Today we were talking about feeling  frightened. Some of us are scared of the dark, others are frightened of spiders, some of us were scared on our first day of school! We thought about how our body feels and our face looks when we feel frightened. We used our ideas to make our plasticine faces.

This week we are learning about the k sound as in kangaroo, kiwi and koala. We talked about words that had the k sound in them, we had to think carefully about where in the word we could hear the k sound eg kit at the beginning, book at the end and donkey in the middle.

We worked hard to make our own kites and then had great fun flying them on the school field

We have been discussing times when we have felt angry, we thought about how being angry made us feel and how our body reacts to feeling angry eg clenching our hands, tightening our shoulders. We shared different things we could do to help us calm down and who could help us.

We used plasticine to create our angry faces and shared our story with Mrs Collins.

Primary 1 used the ideas from their  drawings last week to paint a squirrel. We used scrunched tissue to make the tail bushy. Next week we are going to create a setting for our squirrels.

Primary 1 were exploring different ways of making numbers with their Cuisenaire Rods.

We have been working hard this week learning to use our sounds to build words. We used our letter cards to make words and tried to write them on our white boards.
 

We have been learning  the c sound, as in cat, cot and car. Mrs Collins  told us a story about Michael the puppet  dancing with castanets! We met Croc the crocodile and  made our own crocodiles to take home.

This week P1 were learning the n sound as in nest.
We examined a nest that had been abandoned and then made our own nests.

We collected the things we needed, we thought about the materials that would make the nest soft inside and strong on the outside.

  Homes for Animals

  Working our fingers!

  Playing Dominoes

  Counting Currant Buns!

  Making Numbers

  Tissue Collage

Primary 1 shared the story of Percy the Park Keeper and the Lost Acorns. We talked about the characters the WHO, the setting the WHERE and what happened in the story the WHAT. We drew Squirrel and retold the story together.