A big welcome to all the new primary ones who have settled in really well already! When we walked along the corridor to hand in the register this morning Mrs Stewart and Mrs Ferguson couldn’t believe how quiet our line was – at first they thought we were primary six!! The highlight of the day was definitely meeting the buddies again and going outside to play with them at playtime. A big thank you goes to the P7 children who were super helpers when getting the primary ones organised for playtime. Today, Ben enjoyed playing in the willow tunnel, Abi enjoyed reading books in the library corner while Casey enjoyed listening to our story ‘The Paper Dolls’ by Julia Donaldson at story time. Well done everyone, enjoy the weekend before our busy week next week!
Category Archives: Primary 1
Greater or Less
This week, Mrs Lloyd’s maths group have been learning about greater than and less than. We have looked at the symbols and talked about how they could represent a crocodiles mouth as the open mouth would face towards the biggest number. The children also know that if the numbers are the same an equals sign would be used. Here are some photos of the children working hard. Well done everyone!
Strange Happenings in P1!
P1a were shocked this morning to find that Eco Ted had taken himself off on a pirate adventure! This morning the children found a message in a bottle inside our classroom. When we opened it up we found a letter from Eco Ted and we discovered that he had disappeared. He has sneaked aboard a pirate ship and he wanted the children to write back to tell him what he needs to do in order to act like a pirate. The quality of the writing that the children produced this morning was fantastic and I’m sure when we put these messages in a bottle they will really help Eco Ted to fit in onboard the pirate ship. The children are really hoping that he will return tomorrow so that someone can take him home for the weekend. We’ll keep you posted!!
Maths in action!
Last week in P1, we were learning about weight. We were sorting items into light and heavy and were using balance scales to find out which items were heavier, lighter and which ones were the same. Here are some photos of the children in action!
Exciting experiments in P1/2
This week in P1/2 we have been predicting and experimenting with fruit. We started with thinking about what fruits might sink or float and gave reasons for our answers. Next we looked at all of the different fruit we were going to use and made predictions about whether they would float or sink. Then came the exciting part! We tried putting them all in the water to see what would happen. We were particularly surprised to see that grapes didn’t float!
Ryan was our star of the week as he even took time at home to experiment with some of the fruit and brought them in for us to try too (we hadn’t thought about trying a plum!). Jamie also enjoyed our experiment.
Niamh has enjoyed our reading work this week, particularly completing her comprehension work. James and Andrew have enjoyed our handwriting this week (P1 were revising the differences between b and d and P2 were continuing practising the common words).
Arran has enjoyed revisiting addition and subtraction in maths this week.
I hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend.
Science Week
As this week is science week, P1 have been busy learning about floating and sinking. We devised a floating and sinking experiment using a variety of fruits and predicted whether the different fruits would float or sink. Yesterday, we carried out our experiment and recorded our results. Harvey thought the experiment was amazing while Izaak found the results really puzzling!
Outdoor Maths!
Mrs Lloyd’s maths group had fun in the sun last week when we were using the outdoor area to work on our counting in twos. The children were split up into four groups and rotated around a variety of activities to practise their skills in counting on in twos. One group, used the big number lines to jump forward and backwards in twos, another group painted numbers with water and counted on, another group used chalk to practise jumping in twos and the last group enjoyed a seat at the picnic table with their whiteboards and showed off how good they were at counting in twos. Good work everyone!!
Sunshine Maths!
Mrs Lloyd’s maths group had fun in the sun today when we were outside counting in 2’s, getting into groups to show either an odd or an even number, running to the correct side of the playground when either an odd or an even number was called and using the natural environment to collect and find groups of objects and deciding if they had collected an odd or an even number. It was a lovely morning and made maths even more fun!!
What’s the Time P1a?
Over the past two weeks, Miss Hewit has been teaching the class about telling the time on analogue clocks. She has been concentrating on o’clock times and has been very impressed with how well the children are doing both with reading the times and setting the hands on the clocks to show a variety of o’clock times. Today the children played some time games on the laptops and smartboard and were even making their own paper plate clock. Here are some photos of the children in action! Well done everyone.
Dobbies Visit P1a
Today, we were very lucky to be visitied by Laura from Dobbies. She taught us lots of different things about plants and berries and even brought in some blueberries and raspberries for us to taste – they were yummy! After our tasting, she let us plant a broad bean which we were allowed to take home. We need to make sure we put our bean somewhere where it will gets lots of sunlight and need to remember to water it regularly. It would be great to have some photos of the beans sent in as they are growing. I wonder whose bean will grow the tallest? The competition is on!!!
