Author: P Carmichael

Week Beginning 24/11/25

Happy Friday !
We have had another great week in Primary 1!
Music / Drama – We have been practising for our Christmas show . You are all going to love it !
Art- We printed very cool snowmen for our festive frieze in the hall.
Literacy – Our new sounds were ch and sh.
We wrote instructions on how to make hot chocolate. We all enjoyed our reading books this week. We enjoyed sharing stories with our Buddies.
Maths/ Numeracy- We have been continuing to work on our addition learning. We have also been working on Caroll Diagrams in our information handling learning.
PE- We were practising pair poses in Yoga. We were also doing different exercises to music.

Outdoor learning – We enjoyed exploring the with the large loose parts.
We all enjoyed our committees this week.

Miss Goode worked with us on Thursday morning . We were making symmetrical pictures using small loose parts.

Have a lovely weekend.

Have fun.

Take care .
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael:)

Week Beginning 17/11/25

Happy Friday!

Literacy- We have been continuing to work hard on our blending activities. We all enjoyed our reading books this week. We had to write instructions on how to make a jam sandwich this week. We sequenced pictures and then wrote our instructions . We did underwriting and independent writing.
Numeracy/ Maths- We have been working hard on our addition to 10 learning . We also have been learning about Caroll diagrams. We enjoyed some time playing Sum Dog.

Outdoor Learning- We enjoyed exploring the large loose part. We also collected natural materials with our buddies and organised them into a pictograph.
PE- We enjoyed doing different exercises to music . We also loved learning different individual yoga poses.
Art-We made a top secret surprise for our janitor,Rory .
Music- We have been practising for our nativity.
Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care.

Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 10/11/25

Happy Thursday!

We loved having our special adults working with us. Our teddy bears look great.
Outdoor Learning- We used natural materials to create our own Rangoli patterns. We love working with our buddies.
PE- We enjoyed doing different exercises to music .
Numeracy- We have been working hard on our addition to 10. We enjoyed some time on Sum Dog.
Literacy- Our writing job this week was to write instructions on how to clean our teeth. We had pictures to sequence first and then wrote our instructions . We all enjoyed our reading books. We have been working really hard on our blending.
Topic- We were learning about some toys from the past.
RME- We were learning about Diwali the ‘festival of light ‘. We made Diya lamps.
Have a lovely Friday and weekend .
Have fun.
Take care.
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 3/11/25

Happy Friday !
We have had another hardworking week in Primary 1.

PE- We enjoyed some Halloween yoga as we ran out of time on Friday . We loved doing different exercises to music. We also enjoyed taking part in the mile .Maths/Numeracy – We had some time playing Sum Dog. We also have been working on our addition learning. We have been learning about 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p coins.

Literacy – We all enjoyed our reading books and we have been working on our key words . We wrote our own firework poems .
Health – We discussed the importance of firework safety . We made our own safety poster . We have been talking about our emotions and how our faces show how we are feeling. We used natural materials to show  different emotion faces.

Outdoor Learning – We enjoyed exploring time with the large loose parts .
Art- We printed our own Autumn trees. They look amazing and will be displayed in the school hall. We also printed fantastic firework pictures. Miss Allan worked with us on Thursday afternoon and we used the IPads to draw our own firework pictures.

Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun .
Take care.
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 27/10/25

Happy Friday!
Happy Halloween!
We have had a fun but hard working first week back.
We all enjoyed our games Skills Academy. We loved playing different games with our friends.
PE- We have been working on our fitness doing different exercises to music. This was so much fun. We also enjoyed taking part in the mile. We also did some Halloween yoga which was lots of fun.
Literacy- We all enjoyed sharing a book with our Buddies. We all loved our reading books this week. We did some functional writing this week- We had to sequence pictures to show how to wash our hands. We then drew our own pictures and did some underwriting.
Numeracy /Maths- We have been working on our addition to 10 learning.
Outdoor Learning – We enjoyed exploring the large loose parts in small group’s.
Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care.
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael:)

Week Beginning 6/10/25

Happy Friday and Happy Holidays!

We have had another busy and fun week in Primary 1.

Literacy- Our new sounds were- w, v, y and x. We love singing all the songs.
We enjoyed sharing a book with our Buddies.  We made a water safety poster during writing time. We drew detailed pictures and did some lovely underwriting.

Numeracy- We enjoyed some time playing Sum Dog. We also have been working on our numbers to 10/20 learning. We had a shape assessment to do.

PE- We enjoyed playing different games. We also enjoyed running the mile.

Outdoor Learning – We collected leaves to help us decorate our headbands. We also enjoyed some time exploring the bottom garden.

Music- We have been practising our special songs for our Harvest Together Time. We also have a very special song to sing at our Harvest Together Time.

Topic- We loved making our ‘Under the sea’ shoe boxes.

Miss Cook worked with us on Wednesday morning.

Have a lovely weekend and holiday.

Have fun.
Take care.
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 29/10/25

Happy Friday !

Literacy- We loved our new reading books this week. We made lovely under the sea posters. We picked a sea creature to draw and write 3 facts about them . We did some lovely underwriting. Our new sounds this week were- f, b, j and z.
Numeracy- We have been working on our numbers to 10/20 learning. We enjoyed some time on Sum Dog.
Topic- We have started to create our own under the sea shoe boxes. This has been messy by lots of fun 🙂
French- We are getting very good at counting to 10 in French.
Outdoor Learning- Our Buddies created lots of games for us to play.
ICT- We have been learning to log into the school Netbooks. We used Chatterpix on our iPad to create a photo of ourselves saying Je M’appelle. This was so much fun.

PE- We have been playing lots of different games . Our favourite was using the parachute to play sharks. We enjoyed running the mile.
Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care.

Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael:)

Week Beginning 22/9/2025

Happy Friday!

Another hardworking and fun week in Primary 1! 🙂

Literacy- We have been working hard on our new sounds- g,o,u and l. We have been practising blending three letter words. We all enjoyed our reading books this week. We have been practising our key reading words. Our writing this week was about a time we gave our friend a present. We did detailed drawings and had the challenge of underwriting.

Numeracy/Maths- We have been continuing with our numbers to 10/20 learning. We have also been making different models using 3D shapes.

French- We have been learning to count to 10 in French. We also used Chatterpix to record ourselves saying our names in French. This was lots of fun.

Science- We located land and water on a map. We discussed that water can be in different states. We also made our own ice gardens.

Miss Allan worked with us on Wednesday.

PE-We loved playing different games. We also enjoyed taking part in the whole school mile.

We all enjoyed going to our different committees on Friday.

Have a lovely weekend.

Have fun.

Take care.

Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 15/9/25

Happy Friday!

Outdoor Learning- We had fun exploring the bottom garden. We loved working with our Buddies to plan what we would like planted in our class planters.
Art- We made very cool jelly fish.
French- We have been learning how to count to 5 in French.
Maths/ Numeracy- We have been working on our numbers to 10/20 learning. We enjoyed our 3D shape learning. We had some time on Sum Dog.
Literacy- We all enjoyed our reading books this week. Our new sounds were- h,r, m and d. We love the jolly jingles.
PE- We played lots of fun games. We enjoyed running the mile.
Health- We were discussing how we felt when we started school.
Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care.
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 8/9/25

Happy Friday from Primary 1 !

Literacy – We have been learning our new sounds – p, n, c , k and e. We really love the songs and are trying hard to blend our sounds together to make words. Our writing this week was when we had bought something new. We did lovely detailed pictures as a plan for our writing. We did over and under writing. We loved our reading books this week.
Numeracy/Maths – We have been making models with 3D shapes. We have been working on our numbers to 10/20 learning.
We enjoyed some time playing Sum Dog.
Health – We read ‘The Dot’. We turned a dot into our own piece of art work . We discussed fixed and growth mindsets. We discussed that it’s ok to make mistakes and they are an important part of our learning.
PE-We enjoyed running the mile. We also played lots of fun games.
French – We have been practising how to say our names .
Outdoor learning- We loved weeding our planters with our Buddies. Next week we will decide what to plant in them. We also enjoyed making boars and submarines with loose parts. We also loved making our own apple juice!
Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care .
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂