Author: Miss Kinloch

This week we have been learning all about Percy the Park Keeper. He said he can help us with our new topic Living Things because he works in a park where there are animals and plants.

We have been exploring more about Living Things and Percy by doing some different stations.

Construction Area – We were using the construction to build a new home or Tree House for Percy’s animals.

Library Area – We used the puppets to act out what had happened in our Percy story ‘After the Storm’.

Writing Area – We were writing words about Percy and things he does in the park.

Creative Area – We were drawing our favourite part of the story using the pens and the pencils.

Imaginative Area – We have a Garden Centre! We have been pretending to look after the plants and been using our money skills to buy things at the Garden Centre.

Check us out enjoying our stations…

 

Today is Red Nose Day!  Today is Comic Relief day.  We are raising money for charity.  We brought £1 each so that we could dress in red today.  Lots of us came to school with our red noses on and we all looked great!

This morning we made a red nose day biscuit.  Each biscuit had icing on them.  We decorated them with sweeties, marshmallows, sprinkles and lots of other things.  When we finished making our red nose day biscuits we got to eat them up.  They were brilliant and yummy!

We designed our own red noses.  This was a competition.  One of our committees is going to judge them and choose a winner who will get a prize.  Our designs were fantabulous!  We also did some writing in our daily writing jotters.

We even went on a red nose day adventure!  The whole of Primary 1 played the interactive red nose game.  Unfortunately the end of the story would not work for us so we will try to watch this another time.

We have all really enjoyed Red Nose Day!

This week we have been learning about money. First of all Miss Kinloch had us tell her EVERYTHING we know about money! We knew lots of different things to do with money. We know money is used to buy things and if you take something without paying it would be stealing which is bad and wrong.

We thought about what we like to save up our money for. On a piggy bank sheet we drew what we wanted to buy (some of us wrote the words) and we designed our own Piggy Bank.

For the rest of the week we have been doing stations to explore the metal money called coins. There are 8 different coins and we know what they are and look like.We know 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2.

At our stations we have been matching the coins in pairs and put them in the correct order. We have been counting out pennies to make an amount up to 10p. In our new Toy Shop we have been matching the coins to the correct price tag on the toys. We have doing coin rubbings. We have been unlocking padlocks that have coins on them and we had to use keys that had an amount on them to unlock the correct padlock. At one station we were being Bankers and we had to sort out all the jumbled up coins. We have also been busy drawing and colouring our own coins.

Check us out working so hard with our money…

WOW! It is World Book Day. Today is Thursday the 2^nd of March and we are celebrating World Book Day in class.

We know World Book Day is important because we LOVE books. We like to read books, buy books and do tasks with our books. We know that reading books now will help us to read trickier books when we are older and World Book Day helps boys and girls to read. We have all been given a voucher for a £1 book. Please check our school bags/diaries.

In class we celebrated by having a big chat all about our favourite books. There were so many favourite books!! We told Miss Kinloch why it was our favourite and why someone else would like it. In our jotters we shared our favourite book and drew beautiful pictures from our books.

Here we are enjoying World Book Day!

Mrs Burke told us on Monday during assembly that we would be starting something new. We are all in a new ‘House’. There are four houses, they are called Iona, Skye, Arran and Mull.

Yesterday we found out our House. The House Captain’s came to visit our class. They shouted out our names and shook our hands and gave us a badge to represent our House.

We need to wear our badge to school every single day! Please remember to swap it before washing our jumpers! If you lose your badge you can get a new one at the office for 40p.

We know we can get House Points for…

being  good – Zara

showing respect – Donald

being kind – Callan

doing very good work – Roxana

doing your homework – Miss Kinloch!

If your house gets the most points in a week you get to have a special treat like maybe an extra playtime. The House that wins the most in the year they get their name on a special trophy!

I am in

Mull – Alfie, Jack, Matthew, Britney, Gracie, Lewis W and Charlotte

Iona – Rory, Roxana, Lewis M, Callan, Ruth and Blake

Arran – Holly, Zara, Zak, Eilidh, Brodie and Ava

Skye – Kacey, Evie, Donald, Jay, James and Summer

 

 

 

This week we have been learning about the Very Hungry Caterpillar because we are learning all about the days of the week.

At this station we were sorting out what the caterpillar on each day. He ate lots of food and was still hungry.

At this Station we were sorting the jigsaw to show the days of the week.We did this as part of a team. Only some groups managed it in time!

Here we are sorting the cards that had the days of the week  into the right order. Sunday could go at the beginning or the end.

Next we had to put the story in the correct order. The book helped us to do this and some of the cards had the days but some did not.

At this station we had to practise writing the days of the week and there was pictures at the side of what the caterpillar ate. We could also use the little cubes to make the letters that are in the days of the week. 

On Friday we did a special job for the caterpillar! We made him a diary that showed all the food that the caterpillar ate! We even counted how much he ate! On Saturday alone he ate 10 things!! What a greedy caterpillar!!!

So today in literacy Miss Kinloch had us do a new task. Every Friday we will do a Spelling Assessment. There are five questions in the spelling assessment; our sounds, our 3 common words and a tricky sound word.

This week was a practise but from next week on if we get all 5 correct we get to move our names up and maybe even get a sticker!!

We would like to ask our adults at home for some help! Help us to practise by doing our homework, tricky common words and our sounds!

We know we are going to be epic at our Spelling Assessments.

This week we started learning all about Time and we looked at the Months of the year. We know there are 12 months and they are all different and they all have different names even though some start with the same letter. We talked about some special times in the months some are Christmas in December, your birthdays, Bonfire Night in November, and in October it is Halloween.

At our stations we have been learning the correct order for the months of the year.

Here we are making a puzzle that has the months of the year. We worked together to put them in order.

At the computer we were trying to put all of the months in the right order and then we could play a video of the months. We could also check if it was right or wrong.

At this station we were trying to match Kipper’s pictures to the right month. We used the story book to check we were getting it right. 

At this station we were ordering the months of the year. We could use our song that we have learned, Kipper’s book or the time wall. 

At this station we used our play-dough to practise spelling the months of the year. Lots of us enjoyed finding our Birthday months.

Primary 1b have had a great afternoon exploring the story of ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ through our stations.

We had 5 stations….

In the library there was a cave, we used torches to see the pages of the book so that we could read it.

At the water we were putting our hands in freezing cold water, we imagined what it would be like to swim in the cold river!

In the playdough we were making bear foot prints using other animals (and some dinosaurs). We made a path so that the people could follow the tracks!

At the hearing station we were playing instruments to try and match the sounds to parts of the story. It was very noisy!

In the construction area we were making the trees for the deep dark forest. We used big bricks, little bricks, and building blocks.

I really liked…

using the torches – Rory & Holly

feeling the freezing water – Jay and James

making tracks in the playdough – Roxana & Ruth

playing the instuments – Brodie

Lots of us liked EVERYTHING!!!!!

Here are some pictures of us enjoying our stations for ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’…

Today we went on a BEAR HUNT!!! 

First we went through the long wavy grass! We could hear SWISH SWOSH SWISH SWOSH!

Then we came to a deep, cold river! We could hear SPISH SPLASH! Next we found some thick, oozy mud!! We could hear SQEALCH!!!!!!

After that we came to a big, dark forest! We could hear stumble trip stumble trip!   

Then there was a snow storm!! It was swirling and whirling. We could hear Wooooooo Hooooooo!  

After that we found a NARROW GLOOMY CAVE! All we could hear was tip toe tip toe!! 

When we found a Bear we all screamed and ran away!!!!

We would never have found the bear without our ears and our super hearing!