We asked the children what they have enjoyed most this week:

• Going outside at break time and at lunch time.
• Free play with our friends, including playing with the cars and building blocks.
• We liked hearing the story of Little Red Riding Hood and making a fold-out picture to practise writing the r sound.
• I liked reading books in the library corner and with the class.
• I liked visiting our school library.
• I liked learning the letter h because I like to learn. We drew a picture of Kipper and added some wool for his hair!
• We met Biff and Chip from our reading books this week.
• I liked playing maths games with the dice.

This week we have been learning about the k and e sound. We developed our fine motor skills as we concentrated on creating detailed patterns for our kites.

We also practised our cutting skills as we cut around squiggly lines to make an egg. We made the egg yolk by tearing and scrunching up little pieces of paper.

The classes have also been exploring our school as part of our new topic. We worked really hard to produce these fantastic black pen drawings of the building. The children liked walking around our P1 Art Gallery afterwards as they admired their artwork and listened to some relaxing music.

We have been learning lots about different Nursery Rhymes. In our ELC we have made a Nursery rhyme area, with books, jigsaws, song words and pictures and puppets so support our learning. We have also made some of our own song bags too.

Everyday at our gather times we have been singing different nursery rhymes and sometimes using the smart board to sing them too!

The ELC4 children at computers this week have been drawing pictures of humpty dumpty using the computer programme colour magic.

This week we have also been doing some potato printing with potatoes out our nursery garden to make humpty dumpty pictures!

If anyone has anything Nursery Rhyme related they would like to bring in, we would love to see it!

This week the children have had opportunities to develop their understanding of numbers to five through exploring games and natural materials.

We helped each other by checking each other’s answers and working together.

The children last week have taken an interest in drawing treasure maps!

We have followed this interest by developing an area with maps, pirate ships, making “treasure” and we might even go on a treasure hunt one day…..

We have tried some of our own harvested food for snack last week, new potatoes with butter! yummy!

We have had another busy week in Primary 1 as we have been learning about the i and p sound. We have been practising how to write numbers 1-3 and we took part in some ordering and counting activities.

On Thursday we sang some songs about colours and did some finger painting to make rainbow pictures.

We were also very excited to take home our beanstalks which we planted last week. We have learned how to plant seeds in soil and what plants need to grow. Feel free to send in updates on your beanstalk!

Finally, we are looking forward to welcoming families on Thursday 12th September to our Open Afternoon which takes place from 2.45-3.25. See you then!

We have been harvesting food from our garden this week.  So far we have got 2 different types of potatoes and beetroot!

We have been keeping an eye on our apples on our apple tree and our tomatoes and they are both nearly ready too!

Please help yourselves to these foods in our cloakroom to take home, we would love to see any pictures of you cooking or eating them!

Last week we enjoyed our first school assembly. We listened well and enjoyed taking part in some of the songs. Both P1 classes received special certificates from Mrs Wilson to congratulate them on their fantastic start to school life at Kingsland. Keep it up everyone!