It has been another busy week in P6s! This week we had a visit from the SSPCA where we had a workshop on ‘Wildlife Welfare’. We learned loads of new facts about animals, got to know more about the SSPCA’s job and learned what we should do if we come across an injured animal.

In Maths and Numeracy we have been continuing to learn about time. This week we have been focussing on calculating durations of time and reading digital time which we are going to keep on practising at home and in school. We have also been learning more about Space and have done some imaginary writing where we wrote letters pretending we were going on a mission to space.

On Thursday we went to visit our buddies where we helped them to make a bowl for the Three Little Bears with papier mache. It was really messy but we had a great time and love spending time helping the P1s.

Mrs Stutt would like to thank everyone who made it along to our ‘Meet the Teacher’ on Wednesday. It was great to see so many people and lovely to meet you all.

Thank you to all those who came along to our ‘Meet The Teacher Evening’.  It was great to see so many Parents/Carers , and it was lovely to meet you all. Mrs Haddifon.

P6H are thoroughly enjoying our Space topic.  We researched lots of facts and wrote letters as Astronauts leaving on a space mission.  We also used wax resistancy methods to create space scenes, and created some fantastic pictures.  As we go forward with our space mission we are going to build a six foot model of a Space Shuttle, looking at all the different parts it has.  So if you have any spare newspapers we would really appreciate you sending them in for our papier mache.

We also had our first try at Countdown Spelling this week, which went well.  We all enjoyed it and not even Mrs Haddifon’s dancing put us off!

Hello Everyone

This week has been a very busy Balbardie week. Monday we had the school photographer then on Tuesday we were photo stars again this time for the Courier, keep your eyes peeled for the special P1 edition. We also had a special visit from the SSPCA talking to us about what we should do if we find an injuired animal. We started our ‘Once Upon a Time’ topic and looked at the story of Golidlocks and the Three Bears. In our phonics work we have now learned 4 sounds m,c,s and p. Our buddies came to visit on Thursday and we played some games with them. In our Learners Journeys we have set ourselves targets for the term. Lots of us chose things liked being able to write our name, read some words or learn 10 sounds. We are going to work very hard to achieve our targets. Here are some of our thoughts of things we enjoying doing:

I like lunchtime and lining up with my bubble in. Rory

It is good going on the trim trail at play time. Ruby-Anne

I like seeing my buddy Cameron at lunch time. Charlie

I like playing with the stickle bricks. Kyle

I was pleased when l used our rhyme to write a 4. Brandon

I like going outside to play. Zara

My favourite area is the house corner. Keilija

It was great to see lots of people at ‘Meet the Teacher’ on Wednesday, thank you for coming. Here are the Shared Start dates for this year.

7th October, 2nd December, 24th March and 26th March

Apologises but think l had an information overload and just to confirm homework will normally be given out on a Wednesday and returned on Mondays, l think l may have said Tuesday.

Bye for now from P1l

This week we have been learning about numbers 0, 1, 2 and 3 and counting within these numbers. We have all been impressing Miss Wilson very much!

We have all been learning about the letters and sounds s and p. We have been making wonderful displays in the class with our work.

We have been learning the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and discussing the story. We created WANTED posters for Goldilocks as we felt that she did some naughty things! We thought it was quite naughty that Goldilocks went into the cottage when she didn’t even know who lived there and we had a discussion about how to stay safe.

With our buddies we tried using paper mache and balloons to make bowls for porridge to go in! We really like working with our buddies and are looking forward to seeing how our bowls turn out.

Farrah moved up to Step 3 this week! Well done, Farrah 🙂

We have had a busy week again.  These are our highlights…..

We made Three Bear Porridge in class this week.  Like Mummy Bear we used a special stick called a spurtle to make the porridge.  We know Mummy Bear makes Daddy Bear’s porridge salty, Baby Bear’s plain and adds honey to her bowl, so we did too. We were like Goldilocks and tried all three bowls, but we liked Mummy Bear’s porridge the best.  We have also been making our own porridge bowls out of paper mache, we are looking forward to decorating them.

We have been enjoying making lots of friends as it is fun playing with them.  Some of our favourite things are dressing up, cars, building dinosaurs, jigsaws and making up our own stories in the library.  This is the first week we brought in toys from home on a Friday we were all very careful and looked after our own toys and our friends.  We had fun sharing.  Well done P1!

Bye for now!

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Maths

We have been looking back at what we have learned about how to measure things. We used different no-standard units of measure some of the things around the classroom. We used pencils, rulers, people and our hands to measure things.

LATC/Writing

We have been learning about the death of the Sheriff of Lanark this week. We used the story as a basis for writing a cartoon strip. We had to decide which part of the story to draw in each of the six frames. Then we learned about the difference between caption boxes and speech bubbles. Next we discussed with a partner which would be best to add into each of the frames. We now have a nice wall display in class showing our work!

HWB

In P.E. we have been learning about teambuilding through a variety of games and activities.

This week we have been learning about comic strips. We explored a variety of comics and picked out the main features. Then it was time to have a go ourselves!

First we read a short story about how William Wallace became an outlaw. Then we had to decide how to divide the story into six frames. After that, through the use of pictures, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, captions and sound effects, we had to recreate the story. It was quite tricky but we were very proud of our completed comic strips!

From the Blog Post Box

This week I was proud of…

…my maths because I have definitely learned a lot more about big numbers like 45,904. I know how to use a comma to help me know where the thousands are.                        Olivia

…myself because I think I did a good Stay Away From the Edge poster.                   Jane

…my mum because she is doing so well in her job.                            Madeleine

…the Yellow Table because they worked so hard to win Table of the Week.                           Gemma B

…Andrew for being the best friend ever!                                Ramsay

…myself because I am working hard for the stickers for my chart. I’m almost on Step 2! Lexis

One of the things p7b have enjoyed most about p7 so far is being able to help our p1 buddies from Miss Holwill’s class. We’ve been helping them out at lunchtimes to get used to the school system and we’ve been spending Buddy Time helping them with their learning. Last week we helped them design peg people which looked like themselves and this week we helped them with some painting as they made bears for their Goldilocks and the Three Bears display. Check out some pictures below… 

Hello from P1l

It is very exciting doing the first blog post for P1l. We hope lots of people read it and leave us comments.

It is hard to believe that P1 have only been at school for two weeks as everyone has settled into school life so well. This was a big week as we stayed all day and had lunch at school too. This week we started to learn our sounds and these are going to help us learn to read and write. We have learned two already and they were ‘m’ and ‘c’. We have been looking at where the sounds comes from in our mouth to help us remember what the sound is. Here are some pictures of us working on our sound activities.

We have been learning about our school and we looked at our uniforms and why we wear them. We have some great pictures of us in our uniform up on the wall in our classroom.

On Wednesday we watched the story of the Rainbow Fish. It helped us to think about how we make friends and feel happy. We then got together with our buddies and made our own Rainbow Fish.

Mrs Leamy is very proud of how hard everyone has been working already – well done to you all.