In Physical Education, the boys and girls worked hard to learn some Scottish dancing. We had some children who were able to teach us as they have been taking Scottish dancing classes outside of school. We practised the Canadian barn dance in preparation for our Christmas party also! Well Done Primary 1.4!

The boys and girls enjoyed picking baubles to decorate our class Christmas tree! The children worked excellently as a team to place the baubles and decorate the tree together!

Candy and Cookie were busy overnight making us a Christmas train set up for our continuous provision area in class. The children enjoyed imaginary play in this area!

We read the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and made gingerbread play doh! We used cutters to create gingerbread men and and used our fine motor skills to pick up and decorate our gingerbread men with different sequins!

We were kindly gifted some games into our classroom and the children had great fun playing these. We worked hard to play ‘Operation’ and use our pincer grip to grab the objects and remove them from the tray! Well Done boys and girls!

Primary 1.4 had a special visitor come to see us at Mearns Primary! Santa flew in on his sleigh and surprised us with presents and singing Christmas songs! We had a lovely morning with Santa and his elf!

We worked hard to learn lots about St. Andrew’s Day and the Scottish traditions we have in our home country. The boys and girls made saltire flags for the festivities!

We have also been working on our cutting skills cutting up paper and card to create Scottish kilts for St. Andrews Day. We all worked very hard on this!

The boys and girls chose to create a ‘stage show’ and coloured in Nessy the sea monster pictures to use as props. The ‘Nessy’ Show was excellent! Well Done Primary 1.4!

We have been working very hard in Primary 1.4! The boys and girls have enjoyed spending time in the continuous provision areas working on their numeracy and literacy skills. They have also been building on their Mearns Masters learning by designing their structures before building in the construction area!

Primary 1.4 had an excellent day at the cinema! 🎬 We set off in the morning on the bus and we were very excited for the movie!

When we arrived at the cinema we headed to the screen and got comfy in our seats! We enjoyed ‘Earlyman’ and the children said their favourite part was when Doug and the cavemen won the football match! It was an excellent day had by all! 😃🍿

 

We have been learning phonics sound ‘L’ and we worked hard to design and create lions using paint and paper.

We also spent time using our senses to smell the lemons and limes in our water play area 🍋

The boys and girls also enjoyed taking part in our ‘phonics run’ game where we revised some of our sounds learned! 😃

We learned about how Halloween is celebrated and completed some pumpkin colouring! 🎃

The boys and girls used their reading skills to blend and read the spooky CVC words and match them to the correct Halloween pictures!

We then headed out onto the pitch for some Halloween spooky sports! The boys and girls loved playing rob the nest, duck, duck, goose and boccia! Well Done Primary 1.4! We saw all of the pumpkin competition entries! What excellent carving by everyone!

Well Done to our pumpkin competition winner in Primary 1.4! What a super design!

 

We learned the sounds ‘o’ and ‘u’ this week in phonics  the boys and girls worked hard to create an octopus for ‘o’, working on their fine motor skills cutting and sticking to create these excellent crafts! We also made umbrellas for the sound ‘u’ and the boys and girls worked hard to design and make their own umbrella! ☂️

We went on an autumn nature walk looking at the trees and discussing the changes in colour of the leaves due to the changing seasons 🍁 🍃 We then spent some time making leaf art using the fallen leaves from the trees. The boys and girls created rainbows, headphones, faces and patterns using the leaves! 😀

Primary 1.4 have been spending lots of time in our continuous provision areas in our classroom working on turn taking, sharing and literacy and numeracy skills! Well Done Primary 1.4! ⭐️

 

Primary 1.4 went to the Mearns Library for our first Bookbug session together as a class! We all showed excellent Mearns values when we walked responsibly with our walking partner down to the library, staying safe near the road.

When we arrived at the library we were welcomed by Bookbug and a lovely story where we had time to pick out some characters and talk about what was happening in the book. We then sang some songs and did the actions as a class!

 

We enjoyed spending time on the transport outdoors working on our gross motor skills and playing with our classmates! We took part in imaginative play on the boat and plane and some of us created art in the sun! ☀️

The boys and girls have also been spending time in our continuous provision areas within the classroom! Building dinosaur caves, houses, climbing walls and much more! Well Done Primary 1.4! ⭐️

  

 

We learned the sound curly ‘c’, we made crowns using our cutting skills and decorated with 2D shapes we have learned and glitter ✨

 

The boys and girls have worked hard on their handwriting forming their sounds using different materials! 😀