We were very busy learning how to count up to 20. We were practising writing our numbers to 20 and using objects to count.

We also started to learn how to subtract with cubes.

In sounds,we learnt about the ‘ai’ sound and we made name trains. We did some super writing all about Dogger. We had to write about something we had lost.

P1a have been busy this week learning how to write and build three letter words. We are getting much better at spelling words !!

We have also been learning about 3D shapes and we enjoyed going on a shape hunt. What 3D shapes can you spot at home?

We played the feely bag game to guess what shape we could feel.

I learnt about a cube – Jack B

I learnt what a cone was – Chloe

I learnt about a cuboid – Ryan

A sphere looks like a ball – Kian

Can you tell an adult some of the 3D shapes we looked at?

We started to practise our nativity and Miss Rodford and Mrs Lloyd have found it tricky to decide what parts to give out!!! We are such good actors!!

Even although the children were in school for only three and a half days this week – they have managed to fit in so many things!

They were a super audience for the cast of Robin Hood in the pantomime which made everyone laugh out loud, they have been practising the French phrases of the week and have also learned how to say hello and goodbye in Mandarin.  The children were also given the chance to hold and pass round Chinese paper craft and to try on some traditional Chinese masks.

P.E. was a highlight this week as four students from West Lothian College came and worked with the class.  The children demonstrated super listening skills and thoroughly enjoyed this and are now very much looking forward to the next three weeks working with the college students.

In literacy, we played a fun game where we picked out and said three sounds from the bag and then we had to try and make a word and decide if the word we made was a real word or a nonsense word!

The Halloween disco was a big hit with all the children and caused a lot of excitement this week. Happy Halloween everyone!

P1a loved watching the panto of ‘Robin Hood’. We loved the songs and all the dancing.

‘I liked all of it’ Fraser

‘I liked the songs’ Cole

We also learnt how to speak some Manderin. We learnt how to say hello and goodbye in Manderin.

Hello is Nin Hao

Goodbye is Zài jiàn

We also looked at some traditional Chinese objects.

We are also going to have some students from West Lothian College, who are going to take us for P.E. They are going to be teaching us lots of new games.

Enjoy Halloween this weekend !!!!!

P1a have been busy learning all about patterns this week. We can continue shape and colour patterns.

We have been doing lots of practical activities like making pattern bead strings, printing patterns and colouring in the colour patterns.

We have also been doing lots of science this week about water. Did you know that water can be a solid, liquid and a gas.

We explored ice and water and looked at how they were different.

The water is wet – Fraser.

The ice is chilly – Chloe

I liked the ice – Kayleigh

Well done P1a