Despite the cold and wet weather, P1C have had an amazing week of learning! We have continued talking about people who help us and focused particularly on the emergency services this week. We discussed when we might need them and how they can help people in the community.

In Maths we are learning lots of different skills. Some of us are learning about fact families and have used different strategies to help support our understanding. We have also been revising our number bonds to 10 and have been practising this lots during our mental maths input each day. We also used domino cards to help develop our addition skills. We wrote the calculation based on the number of spots and then completed the calculation by counting the total.

We have also been learning about measurement and the vocabulary we use around this. We focused on length and weight and enjoyed some time in the playground making our jumps longer and shorter.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

In writing this week we went on an adventure in a bubble. We watched a beautiful story about a girl who found some bubbles on the beach. She blew a giant bubble and went on a journey in the ocean. We loved watching her explore and then created our own stories by using our imaginations. Some of us visited space, a volcano, Chocolate Land and the beach.

    

We were very lucky to receive some new resources in our class. We are particularly enjoying threading and created some wonderful pieces of jewellery, a bauble decoration and a beautiful design.

   

   

   

On Friday afternoon we had a muddy but enjoyable time in the woodland.

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

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.

Primary 1C have had a lovely week marking World Book Day. Each day we have watched ‘The Masked Reader’ where Crookfur teachers read a story behind a mask. We loved seeing which character they were and guessing who was behind the mask. All of the readers were revealed at assembly.

We enjoyed some time on Monday with Primary 7. They had written and illustrated their own stories and were keen to share them with us all.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

Each stage in Crookfur were given an author to study. Primary 1 have been looking at Nick Sharratt. We enjoyed reading quite a few of his books together and had a go at illustrating our own book covers using the style of Nick Sharratt.

   

    

We have enjoyed a little taste of the sunshine in P1C this week and enjoyed some time on the activity trail.

     

“We found a worm!”

“I am using this to make some soup.”

Making some tasty soup!

Making the bug hotel using the stones!

We continued to enjoy the sun in the garden on Friday afternoon.

    

   

   

   

   

We have continued to enjoy painting and have been mixing red and yellow to make orange. We painted red and yellow houses and then mixed the colours to create some orange houses. We then used these skills to create a sunset picture and made some blue birds to fly across our sunset.

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

In Numeracy and Maths we have been continuing to learn about number by subtracting, adding and counting in 2s. We have also been looking at Data Handling and learning different ways we can sort data. This week we looked at Carroll Diagrams.

   

 

We have been practising our common words a lot and played lots of different games to help us learn them. This week we played Bingo!

    

For writing this week we had a go at describing ourselves! Nobody knows us better and we had to think of different words we could use to describe us and then put these into a sentence.

     

In Health and Wellbeing this week we have been learning about where food comes from. We discussed which foods comes from plants, trees or are grown in the ground and also what foods come from animals. We had to sort the different types of food into their categories.

   

We are very much enjoying our Junk Modelling area, thank you to those who have brought items in for us to use.

Here we are enjoying some of the others areas or activities in our classroom.

    

    

   

 

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!

     

     

 

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!

 

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!

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

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.