It has been another busy week in P1c with lots of learning taking place. The children have brought home their work to share with you, we hope you enjoy looking at this with them.

In Numeracy and Maths some of us are looking at bigger and smaller numbers. We each chose a number between 1-20 and wrote it on our whiteboard. Mrs Agnew then chose one of the numbers and we had to decide if our number was bigger or smaller than it.

We have started learning about Data Handling and this week had a go at sorting 3D objects and some fish in different ways. We could sort the 3D objects by size, colour and shape and the we noticed some of the fish had a fin and others didn’t and sorted them into the hoops this way. We are learning why we sort Data and next week will explore other ways we can display it.

     

     

     

This week in Expressive Arts, we used our colouring mixing skills to create a seascape. This allowed us to blend blue, yellow and the green we mixed together. We drew and cut out our own fish to create a beautiful picture.

     

     

     

     

We love the woodland and had a lovely, if not a little muddy, time exploring on Friday. We enjoyed climbing in the trees and were keen to try and balance on the branches. Some of us enjoyed looking for worms and playing in the mud!

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

 

    

We continue to develop our construction skills which really emphasises our imagination, just look at our creations!

     

     

 

There’s been lots going on in P1c this week. There’s been experiments, exploring and lots of opportunities to develop our writing!

In Literacy we have been discussing what we would like to be when we grow up. We drew a picture of us doing the job and wrote about it. Some of the jobs P1c would like to do are rollercoaster designer, DJ, ballerina and a racing car driver.

Our Health and Wellbeing topic is Food and Health and we are using this as an opportunity to have a go at some instructional writing. We have been learning how important it is to keep our hands clean and wrote instructions how to do this, just ask us to show you! We also wrote instructions to brush your teeth and next week will have a go at writing about our bedtime routines whilst learning about the importance of sleep!

    

We explored the best way to clean our hands! We were all delighted to have our hands covered in glitter which acted as the germs. Some of us just gave our hands a quick clean with a dry paper towel. Some of us quickly ran our hands under the tap. We quickly realised that the best way to wash our hands is for 20 seconds with soap and water and then drying them properly. There was no glitter left on our hands after this!

    

For Expressive Arts we are learning about painting. We have already learned a little about mixing colours and put this knowledge into practise by mixing blue and yellow to  make green. We painted four blue balloons, four yellow balloons and then used our colour mixing skills to paint four green balloons.

   

   

   

During our time on the PE Hall we practised our rolls. We are learning to complete a forward roll and had to practise rolling backwards and standing up without using our hands, this was tricky! We then had a go at a pencil roll!

   

   

In Numeracy and Maths , we learned when you swap the numbers around in an addition calculation the answer is still the same. We used dominoes to helps us to this!

    

   

We are developing our ball skills in the Muga. We practised throwing and catching, rolling and bouncing the ball. We then had a game of over and under to help develop our concentration and coordination.

   

The cold didn’t stop us having fun on Friday! We enjoyed exploring the ice and some of us even made an ‘ice fire’. We were challenged to construct a model of anything we liked. We built a place, spaceship and even a time machine. The time machine would take us back to the dinosaurs!

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

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.

   

   

   

    

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.

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week Primary 1C have decided on their first IDL topic. We will be learning about The Seaside and we have already chosen to learn about shells, sea creatures, why the water has waves and also why it is salty. We are also interested in treasure and using a metal detector to find some.

We have enjoyed making playdough, creating crowns, rings and handbags in our creative area and building in our construction area.

   

In Literacy and English we have been working hard matching words that rhyme. We have enjoyed identifying rhyming objects, matched the rhyming  word to the correct rhyme house and played games to consolidate our learning.

   

In Numeracy and Mathes, we have continued learning to recognise numbers 1-20 and practised sequencing numbers and  identifying the missing number. We have also looked at the number before and after and used the number fans in class for the first time.

   

   

   

In Health and Wellbeing we are developing our Growth Mindset. We spoke about not giving up when we are stuck and we used our jackets to help us learn about this. We worked with our partners and helped each other if we found it difficult to get our jacket on. Mrs Agnew and Miss Regan did make it extra challenging by turning our sleeves inside out 🙂

   

   

   

We also had great fun outdoors this week! Our kitchen was open again with lots of tasty mud pies and ice-cream on the menu. We also displayed some great problem solving and building outdoors this week too.

   

   

    

   

   

Thank you to the parents and carers who attended our ‘Meet the Teacher’ event on Wednesday evening. The SWAY presentation will be e-mailed to all parents and carers to ensure those who were unable to attend do not miss any information.

The children have worked extremely hard on their self-portraits and many parents/carers enjoyed looking at them. We wanted to share our beautiful art with all parents/carers 🙂

What a wonderful and busy week we have had in Primary 1C. The sun has been shining and we have had a lovely time outside in our garden and Muga.

This week we have continued with Phonological Awareness and have been learning about syllables. We have also practised making our names with magnetic letters and scrabbles tiles. On Wednesday we told Mrs Agnew or Miss Regan an imaginative story of our choice and they wrote it down. Next week we will act out some of our stories!

We have continued with numbers 1-10 and have been enjoying different activities to help us count along with recognising the number as a numeral or a word.

We have continued to explore the areas in our classroom.

   

   

   

Our story of the week has been The Colour Monster. We have been learning about different feelings such as happiness, sadness and fear. We discussed times where we felt different feelings and drew pictures of them in our jars. We also painted a Colour Monster to show how we were feeling.

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On Monday we went to the Multipurpose room and enjoyed some drama games. We played a game called ‘Who’s Shoes?’ and took turns to act out a person. There were firemen, paramedics, racing car drivers, farmers and artists!

    

On Friday morning we enjoyed the sunshine in our Primary 1 garden. We enjoyed exploring the areas and lots of us decided to create our own garden area with the stones.

   

   

   

   

    

We played parachute games in the Muga on Friday. We were incredibly excited trying to keep the ball on the parachute and loved playing cat and mouse. There was lots of teamwork involved!