A Day in the Life of a P1
Morning: We start out day with continuous provision (free play), our morning job (independent and we have 50 mins to decide when we want to do it) was painting Moon using paper plates. We finished our solar system art work and we played ‘word pick and mix’ reading and then writing the word on the balls. Mrs Sjoberg takes each group for reading and phonics too while we play.
Teaching Time: Doh Disco, singing nursery rhymes and speaking about our weekends and news, we then drew and wrote our news in our jotters.
PE: We had PE with Mrs Ritchie, learning dance and movement.
Teaching Time: We learned about Moon phases and watched a video about the types of Moons. We played a phonics game as a class.
Afternoon: We learnt a new phonics sound and revised all the others, we played during continuous provision and we enjoyed playing with the light box making words, numbers and shape pictures.
Teaching Time: Counting to 30, we sang our counting to 30 song and then our afternoon job (independent we have 30 mins to do it) was writing the missing numbers in the number lines. Mrs Sjoberg took us to the red table to roll dice and make addition sums using tens frames.
End of the Day: We ended the day with Yoga and two stories. One read by Mrs Sjoberg ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’ and one read by Cbeebies bedtime stories online.
Phew! What a busy day being a P1! Photos on our class TEAM.
SNOW DAY THURSDAY 15 DECEMBER 2022
Schools will remain closed on THURSDAY 15 DECEMBER 2022. Please find a suggested activity grid if you wish to do some home learning.
Hymns for the Kirk Visit on TUESDAY 20 DECEMBER 2022
Snow Day Learning Opportunities
I hope you’re all having a lovely snow day experience and managing to stay warm and safe. I am missing you and can’t wait to be back in our classroom again soon.
Here are a few suggested activities that compliment the learning we have been doing in school.
We love Drawing Club!
We are developing so many essential learning skills and attitudes through drawing club. We have opportunities for personal success, for peer, group and whole class discussion. Fostering a love of reading and stories and expanding our vocabulary. Take at look at our journey below. This week we are reading ‘The Night before, the night before Christmas’ and Mrs Sjoberg was so impressed with our pre-handwriting skills, our emergent writing of numbers and sounds/short words. But the most exciting party is the enthusiasm everyone has for sharing their drawings!
Mirror Dancers
We’ve been learning about winter, we learned about the Mirrie Dancers and created these beautiful winter pictures.
Art Lesson
In art P1 have been creating snowmen.
We used sponges and fingers to print the snow and then used coloured paper to make hats and scarves.
They are lovely and cheery 😃
Gruffalo Garden Centre
Our Gruffalo Garden Centre and Cafe have been a huge hit today. Lots of opportunities for communication skills, role play, mark making and exchanging money. At the end of the day learners shared with the class who they were buying flowers for, lots of special grown ups at home but so nice to hear lots of children say it was for themselves as a treat, self care so important. 🌸
African Drumming
Our first drumming class with Joy, we learned about African Drums and how to make an open and closed tone on our drums.
Gymnastics
We love gym with Mrs Ritchie and we always have class teacher gym on a Friday with Mrs Sjoberg. Can you imagine P1A’s excitement when they saw Mrs Ritchie had left the equipment out for us (and can you imagine Mrs Sjoberg’s face!)
We were so sensible and had an absolute ball!
Guy Fawkes and Staying Safe
As part of our topic we’ve been learning how to stay safe around bonfires, fire works and sparklers. We know about Guy Fawkes and have been learning about how to make different firework shapes and designs in art.
Exploring the Outdoors
We had a lovely play outside today, lots of rolling and climbing and running.
Theatre Visit – Four Go Wild in Wellies
On Tuesday we were invited to watch a theatre production called ‘Four Go Wild in Wellies’ it was really funny and we had to use our imaginations because there was no speech just music and movement.
Curriculum Information
Numeracy in the Outdoors
🍂 We were happy to get back to Welly Wednesday today. Our soft start outside involves lots of exploring the changing season as well as manage risk through tree climbing. Lots of positives for strengthening gross and fine motor skills and children feeling they can learn how to take risk in their play and problem solve how to stay safe.
🍂 Our learning focus this week was numeracy in the outdoors, we gather objects and ordered them by length. We found objects longer and shorter than our hands.
Boo from the P1 Crew
We exercised our little fingers this week using pegs and cotton wool to print these fantastic ghosts.
Reading is the greatest gift.
We love stories in Primary 1. We usually read 3 a day in class, we also like to listen on the bbc schools radio to stories. Learners are often found in our classroom library or reading the signs around the school.
We visit the library on a Thursday and take a book home each week to share with our grown ups.
Wellie Wednesday – Trip to the beach.
A wonderful trip to the beach, we learned about safe road crossing with our crossing patrol Tony.
OPEN AFTERNOON – WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 3.30PM-5.00PM
Primary 1A would like to remind you that there is an open afternoon on WEDNESDAY 5 OCT between 3.30pm-5.00pm.
Come for a play with your child in our classroom, explore the school, try the canteen lunches and share in the excitement of your child’s learning and successes this term.
See you Wednesday – Mrs Sjoberg 🙂
