What a fantastic first term we have had in P2/1!

We have been learning lots of new sounds, learning how to form our letters and blend sounds we know together to read words. In our writing lessons, we have been learning how to write a recount and how to write a persuasive text, arguing one side of an argument. We have been trying really hard to use our sight words and our new sounds in all of our writing. Sid the monkey was helping us with our writing, he thought we were fantastic!

In numeracy we have been working on counting forwards and backwards from a given number and identifying numbers. We have also been reciting our days of the week, months of the year and learning about the four seasons. We learned how to identify o’clock on an analogue and digital clock, some of us were learning half past the hour. We had great fun using stop watches to time ourselves and our friends doing various challenges and activities.

Our topic this term was ‘Fauldhouse’, we enjoyed learning about various buildings and features in our village. We learned about the different types pf houses an used google maps to find our own houses and used the building blocks to make an design a house. We used our data analysis skills to record traffic in our village using tally marks and then transferred the information on to a bar chart for our topic wall display.

We have been focussing on friendships and kindness this term in our Health and Wellbeing. We discussed what makes a good friend and what we can do to show our friends kindness. We have also been learning how to recognise, name and show our emotions, describe what triggers different emotions and how we react to various situations. We learned our bodies are like cogs and they all need to work together for us to be healthy and safe. We created our own ‘coggles’ to use when we are reading books so we can spot emotion words.

Mrs Howley is extremely proud of all our hard work this term and said we deserve a lovely October break.

And just like that, it’s June…and we have finished Primary one!

Look what we have been getting up to this term!

Numeracy- This term in numeracy, we focused on practicing all that we had learnt this year and pushing ourselves to try even trickier sums!

Literacy- In literacy this term, we finished off learning all of our sounds and put these into practice during our writing lessons.

Beyond Number- In maths this term, we learnt about lines of symmetry. We painted our butterflies, folded them in half and watched how the prints were symmetrical. We also used mirrors to show lines of symmetry. We also learnt all about directions and I thought it was the best time to teach the children one of my school disco classics ‘The Cha Cha slide’. They absolutely loved it!

In technologies, Ms Jamieson was teaching us all about designing and building a village so we spent some time building a bridge to go over our river!

Our topic this term was Kings, Queens and Castles (we also looked at dragons!). We planned our own royal banquet, we learnt about all the features of a castle and used the wooden blocks to build our own!

Our topic in science was all about our senses. We went on a hearing walk to see what we could hear all throughout the school. We completed an obstacle course to show how important our eyesight is.

We spent a lot of time outside practicing our basketball skills in PE, completing a school litter pick and learning how to keep ourselves safe in Health and wellbeing.

I am so proud of all your achievements this year Primary one. I hope you all have a lovely well-deserved summer holiday! I would also like to say a huge ‘Thank You’ for all the lovely cards and gifts.

Miss Gorman x

Another fantastic term in P1!

Numeracy – We have been working on our addition and subtraction strategies. We have been using number lines to help us find the answers to a calculation and practiced writing our own number sentences. We had lots of fun pretending we were frogs jumping forwards and backwards on the lily pads and counting the jumps. We have also been learning to tell the time on an analogue clock using o’clock and half past the hour.

Literacy – We have been learning some new sounds and new sight words, which has helped us recognise and read new words. We have been discussing how we make our writing more interesting by adding adjectives. We focussed on writing imaginative stories using descriptive words to describe a character. Mrs Howley and Miss Gorman were very impressed with our work.

Science – This term we learned about forces. We identified things you can push and pull in our classrooms and had great fun making ramps at various heights to determine if this made a difference to the distance when we pushed our cars down them. We also looked discussed what ‘prediction’ means and enjoyed carrying out an experiment and predicting what items we thought would float and what items would sink.

Topic –Our topic this term was The Village. We learnt all about our village and then learnt about Scotland! We found out about Nessie- Look at our lovely artwork! We  found out all about the Scottish wildlife like red squirrels. We also spoke about our favourite Scottish food and whether there was any Scottish food we hadn’t tried that sounded yummy!

PE – This term in PE, we were practicing our football skills. We were learning all about controlling the ball, dribbling and passing. We also had a go at shooting the ball for Miss Gorman and Mrs Howley to try and save!

RME- In RME this term, we have been learning about birth customs in different religions. We also were learning about the Easter story. We made some fantastic bunny hats and Easter cards for our people at home!

We hope you have a lovely Easter holiday!

Mrs Howley and Miss Gorman

Just a reminder that the homework is now on Seesaw. The children have also been set a challenge on Sumdog to complete. Any problems logging on- please let us know.

Enjoy your weekend and see you all on Monday!

Mrs Howley and Miss Gorman.