P1 have been making the most of the sunny weather and have been taking their learning outside.
‘I can climb on the tyres all on my own!” Callum
When working on fractions, we used a variety of 2D shapes and chalk to draw some shapes and then divide them into halves and quarters!
This week we have been learning about fractions. To apply this learning to a real life situation, we cut pancakes into halves and quarters. And of course, we ate them! Yum yum!
“Look at how many pieces I’ve cut mine into and it was only a quarter!” Lorcan
“I cutted it into quarters and Olivia cutted it into quarters then made more pieces.” Bella
Primary 1 enjoyed their trips to the Orry this week. We had a fantastic time exploring our community and observing seasonal changes from Autumn to Winter.
We used litter pickers to help to tidy up our community by collecting any rubbish that had been dropped in the park.
After the snow fell this week, we went on a snow hunt to discover how the weather has affected the Orry.
P1 enjoyed opportunities to work with P6 to create some transient art work using materials that they found.
We can’t wait to come back to the Orry in the Spring!
Primary 1 have been making potions. They discovered that by adding various materials to the water created various colours of liquids. They also found that by adding some of our loose parts like cinnamon sticks also made the water smell.
“I’m making a right smelly potion.” Olivia
“Mine looks good because I added some sticks.” Kai
“Everyone is giving me their potion and it’s making it bigger.” Olivia
“I need a thicker stick because my stick was cracking.” Lorcan
“It smells like ice-cream, smell it!” Lorcan
  
Mrs Toman taught us some Scottish dancing this week. We were able to count for eight beats and then change direction. We were able to put this dance to some Scottish music. With our Scottish lunch of haggis or potato scone pizza and our Scots verse we were feeling very Scottish this week.
Primary 1 took their Maths outdoors again this week. We were learning about time. We played ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ and ‘Tick, tock, tick, tock, I’m a human clock.’ We also drew clocks using hoops.
“So somebody is the wolf and then we have to go very far away and we have to shout ‘what’s the time Mr Wolf?’ Then the wolf has to say what time it is like 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock. When the wolf shouts ‘dinner time’ you run away”. Jessica
“He’s pretending to be a clock. It’s 12 o’clock.” Eva
Primary 1 have settled straight back into the new year. They have even been writing their own New Year resolutions.
Also this week, we have been learning the alphabet.
Jessica taught us a song to help us remember the alphabet. We have recorded her song and hope to upload it to our Twitter page or YouTube as the size of the file was too big for our blog. If not, if you see Jessica, please ask her to sing it for you!
“Well I only really learned it when I was just in Nursery, my big sister taught me it as she knew it. So when I’m going to teach it to my little girl she can teach it to her class and then when she has a little girl she can teach it to her class. Also, the class did good at learning the song.” Jessica
Kai and Rory have been working hard to order the alphabet foot prints.
“SO I was standing right there making sure Rory was doing food work.” Kai
“I was putting all the letters in order.” Rory
Wow! What a busy December Primary 1 have had. From Christmas parties, a visit from Santa and of course our Nativity- ‘Hey Ewe’. We are so proud of every single pupil in Primary 1 and 2 who worked so hard during rehearsals and what a performance! You all looked fantastic on stage and the singing was amazing! Thank you to all of you who came to see our show, we hope you enjoyed the show.
Primary 1 would like to also take this opportunity to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Here are a few photos from the past few weeks.
Callan decided that he wanted to create the Titanic for our role play area. Mrs Nicolson found lots of packing boxes from her recent house move and Callan set to work! He decided he was Captain and coordinated his “Officers” to help create Titanic. Callan also told the other children lots of very interesting facts about the Titanic. So fantastic to see lots of team work and lots of learning about this impressive ship.
During our weekly Outdoor Learning session, we brough Maths outdoors. We gathered objects from the playground and lined them up in 2s. We even counted all the tyres in 2s. Did you know that there are 70 tyres!
“I was counting the sticks in 2s.”
“Look the planks are lined up in 2s”
