We’ve had a quieter week in P1b. It was lovely to see some children back today and we hope to see everyone back next week. As usual, the children have helped to write the blog this week.

Today we have had a chat about Earth Day. We read stories and talked about what we can do to look after our planet. We could reuse plastic, pick up litter, save water, look after the animals and plant more trees!

We went on a worm hunt. We learned about the different parts of a worm. We looked at the colours and the segments on the worm.

We’ve  been doing lots of planting. We planted potatoes and today planted sunflowers.

We learned the ‘er’ sound and had fun being reading detectives and looking for lots of ‘er’ words like water, paper, tiger, diver, driver, teacher, hammer, flower…

We’ve had lots of fun taking our learning outside.

Have a lovely weekend and we will see on you on Monday.

We’ve had a brilliant and very busy final week. A huge thank you to all the parents who accompanied us on Tuesday to Peebles CAN. We had a great time and picked up lots of tips for our own garden!

Here are the children’s highlights of what we’ve been up to this week:

We went gardening to Peebles CAN Garden. We walked along the river and crossed Priorsford Bridge. We walked past the new play park. We had some circle time and we looked for seeds. We followed a fairy trail and dug trenches for potatoes. We learned how to plant onion bulbs – they should be two hands apart!

We worked with the P7s and made an Easter egg with a surprise it in. We drew an Easter picture on their iPad and read stories.

We made flowers with plasticine.

Today we played a listening game with Easter eggs and made bunny cards.

We’ve been learning about the different parts of the body.

Here are some pictures we’ve chosen to share. Have a wonderful Easter break 🐣

What a lovely week we’ve had. We’ve made the most of the sunshine and have taken our learning outside! Here are our highlights:

Doing numbers outside. We were jumping along a number line.

We’ve been looking for lots of signs of spring – some trees now have blossom!

We did PE outside in the MUGA

We’ve been talking about being kind

We learned the oa sound. We made boats and took the water tray outside to see if it they would float. We also read a story about a goat in a coat and did a black pen picture and some writing.

We liked building bridges and playing with the trains.

Here are some pictures from this week:

In Health and Wellbeing we are starting to look at the topics ‘My body’ and ‘My body belongs to me’.

This is part of Relationships,  Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) education and we will use the recommended national resource which can be found here – https://rshp.scot/early-level/

We also attach the letter and leaflet forwarded to parents last month which explains a little more about our approach.

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Leaflet – Early Level.updated

If you have any questions please either email or catch us at the end of the school day.

Mrs McGilp and Mrs Collins

Primary 1 have been working in groups to play games and solve problems. We worked together to create our own class group working rules which we are trying to follow when working and playing together.

Primary 1a had great fun this block playing with puppets, creating their own shows for others to watch.
 

The children are getting very good at helping to write the blog. Every Friday after brunch we talk about what we’ve learned and what we want to share with grown-ups at home. Here is what we came up with this week:

We went on a walk to see if there are any signs of spring. We saw daffodils, snowdrops, buds, crocuses, catkins, blossom, primrose and some birds nests.

We played in the classroom. We played with the numicon, at the writing table, in the flower shop, with the trains and bird watching.

We did some gardening. We were weeding. In the window we have our greenhouses with runnerbeans. Look out for the seeds germinating!

We learned the ‘th’ sound. To help us we read The Cat in the Hat and drew pictures of Thing 1 and Thing 2. We used black oil pastels to draw the Cat in the Hat and we painted a stripy background (pictures to follow next week).

This morning we had ‘a laugh with our class’ for Comic Relief. We did a quiz and told some of our favourite jokes.

What do you call a deer with no eyes? No eye deer!

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs? Still no eye deer!

What do you call a key that opens a banana? A monkey!

Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party? Because he had nobody to go with!

How did the cow cross the road? On his mooootorcycle!

Here are some more pictures we’ve chosen to share:

We’ve had a great time junk modelling this week. On Monday we read One Button Benny and spoke about what our own robots might be able to do. We then set to work to make our own creations! We also talked about how we were recycling and the different materials we were using.

In our writing this week we drew black pen pictures of Benny and wrote some fantastic sentences to describe him.

This week we’ve also been weeding in the garden and getting the ground ready for our spring planting. We will continue to do this on Thursday afternoons.

We’ve been playing very well in the class this week, taking turns and working together. We enjoyed playing in the water tray, making scenes in the tuff tray and of course playing with the trains!

In literacy we’ve been recapping the double sounds and continuing with our word building and talking about what a sentence needs.

In numeracy we’re continuing with subtraction, now looking at subtraction from ten and linking addition and subtraction facts.

Here are some pictures that we’ve chosen to share:

P1b will now be gardening on Thursday afternoons. Please bring a warm coat and wellies or shoes you don’t mind getting a little muddy.

Thank you,

Mrs  McGilp