This week in primary 1 we have been watching the different birds visiting our new bird table. So far this week there has been robins, blackbirds, sparrows, blue tits, coal tits and chaffinches. The pigeons and wrens are enjoying the seed on the ground.

In primary 1 we were learning about the ar sound as in dark, park, farm, cart. The word shark has the sh sound and the ar sound.

To help us learn our sh sound we have been reading stories about sharks  and drawing them using our black pens. We built up a list  of words to describe sharks and then used these words to help us write a description of a shark. We had to try and write a colour sentence, a size sentence, a doing and feeling sentence. Before we wrote down our sentences we had to say them out loud, this helps us to include all the little helping words that link our ideas such as was, has, is.

It was lovely to be together again in school. We began our day by practising our letter formation and writing words with our sounds.

Our new sound today was “sh” and we were reading different “sh” words such as shop, shed, ship and fish. We listened to Nick Sharratt read his book The Shark in the Park on a Windy Day and started to make our own sharks.

In numeracy we were subtracting numbers and we did some dinosaur subtraction on the smartboard. 🦕

It was fun reading in our groups and sharing books with our friends.

Some of us played a game matching clowns on different cards to the clowns on our boards,  we had to listen very carefully to each other.

We enjoyed playing together in the playground and in the classroom.

Today we sat together in our class bubble and had our Christmas Dinner. We pulled crackers and enjoyed a delicious lunch. Mrs Wilson was helping the dinner ladies to serve the food from the kitchens and some of the teachers were serving us at our tables.

Primary 1 enjoyed walking around the school today looking at the wonderful Christmas Doors. We were very impressed with all the drawing and painting especially the gingerbread houses done by P3 and P7.

Primary 1 were very excited when Santa sent a special Christmas message via the smart board. He also sent  a fantastic big box of play dough with  shapes and cutters as well as a set of Gruffalo games.

Thank you Santa

Primary 1 will be bringing home their sound book and a sheet of keywords. The book is to be kept at home and used by the children to help practise sound recognition. The words on the sheet are currently being focussed on in class, please help your child to learn to read and write them.

Thank you
Mrs Collins and Mrs McGilp

This block primary 1 have been focussing on the four Kingsland Values, respect,  courage, compassion and excellence. We have talked about what these words mean and what we can do to show these values in school. This week we each chose one of the values to focus on in school for example ……

compassion – some of us want to try very hard to help others if they are hurt or sad

respect – look after the toys and the cloakroom by keeping it tidy

courage – be brave and try new food in the dining hall

excellence – to work hard learning  to read

We posted our pledges onto the wall.

Primary 1 have been learning about the changing seasons. They made these beautiful calendars to show the changes in the trees through the year.