We have had a week full of excitement and there has been lots of chatting about the school disco. We loved sharing our costumes with each other and a few of us drew pictures of us at the school disco during our writing lesson on Thursday.

In Numeracy and Maths some of us have been learning to count in 2s and we have been learning about more than and less than. We have been using a number line to help us with this. We have also started to learn the number names and match the numeral with the world.

In Literacy we have continued to learn new sounds and this week we enjoyed decorating and cutting out some leaves for ‘l’ and writing the ‘f’ in the fish. We are all continuing to practise our letter formation along with our rhyming skills.

On Tuesday we learned about Diwali and it was lovely for those who celebrate Diwali to share this with the class. We also discussed what we some of our neighbours have done to celebrate Diwali. We coloured our own Rangoli patterns, made Rangoli patterns with chalk in the playground and also created our own Henna designs on hand templates. Our playground has never looked so colourful!

   

   

   

We have continued with our topic The Seaside and enjoyed our story of the week, Sharing a Shell. We tried to create pictures with shells by placing them underneath a piece of paper and rubbing them with a crayon. This was quite tricky however we enjoyed exploring the different textures of the shells and creating different patterns with the crayon rubbings.

On Wednesday, we absolutely loved practising our balancing skills in PE. We had to work carefully with a partner, keep each other safe but also working as a team to try and hold the balance. We were extremely proud of ourselves when we managed to hold it!

   

   

   

   

    

We spent Friday afternoon in the woodland. We love exploring the woodland and it really brings out our imagination. There was lots of cooking, swinging on trees and tyres and throwing of autumn leaves! We had a go at creating potions using some special ingredients and the pumpkins from our class. There was lots of excitement when the potion bubbled over!

   

   

    

    

Continuing with our pumpkin theme, we made pumpkins with Mr Eadie on Tuesday. We loved making these so much that some of us wanted to make a second one!

   

   

   

    

 

We have had a very exciting week in P1C with lots going on! Most exciting of all was our visitors on Thursday afternoon for our Pop in and Play. Thank you to all of the parents and grandparents who came along! We loved sharing our classroom with you and showing you some of the things we get up to in Primary 1!

   

   

    

This week in Literacy we learned three new sounds ‘g, o and u’. We painted some grapes, made some oranges and designed some underpants. We have been practising our letter formation too in many different ways!

    

We are continuing to develop our creativity and our construction skills. Our buildings are getting bigger and stronger with some very interesting designs!

    

We enjoyed some circle time on Monday and shared lots of our favourite things along with how we were feeling. We all waited extremely patiently for our turn to speak and listened carefully to each other.

We created spooky spiders with Mr Eadie on Tuesday. We used our hands to create the shape of the spider and then added some googly eyes.

   

    

We had a lovely time in our garden on Friday afternoon. The sun was shining for us. We built tall towers with the crates, balances on planks of wood, created our own obstacle courses and built with the tyres. There was lots of mud pies and cakes in the kitchen and lots of fun was had building a wall in the sand area.

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P1C has been an extremely busy place this week with lots of learning taking place.

We enjoyed our first visit to the woodland which was very muddy but lots of fun! There was splashing in puddles, swinging on tyres, climbing in trees and pretending to be grizzly bears!

   

   

   

    

    

Some of us have been learning to count in 2s. We sorted the cards in the correct order. We have also been discussing more than and less than and had a go at one more than and one less than a number and counting out the correct number of pom poms. We had a go at showing our answers with the number fans this week during our mental maths learning.

   

     

We have been learning about capacity and the different vocabulary we can use. We experimented by filling different containers to show full, nearly full, half full, almost empty and empty. We discussed which container had the largest capacity and why we thought that.

   

   

    

One of the sounds we learned this week was ‘d’. We decorated a doughnut and designed a dress.

    

We had a go at sorting the letters to match the sound.

   

   

We have been developing our sequencing skills. We read Room on the Broom together and then showed our understanding of the story by sequencing the characters in the order they appeared.

    

We made name rockets by writing each letter of our name and then turning it into a rocket by adding triangles. We decorated them with stars, the moon and planets.

    

We have also been practising our letter formation.

We had an amazing time on Thursday afternoon making baskets for Hamish the cat. Hamish is the cat in our story The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. We had to make the basket strong enough to transport Hamish from one end of the pulley system to the other. There were lots of cheers when Hamish made it across safely!

   

   

   

   

   

    

   

On Monday we worked in groups to act out the characters from The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. Some of us very much got into character and showed how Mr Grinling, Mrs Grinling, Hamish the cat and the seagulls may feel at different parts of the story.