Hello from Primary One and Miss Lee! Welcome to our blog page where you can see all of the fun and exciting things we have been learning about!
We have had a very busy first term and have settled into school life and our daily routines with Miss Lee.
Term One
Literacy
This term we have been learning to write our first name, holding our pencil correctly.
We have also been learning to identify and form initial sounds. We use different active approaches to recognise and form our letters such as playdough, magnetic letters and our chalkboard.
‘I love making my letters’ – Ollie
Numeracy
We have been learning to recognise and form numbers to ten in Numeracy. We love participating in active maths approaches such as going outdoors to create our numbers in the playground using chalk!
We have been also learning to create patterns through colours and shapes!
We have been learning to create patterns in Maths and applying them to our IDL Giraffes Can’t Dance. We created our own African animal patterns in class together using a variety of art materials.
Family Learning
This term we have enjoyed family and friends joining us in school to have lunch in the dinner hall for our Teddy Bears Picnic as well our Construction Tuesday Challenge afternoon for Maths Week.
Halloweeeeeeeeen
We celebrated Halloween in style with a Literacy Sharing of the Learning morning with families. We then had our Halloween party, where we played ghoulish games, danced like Frankenstein and had some spoooooky treats!
Children In Need
Primary 7 organised some fun activities to raise money for Children in Need. There was a range of activities including :
Wear Active Wear or your own clothes- (Non-Uniform day)
Big morning move with Joe Wicks (Live Streaming)
Pie the teachers – highest bidders gets to pie the teachers including the Head Teacher Cake stall and Pudsey biscuits.
Cameron in P5 was a brilliant Auctioneer and made sure that he secured the highest bidders in order to pie the teachers. Max and Martin were the highest bidders to pie Miss Lee! Our Winter also got to pie Mrs Morrison! We raised an amazing £400.21 for Children in Need thanks to the generosity of our families.
Term Two
This term we have been learning lots of news skills in literacy and numeracy with Miss Lee. We have been focusing on writing more independently through our story maps each week as well as starting to read tricky words in our reading books! Within numeracy, we have been learning to add within 5 and 10 as well as learning to measure through play based learning.
‘I thought the table would be 37 cubes long but it’s more than that!’ – Alex
Our IDL topic was the Arctic in which we were learning about the environment, arctic animals and water through our science outcomes. We also created some beautiful Northern Lights pictures using chalk pastels for effect.
Through expressive arts, we were learning the story of Christmas through our strictly themed Nativity ‘Lights Camel Action 2’ which we performed to our parents/ carers in December! It was FAB-U-LOUS!
After all of our hard work performing to parents it was time for us to PARTY! We had great fun dancing , playing games and we even got to see SANTA!!!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Term Three
In January we were focusing on Scots Language. We recited our poem ‘The Dinosaur’ to our special visitor L.Griffiths who then chose our three finalists for our school poetry competition! We had lots of fun learning our scots song ‘Ye Canny Shove Yer Granny’ that we performed at our Scottish Concert in February.
A huge well done to our three P1 finalists! You were all outstanding in your performance of ‘The Dinosaur’.
Congratulations to Emily who was our P1 Poetry Winner!!!
To finish off our Scots Language input we hosted our very own Gardenrose Ceilidh with P2 on Friday 31st January. We invited our family and friends to bring their dancing shoes to join in our dances too! After all of our Scottish dancing we had some Scottish treats and drinks for everyone! We hope you all had right guid time!
Through our Scottish topic of Brave we have been learning to describe Merida in our writing using adjectives. Within numeracy we have been learning to tell the time and focusing on double number addition and subtraction.
Through our IDL we were learning about the famous Loch Ness Monster. We made our very own Nessie in partners using lego! Have a look at our creations!
‘Miss Lee I’ve seen Nessie when I was on holiday. She’s REAL!!’ – Eoin
After a busy January we were ready to bounce our way into February with our Sponsored Bounce, organised by our Parent Council. We had a great afternoon jumping for joy, we’re not sure who had more fun…the boys and girls or Miss Lee!
A big thankyou to the Parent Council for organising the event!
Literacy
We have been learning a new initiative ‘Talk for Writing’ in class. We are learning to retell stories through actions and story maps, which will help us rewrite the story. We also have new jotters to help with the formation of our letters!
MISS LEE’S STAR WRITERS!
Spring has sprung in Primary 1! Sophie brought in a daffodil to show the class and Lucy has been keeping us all updated with how many lambs are being born each day on her farm. With lots of discussions about Spring we are learning to write lists of what we see in the Spring and have been creating some lovely related art work in the open area.
World Book Week
We celebrated World Book Week in our PJs this year whilst taking part in lots of different literacy activities with our families.
Numeracy
We have been learning different aspects of numeracy this term through play based learning. We developed our home corner into a pancake cafe. We had desert chefs, waiters/ waitresses, a manager and of course our very satisfies customers!
‘Look Miss Lee I can toss two pancakes at once! Oh that’s a diamond and a square pancake!’- Caleb
We have also been learning to identify coins in class. We can talk about their size, shape, colour and value. We are also learning to add coins together to create a total!!
Emilia brought in a special coin that her Mummy wore on her shoe for luck on her wedding day!
‘My Mummy had this on her shoe when she got married’- Emilia
Remote Learning – also shared on the home learning page!
Primary 1 have been working hard on their home learning tasks!
Great work everyone! Keep sending me your pictures and videos from home to share with our Gardenrose community!
Miss Lee set an IDL topic for ‘The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark’ for home learning. The pupils had to design a new home for Plop and then create a 3D model. Have a look at some of our fantastic projects!
We also created our very own Owl’s and labelled their features. The boys and girls in P1 named their own Owl’s as well…very creative!!
After reading our Bedtime Story ‘Monkey Puzzle’ with Miss Lee we created our very own story maps through the Talk for Writing approach.
Well done everyone!
Term 4
We may still be learning from home, but my boys and girls are doing a super job of completing their tasks!
We have been continuing to focus on our writing skills; focusing on formation, punctuation and finger spaces. Have a look at some of our super writing pieces!
We have been sharing our favourite moments in P1 through writing. Miss Lee enjoyed reading these and put a big smile on her face during this time that she can’t see her little ones!
We have been learning to collect data in maths. We have been focusing on tally marks and will be moving on to pictograms next week!
We have been learning to interpret data. Take a look at our fabulous pictograms and bar charts!
We have been learning all about symmetry. P1 have created symmetrical patterns through pictures, loose parts and lego to show their creativity in this maths aspect.
Lucy loved this activity, Miss Lee thinks she has been very creative at home!
We are learning to identify our senses in Science this term. We have been creating senses task boards as part of our Home Learning to learn about the 5 different senses.
I will upload weekly homework grids as normal for my boys and girls to complete. I will attach the spelling list each week as well as other fun activities to complete!
We have been learning about People Who Help us. We have been learning about our emergency services and how they help us as well as Road Safety. Have a look at some of our home learning!
Spelling Lists
Weekly Homework Grids
P1 Home Learning Grid Wk 20.4.20
P1 Home Learning Grid Wk 27.4.20
P1 Home Learning Grid Wk 04.05.20
P1 Home Learning Grid Wk 11.05.20
P1 Home Learning Grid Wk 18.05.20
P1 Home Learning Grid Wk 25.05.20
P1 Home Learning Grid Wk 01.06.20
P1 Home Learning Grid Wk 08.06.20
P1 Disney-Virtual-Trip Wk 21.06.20
Maths Resources
Daily Tens and Problem Solving Wk 20.4.20
Daily Tens and Problem Solving Wk 27.4.20
Daily Tens and Problem Solving Wk 11.5.20
Daily Tens and Problem Solving Wk 18.5.20
Daily Tens and Problem Solving Wk 01.6.20
Daily Tens and Problem Solving Wk 15.6.20
IDL- People Who Help Us
As promised I have provided an example of a KWL I would complete with the pupils below. As part of your home learning task (see home learning grid) please create your own and send it to me to collate and then create our exciting new topic!
Creating Miss Lee’s Doctor’s Bag activity
Week 18.5.20 Doctors cut and stick activity
Police Task See, Think, Wonder
