Hello and welcome to our November Reflective Friday post.

Our class target for this month was to try to include a capital letter and full stop in a sentence. We have all tried so hard to try to add these in our writing. Some of us are working so well that we can write words and sentences all on our own now without over-writing! Brilliant work Primary 1!

We have decided that our next target will be to learn all about the Nativity story. We are going to reflect on the Nativity Story and think about what it means to us as we embark on the period of Advent.

In Literacy we are continuing to focus on the formation of our letters and to make sure that they are the correct size and face the right way. We have been learning lots about reading strategies and the ways that we can begin to read unfamiliar words. Some great tips we have talked about are to be a ‘Tommy Tracker’ and bounce our fingers on the words, to be a ‘Parrot’ and say the sounds out loud and to be a ‘Sammy Snake’ and blend the sounds together with our fingers to read words. Keep up the great work! Here we are enjoying books during Book Week Scotland.

This month, in RME we have been learning all about the Month of the Holy Souls and have been remembering our loved ones that are no longer with us. We have prayed for those who lost their lives in war when learning about Remembrance Day. Here are some of our poppy fields that we created with finger painting.

In Numeracy we have been continuing to learn about numbers and how to solve problems. We have been talking about teen numbers and we know that they are made of a ten and units. We really like chilli challenges and trying out the hardest sum that the teacher gives us to see if we can solve it. We call his being a ‘Mathmagician’! We have been measuring and learning lots of language associated with measurement. We really enjoy learning outdoors and having fun at the same time, so we try to take our learning outside as much as we can.

Hello everyone and welcome to our October Reflective Friday post. This month has been a very unusual one for our class as we have been isolating and learning at home for some of the time  We have been working so hard at home and completing all of our tasks posted on the website. Well done boys and girls!

This month our class target was to talk about our feelings. We have been doing this every day and using our mood monsters on our classroom wall to help with our emotional vocabulary. We are getting better at using our feeling words and have enjoyed exploring the emotion works orange cog in the assembly hall and classroom. At home we have been talking to our families about how we feel and sharing our worries, if we have any, with adults.

We have been working so hard with our number work and have had some fun in class learning more about counting and adding to 10. We can order our numbers to 10 and can even write the number names! At home we have been learning to measure, using the language of measurement – tall, small, order, measure, compare, size.

In literacy we have been learning how to write a sentence and how important it is to add finger spaces. We had lots of fun reading sentences that didn’t have any finger spaces and we noticed that they didn’t sound right! We have been text detectives and have been learning more about our sounds and common words. The boys and girls have been creating fabulous stories, writing about Percy the Park Keeper, Autumn and our October holiday. We can even include a feeling in our writing! Great job!

We have been exploring the season of Autumn together and have become Autumn detectives, noticing the changes in our outdoor environments. Here we are trying to find signs of Autumn.

During our Autumn topic we have been learning about Percy the Park Keeper and all of the animals that he works with in the park. We learned about animals who hibernate during the cold winter months. One of these animals was a hedgehog and we made our own using Autumn leaves that we collected on our walks. Before we began learning from home we made fantastic stick wands and pretended to be witches and wizards! We cast spells on each other and had lots of Halloween fun!

Well done Primary 1! Superstar workers!