The last couple of weeks we have been learning about the seasons and talking about Autumn and the changes in the weather.

We have experienced this when we have been outside as part of our “Muddy Mondays” , as well as our daily outdoor play. We have been noticing over the weeks the changes in the world around us, leaves changing and a change in the temperature!

We have been doing autumn, jigsaws, reading seasonal stories and gluing, drawing and painting some lovely autumnal pictures!

We have seasons activities set up outside and inside, like our small world house. We also have been doing some autumn songs, and drama in gym and using the colour magic computer program to draw seasonal trees.

W can’t wait to share our learning with you next week at stay and play – please add your name to the whiteboard if you can make it!

On Monday 11th November we talked about Remembrance Day and why we buy and wear poppies. The children were interested to know more and so we explored this further.

We watched a clip together and enjoyed talking about the music and the use of colour in the video. We made our own poppies which we were really proud of.

Click on the link if you want to watch the video:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04p4zsl/poppies

On Thursday we were learning about mixing paints and we painted these lovely poppy pictures. We added white to create lighter shades of green and thought about how we could use brush strokes to add detail to our paintings.

We have had a spooky week in Primary 1 as we have been learning the g and b sound.

We practised our cutting as we cut out ghost templates and covered our ghosts in cotton wool.

For b, we had to make a bat! We had to cut, fold and glue to make these super decorations!

We were inspired by Winnie the Witch and wrote and drew about the WHO and WHAT in the story. We all took our time and we were very proud of the finished results. We also wrote some sentences by ourselves to go with our work.

Finally, we had a great time at our Halloween party on Friday! We danced, played games, had a snack and made a ghost house and puppet. Happy Halloween everyone!

The children have enjoyed a busy first week back and have been learning about the o and l sound.

For o the children made an octopus. The children developed their cutting skills as they cut out a circle for the body, covered it in little os and added eight tentacles!

We took advantage of the lovely autumn leaves and drew detailed leaf pictures to go with our l sound.

The children have also been creating their own  characters using leaves from the ground. Have a look at our wonderful display!

Finally, all the children are invited to join us for a Halloween party on Friday 1st November from 8.45-12.50. The children can dress up if they wish and should be ready for some spooky fun!

In the last week before the holidays we had stay and play sessions where we welcomed parents and carers in to share our ELC learning and experiences.

A huge thank you to all who joined us, the children loved having you in to play!

This is a great opportunity for you to share your childs learning with them, speak to the ELC staff, meet other parents/carers and have a look at their folder and displays in ELC.

We do these stay and play sessions termly so keep an eye out on the board for the next days.

At the moment we are also looking for some parent/carer feedback using our “feedback tree” in the cloakroom – Please add any thoughts or suggestions onto a wooden spoon and hang it on a branch! We love hearing your feedback.

We have had a great week revising the sounds we have been learning so far and consolidating our knowledge of numbers to 10. The children were also very excited to receive their first bundle of keywords home and Oxford Reading Tree characters!

We have enjoyed talking about the change in the weather and seasons and we will continue to explore this next term. We worked very hard to make these colourful Autumn wreaths to take home.

Here is a lovely scavenger hunt which you might wish to use on a lovely autumnal walk. Happy holidays everyone!

This week we have been learning about the m and d sound. For each new sound we look through the ‘Magic Bag’ to guess the sound of the day, think about other words that begin with that sound and learn the song and action. We make a related craft and practise our letter formation on whiteboards. We are also starting to use magnetic boards to blend sounds to make simple words.

On Monday we used macaroni to make a m shape! The PVA glue was quite messy!

On Wednesday we made d print newspaper and then made our own dog to stick over the top. Everyone worked very hard and we were delighted with the end results. Keep it up!

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!