Yesterday, all of P1 got their teeth checked by the school dentist.  She was very happy to see lots of super, shiny teeth ! Today, we spoke about the importance of good dental care.  We watched a great cartoon about Crawford the Cat brushing his teeth.  He reminded us that if we want strong and healthy teeth we should :

Brush at least twice a day.

Floss between teeth.

Brush for 120 seconds.

To help us to do this, we have all been given a new toothbrush and toothpaste that we can take home. Happy teeth brushing boys and girls !

Mrs Macdonald and Miss Toner.

Our new topic in Primary 1 is ‘Living Things’. We learnt a song to help us remember all of the things that living things need. It goes something like this :

‘Does it need air ?

Does it move or grow ?

Does it need food or water ?

If YES, then you know

It’s a living thing’.

We have been very busy learning exciting new things. Here we are, working hard !

P1b celebrated today as it is Harry’s birthday.  Happy 6th birthday Harry ! We hope that you have had a lovely day at school.  Harry brought in some cakes and sweets for us to enjoy.  Thanks for these Harry.  We shared them out equally ensuring that everyone got something.  We found this easy as this is what we are learning in Maths.  We will be spending the next few days learning how to share objects equally.

Here is the birthday boy !

Our first few days back at school have been very busy and enjoyable.   Mrs Macdonald got a shock when she saw us after the holidays.  She  couldn’t believe how tall and grown up we were looking.  She said that we almost look like P2s !

We also welcomed a new friend into our class, Arran. Welcome to St Nicholas Arran !

Today, we had our story and milk outside today under the shade of the gazebo.  We couldn’t believe how hot it was.  If this good weather continues, we will need to think about wearing sun hats and bringing sun tan lotion to school (fingers crossed !).

The boys and girls and I would like to say a huge thank you to all of our special visitors who came along to our class to share our learning.    It was fantastic seeing such a large turnout.  We hope you had fun .  We did ! Our favourite activity was decorating the gingerbread men. These disapperared very quickly !

Here are a few pictures from yesterday.

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Happy Easter to all of our lovely family and friends.  We hope that you like the Easter cards that we made you.  We used our thumb prints to make bodies for little chicks.  We waited until the paint dried before we added the chick’s features.

We think they are EGGcellent!

Here is Kai showing off his trophy for being ‘Student of the Month’ at Tae -Kwondo.  Well done Kai ! This is a super achievement and we are all very proud of you !

P1a’s and P1b’s teachers swapped classes this morning to play a prank on the boys and girls. Miss Toner’s class were met by Mrs Macdonald and P1b were met by Miss Toner. What was going on ? We told the boys and girls that Mrs Brown had decided to swap teachers around ! There were a lot of confused little faces . After a few minutes, some of the class guessed ! We were playing a little trick.  Ha ha ! April Fools Day everyone !

P1 have been busy today making final preparations for our Fairyland showcase.  We made crowns, fairy wands and wrote a story about the big bad wolf.

When writing our story, we had to pretend that we were the big bad wolf and think of reasons why he ate Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma.  After a super discussion we all agreed that maybe the poor wolf hadn’t eaten for days and that is why he ate them both.  Maybe Little Red Riding Hood was mean to him and he decided to gobble her up ! Who knows !

We hope that you can make it along to our Fairlyland showcase.  Just a reminder to you all that it will be on Wednesday, 2nd of April at 2.00pm in our classroom. Hope to see lots of you there.

We hope to see lots of mummies, daddies , grannies and grandads on this day.

Today we were left another lovely surprise in our classroon after lunch ! A basket ! But, not any old basket, for this basket was full of goodies. There were sandwiches, cookies, biscuits, a donut , healthy grapes and milk.  Yummy !  Who could have left us such delicious treats ?

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD !

Thank you for visiting our class today.  We had lots of fun with your fairytale.  We sequenced the story and wrote all about our favourite part in our castle booklets.

Today, Evan, Kamaren, Connor and Arran would like to share their writing in their news jotters with you.  Well done boys !  When reading today’s diairies I was really impressed to see capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.  I also noticed that there were lots of birthdays at the weekend. We have one today too !  A big happy birthday to Arran, Finn and Zach.

Dear P1a/P1b mummies, daddies and friends,

P1a and P1b are really looking forward to showcasing their Fairyland work on Wednesday, 1st of April at 2.00pm.  Please make a note of this in your diary and come along  if you can.  We love having visitors in our classes, especially our mummies and daddies.

from,

P1a and P1b.

Today the boys and girls learnt all about St. Patrick and Irish customs.  We watched a short film about St Patrick’s life.  It is was very interesting.  We had our listening ears on and were able to remember lots of facts about him.

We learnt that :

He was born in Wales (Harry).

He was captured by pirates (Zach).

He was taken on a boat to Ireland (Kai).

He had to look after sheep when he was captured (Finlay F).

Patrick prayed to God when he was on the island (Neve P).

Once he escaped he decided to become a priest and he studied for lots of years. (Aoibhe).

He went back to Ireland and helped the people to believe in God (Finn).

Mrs Thomson came into our class told us lots of things too about St Patrick’s day and about Ireland.  She showed us the beautiful shamrock that her mummy posted her from Dublin. We learnt that shamrock is Ireland’s flower.  It is very pretty.  We are going to use Mrs Thomson’s s cutting to try to grow more lovely shamrocks.

We also learnt that Irish boys and girls have the day off from school.  They celebrate the day by going to Mass before watching a St Patrick’s day parade in town. Mrs Thomson made us laugh when she told us that when she was a little girl she used to go to McDonalds on St Patrick’s day and order a green milkshake.  We didn’t know that there was such a thing !  We rounded off our afternoon by making a lucky leprechaun.  Harry and Aoibhe also showed us the lovely St Patrick’s day badges and leprechauns that brought in specially.   We loved them!

Happy St Patrick’s day to all of our family and friends,

love from P1b and Mrs Macdonald.

We enjoy sharing our news after a busy weekend.  Here are some of our news jotters.  Ronan, Chloe, Finlay F and Casper worked super hard this morning to use their sounds in their writing.  Well done to all of the children for working hard.  I really enjoy reading what you have written.

Our seeds have really grown during the weekend ! Evan’s plant is the tallest at the moment. We are looking after them ensuring that they are watered and positioned near the light.  We cannot wait to see how tall they will grow.

More fun in Fairyland.  Here are some of us building houses, designing houses and playing in the house from Hansel and Gretel.

P1b have been very busy for the last few days.  We have made something very special !  We would love to tell you all what it is but we can’t.  We can tell you that we have worked very hard.  All will be revealed soon.  We love surprises !

In the very first letter that the Friendly Dragon sent us, he asked us to make our classroom look like Fairyland.  He also asked us to work hard and to read lots of fairytales.  We are trying hard to do all of these things as we love our new friend.

What a surprise we had today ! Whilst we were at lunch someone snuck into our classroom and left us a bag of sweeties ! We couldn’t believe it ! Attached to the bag of sweeties was a note saying ‘Guess who ! Love from 2 fairytale characters’.   We racked our brains to try to guess who had left us some sweets.  Was it Little Red Riding Hood ? Could it have been Puss ? Maybe even Goldilocks ?  After a lot of discussion we finally guessed correctly.   It was Hansel and Gretel !  Mrs Macdonald read the story to us and then gave us one of the sweeties to eat as a special treat.  We then set off to work in groups designing sweeties, lollipops and candy canes. We also wrote about the story in our castle books that the dragon left us. It was a great afternoon.

We work hard in P1 to use our sounds to help us with our writing.  We especially enjoy sharing our news after the weekend.  Here are some of our weekend diaries.  We write these on our own.  If we are unsure of how to spell a word we use Fred talk to help us to break the word up into sounds.  Mrs Macdonald is very proud of our writing and how hard we all try.

We are now learning to tell the time in our class. Harry told us all about the famous clock in London, Big Ben.  He has a picture of this on his I pad ! We spoke about the clocks and watches that we have in our house.  Some of us have lots of clocks ! We learnt that time never stops, it always keeps going.  Chloe showed us her beautiful watch that she had on today.  It has twelve numbers on it.  We learnt that the special word for a clock or watch with twelve numbers – ANALOGUE. We played time games in our groups.  We got to move the hands of the clock round, this was fun ! We are already very good at showing o’clock times.  Well done everyone ! Tomorrow, we will make our own clocks and play more clock games.

We started to read the famous fairy tale , ‘Puss in Boots’ today .The friendly dragon left us this in our class to read.  Some of us already knew the story , Finn said that he had seen the movie. We heard all about the antics of Puss . He spoke in the story and that got us thinking, wouldn’t it be great if animals could really talk ?

I promised the boys and girls that  I would check on my pussy cats when I got home and post a picture of one of the cats. As suspected, they were all fast asleep when I  arrived home. Maybe they have been on their own adventures today whilst I have been at school ! We will finish reading ‘Puss in Boots’ tomorrow.

See you all tomorrow,

Mrs Macdonald.

We really enjoy working together with our shoulder partners, in groups and at home with our mummies and daddies.  Here are some lovely photographs of us working together.  We have also included photos of our puppets.  We worked really hard at home with the help of our mummies and daddies to create these.  These looked wonderful in our class.

Well done everyone !

We work very hard in P1b for Mrs Macdonald.  Here are some snaps of us learning outdoors, working in groups and building our robots.

Well done boys and girls.