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Hi! Here is our overview for this week

Maths:

This week we learned about ‘Frisky five’, ‘Snappy six’ & ‘Spotty seven’. We read each of the Number zoo stories, discussed how to represent the numbers, learned the formations, looked at each Numberblock and discussed what numbers come before/after. We then made a craft for each number which linked to the Number zoo animal. We had a lot of fun using paint and bubble wrap.

We continued 2D shape this week, focusing on squares and rectangles. We spoke about the sides and corners of these shapes and how a square has all the same length of side whereas a rectangle has two different lengths. We looked around the room to find both shapes. We then used triangles, circles, squares and rectangles to make our own ‘2D shape pizzas.’ We counted the total amount of each shapes we used and had lots of fun putting all the toppings on our pizzas!

Drawing club:

This week we did ‘Hamilton’s Hats’. We drew Hamilton and some of the animals he met. Some of us designed our own Hamilton hat too!

Rhyme & Phonics:

We read lots of rhyming stories this week – ‘Tabby McTat’, ‘The Gruffalo’ & ‘Aliens love underpants’. We continues playing lots of rhyming games which we did excellently on! Our song of the week was ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’.

We begun learning about the first 3 phonemes this week – s, a & t. We ‘stamped the stamps on the s’, ‘coloured the apples for a’ and did a hunt for the ‘t’ sounds. Each day we looked through the Feely bag to see what objects begun with the sound. We then listened to the Jolly Phonics story and song and learned the action for the sound too. We all practiced the formation for each letter in sand and on the LCD boards.

In the tuff tray we had ‘stamping for s’, ‘animals printing for a’ & ‘tap tap boards for t’.

Big Question:

Our big question this week was ‘what animals live in cold places?’. We looked at different animals and discussed what kind of habitats and weather conditions they live in. We loved playing in the ice cream shop this week and learned lots about how to be a shopkeeper and a customer. We worked with money and practiced good manners and positive interactions.

Mrs Peterson (play support worker) set up a hot/cold science experiment station where we could make tea/coffee. We observed what the differences were when we added hot vs cold water to tea bags. We noticed the smell, strength and colour of the tea was different depending on if the water was hot or cold.

Play Project:

Our play project this week was ‘ice cream’. We made a range of things for this, including – ice cream pictures, ice lollies and ice cream cones.

Play:

We were busy playing in the classroom and open area this week. Some favourites were – junk modelling, the ice cream shop and the magnatiles.

Extras:

We had music with Mrs Peterson on Tuesday, PE with Mr Williamson on Wednesday & Friday, a visit to the library on Thursday and trips up to ‘the trees’ on Wednesday and Friday. Roald Dahl day was on Friday and we had 3 peerie Matilda’s in our class. We painted George’s Marvellous medicine bottles to make our own potions.

It was a busy week! Our learning log for this week is pictured at the bottom

Hi! Here is our overview for this week 

We have had another busy week in Primary 1!

Maths:

This week we learned about ‘Ticklish two’, ‘Butterfly three’ & ‘Feathery four’. We read each of the Number zoo stories, discussed how to represent the numbers, learned the formations, looked at each Numberblock and discussed what numbers come before/after. We then made a craft for each number which linked to the Number zoo animal. We had a lot of fun using pens, pencils, oil pastels & feathers. We also further developed our scissor skills through cutting out shapes for our number pictures.

We also started 2D shape this week, focusing on circles & triangles. We spoke about the sides and corners of these shapes and how there are different types of triangles. We hunted for things around the classroom and school that are circle or triangular. After that, we all had a shot of stamping circles and triangles to make different pictures!

Drawing club:

This week we did ‘The Runaway Pea‘. We drew the Pea, the places he bounced to and then for our ‘I wonder’ day we imagined some new places the pea bounced to, we had some brilliant ideas – the swimming pool, the play park, the jungle, the beach. We even had some Runaway peas off of our trays at lunchtime!

Rhyme:

We read lots of rhyming stories this week – ‘Zog’, ‘Room on the Broom’ and ‘A Busy Day for Birds’. We also played lots of rhyming games which we did excellently on! Our song of the week was ‘Incy Wincy Spider‘. We will be starting our first phonic sounds next week.

Big Question:

Our big question this week was ‘what do hot and cold things feel like?‘ We looked at melting and heating and how this can affect different things, such as ice. We sorted frozen vegetables to find the Runaway peas. We also created our own ice cream pictures to be displayed in our ‘Ice cream shop’ role play area next week.

Play Project:

Our play project this week was ‘animals’. We focused on ‘create’ and using our imagination. We all channelled excellent creativity to make jungles, animal houses/habitats, animal robots and drawings/paintings of different animals.

Play:

We were busy playing in the classroom and open area this week. Some favourites were – construction, the puppet show and the sand.

Extras:

Group 1 had swimming with Mrs Kirkness on Monday. We all had music with Mrs Peterson on Tuesday, PE with Mr Williamson on Wednesday & Friday, a visit to the library on Thursday and trips up to ‘the trees’ on Wednesday and Friday. It was a busy week! Our learning log for this week is pictured at the bottom 🙂

Hi! Here is our overview for this week 🙂

This week was all about continuing our class and school day routines. We had music with Mrs Peterson for the first time on Tuesday which was really fun. Some of us also had swimming on Monday with Mr Kirkness. We went to the library too and heard a lovely story from Jane.

We started maths this week by learning about ‘greedy zero’ & ‘penguin one’. We also did our first drawing club of P1 about ’10 Little Pirates’. We introduced our topic for this term which is ‘hot & cold’ and had great conversations about food, animals and seasons. On Thursday we did our first play project, which was about ‘family’. We all drew our family and put it up in the classroom.

We continued to work on our fine motor skills with different activities set up in the tuff tray and dough disco. We also practiced writing our names with play dough and with pens. Our song of the week was ‘down in the jungle’.

We made a lovely class display with all the things that make us happy <3

       

Hi! Welcome to the Brae Primary 1 blog. We will have a weekly post about what we have been learning about and our highlights of the week.

Week 1 was all about settling in to school. We learned about what we do in the morning when we come in. We learned about our routines each day and how we should treat each other in P1. We did so well with getting our lunch from the canteen and organising ourselves for home time. We also enjoyed PE with Mr Kirkness and visiting the trees area for some outdoor learning. We had fun exploring the classroom, outdoor space and the open area. We worked on our fine motor skills and grip strength through ‘dough disco’ and scissor club. Our song of the week was ‘Humpty Dumpty’.

Here are some lovely pictures of our week! Our ‘learning log’ is the highlights of our week.