We have had another busy week in P1C!

We enjoyed exploring the Bee-Bots this week. We had to use our knowledge of position and direction to move the Bee-Bots to different areas on the carpet and mats. We had great fun joining in a dance to help us remember the terms left, right, forward, backwards and turning.

In Literacy and English, we have enjoyed reading our reading  books into the talking tins. We love playing it back and hearing how we sound when reading which helps us to practice our fluency.

We have also been working hard to use our sounds to help us spell words.

We have enjoyed some problem solving in Maths this week. We had to listen carefully to the instructions and work out where to place each character on the bus stop.

We also love counting in 2s!

Outdoors this week, we enjoyed building, cooking and sunbathing!

It has been another busy week in Primary 1C!

We have been really enjoying learning about the different continents of the world and their climates. We colour coded a map based on the temperature and added animals to the map based on where they would live.  We have discussed the habitats of animals all over the word and how they can differ. We also found out lots of cool facts about many animals from around the world.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been continuing to work on our addition and subtraction calculations. We enjoyed making our own calculations for our friends to solve.

In PE, we had our last session of Gymnastics and showed off our amazing balancing skills while using various equipment.  We have really enjoyed our block of Gymnastics and we think we have some Team Scotland Gymnasts in the making!

We have also been working hard to tidy up our P1 garden. We are wanting to give our garden a little bit of a makeover and this week we started by weeding and tidying up different areas in our garden. We can’t wait to watch our garden develop over the next few weeks.

We have had a great week in P1C! It has been so lovely being back together again after the Easter Holidays. We began our week writing all about our Easter Holidays and then we shared our writing with our friends during Circle Time. We have also been working hard consolidating our sounds and common words this week.

In Numeracy and Maths this week, we continued to learn about 2D and 3D shapes. We looked at the features of 2D and 3D shapes and we had a go at creating different 3D shapes using the sticks and balls. Some of us created different models using the 3D shapes.

In Maths this week, we have also been exploring numbers up to 50. We had to find the missing numbers from the number strips and had to use the magnifying glass to find different numbers.

For Earth Day, we discussed the importance of looking after our planet. We decided to create our own seed bombs to throw in our garden. To make our seed bombs we had to rip recycled paper up into really small pieces and soak it in water. Once it was ready we carefully put it in the blender and then made little balls from our mixture so that we could add our seeds. We are now letting them dry and can’t wait to plant them in our garden.

We have had another busy week in P1C!

We have been learning all about healthy eating and to finish our healthy eating topic off we created our own yummy fruit salads. We selected the fruit we wanted to include in our fruit salad and carefully used the knifes to cut our fruit. We then enjoyed our fruit salad together on the carpet, can you tell we enjoyed them?

In Literacy and English this week, we have been creating lots of rhyming lists, consolidating our sounds and learning to sequence the events in a story. In our writing, we created our own imaginative stories. We had to look into the woodland and imagine what we could see, we had some really creative and amazing ideas!

We have also been learning about people who can help us, we discussed who in our community can help us and when.

We also discussed different items we can re-use, recycle and compost. We spoke about what each of these words mean and the importance of re-using, recycling and composting our waste.

Outdoors this week, we really enjoyed exploring the snow, creating water slides, sweetie machines and obstacle courses. We had some wonderful cupcakes and ice cream on our menu from the outdoor kitchen too!

Here are some more pictures of us exploring our areas this week.

We had an amazing time at the Science Centre on Wednesday!It was filled with lots of Science fun and we were a real credit to the school.

We started off our visit to the Science Centre with a workshop about forces. We learnt about different types of forces like- magnetic forces, push and pull and gravity. We got to conduct our own magnetic experiment and even launched rockets into space!

After our workshop, we had an amazing time exploring all the activities the Science Centre has to offer. We learnt some cool facts from the activities and we really enjoyed seeing how high we could jump and how fast we could run!

This week our story of the week was ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ by Giles Andreae. We thoroughly enjoyed this story and we had a discussion around all our strengths and great things we can do in Primary One. We created our own amazing ‘I can’ posters to show all the wonderful things we can do.

We also enjoyed creating our own musical instruments using lots of different materials and we enjoyed dancing with our instruments.

In Literacy, we read ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and we decided to create the next part of the story. Our stories were super and very imaginative! We also enjoyed using the puppets to retell the story.

We have started our new topic, Food and Health, and we discussed the ways in which we keep ourselves healthy. We created super posters to show the ways we keep healthy at School and Home.

Outdoors in our garden, we had a challenge to create a bridge that we could balance on and walk across. Our bridges were so impressive and we showed super balancing skills!

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.

It has been another busy week in P1C! This week was anti-bullying week and the theme was ‘I Am Me’. In class, we spoke about what makes us ‘us’ and we discussed our similarities and differences. Also as part of anti-bullying week, Primary 7 completed some activities with us during PE  to help us understand what it might be like to have a disability.

This week in Numeracy and Maths, we have been continuing to identify coins and make different amounts of money. We have also been counting in 2’s and creating our own addition calculation chains.

In PE in the Muga, we enjoyed working as a team to complete different challenges.

We also had great fun at Woodland, we enjoyed looking for animals and bugs using the binoculars and bug catchers from the woodland trolley and we of course loved jumping in the muddy puddles!

We have had a great week celebrating Book Week Scotland. Our story of the week was One Button Benny’ by Alan Windram, which we really enjoyed!

We predicted what Benny’s button might do when he presses it. We also created our own robots and wrote about them. In our creative area, we made Benny out of lots of materials such as felt and tissue paper.

We then created Benny out of toilet roll tubes and gave him a special shiny button..

We enjoyed hunting for different items in books and discussing our likes and dislikes of different books. This week we also discussed fiction and non-fiction texts and  we learnt that non-fiction books can tell us facts. We used our reading books to help us find out information.

We also enjoyed looking through our new book bags and reading our new books with our P6 buddies.

In Numeracy and Maths we use lots of different resources to help us learn. Here we are using our number cards to help us count in twos!

In PE, we have started Gymnastics and we have been exploring different movements using the equipment.

In Health and Wellbeing we have been learning about friendship. We have discussed what it means to be a good friend and what we like and dislike our friends doing. We have also learned about sharing and treating our friends with respect.