Michael was very excited today as our new sound  was m, his special sound! He had a feely bag with a mouse and a monkey called Mickey! Mrs Collins told us a story about making delicious milkshakes! We talked about words that have the m sound in them, we learned the Jolly Phonic song and action for m, and made these yummy milkshakes!

Primary 1 have been exploring different ways of making patterns using shapes, colours and numbers. We have talked about what a pattern is,  how we can continue a given pattern and how we can create our own.

This week we were talking about all the things you would find in Percy’s park for example trees, fences, gates, Percy’s hut, the maze, the pond, the animals homes. We then built his park in lego and using materials we found outside. We used plasticine to make one of Percy’s animals to go in the park…..can you guess which animal we made?

Primary 1 have been spending time talking about friendship.
We have thought about why our friends are special, what we enjoy doing with our friends and how we could be a good friend. We have also discussed how to be a friend to everyone so that no one is left out. Sometimes we have fallouts with our friends, we talked about what we could do to make things right if this happens.

We made friendship bracelets for each other.

Our hands of friendship

Primary 1 have been continuing to explore different emotions. This week we were talking about feeling worried. We thought about the things that worried us and what we should do if we had a worry. We  shared a story about a little girl who had a worry that grew and grew until she spoke to someone about how she was feeling. We talked about the importance of talking to someone if we had a worry, it could be our grown ups, our teacher, our brothers and sisters or our friends.

We used our plasticine to make our worried faces and shared our story ideas with Mrs Collins.

This week we have been talking about the r sound as in rabbit, red and rhino 🦏! Michael the puppet had a freely bag full of things that begin with the r sound. Mrs Collins read us a story called the Red Planet, the children in the story went on a magic adventure in a rocket! We had great fun making rocket pictures.

This week we have been learning about the h sound as in horse, hat, happy and hippo 🦛! Michael the puppet told us a story about a hopping race he entered.  He didn’t win the race but he tried his best and got a big cheer from everyone. We then had some fun hopping up and down the corridor! We looked at the shape of h, talked about different words with the h sound and made a hat to take home.

This week primary 1 were trying  to find different ways of building Numbers using Cusenaire  rods and Numicon.

We are continuing to spend time everyday forming numbers. This week we have written numbers in pen, pencil, chalk and in play dough. We use our number rhymes to help and have been trying to check that our numbers are facing the correct way.

Making 6

This week we finished our squirrel paintings, we painted a background and made a collage acorn for the squirrel to hold. We were very pleased with end result.

Primary 1 have been learning about the e sound. Michael the puppet was cracking eggs into a frying pan! We talked about words with e in them and learnt the Jolly Phonic song for e. Mrs Collins read us the story of Elmer the elephant and we made our own elephant to take home.

A herd of P1 elephants!