We enjoyed entertaining all our family and friends at our Nativity, we worked so hard learning the songs and our lines and hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did.

We also had a great time at our Christmas party, we enjoyed party games, dancing and snacks. We were also super excited that we had a special visit from Santa, we sang him some songs and he gave us a lovely gift.

We also enjoyed creating some lovely Christmas crafts.

We also had a go at being Elves and enjoyed wrapping different presents.

Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you so much for all our wonderful gifts.

Thank you

Mrs Agnew and Miss Regan

We have had another busy week in P1C! We are continuing to work  hard on our Nativity and we are so excited that we get to share it with you all very soon!

In Literacy and English, we have been enjoying our new reading books and learning new reading skills such as prediction and sequencing. We also really enjoyed reading our books into the talking tins, this lets us hear ourselves reading and allows us to practice reading clearly and fluently.

We are also continuing to practice all our sounds and have enjoyed various activities to help us. Here we are sorting out all the lower and upper case letters to the correct spot.

In Numeracy and Maths, we learnt all about symmetry and we know that symmetry means that it is same on both sides. We  identified lots of symmetrical objects in our class using mirrors and created our own wonderful symmetrical pictures.

This week our story of the week was ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson. We read the story and discussed woodland animals and their habitats. We learnt that there are a lot of animals that live in the woodland and they all live in different types of habitats. We enjoyed a walk around our school grounds to see if we could spot any woodland animal habitats, we found some nests in the trees, some holes that we think mice and rabbits may live in too! We also enjoyed designing a habitat for a woodland animal of our choice.

We have also really enjoyed using the tools at our new woodwork bench, we can’t wait to continue to develop our skills in this area and watch out for our amazing creations.

Primary 1C have been working very hard on their Nativity. We can’t wait to share it with you very soon! We also had a lovely time on Friday picking a present for a loved one at the present room. We were all delighted to share with each other what we had bought!

In Literacy we are building on our reading skills each week. Some of us read a non-fiction book about teeth and then drew and then wrote about a fact we had learned. We have been practising our CVC words through CVC bingo and we are consolidating our sounds.

In Numeracy and Maths we have been learning about fractions. We have discussed equal parts and what a half is. We had a go at halving a piece of playdough and made sure each part was the same size, some of us even managed to split it into quarters. We also made pizzas but had to half our pizza first and share it with someone. We have also been learning about time and have discussed the different types of clocks there are, the features of clocks and also how to tell the time using o’clock. Along with this, we are practising our days of the week and months of the year.

During Outdoor Learning on Friday we used our knowledge of clocks and built our own clocks using sticks, stones and leaves and grass. We worked with our partner to ensure we had the correct number of stones and we then made a time on our clocks using the hands.

It has been a busy week of rehearsals for our upcoming Nativity. We have been practising the songs and the actions and have even been singing the songs during our play and in the playground. We are extremely excited about the beginning of December and we are starting to feel a little festive with some of us creating Christmas pictures. Even more so on Friday when we brought presents in for the Present Room and wore our own clothes. We enjoyed creating some funny photos!

In Literacy and English, we have been practising our common words using say, make and write. We then worked in small groups to create as many ‘an’ words as we could.

Mr Eadie has been teaching us about drawing. Each week we have developed our drawing techniques by creating different lines and then using these skills to create our own portraits. This week we had to capture the shape and patterns of objects using line.

This week, Crookfur marked Road Safety Week. P1C were lucky to receive a visit from one of the school’s Junior Road Safety Officers who taught us about road safety and played a game of Spot the Danger with us. We discussed what dangers we could see on the road and how it could be made safer.

This week we also learned a little about St Andrew’s Day. We learned different ways it can be celebrated and discussed different things from Scotland. In our Creative Area we made some tartan and Scottish flags.

We have been building more than ever in our construction area and some of us are even drawing our designs and then creating and measuring them. We love using cars, pebbles, dinosaurs and lots of other items in our buildings.