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.

   

   

   

    

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.

 

We have had another great week in P1C! We have really enjoyed reading our reading books and this week we were learning all about prediction. We learnt that we need to make a prediction that relates to the story and we enjoyed predicting what might happen in our reading books. We are continuing to work hard learning all our sounds and common words.

This week, we have continued to learn about money and we have been recognising and ordering all coins to £2. We have also been exploring addition and enjoyed creating our own calculations.

We learnt all about floating and sinking this week and we really enjoyed predicting what items will float or sink. We were very surprised by some of the items that floated and some of the items that sank. From our experiment, we learnt that items float or sink because of their density and we know that buoyant objects float and dense objects sink.

 

 

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.

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have had another busy week in P1C! This week, we have been working hard consolidating and learning new sounds and tricky words. We have enjoyed a wide range of activities and here we are finding our sounds and tricky words in our favourite books from our library.

For our Seaside Topic, we created an amazing lighthouse for our class and a super ocean mural. We had to take great care cutting and sticking to help create our colourful lighthouse and sea creatures.

We had great fun preparing our sandwiches for our picnic. We made sure we used our knife safely and took great care when spreading our jam or butter. We also made sure we cut our sandwiches super carefully! We had lots of yummy flavours like ham, cheese and jam! We enjoyed our picnic outdoors, were we enjoyed our super sandwiches, some biscuits and a story.

We have enjoyed exploring colour and looked at how we mix colours to create new ones. We have also looked at how the season is changing and we have noticed that the leaves are starting to fall of the tree and we were inspired by this to create a lovely Autumn painting.

In Music, we have enjoyed exploring sound and we have been using foam tubes to create different sounds.

For Maths Week Scotland, we enjoyed exploring pattern and  STEMAZING structures, we had to build a structure that could hold five books. We noticed that using cylinders made our structure much stronger and stable. We also enjoyed finding shapes outside on our shape hunt.

 

 

We have had another busy week in P1C!

This week we have been introduced to our new sounds S, A and T and we have enjoyed exploring a range of activities to help  consolidate our sounds. We have also been working hard on our tricky words and have enjoyed playing different games to help us identify them.

 

We have been working hard to identify numbers before and after a given number and have been learning how to estimate quantities.

We are continuing to develop our digital technology skills and enjoyed using the bee-bots and mats to direct the bee-bot to a certain location.

  

This week we started our Seaside topic, we read the ‘Lighthouse Keepers Lunch’ by Ronda and David Armitage and we discussed the importance of Lighthouses and what they are used for. We designed our own Lighthouses so that we can use our designs to build one for our classroom. We also created amazing Lighthouses in our construction area and in our garden.

We had great fun outdoors where we had lots of sand cakes, mud ice-cream, buildings and obstacle courses.