Welcome back to our blog!

We are making lots of great progress and are continuing to work so hard in all areas of our learning.

Literacy

This week it was Book Week! We have had so much fun exploring lots of different books and stories, we worked with a partner to share with them what we liked about different books and took turns to try reading some of them.

Last week we were so lucky to have a visit from June who works at Mearns Library, she brought us all our very own Book Bug Bag which we were so excited to take home!

We have been reading the books in class and making posters to show our own versions of the front cover.

Also, we read the story “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”. Some of us had read this before and were excited to tell the others what it was about. This inspired us to go on our very own bear hunt!

It was lots of fun exploring the woodland to see what bears we could find, we then discussed their colour, size and how we thought they would feel. We  used this experience to help us to write our own bear hunt story.

We are continuing to work through our sounds, using what we have learned to help us to blend words.  We do this by stretching out the words to help us listen closely to the sounds.  We love using our reading books to help us to explore new vocabulary and are continuing to improve in reading and writing CVC words.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning about doubling numbers. We did this through adding spots to ladybirds, it was lots of fun! We had to use our skills in counting to help us with this. We then worked out how to do adding using the body of the ladybirds too.

We are also continuing to learn about addition calculations, working out the total when we add two numbers together. We decided to make it a little trickier by adding three numbers together!

We love playing the dice addition game, we can do this on our own or with a partner.

We are now so fast at making a number line to 10!

This week we have also been working hard to prepare for the school Christmas Fayre!

We have been working together to prepare the teddy bears and cuddly toys for our stall. We chose which bear we wanted to write a lovely gift tag for and also decorate with some tinsel.

It was so much fun preparing them for their new home!

We will update you soon on more of our learning adventures in P1B!

P1a continue to make great progress every day in class outdoors and indoors!

We work together, playing and learning from each other, and are developing our ability to ‘have a go’ even when we find something challenging at first. We are learning strategies to help us in our learning.

Literacy

We have been using our reading book vocabulary to make and write different sentences.  We try hard to remember a capital letter to start a sentence, finger spaces, and a full stop at the end. We read our sentences out loud to check they make sense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our word building skills are progressing well.  We stretch out words listening for all the sounds to help us write the word. We are beginning to use phonemes like ng, ai to help us write words too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When we play blending games together we are developing our skills in blending sounds to read words, as well as developing our social skills…..while having fun! We play bingo, matching games and dice board games.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We enjoy creating and sharing stories.  We draw pictures, use puppets, story bags as well as having a go at writing some of our ideas.  Here Steven has made a story about two robots who help each other and confidently shared his ideas with the class.

 

 

 

 

 

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning our number stories. We cut and matched calculations to the correct number story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have also learned the ‘commutative law’ which we know simply means you can put the bigger number first when adding to make it easier. You can add numbers in any order and will get the same total.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We play subitising games.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fantastic effort P1a!

Welcome back to our blog! We are continuing to work extremely hard through all our learning experiences both indoor and outdoor!

In class, we always demonstrate great team work with our peers when completing different activities.

In the construction area, we built a huge mansion and its house number was 7!

Outdoors, we were working together to push the bicycle up the steep hill.

 

Outdoors we were practicing to create addition sums!

We found it extremely tricky to climb this large pallet! We worked together to help climb to the top.

We were so happy when we reached to the top!

We wanted to create a balancing beam which could support our weight. However, we realised it wasn’t safe enough so we pushed the log to make it more secure.

Here you can see our creativity being shown through our ‘Yucky Mucky’ dinner! We counted out how many guests we were having and ensured we made everything symmetrical.

Literacy

Ben is practicing to read and write CVC words!

We are working hard to use our sounds to create sentences using finger spaces!

Sarah is doing a great job at creating a rhyming list for phonemes such as ‘ee’!

We are becoming much better at identifying different sounds in words.

Do you like our sound posters? We are demonstrating our ability to recognise different sounds.

As a team, we worked hard to sort the pictures to the correct sound.

ICT

We all worked hard to complete Literacy games online!

Numeracy and Mathematics

In the sand area, we were exploring addition sums and trying to mentally solve the answer.

Number bonds are so important,  we continue recalling number facts for numbers up to 10 everyday.

We will be back soon with more amazing pictures of our learning!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to our latest blog post!

Literacy

Over the past few weeks we have been working on developing our writing skills!

We have had so much fun creating imaginative stories and drawing pictures to match. We have been brainstorming lots of ideas and working hard to sound out the letters of the words we want to write.

Our story this week was all about what we would see if we visited space! We spoke about using rockets to get there and also discussed the possibilities of aliens living there!

We also always try to make sure we use finger spaces! This helps us when we read our story to someone else.

Writing our stories was so much fun that we decided to make our own aliens using play dough and also using lots of different art materials.

We have nearly finished learning all of our single sounds! Now we are moving on to learning phonemes which include ‘oa’, ‘ie’ and ‘or’.

All of this practice is helping us to improve our ability to blend sounds to read words.

Numeracy and Maths

Recently we have been exploring lots of elements of maths! We have been learning about measure, estimation and addition as well as revisiting our knowledge of patterns and shape!

Learning all of these new things has helped us to consolidate our ability to count, sequence and order numbers as well as finding the missing number!

We had so much fun making our own number line and jumping to the number to show one less and one more than a given number!

Outdoor Learning

Learning outside has been so much fun! We have been able to apply the skills we have learned in the classroom to our outdoor area.

We had so much fun ordering sticks and acorns according to their size!

We also practiced our rhyming words, drawing pictures of them and writing the words.

Making a number line using stones too!

While we were outside it started to rain so we decided to hide under the shelter.  We had to work as a team to stop the water from pouring through the holes in the tarpaulin!

Great work P1B!

Numeracy and Mathematics.

We set up a toy shop in our class to learn about how we use money to pay for different things. We used 1p pieces to show different amounts.

We ordered numbers correctly to allow our rocket to blast off into space.

We enjoyed creating and extending patterns with the natural materials we found outdoors.

Literacy and English

We enjoyed exploring  different CVC words and took time to practice them and sound them out.

We used books to help create a list of rhyming words.

We made alliteration books.

We enjoy writing for lots of different reasons, using a wide range of materials and media.

We used different items from around our room to make numbers and letters.

We love working together and are great at team work.

Science – Space

We created a control panel for our space centre.

And enjoyed using the area to act out lots of different space scenarios.

 

 

 

Welcome back to our blog! We hope you enjoy viewing all of our learning experiences in the last two weeks!

Modern Languages

We have been learning how to greet one another in French and how to use simple phrases. We are continuing to practice how to ask how are you and learning how to respond to it.

Numeracy and Mathematics

We have started to explore Data Handling. We are learning how to sort information through different ways.

Addition 

We have been learning all about addition and attempting to complete addition sums mentally!

We know when we add zero, it doesn’t have an affect on our sum. We are amazing at writing and recording our own sums too!

Doubles…! Doubles are when you add two numbers together which are the same. We are amazing at recalling addition sums which are doubles.

We use beads to help us count faster! We know to count on from a number rather than starting at one.

We are continuing to practice subitizing as we want to be extremely fast at recognising an amount of different objects extremely fast without having to count.

Counting out numbers, finding the missing numbers and sequencing has become so easy!

Literacy

We are becoming extremely creative in our Writing! We spent time learning and reading the book called the Leaf Man. From this story, we sourced different things from outside such as leaves and acorns to create our own story.

We are ensuring to use finger spaces and to use our sounds to blend and sound out words.

In another writing activity, we read the book Aliens Love Underpants. This story was so amusing we wanted to write about it and create our own alien.

Now that we have nearly finished learning all of our single sounds, we have moved on to learning phonemes such as ‘oa’ and ‘ai’!

Also, we are becoming stronger in our skill to sound, spell and read small words!

ICT

We are becoming extremely skilled at using different softwares on a computer or laptop! We created a drawing of ourselves and wrote our name!

Outdoor Learning

We explored the story of the Leaf Man outdoors too! Using the story frames we used loose parts to recall the story.

Using leaves and sticks, we wanted to create different characters from the book to create puppets.

Harry is enjoying reading a book!

We came across apples and attempted to slice them. After being carefully shown how to cut an apple, we managed to do it independently and safely.

Ruairidh drew and designed a castle for the leaf man!

Leo and Retal were exploring how to balance on different objects.

Gymnastics

Recently, we have just started Gymnastics. We have been exploring different ways to create a balance. With a partner, we have also been creating amazing sequences!

 

Since returning from the October week break, we have been working so hard in all learning areas!

In Literacy, we are continuing to improve our ability to blend sounds!

Now that we have learned lots of single sounds we are working hard to blend them together to read words and also make CVC words on our own.

We have been revisiting our knowledge of rhyme! We have had lots of fun playing rhyming games and spotting the odd rhyme out.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been working hard to make numbers in different ways, we have been doing this using cubes, numicon and even Mickey Mouse! This is helping us to begin to develop our adding skills. As well as all of this, we have been working hard to find the number before and after.

We have also been using the BeeBots to learn about direction. We worked hard to move them forwards, backwards, diagonal and to the side.

Other Areas

We had our first French lesson! We used this as an opportunity to share anything we could remember from nursery,  everyone could remember lots!

We coloured in the French flag and practiced having small conversations with a partner in French. We were able to say hello, how are you and good bye!

In gym, we have started to learn gymnastics!

We had lots of fun moving our bodies in different ways and practicing our balancing skills by walking along the bench. We discussed different ways we could jump off safely to the land on the mat.

We have been having so much fun learning outside. We have been using our imaginations to create lots of different role-play activities.

Last week, we worked together to create a pirate ship! We had to work as a team to move lots of the outdoor resources to do this. We also used treasure maps to follow directions and created our own.

Here we are creating a pirate story! We had lots of ideas about pirates, pirate ships and hunting for treasure. We drew pictures to show our story but also tried to write a super sentence! We were so excited to share our stories with the rest of the class afterwards.

As well as using our imaginations we enjoy developing our literacy and numeracy skills outdoors! We do this by practicing letter and number formation, making number lines and practicing making words.

We had so much fun learning a dance routine at the Strictly Kids Event! It was lots of fun and we raised lots of money for charity.

Well Done P1B!