I ain’t afraid of no ghost!

Ruby Broom was our Halloween Cosmic Yoga today.

Trick challenge before our treat. Would you touch our slime?

Happy Halloween everyone from 1a!

What a busy first term we’ve had! Here are some of our comments we’d like to share.

I enjoy doing stations in class. – Willow, Jess, Luke B.

Making Snuggly Snerds. – Daisy

The MacMillan Coffee Morning. – Georgia and Devyn

I like playing Shark Attack with Mr Jeffries and my friends in the gym. – Michaela, Luke M, Logan, Ruaridh, Ethan, William, Hollie, Michelle and Anna

Meeting my P7 buddy. – Bailey

Reading about Mr. Big with my group.  – Hannah

Making new friends in school. – Lois

I can say the months of the year. – Robyn

Playing tig at snack time. – Sofia

Happy holidays when they come and we look forward to more fun next term!

How? Well, we are always learning in active, fun ways. We have been active in learning our sounds, jumping hoops to sound out and spell some words, like pat, pan, pack. We have been active in our maths, building and making patterns. We are learning how patterns can use shape, colour or both together to challenge us. We’ve kept our bodies active too with PE in the gym hall with Mr Jeffries. The bubble game and tunnel tig are favourites with many of us. Did you know we have also been active in trying Cosmic Yoga meeting Popcorn and some pirates! Do you know what kind of animal Popcorn is?

We’d like to say thank you to all the family members who managed to come along and visit us in class last week during our Shared Start session. It was lovely to be tour guides in our classroom and we look forward to welcoming you along again soon.

My favourite thing about P1….

Writing about Pokémon….Jack

Learning about sharing and caring…..Justin

Doing maths and learning how to add…….Shannon

Learning about dinosaurs….Holly

Playing with friends and enjoying the fun at Golden Time….Carley

Learning how to make toast……Jude

I enjoyed playing with my friends…..Aileigh

Learning about how to wash your hands……Olivia

Learning to count to 100…..James

Doing press-ups at PE….Oliver

I liked playing with Justin outside…. Mac

I enjoyed buddy time because I liked to see my buddy…..Mia

Learning how to grow a plant…. Amber

Buddy time because you get to see your buddies…..Ada

I enjoyed Golden Time and when we went to Dynamic Earth…..River

EVERYTHING!….Emily

EVERYTHING!…..Aaron

BYYYYEEEEEEEE! Have a fabulous summer!

This week….

We learned ‘sh’ for shush in phonics.  Oliver

In phonics I learned ‘st’ as in stop.  Holly

We learned ‘mp’ as in stomp in phonics.  Alex

We played the mummy game after phonics.  James

We learned ‘ch’ as in chilli in phonics.  Shannon

I learned ‘st’ as in stomp in phonics. Jack

At PE we played with the parachute.  Carley

We learned about healthy eating.  Ellis

I watched the Jungle Book and really enjoyed it.  Justin

We did are last review in our Review Jotters.  Max

We played a ball game on the parachute.  Megan

We were counting up to 100.  Emily

We learned healthy eating.  Ada

We learned about symmetry.  Amber

I saw Jungle Book at after school club. Aaron

Eating food for healthy eating. We had strawberries and carrots and we peeled potatoes.  Olivia S

I learned the sound ‘i’ in phonics.  Aileigh

Pupil of the week:  Alex for working really hard all year and producing a very high standard of work!

This week we learned…..

Behind, in front and in the middle.  Mac

We learned about healthy eating.  Ellis

We learned the sound ‘nk’ in phonics.   Mia

We looked at our targets in our review jotters.  River

We had a Teddy Bear’s picnic.  Oliver

We were learning odd and even numbers.  Emily

We learned the sound ‘nd’ in phonics.  Amber

We made symmetrical pictures by painting on one side of the page and folding it over.  Megan

I liked playing games during the Teddy Bear’s picnic and we had biscuits and crisps. Carley

I liked the Teddy Bear’s picnic when we went into the Telly Tubby Land.  Max & Aaron

We were learning about symmetry.  Alex

We were learning about our right and our left.  Ada

Yesterday we started our Summer booklets with lots of fun activities.  Jude

With Mrs Laidlaw we made flower pictures.  Olivia S

We learned about healthy eating.  Carrots are healthy.  Aileigh

We listened to stories at the Teddy Bear’s picnic.  Ed.

I enjoyed the Teddy Bear’s picnic.  Jack

I learned the sound ‘sh’.  James

Here we are with our symmetrical pictures.

This week…..

I learned the sound ‘nk’ as in sunk in phonics. Jack

I learned the sound ‘igh’ as in night. Mac

We went up to the big P7 classroom while the new P1s came to visit. Oliver

We found out our new teacher and went to our P2 classroom. James

I didn’t enjoy the P2 visit because it didn’t have as many toys. Ellis

I enjoyed the Haribo game with Miss Mowat. Carley, Emily, Aaron and Aileigh

I enjoyed counting up to 100 and learning odd and even numbers. Alex

I learned the sounds, ‘ang’, ‘ing’, ‘ong’, and ‘ung’. Mia

I liked the beach ball game at Move On Day. Max

I enjoyed the art, ‘taking my pencil for a walk’. Megan

I enjoyed learning about what foods are healthy. Ada

I enjoyed the new P2a class. Amber

This week in P1a…………………………

I enjoyed the running race at sports day. Shannon

I learned the sound ‘ong’ in phonics. Strong! Jack

I had a raced in the house race with Carley and Jude. Hardy was the winning house! Alex

I liked sports day because of the potato and spoon race. Holly

I liked the sack race in sports day. Carley

We were learning how to count up to 100. James

I liked running laps in sports day. Max

We learned ‘ang’ as in sang. Megan

I learned a new sound in phonics ‘oa’ as in moan. River

We learned where food comes from. Ada

While I was at home sick with the chicken pox I did some painting. Amber

I played with my toys when I was home sick. Ellis

I learned the sound ‘oi’ as in coin. Aileigh

I came second in the running race. Olivia S

I enjoyed the sack race. Aaron

I counted in 2s up to 25 backwards and forwards. Jude

We learned the ‘ang’ sound as in bang. Emily

I enjoyed the sack race. Oliver

I enjoyed the running race at sports day. Mia

I enjoyed the potato and spoon race. Mac

Well done to everyone for taking part in sports day and doing their best.

Special congratulations to Jude who won gold for the P1 boys and gold for overall P1 winner, Justin who won the boys silver medal and Olivia Swan who won the girls silver medal.

Pupil of the week: Ed for working really hard at writing sentences.

Enjoy the long weekend and Gala day! Good luck to the Balbardie Float!

We have been very busy this week…in phonics we have been learning ‘oy’ and ‘ang’ and our new tricky words are does and goes.  In numeracy we are counting and ordering to 20/100.  We have been looking at repeating shape and colour patterns. In topic we have been learning about where food comes from before it gets to the supermarket – is it a plant or an animal.

We were learning oi and oy. Megan

We played dodgeball in PE. Jude

We were learning about where food comes from – plants or animals. Alex

I liked PE and dodgeball. Holly

We were learning oy in phonics. James, Aileigh & Ellis

In our phonics group we were learning ang. Ada

We were counting up to 100 in number work. Emily

We were listening to the story of The Selfish Giant in drama. Shannon

We learned a new song All About Our Senses in music.  Mia

We had to use our bodies and movement in drama to set the scene of the Selfish Giants garden. Jack

We were learning aw in phonics. Max

Here are some pictures of our ‘Show and Tell’ and today we chose someone to ask a question.

Have a lovely weekend….enjoy the sunshine.

A sunny week in P1a

During outdoor day the P4s taught me how to play Slam. Aileigh

We played the pass the gem during outdoor day. Aaron & Amber

We got to take our bean stalks and bean diaries home. Ada

We were listening for sounds we could hear outside. Alex

The P4s taught us how to play Corners. Jack

The P4s played Piggy in the Middle with us. James

In maths we were weighing different objects. Carley

We were learning numbers to 100 and played Monster Splat! Oliver

P4s taught us how to play dodge ball. Ellis

We learned ‘qu’ in phonics. ‘qu’ is for quarry.  River

We were learning to tell the difference between ‘p’, ‘b’ and ‘d’. Mac

We painted our favourite books for the float with our buddies.   Emily

We practised out numbers to 20. Jude

We were making flowers out of tissue paper. Max

We learned how to play football with P4s. Shannon

We learned the sound ‘ew’ in phonics.   Mia

I enjoyed playing corners. Olivia S

Well done to everyone in P1a for a fantastic performance at our Celebrating Success assembly.

Well done to Jude, Mac, Holly, Ellis and Aaron who all received certificates.

This week we have been very busy….

We were learning about butterflies. James

We were measuring our bean plants. Carley

We were learning how to measure with rulers. Alex

We were learning numbers to 100. Shannon

We were ordering numbers to 20 and to 100. Jack

We were measuring the length of the floor. Ada

We learned a new sound, ‘oi’ in phonics. River

We played toilet tig in outdoor PE. Megan

We did basketball bouncing in the fundraiser. Max

We measured how long the door was. Aileigh

We did floor running in the fundraiser. Olivia

We measured the table. Mia

We learned ‘ow’ as in clown. Aaron

We did week 2 of our Bean diary. Jude

We did strike jumping in the fundraiser. Amber

We did shuttle running in the fundraiser. Justin

Working really hard. Ed

We measured our bean plants.   Oliver

We did basketball bouncing in the fundraiser. Emily

We did step-ups in the fundraiser. Ellis

We have started, ‘Show and Tell’.  The class are a brilliant audience, demonstrating excellent listening skills.

River and Ed made McDonalds out of Duplo.  Mrs McClafferty had a Chicken McNuggets Happy Meal!

Pupil the week: Megan Carey for making excellent progress in reading and recognising all her tricky words.

Well done also to Ed, Mac, Justin and James for all their hard work at Sensory Circuits.

We have been learned the sh sound in phonics. Carly

We learned oo in phonics. Holly

We learned f in phonics. James

We were learning about ankylosaurs. Alex

We were learning th in phonics. Amber

We made a fish in phonics for f. Oliver

We learned that flower starts with f in phonics. Shannon

We looked at a dinosaur timeline – during the first period there were plesiosaurs, during the second there were stegosaurus and during the third there were velociraptor (my favourite dinosaur because it can go really fast!)

We learned the tricky word love. Ellis

We learned how to count dinosaurs to 20 and write the numbers. River

Pupil of the week: Mia McGreevy for writing excellent sentences and including capital letters, finger spaces and full stops!