Just a little reminder that tomorrow (Friday 16th December) is the last day for our Readathon!
We’re looking forward to finding out how much money has been raised – please hand monies in next week, if you’ve not done so via the website.
Thank you for your support 🙂
Lewis: “We made posters”
Lily: “We made a Christmas Show poster”
Matthias: “We had to put the title, the time and the date”
Max: “We also had to draw a picture of the reindeer”
Lily: “It was a picture of Ralph the reindeer”
You can find our class posters around the Primary 1 area!
Caitlin: “On Wednesday we made soap pictures with our buddies and we were not to drink it”
Emma: “You need water and paint”
Kyle: “You also need cups”
Noah: “And a straw”
Caitlin: “And some washing up liquid. You blow the bubbles and then press your paper into the bubbles and it prints them on the paper!”
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On Monday was the talent show – “The Balbardie Factor”
Hamish – “I played my music. My two pieces were Jingle Bells and Swan Lake”
Evie – “I liked Hamish’s talent”
Noah – “I liked when Justin did his hand stands”
Lily – “I liked the dancing”
On Tuesday it was Shared Start!
Lewis – “Shared Start is when mums and dads can come”
Gracie – “We were sharing our learning”
Caitlin – “It was all about making our brains strong”
Maksim – “It was also about not knowing something YET”
Max – “Not telling our brains bad stuff, we should tell it good stuff”
Caitlin – “We should say things like “I can learn lots of things” ”
We also did a science experiment called “The Snowman’s coat”
Reiss – “We wanted to see what melted the fastest”
Ava – “One water bottle had a cloth on it and one didn’t. We wanted to see what would melt faster”
Hamish – “The water bottle with the coat had the least amount of water”
Maksim – “The one with no coat melted faster”
We made invitations to our Primary 1 Christmas Show
Taylor – “An invitation is like when you invite someone to your party”
Kyle – “We made invitations to go home”
Our Christmas Shows are on Tuesday 13th December at 2:30pm and on Wednesday 14th December at 9:30am
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Thank you to all who made it along to our P1-3 Shared Big Start on Mindset.
For further information, please see the links below and the slides are also available to view for reference.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/help-your-child-try-new-things
Caitlin – We read the story “The hot air balloon” and then we had to draw our favourite part of the story. Miss Wilson is going to put our pictures in a competition and someone will win.
Ava – We were reading a book and drawing pictures
Kyle – We drew mittens
Lily – We were colouring them in and drawing shapes. We made patterns
Reiss – We had to challenge ourselves and try to make both our mittens symmetrical
Hamish – The sounds we were learning this week were “r” and “l”
Max – Here is a picture of my rabbit
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Our Readathon packs have arrived in school and we’re ready to launch this exciting reading event. Â Please look out for information coming home today.
This week we have been learning more sounds and words!
Noah – We have been learning “x”
Kyle – We’ve been learning “z”, like “zig zag” and “zoo”
Maksim – We were blending these sounds together
Hamish – We have been learning “b” as well
Emma – We also learned “t”
Caitlin We’ve been learning “p”
Noah – We were blending sounds using the carpet mats
Hamish – We have learned yellow tricky words “no”, “go”, “so”
Caitlin – On the SmartBoard we played a zoo game
We used the blending mats to pull down sounds to make words and then we had to write a sentence using these words. Miss Wilson was so impressed with our sentences that we wrote!
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Here are some of our favourite parts of our week in school…
Hamish – We’ve been learning about adding and taking away and about static electricity
Kyle – We were learning if some things float or sink
Ava – I liked learning about static electricity
Caitlin – We made mosaic pictures in Art using tiny little square paper
Zara – We were sticking balloons to our hair with static electricity
Emma – We were making a charge with rubbing the balloons on our tummies
Noah – We were learning more about 3D shapes
Kyle – We have been learning pointillism
On Wednesday we were very lucky to have somebody visit our school and tell us the story of “Hairy MacLairy”. We had fun at the storybook workshop! Here is what we did…
Rose – Some people were characters in the story and we had to look for scotch broth soup
Jacob – We had to pretend to be sleeping
Matthias – Everyone else had to sneak up and try and get the ingredients
Kyle – I found a cup and put it to my ear and it was a telephone
Reiss – We flew to Shetland! We found haggis and potatoes around the big fire
This was lots of fun and the boys and girls really enjoyed themselves.
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A few parents have requested lyrics for the P1 show so they can be practised at home (thank you!) Â Please find below the lyrics for the songs we have been learning so far.Â
Thanks,
Primary 1 team
(Mrs Mansfield, Miss Wilson, Mrs McClafferty and Mrs Laidlaw)
Song 1 – Tapping Away
We’ve tapped all night and we’ve tapped all day.
Tapping away, tapping away
We’re busy, busy, busy, busy, tapping away.
Tapping away, tapping away,
We’ve tapped all night and we’ve tapped all day .
Tapping away, tapping away,
We’re busy, busy, busy, busy tapping away.
We’ve worked all night and we’ve worked all day.
Working away, working away,
We’re busy, busy, busy, busy working away.
Working away, working away,
We’ve worked all night and we’ve worked all day.
Working away, working away,
We’re busy, busy, busy, busy working away.
We’ve tapped all night and we’ve tapped all day.
Tapping away, tapping away
We’re busy, busy, busy, busy, tapping away.
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Song 2 – Sniff, Snuff!
Rudolph has a cold, sniff, snuff.
Poor old Rudolph is feeling rough,
Rudolph has a cold, sniff, snuff!
Now he wants a rest, sniff, snuff!
Poor old Rudolph has had enough,
Now he wants a rest, sniff, snuff!
Rudolph has a cold, sniff, snuff.
Poor old Rudolph is feeling rough,
Rudolph has a cold, sniff, snuff!
Song 3 – Odd job Reindeer
He won’t let you down and he won’t shirk,
His bright green nose lights the way,
Oh, Ralph the Reindeer, all together now – Ralph the Reindeer.
And he’ll be happy to guide the sleigh
His bright green nose lights the way,
Oh, Ralph the Reindeer, all together now – Ralph the Reindeer.
He won’t let you down and he won’t shirk,
His bright green nose lights the way,
Oh, Ralph the Reindeer, all together now – Ralph the Reindeer.
Song 4 – What could Ralph the Reindeer do?
He was in such a stew
Because he hadn’t got a clue, how to fly.
They were all fed up with him,,
Because he hadn’t got a clue, how to fly.
He was in such a stew
Because he hadn’t got a clue, how to fly.
Noah – We were making poppies
Caitlin – We were painting with our fingers
Ava – This was a little bit of pointillism
Gracie – It was also printing
Maksim – We made the poppies because were remembering some people died fighting in the wars
We were scientists this week! We did two experiments…
Experiment 1:
Ava – We rubbed balloons on our jumpers and it made it stick to the wall
Kyle – This was static electricity
Maksim – Rubbing it against your jumper charged the electricity and made it static
Caitlin – We had a competition to see who got pick up the most tissue paper in their group with the static balloon
Matthias and Ava – We won by getting 3 tissues in 10 seconds!
Noah – We also tried to stick it on our hair. It made it rise up off our head!
Experiment 2:
Gracie – We wanted to see what would float or sink
Caitlin – We cut out pictures of objects and stuck them into either “float” or “sink” columns. Then we put the objects in the water
Evie – We ticked our pictures if we got it right! Or we put a dot if we didn’t know the answer YET
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Here are our favourite parts of the week:
Noah – I like playing
Max – I liked learning Tricky Words
Caitlin – I liked making the bats in Art
Ava – We were learning more about pointillism in Art
Hamish – We have been learning new sounds “h” and “e”
Kyle – We have been learning 3D shapes and adding and taking away
Reiss – We have been learning about ordering numbers. We had to cut out the numbers on the caterpillar and put them in the right order. We will next be learning about money
We have begun learning the songs for our Christmas show, “Ralph the reindeer”
Noah – On Monday we practised “Ralph the reindeer” on the stage
Caitlin – I am a narrator
Hamish – We have been practising the whole show
Maksim – The parents came into school to tell us about their work
Caitlin – Matthias’ mum was a scientist and she made the egg float
Matthias – She made the egg float in the water after she put lots of salt in it
Lily – The egg would sink when it was just water and no salt
Matthias – The last egg had a little salt in the water and floated, then we added more water and it hovered in the middle!
Lewis – My daddy came in and he is a police officer
Ava – He showed us his handcuffs!
Kyle – He also showed us his baton
Hamish – Olivia’s dad was a security guard
Maksim – Jude’s dad came in and he was a footballer
Kyle – He played for Hibs!
Maksim – He also played for Hearts
Matthias – He brought in a football medal to show us
Hamish – He also brought in two footballs
Josh – We made Autumn trees in Art
Kaiden – The technique was ripping the paper
Kyle – We also teared it up
Noah – We had to rip the paper to make an Autumn picture and glue them on to the paper
We have been learning so much this week and would like to share our learning with you.
On Tuesday was Shared Start! Parents were invited into school and we were able to share our learning with them! Here are some pictures of what we were sharing…
Noah – We had to organise the shapes and put them in the right place
Caitlin – We did dot-to-dots to 20
Ava – We played snakes and ladders which helped us count to 20
Hamish – We played dominoes by matching the 2D shapes
Maksim – We were colouring in the 2D shape picture and following the key to help us
Rose – I made a train out of 2D shapes
Kyle – In Maths this week we had to look in books and cut out the shapes and put them in the right place
On Thursday we walked to the library!
Lewis – We were reading books
Matthias – We voted for which books we liked. There was “Bear on the chair”, “Hair and the tortoise” and “Shark in the park”
Lily – I liked “Hair and the tortoise” best
PUPIL OF THE WEEK: Scott Reid for developing his knowledge of 2D shapes!
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Caitlin – Yesterday in Art we were making fish using celery sticks and paint
Noah – We were painting
Zara – We were dipping the celery sticks into the paint
Kyle – We were making rainbow fishes
Caitlin – Our technique was called printing
Lewis – Printing is when you use something other than a paint brush to make a picture
Maksim – You can use celery sticks to do this
Emma – We were painting fish by dipping celery sticks into paints and we took lots of photographs
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Matthias – This week we have been reading “The Elves and the shoemaker”
Zara – The elves made shoes to make the shoemaker and his wife happy
Kyle – The shoemaker went to sleep and the next morning he found a beautiful pair of shoes on his desk
Hamish – The shoemaker and his wife were very poor at first, then the elves helped then make shoes and the next day there were two pairs of shoes on the desk
Josh – The shoemaker’s wife made tiny clothes for the elves to thank them for their help
Caitlin – The elves were really helpful because they made beautiful shoes for the shoemaker and he was rich and happy
Lily – We also had to cut out pictures from the story and stick in the missing pictures by putting them in the right order
Pupil of the week: Caitlin Hunter for correctly sequencing the story of “The elves and the shoemaker”. Well done!
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This week in Primary 1B we were reading the story “The Rainbow Fish”.
What happened in the story?
Noah – The octopus told the Rainbow Fish that if he kept being bad then nobody would play with him
Jacob – The Rainbow Fish wasn’t being very nice to the other fish
Kyle – The Rainbow Fish was sad because he didn’t have any friends
Caitlin – He had no friends because he was being rude to them. He told them he wouldn’t share his scales with them
Emma and Hamish – The starfish told the Rainbow Fish where to go to find the octopus
Hamish – In the end the Rainbow Fish got lots of friends because he gave every fish in the whole entire sea one of his shiny scales and left only one for himself
In Expressive Arts…
Noah – We coloured in a picture of the Rainbow Fish
Ava – We decorated them
Kyle – We used some gems and sprinkles and big buttons
Miss Wilson thinks our pictures of the Rainbow Fish are beautiful and we are going to put them on display in the classroom so everybody can see our wonderful work.
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