Dream Big, Work Hard, Shine Bright!
We have loved learning all about Nessie! We have listened to stories about her, written about her, painted her, made a huge mural of her, built her with lego and plasticine … we are official experts!
Today we also had a Burns Picnic after our final Ceilidh dancing lesson. We all liked the shortbread and oatcakes with Scottish cheddar cheese – however we LOVED Mrs Dunbar’s Clootie Dumpling! Thank you! 🙂 
In Primary 1 we have been learning about patterns and symmetry – look at all the different ways that we learn!
Here we are writing out patterns.
This is us making patterns with cubes.
We were really good at making symmetrical pictures with the numicon. One person made a picture and then your maths buddy had to copy it and make sure it was symmetrical – matching!
This activity was about copying the picture – could me make it symmetrical? YES! 
We love working with paint – we made beautiful patterns and also made symmetrical winter jumpers!
Primary 1 has become very Scottish as our purposeful play areas have changed. We now have the Thistle Cafe which is open daily serving lots of different types of Scottish foods. The children love role-playing as not only the waiter and chef but also as the customers – it is great fun listening to their conversations! The children have each written a menu and have drawn or painted a thistle.
Our Post Office has now changed to a Tourist Information Office. The children have discussed different places you might wish to visit and have made little information leaflets. We have practised our “telephone voice” for answering the phone “Good Morning, Glenboig Tourist Information, How may I help you?”
Watch out Mrs Thomson – my class might be applying for your job!
Our information leaflets – why not think about visiting one of Scotland’s lochs, or castles we also have some great museums and parks and don’t forget about Edinburgh Zoo or Blair Drummond Safari Park.
Here are some of our menus – there are lots of lovely things on offer from salmon and haggis to shortbread and clootie dumpling!
It has been a very busy few weeks in Primary 1 – we have had lots of fun being creative. We have made a variety of Christmas and Winter themed art to brighten up the walls in and around our classroom! We also had fun decorating some “fairy” cakes and enjoyed them after our party!
Today was dress rehearsal day … and our children, as always did us proud! They remembered all their lines, sang their hearts out with lots of actions and smiled all the way through both the P4-7 Christmas Show and the P1-3 Nativity!
Fantastic performance boys and girls … I know that all your mums, dads, grandparents and carers are just going to love the show tomorrow!
I hope you have your tickets – it’s going to be a full house!
Mary and Joseph began the month of December visiting Glenboig’s Primary 1 class. They had a very busy day with lots of different learning activities:-
The class watched “Geraldine the Giraffe” who tells us all about our new sound “h”. We even thought about words from the Nativity – “holy, heaven, halo.”
In Maths we are learning about 2d shapes. Our different station tasks were: – to take photos of different shapes using the iPad, to draw and colour different shapes using a ruler and to make different shapes with plasticine.
Here we are very busy at all our language tasks. Mary and Joseph watched us learn our new common words, make our own sentences and enjoy some time in our reading castle.
We have also been practising our numbers and can sort number lines into order.
You can’t visit Primary 1 without a stop off at our Post Office – Mary and Joseph popped in to buy a postcard!
A lovely busy day in Primary 1 … we wish Mary and Joseph a super journey – only 24 more sleeps till Christmas!
Primary 1 has its very own Post Office which is open daily. This activity is part of our “purposeful play” where the children are encouraged to role-play and improve their talking and listening skills. It is a wonderful way for them to develop their expressive language as well as “write for fun!”
We have been learning about stamps and envelopes and next week we will write our letters to Santa.
P1 had a great time during science week. We investigated speed and friction in our infance challenge, we met the minibeasts with Zoolab and worked with the teachers from Coatbridge High School. We got up to lots more too. Click on the link above to look at our photos.
P1 have been working hard on their numbers to 10
P1 will be working hard this year with Mrs Macindoe. Mrs Cairns helps us in class too.
