Today primary 1 and the nursery children went searching for their favourite book characters. Our hunt took us all around the school. Every time we found a character picture we recorded it on our clipboard. We had to share our clipboard with our partner and take turns to record our results.

In P1a this week we have been carrying out a range of activities based on the Julia Donaldson character Zog.

We began by sharing stories about him and then we drew him in black pen and built up a bank of words to describe him. We used these words to help us write a description.  In our writing we are learning to build sentences, we plan our sentences  by saying them out loud, we have to check that we have included all the small linking words.

We had great fun creating the dragon school that Zog attended. We made the dragons out of plasticine and created a scene using a castle.

We each created our own roaring dragon to take home using a paper cup and tissue streamers.

This week Primary 1 have had great fun sharing and reading different books by Julia Donaldson. On Monday we enjoyed taking part in a live event with her, listening to and joining in with different songs and rhymes. Our favourite song was all about the Highway Rat 🐀.
Another special live event was all about the book  It’s a Party Parade with Sara Miller. During this event we found out about how illustrators design and plan the front covers for books. 

 

 

What a busy week! We have had a brilliant time reading lots of stories this week, many with a dragon theme. We made dragon masks and wrote letters asking for advice as to how we can look after our class dragon who we named Flash!

We’ve also taken part in some live events with Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and had a whole school virtual assembly. We read with the P6s and drew and animated pictures on their iPads. This morning we had lots of fun with the nursery on an outdoor character hunt – even the resident pheasants wanted to join in!

Here are some of the children’s highlights and photos we have chosen to share:

• When we went on a character hunt. We found Zog, Percy,  witch from Room on the Broom and lots more!
• I liked working with the P6s. We read their stories and drew characters on the iPads.
• When Mrs Brown read a silly story!
• Sharing our favourite books
• Making our favourite character
• The assembly with Mrs Strathearn
• Using skittles in subtraction
• Making the dragons
• Putting scales on the dragon
• Playing with the trains
• Doing music with Mrs Ingles

We’ve had a great week back, in spite of the weather!

In literacy this week we’ve learned the ‘ai’ sound and did a train picture, drawing a variety of different passengers on the train, including people, circus animals and dinosaurs! We also enjoyed reading The Snail and the Whale. In our writing this week we wrote a two part story about the snail and the whale, in the first part introducing the characters and in the second part drawing one of the many exciting locations they visited. We also did a great job making plasticine snails and had lots of fun making a long spiral for the shell!

In numeracy this week we’ve been looking at doubles and linking addition and subtraction facts. We’re also continuing our data handling, looking at tally marks and collecting our own data. We had a brilliant time asking our friends and the grown ups questions and recording the information.

Also this week we’ve lots of fun playing. We have a post office in the classroom and have been busy writing lots of letters and learning how to write addresses. We’ve also had the beebots and code-a-pillar out and have been making our own courses.

We’re continuing our soft starts in the morning, this morning painting plants and daffodils.

Here are some of the children’ s highlights and the photos we have chosen to share:

• Making snails with the plasticine
• Making the train
• Playing with the code a pillar
• Making a course for the Beebots
• Playing in the post office
• Painting the flowers
• Playing with the beebots
• Having good ideas!
• Doing numbers
• Playtime and eating snacks
• Everything!

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We made bird feeders to help feed the birds in the winter. We put in lard, raisins, apples, oats and cheese. We mixed it up. It felt disgusting! It was greasy! We put the mixture into a pine cone.  Please hang these up – we would love to see photos of them. We put some in the playground for the birds at school.

We did taking away from 6 and we did subtracting zero from bigger numbers. Then we did some crazy taking away including 100-1 = 99!

We went birdwatching with the P7s. We went all around the school and saw the old oak tree. We saw lots of birds. Thank you to the P7s for helping us.

We did some data handling. We looked at what our favourite animal is and made a pictogram. We learned about tally marks.

In phonics we learned the or sound.

Each day we’ve been adding to our bird collages. We used lots of different materials. We are going to put these on the wall.

Here are some photos we have chosen to share:

Primary 1a were  enjoying the challenge of piecing together puzzles!

This week we have been learning to read and write words with the or sound as in fork, horn and thorn. We read a story about a storm and created a stormy picture using special tissue paper that you wet with water so that the colour runs out onto the paper. When the tissue dries you peel it off to reveal the dyed paper. We used chalk to draw the rain and the lightning ⚡️.

Today we had great fun  working together, sharing and taking turns.