This week we were learning about the oo sound as in boot, foot and moon. We used our sound cards and magnetic letters to build words.  We shared the story of Room on the Broom and tried to find oo words in the story. To help us remember our sound we used a cardboard tube to make a broom and cardboard to make the different characters. We also used our black pen to draw the witch and then used our sounds and common words to write a sentence. We have been working hard on learning to read and write our common words and use them in sentences.

Primary 1a had a very special visitor  this week from France! His name is Camembear and he lives in the “sac magique”! He taught us some new songs, Bonjour les Amis, Au Revoir les Amis and Frere Jacques. We also had fun playing a game of hide and seek with Camembear! He is going to be visiting us every week to teach us all about his home and his language.

Happy New Year to all our Primary 1 families!

We look forward to welcoming all the children back at school tomorrow to what will, hopefully be an exciting term  with lots of fun opportunities for learning.

This week we will begin to learn  our double sounds. We will continue to focus on using sounds to help us read and write words as well as build on the children’s knowledge of common words.

In numeracy we will be reinforcing addition  and begin to subtract numbers within 10. We will continue to focus on using concrete materials to help us with our tricky missing number sums.

Over the next two weeks we will be talking about Robert Burns. We will be spending time listening to,  and sharing different Scottish stories, songs, poems and rhymes.

This term Primary 1 will begin to complete their RSPB wild challenge, which is a whole set of activities aimed at engaging children with nature, providing practical learning opportunities that allow children to experience nature as well as learning about how to help and protect wildlife.  We will be  working  towards our Bronze Award by taking part in the Big School Bird Watch at the end of the month. To find out more about what we will be doing visit the RSPB website.

www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-teachers/schools-wild-challenge

Remember if you have any questions or concerns  please do not hestitate to get in touch through the school office, by email or at the start or end of the day.

Mrs Collins and Mrs McGilp

Primary 1 were very excited when Santa came for a visit. Mr Harkness had to take carrots up to the roof for the reindeer! Santa gave us some lovely presents which we all helped to open.
Thank you Santa!

Primary 1 have been continuing to explore addition facts. They have used different resources to help them such as cubes, numicon, ten frames and number lines. We have been learning to add three numbers and use different strategies to find missing numbers in a sum.

Primary 1 have been enjoying learning lots of interesting facts about barn owls. We shared the story of the Owl Babies and made these lovely pictures, by printing the owl bodies with pom poms.

Primary 1 have been learning about the x sound. Michael the puppet had fallen off his bike and needed an X-ray. We looked at an X-ray and then used art straws to create our own X-ray picture. We read words with the x sound such as box and fox.

This week we were learning about the y sound as in yummy yogurt. We had lots of fun printing our own pots of yogurt.

We have been continuing to spend lots of time building words with sound cards and magnetic letters. We have also been trying to read and write  cvc words and use them in short sentences.

Primary 1 had great fun laying out their Dark Dark town and programming the Beebots, to visit the different houses without them  crashing!

Through the week we practise forming our letters correctly. We have begun by focussing on letters that start in the same place eg c o a g d and q. We practise on our whiteboards and then in our jotters.

Primary 1 have been talking about our school motto Deeds Not Words, what it means and how we can follow it in class. We have been focussing on our school values Compassion, Respect, Courage and Excellence, discussing what these words mean and and how we can work towards achieving these values for example courage, being brave and trying new things or compassion, being kind to our classmates.