Over the past few weeks, P1a have been working hard in the structured play area and have enjoyed dressing up in the role play area and using their imaginations with the small world castle. Children also enjoyed using Jack’s magic beans at the maths table – counting, ordering and making shapes.
P1a were back practising their tennis skills again today. Coach Ian was again very impressed with the ball control and team/partner skills shown. The children had an egg and spoon race (with a racquet and ball!) and worked on good racquet control when taking the ball for a walk, having a game of ‘floor tennis’ and batting the ball back to their partner.
P1 have been working hard this week to learn the number stories of 6. To help us do this we were using skittles. The children took turns to roll the bowling ball to see how many skittles they could knock over. We then wrote down how many skittles were standing and how many had been knocked down to help us work out all the number stories of 6. Luckily the children were much better at this than Mrs Lloyd and are becoming faster with their recall of thenumber stories for 6. Josh was a bit worried that Mrs Stewart might drop in and see us having too much fun!!
A big well done to P1a who have worked hard to learn their Scottish poems over the last few weeks. Everyone stood up in front of the class and recited their poems really well, making Mrs Lloyd really proud. Well done to Josh and Aaron who were selected to perform in front of the whole school at assembly. You did great boys!
A big well done to P1a from Mrs Lloyd for all managing to complete this weeks class challenge of zipping up coats all by yourselves. Don’t be fooled parents – they can do it!! As a reward, the class earned an extra five minutes golden time. I am looking forward to seeing how well you do with next weeks challenge of not running when we are lining up. Good Luck P1a!
This week we have been filling in more of our vowel house sounds when we were learning about the sounds ‘oi’ and ‘igh’ and have been sounding out lots of words with these sounds in them.
We have been using our take away skills to answer questions that were written in words instead of just numbers.
Niamh enjoyed doing some Scottish activities with Mrs Ferguson. James enjoyed his language work this week. Ryan had great fun at our first tennis taster session.
Next week we look forward to learning some new sounds and we are going to learn more about castles after getting a letter from Sir Helpalot last week.
Primary one had a fabulous opportunity today when they were given a taste of the skills needed for playing tennis. Coach Ian complimented the children on how hard they had worked and on how well they were controlling the tennis balls. Josh showed off his knowledge when he confidently named some tennis players and Jason was really impressed by coach Ian’s skills saying that he was awesome! The children are very much looking forward to session two next week. 
Yesterday P1 were shocked to find that the friendly fairyland dragon had been back for a visit. This time, he left a letter complimenting our beanstalk and also left all of the children a present. The children now all have a castles book which the dragon has asked them to write in and tell him about how they are getting on with turning the classroom into fairyland. Keep an eye out for the beantstalk photos coming soon. Also, good luck to Mrs Ferguson on her personal challenge of climbing our beanstalk to see what’s at the top!!!!
P1a had a shock on Thursday morning when they came into the classroom to find some big, green glittery footprints leading from near the window over to the library corner. After closer inspection, Jason found a letter sitting on a chair in the library and upon reading the letter we found that it was from a friendly dragon. He has asked for P1a’s help in turning our classroom into Fairyland as his home has disappeared. P1a have already written back to the dragon to explain that they would love to help and we have begun thinking about how to turn our classroom into Fairyland!
It’s hard to believe that there are only two school days left before we finish for the Christmas holidays. December has been a very busy month for P1 with our nativity rehearsals and performances, Christmas dinner, Christmas crafts and of course our Christmas party where Santa took time out of his busy schedule to drop off a little gift for all the children since they have been working so hard! We are looking forward to the parents coming to join us for the Carol service on Monday and then to having a little rest over the Christmas Holidays. Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all.
