We’ve had an amazing week!
We have been learning to read time and time intervals. We have started learning division with remainders as well.
For reading, we worked on finding the main idea and summarising the text. We also worked on highlight important information and note taking.
For HWB, we explored different friendship groups and the importance of being able to express yourself.
In IDL, we learnt about different types of produce in Scotland and where most of them are made/ farmed.
IDL
We have been learning about the function of our organs and where about in the body they are. We have started stations for this. Some children have made lungs whilst others have been learning about digestion through an experiment.
Yoga
We read a story and then had to do different animal poses from the book! The children really enjoyed the different animal poses.
Writing
For one of our writing slots this week, the children had to write about why Yoga is good for your body. The children are working so hard in their writing and they are all making progress!
We danced our way into the weekend! Happy Friday!!
Monday:
Maths was a continuation of work on halving, quartering and percentages.
In language new spelling words went out. The class also wrote their narrative pieces they planned last week. AS and NB excelled.
In PE we extended our learning on hockey, focusing on dribbling and keeping the ball close to the stick. AS, SU, SD, EY and SJR excelled.
For IDL today we went back to looking at the Tudors.
Tuesday:
In language today we split into four groups and wrote plays. Two groups re-wrote the scene from “Macbeth” with the witches. The other two groups adapted the story of “Anne Frank” and “Little Red Riding Hood”. MDs excelled in his writing.
We were able to perform most of these plays at the end of the day. SU was an amazing wolf! CB, SHP, MM, AD, EY, DW, KH and AS all excelled in drama.
For maths we split into two groups, one of which EY lead, going back over previous work on directions. The other group looked at Roman numerals.
Coding with Mrs B was great fun, as always.
For IDL today we continued work on the Tudors, with partners researching famous people from the time, and started writing biographies about them.
Wednesday:
Reading activity: Continued work on summarising the previous book, focussing on the quality of the summary and assessment.
Maths: work on giving directions
The class went to Scotmid with Mrs D today to continue their work on promoting a net zero environment.
With Ms T the class did a book survey because it is national book week next week.
In maths one group looked at fractions while another group worked on practising their tables.
Thursday:
Maths: went back to working on algebra and equations, which we will briefly continue with on Friday. AD, CB, AS, DW, MxD, JH (whose maths is brilliant!) and SJR excelled in this.
Language today was a reading comprehension about the Tudors. Nearly the whole class found this very interesting, and the timeline very useful. MM,SU, EY, AD, CB, AS and MxD excelled in this.
Mark worked with the class on a health activity on the school values, that these can be a transferable skill that the children could practise at home.
Some of the class did an art activity of drawing winter trees. SU and MM excelled in this.
Continuing our work on the Tudors the class started to make timelines in Publisher, including when they were born. AD, DW and MxD excelled in this.
Friday:
Maths: worked on timelines, and briefly looked at scale.
PE: tennis activities. Also continued refining the rules of our class game: “Ball Tig”
Numeracy
This week was ‘Expressions and Equations’ focus week.
Emily – I had bever done algebra before but I thought I had done well.
Anton – Algebra is when a letter is put in instead of a number.
Literacy
We continued to practise our comprehension skills in group reading and also our spellings.
On Friday we will be learning about figures of speech.
In writing this week we were very excited to start writing up our science-fiction stories that we had planned with a partner last week.
Bella, Robbie, Joel, Hope and Emily shared what they had written so far by reading aloud to the whole class. We were very impressed!
PE
Cameron – I enjoyed netball and am getting better at catching.
Anton – I was surprised how good I was at pivoting.
The children have quickly developed their skills and have greatly improved their positional play and would like to devlop their shooting ability.
Bella – I am getting better at throwing and catching.
Art
Next week is World Book Day and we started to design a mural for the school library. This is a whole school competition and will be judged by the reading ambassadors.
Bella – I enjoyed this.
Headstrong – Mental Health
Mark visited us this week and we discussed our school values and the importance of these at school and home.
Outdoor Learning
Bella – We completed a traffic survey.
There were lots of vans and cars but no buses and lorries.
Hope – Why don’t people walk to the shops when they can?
Emily – This is part of our Net Zero learning. This is when carbon dioxide and oxygen levels are balanced.
As part of our learning we looked at different types of bins in the community.
Emily – We are monitoring the bins in the lunch hall as well.This is really working very well. There is less plastic in the food bin.
We have had another really busy week in Primary One. The children have choosen some of their learning that they would like to share with you.
Maths – Measure
We have begun looking at measure. In Primary one we measure using non-standard units. The children have been practising measuring areas in the classroom as well as each other. They drew around their foot and used the foot print to measure objects. Louie quickly discovered that this is not an accurate way to measure as everyone has different sized feet.
The children also tried using a measuring tape-
Writing – The Three Little Pigs 
This week as part of our imaginagtive writing the children had to write about a house. They had to say where it was, what it was made from and who lived there. Great discussion followed by some fantastic writing.
When the children had finished writing their stories I set them a challenge to build a house that the big bad wolf could not blow down. Some pictures below of their imaginative houses-
PE – Basketball
The children are beginning to develop their skills in basketball. Some pictures of them practising dribbling and bouncing to a partner.
Some Pictures of the children learning to keep their friend safe-
French 
The children absoutley love learning French with Mrs Dobbie. She recorded them singing. Click on the link below to hear them singing numbers in French.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more updates.
