The cold wintery weather that we have had this week has inspired the boys and girls in P1b to make a Winter collage and have a go at writing all about Winter. We used our knowledge of phonics and remembered our good finger spaces in our writing. Here are some examples of our work.
Here are the lovely boys and girls from Primary 1b on their first day at school. They all settled very quickly and had a great day exploring their classroom, playing and meeting their super P7 buddies again.
I am super excited to be your teacher and am looking forward to the year ahead.
Love,
Mrs Macdonald.
NEWSFLASH !!!!
The dragon has left us another note and clues ! He has left us a brick, straw and some sticks. What could this mean? Maybe he wants us to read another fairytale. All will be revealed tomorrow !
The boys and girls from P1a and P1b got a special surprise today ! It would appear that a friendly dragon visited our classrooms whilst we were outside practising our capital letters.
We have been left a letter and a special D-mail box from this dragon. He is sad because his land, ‘Fairyland’ has been destroyed so he wants us to turn our classrooms into a new Fairylands.
Well, as you can imagine this has caused great excitement and we are definitely up for this challenge. We will keep you all posted over the next few weeks as to what we are going to do to rebuild Fairyland.
P1 and P2 had a great hour this afternoon dancing for our Lenten charities. We danced along to our favourite tunes and played musical statues.
We also had a competition to see who the best dancers were. We all had some moves but we all agreed in the end that Kuba was the winner from P1 and Finn was the P2 winner. Well done boys !
P1 would like to thank all of the lovely visitors who managed to pop along to our craft afternoon. We had such a great time making reindeer food, Rudolph hot chocolate, Christmas stockings, snowmen and Christmas trees. We hope that you had lots of fun !
P1 have had an exciting start to the Christmas season. The classrooms have had a Christmas makeover ! We have also found two little elves hiding in our classrooms. We have no idea where they came from or why they are here. Watch this space for Christmassy updates!
We hope to see lots of you on Thursday night at our Christmas Fair buying our Christmas Slates and Christmas placemats. We have had great fun making these !
We have been very busy behind the scenes making crafts to sell at our Christmas Fair. We will be selling Christmas slates at £5 and Christmas Placemats at £1. Here is a sneaky peek for you !
P1a and P1b had a taste of what it is like to be a popstar today when we recorded our version of ‘When Santa got Stuck up the Chimney’ for our school’s Christmas CD. We sang into one big microphone using our very best voices. We sounded great ! The CDs are currently being made and will soon be ready for you to order for £4. More details will follow about this shortly.
We are very excited to have starting using ‘Dojo Points’ in our classes. We will be awarded a point for the following good behaviours:
Having good lunchtime manners.
Working as part of team.
Helping others.
Trying hard.
Tidying up.
Good listening.
Changing quickly.
Remembering our magic manners.
Being kind.
Who will be our first DOJO champions this week ?
We have sent home a note with a personal code on it. This can be used to access your child’s DOJO points from home.
Thankyou everyone,
Primary 1 teachers.
Here is Tavia, proudly showing off her ‘Dinosaur Invitation’. Just a reminder to P1a/P1bs mummies and daddies that it is on Wednesday, 14th of October at 2.00pm in our classrooms.
For today’s ‘Wednesday’s World’ we learnt all about hedgehogs. Mrs Macdonald has one living in her garden. She is going to see if she can take a picture of it.
What did we learn ?
Catherine – They curl into a ball because they get scared.
Thomas – A baby hedgehog is called a hoglet.
Ollie – They like to use leaves to keep warm.
Grady – They like to eat berries.
Lucas C – They like to eat worms.
Tavia – Hedgehogs hibernate in Winter. Hibernate means you go for a long sleep.
We also learnt that hedgehogs eat frogs ! Wow, we never knew that !
This week we have been practising how to ask, ‘How are you ?’ in Spanish and answer back.
How are you ? – que tal ?
We have also been practising our bodies parts. We can sing ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’. Fantástico !
We got a big surprise after lunch today to find lots of dinosaur footprints leading from Mrs Macdonald’s class into Mrs Baty’s class. The footprints were all different sizes but had one thing in common, three claws ! This could only mean one thing, they belonged to a T-Rex. We asked our baby dinosaurs, Georgosaurus and Rory (the baby T-Rexes who hatched out of the eggs in our class a few weeks ago) if they had seen anything. It turned out that their mummies had paid them a quick visit during our lunch break to check up on them. Phew !!! We were so glad that we didn’t see them, they are carnivores !
We put the footprints to good use, measuring them with cubes. Some measured 27 cubes, others were 13 cubes long. We also measured our own footprints and compared sizes. We also participated in lots of other dinosaur activities. Here we are busy at work and play.
Great work today everyone !
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
Dear Primary 1a/1b parents and carers,
We are all looking forward to sharing our learning with you on Wednesday, 14th of October, at 2:00pm in our classrooms. Please come along if you can. There will be lots to see and do , all dinosaur related of course !
Please keep an eye out for your special invitation in your child’s bag.
Many thanks,
Primary 1.
We have been learning how to count in Spanish. We are really good at it now. We are learning how to say lots of the colours in Spanish too. Today we learnt Spanish for blue, yellow, green and red.
Here is what you say :
Green is ‘verde’.
Blue is ‘azul’.
Yellow is ‘amarillo’.
Red is ‘rojo’.
Well done everyone !
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
Thank you so much to all of the mummies, daddies, grannies, grandads and friends who came along to today’s Macmillan Coffee Morning. It was lovely to see so many people. We had fun tasting the scrummy cakes that lots of lovely people baked. You are all SO kind.
Lots of the money has been counted and we are pleased to say that we have raised £660. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us all.
Love Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Baty and Mrs Gibson.
We have had a very, very busy day today.
What did we do ?
We learnt a new sound, ‘ l’.
We blended our sounds together to read and write words.
We practised forming our numbers on the smartboard.
Mrs Macdonald’s class had music.
Mrs Baty’s class had P.E.
During R.E we learnt that it is nice to help people and do kind things.
We made bunting, coloured in posters and made a table decoration for our coffee morning.
We learnt two new songs that we are going to sing at our coffee morning.
Busy bees ! Thank you everyone for working hard.
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
Primary 1a and 1b have had a couple of very exciting afternoons ! Prof. D. Inosaur left us all a note saying that there were dinosaur fossils buried somewhere in our school ! Well, as you can imagine this caused great excitement amongst the children. Where could they be ? And what is a fossil ? Luckily for us, our kind professor told us in his letter all about fossils and he left us clues to find the fossils.
Our clues led us outside. We found a spade in our playground and started digging. Just as he had said, we found lots and lots of dinosaur fossils ! These were so cool. We had a good look at them, guessing the name of each dinosaur from the print on the fossil. It was great fun.
To help us to develop our understanding more, we then played a matching game. We had to match the picture of the dinosaur to its fossil. Thes dinosaur pictures were hidden all around our room, so we had to have a good look for them. We also made a start making our very own dinosaur fossil picture out of cotton buds. We cannot wait until they are finished.
Well done everyone for working hard !
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
Primary 1 are hosting their first ever enterprise event on Friday, 25th of September for Macmillan Cancer.
What are going to do ?
We are going to sell cakes to the boys and girls in each of the classes. These will be available before break time.Cakes will vary in price from 10p – 50p.
We are going to organise a non – uniform day. We would like everyone to wear green and donate £1.00
We are going to have a cake and coffee morning for all St Nicholas mummies, daddies, grandparents and friends. This will be in the hall from 11.00 – 12.00. Entry for this will be £2.00 for adults. Kids go free. The adult ticket will provide you with a refreshment and a cake. There will be additional cakes for you to purchase on the day. There will also be a raffle too.
There will be a donation box. We are hoping to raise as much money as we can for a fantastic cause. Please support us if you can. More details to follow this week in a letter.
Many thanks,
Primary 1 teachers.
Breaking news !!! Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty stayed behind today after school. They were both busy tidying up when they heard a scratching sound !!!! The eggs in each class were moving gently. So exciting !! Maybe we will see a baby dinosaur soon. We have tucked the eggs in for the night. See you all tomorrow P1.
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
