Author: Mrs Fleming

Welcome to our last blog post of the term.  It was lovely to speak to so many of you this week and give you an update on your child’s progress. If you did not manage to make an appointment please contact the office and we can arrange a telephone call after the Easter holidays.

Classroom Spring Garden Centre

This week the children have continued to enjoy planting and looking after our seeds. The beans seeds are beginning to sprout!

                   

           

Technology     

On Thursday, the children enjoyed developing their coding skills in our technology room.

       

Active Numeracy

The children have continued to practise their addition, subtraction and number building skills this week using a number of active games. Great fun was had by all!

       

Writing – Descriptive

Our last descriptive piece of writing this week, was titled My Classroom. The children had to descibe our classroom- how big it is, what is in it and what we do in it. Some great examples below-

         

As well as carrying out formal writing activities, the children really enjoy creating independent pieces. They are doing so well. I am so proud of them.

         

I hope you and your family have a lovely Easter break. I will now post updates on twitter. Please follow (and like)  us @MrsFlemingP1

Welcome to this weeks blog. Some of our highlights to share with you.

Outdoor Learning ‘

During this weeks outdoor learning, the children wrote a fantastic collaborative Spring Poem using their senses-

               

Classroom Garden Centre

This week, in our class garden centre we have been looking at different  life-cyles. Firstly we tracked the life cycle of a bean, (we planted beans last week and are patiently waiting for shoots to appear) some pictures below-

Then we looked at the life cycle of an apple blossom tree. We planted some apple seeds and are hoping that they grow so that, we can transfer them into pots for the children to take home and plant in their own gardens.

                   

The children then went onto create their own apple blossom tree life cycle diagram.

       

     

Writing – My Bedroom

This week we continued with our descriptive writing block. The children had to describe their bedroom, where in the house it was, how many beds, what was in the room and what they enjoyed doing there, Some super examples below-

         

           

As the weather has been amazing this week, the children have enjoyed some outdoor numeracy as well has spending time on the trim track. A great time had by all.

           

           

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I will be back next week with more updates.

 

Some of this weeks highlights.

Outdoor Learning       

This week the children enjoyed looking at areas of biodiversity in both of our playgrounds. Some children noticed the buds appearing on the plants and discussed the importance of biodiverstiy.

                 

                 

Descriptive Writing

This week the children had to write about their favourite toy. They had to use the descriptive bubble to support their learning. We chose to include – size, colour, texture and what they like to do with it. Some great examples below-

         

         

Garden Centre

In class, we have been disucssing the changes, that Spring brings and through this discussion we decided it would be great to have our very own garden centre in the class, where we could grow and nurture seeds and plants. Some pictures of our new garden centre and the children planting beans.

       

We also began planting bean seeds in their very own green house so that we could watch and record them growing.

I hope you have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more updates.

 

 

Welcome to this weeks blog. Some highlights the children wanted to share with you.

Maths – Measure

We have continued to measure objects and this time the children are using measuring tapes.

       

       

We have also been exploring the language of measure – longer/shorter, bigger/smaller and heavier/lighter. Some pictures of the children discussing objects that are heavier/lighter.

       

Writing – Descriptive

This week we began a new writing genre. For the next few weeks we will be focusing on descriptive writing.  This week the children had to describe their friend, what they look like, what age they are and what they like doing together. Some examples below-

     

           

Outdoor Learning

On Wednesday, the children enjoyed planting trees in the school grounds. They were supported by the P7 buddies. The children really enjoyed spending time with them. Some pictures below.

         

         

I hope you have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more updates.

 

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.

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I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more updates.

 

Welcome to this week’s blog. I hope you are all well. Some of this week’s highlights.

Health and Wellbeing – The Colour Monster

As promised last week, a picture of our completed Colour Monster display which we share with P1/2.

 

The children put a great deal of though into what makes them happy, feel love, angry etc. and shared their thoughts on speech bubbles.

Outdoor Learning –

Below are some pictures from this weeks outdoor learning challenge set by Mrs Dobbie. The children had to work together to find a way to cross the playground without standing on the ground.

                   

                 

 

And they made it! Challenge completed!

Writing-

As well as our weekly writing the children are encouraged daily to write independently and are becoming more confident. Some really good examples below-

                   

Numeracy –

This week I have been challenging the children to add 2 collections when one of them is screened (this is support counting on strategies), they have also been introduced to subtration using this method. I was so pleased to see 2 children challenging each other (with no promting at all) using screens.

The children have also been creating their own numbers talks and challenging each other.

           

We have been exploring how larger numbers are made using 10 as a base number and dienes base 10 blocks. Some children created very large numbers!

               

Art and Design

We have started creating a forest display complete with drawings of the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs.

         

         

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend and I look forward to welcoming the children back on Wednesday 16th February!

Hello and welcome to this weeks post. Some super learning to share with you!

This week in preparation for our narrative writing we enjoyed listening to the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The children began by tracking Little Red’s jounery through the forest and drew maps to detail her route. Some examples below-

         

Writing – Little Red Riding Hood

Once that was completed, the children wrote an imaginative story using the Little Red Riding Hood story as a stimulus. The children had to imagine that the wolf  wasn’t hiding in the bed , it was another animal. They had super ideas, some examples below-

             

         

We now have a new display which  hopefully will help the children focus on achieving their core writing targets.

Health and Wellbeing

Some super action shots of the children developing their skills during our Monday PE lesson.

          

     

In class, we have been reading the Colour Monster. The colour monster changes colour depending on his mood e.g. he is red when angry, yellow when happy, green when calm etc. The children have drawn their own monsters and we are going to use them in a corrider display (will post a picture of the completed display next week)

               

I hope you have a lovely weekend. I will be back next week with more updates.

 

Welcome to this week’s  blog. It has been another busy learning week at Deans. Some highlights the children wanted to share with you.

Maths – Time

This week we have been learning to tell the time. We have been ordering days of the week, seasons and exploring months of the year. On Monday, we began to  focus on o’clock times and next week we will look at half past.  The children have made their own clocks and have been challenging each other to tell the time. Some action shots below-

                     

                     

 

Writing- The Three Billy Goats Gruff   

This week we continued with our narrative writing genre and used The Three Billy Goats Gruff story to help us. Firstly, we read the story, then we sequenced it-

Then we used puppets to re-tell the story-

               

Next we re-told the first part of the story including the “who and where”-

 

Lastly we challenged each other to make a bridge big enough for the troll to fit under-

             

Scotland       

We have celebrated Rorbert Burns birthday this week by reading stories about Hamish McHaggis (ask your child to tell you about him). The children love hearing him speak Scottish, for example – “stop your blethering!”, “haud your wheesht!”. We have also attempted to create our own Deans tartan-

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more updates.

 

 

 

 

 

Hello and welcome to this weeks blog. We have had an extremely busy learning week. Some pictures the children wanted to share with you.

Numeracy and Maths- Patterns and Relationships

This week we have been looking at patterns. The children have been copying, continuing  and patterns using cubes, beads and colours. Some pictures below-

   

         

         

Writing – What Happened Next?

This week we  continued with our narrative writing genre. The children  had to use their imagination to descibe what might happen to Jack and his mum now that they have the golden goose. We had lots of great ideas including, buying a golden palace, getting Daisy the cow back, buying more farm animals etc. Some super examples below-

           

         

Learning Through Play

Part of our classroom has been turned into a doctors surgery complete with a reception and waiting area, an examination bed, PPE, bandages, plasters etc. The children absolutely love it and have had great fun bandaging each other up, listening to their heartbeats, taking x-rays etc.

           

         

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I will be back next week with more highlights.

 

Happy New Year to you and your family. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and managed to stay well.

Welcome to the first blog post of 2022. The children are  happy to be back at school and have settled  in well . The children have choosen some of this weeks work they would like to share with you-

Literacy – Writing

This term we are focusing on a new writing genre and  will be exploring narrative/descriptive writing.  To get us started we received a very important letter from Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk) telling us that the giant had followed him down the beanstalk and had escaped. A picture of the glitter trail that led to a letter in our library corner.

We decided that we would we use our imagination to think about where the giant could be hiding and how he was feeling. The children came up with super ideas e.g. behind the beanstalk, on the roof, in the forest etc. We also had some great describing words when writing about how the giant  might be feeling, such as miserable, suprised and lonely. Some examples below-

Numeracy – Time

As well as our normal numeracy we are going to learn about time. We began by looking at daily routines and the children drew things  they do in the morning, afternoon and at night. This enables the children to link daily routines and personal events to time sequences. Some pictures below-

 

 

We have also really enjoyed reading and making hungry capterpillars to help us sequence the days of the week.

   

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more updates from Primary 1.