoy at home. The class did very well walking safely up to the library and enjoyed listening to some stories together. Here are a couple of pics from the trip.

Halves and equal sharing

This week we have been looking at halves carefully exploring shapes that have been split into two equal parts.  We were able to identify shapes that did and did not show halves, sort them accordingly and use our knowledge of equal parts in our play with the play dough.