Category: Primary 1

It has been a very quick week in Primary 1B. We have had lots of exciting learning experiences this week. Here is a little quick snapshot of our week.

Health and Wellbeing

This week we have been talking about growing up and how we have changed since we were babies. We know that our bodies, minds and appearance have changed lots since we were very little. Here are some of the changes we were discussing.

Leighton – I don’t wear a nappy anymore and all my clothes are different now.

Sophie – I don’t drink milk from a bottle anymore or have a dummy.

Reuben – I eat lots of different types of food now, not just mushy food like porridge.

Cooper – I can do different things with my body, like run and jump or even press ups! My hair has changed colour.

Kellan – I can talk and walk.

Mikah – I know lots more things now than when I was a baby.

Bryan – My body is bigger, my arms and legs are longer.

Thank you for taking the time to read our blog.

A little reminder, if you have any old reading books at home could they please be returned to school as soon as possible. Thanks!

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B.

It’s been a busy week again here in Primary 1B. We have been enjoying the sunshine this week with lots of outdoor learning opportunities. We hope the sun continues to shine for our last few weeks of term.

We have been learning a new sound this week ‘ow’, and have been completing lots of different activities to help us learn how to use this sound to read and spell new words. One of the new skills we learned was how to complete a word search. It was great fun trying to find and read as many ‘ow’ words as possible.

We also have been writing some imaginative stories to go with our dragon pictures. We named our dragons and took him or her on different exciting adventures into magical forests and haunted houses!

Mrs Walker helped us to create a wonderful display outside our classroom to showcase our super work.

Our school value focus for this week has been Challenge! We have used our recognition board to display the children who have been ‘caught’ challenging themselves. A proud moment this week has been during the speed writing of our common words, a task which we do every morning. Some of the children took it upon themselves to not just write the word as we always do but to try to put it into a sentence. I am so proud of them all for always striving to improve!!

We hope you enjoyed a little snapshot of our learning this week.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

This week we have been very excited because our bean stalks have started to grow. There is lots of excitement around who is going to have the tallest beanstalk. We have even been measuring them so see who is in the lead with the tallest one so far!

In literacy this week, we have been exploring the well known fairy tale of ‘The Three little Pigs’. We had a go at writing the main events of the story in sequence. We have been using our own wow words and listening carefully to all the sounds in the words to help us spell them. We are becoming so much more confident at this skill with all the practise we are getting.

We have been working hard this week with the challenge of ‘We always try our best‘- meaning we never give up even if we find something a little tricky – we have been developing our resilience for learning and life! If a member of staff catches us trying our best (in anything we do!) our name gets added to the ‘Recognition Board’ – it has been very motivating for us to keep going and to focus on always doing the best we possibly can. We love counting how many post-it notes we have at the end of the day.

During one of our busy start session this week, we were working on spelling tricky words. The whole table had their names added to the recognition board for their super efforts in reading and spelling tricky words independently.

We have also taken part in a very exciting STEM challenge where we had to design and build a house for one of the three little pigs. We have been learning all about different types of materials and their properties so we used this learning to help us think about what we would like to use in our task.  We worked together as a team to try and create a house strong enough to withstand the huffs and puffs from the big bad wolf! We had lots of fun trying to figure out how to make our houses secure and stable. We definitely learned all about the phrase ‘Trial and Error!’

On Thursday afternoon, there was a strange noise coming from the classroom cupboard. Upon further investigation we discovered that there was a special package for us. The Friendly Dragon had heard about our amazing writing and left us some Castle Books so we could write and tell him about all the wonderful things we have been learning in class.

We very much enjoyed writing to the dragon to tell him what we have been doing.

We hope you enjoyed reading about a little of what we have been learning this week in Primary 1. We will see everyone back in school on Tuesday 25th May – enjoy the long weekend and hopefully some sunshine.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

 

 

 

Welcome to another week in Primary 1B!

We have been busy this week working on our Fairyland project for the the dragon. We have planted our own beanstalks in the hope they will grow big and tall. It has been great learning about all the requirements needed for a plant to grow. We have even added a ‘Botanist‘ to our classroom job chart, whose role is to ensure that we have watered our seedlings and made sure they have enough sunlight to continue growing.

 

Mrs Walker has also been busy using all of our wonderful mixed media creations to help construct a beanstalk for Jack! We think it looks fantastic……What do you think?

Alongside all of the wonderful creations we have been working on our literacy skills too.  We have written our own versions of Jack and the Beanstalk, we have been sequencing pictures and constructing our very own sentences. Have a look at some of our work, we are very proud of how much progress we all have made.

 

One of our main topics this week for Maths was investigating information handling and displaying different types of information. On Tuesday some very mysterious magic beans appeared in our class.  There were so many different colours and we had a big chat about our favourite colours and flavours. We decided to sort this information and constructed our own jelly bean bar graphs. It was very tempting to have a little nibble of some of the beans, Arianna was worried that a beanstalk might start growing in her tummy! I hope that doesn’t happen….

We watched the most amazing time lapse video of a bean plant and were fascinated by the size of the roots and how much they spread out into the soil in the search of nutrients. We were then a little disappointed that we would not be able to see the roots of our plants. Mrs Stevenson had the idea to plant more beans in a clear plastic zippy bag with some cotton wool in place of the soil. We have attached them to the windows for sunlight and added water so hopefully they will grow and we can observe clearly what happens.

We also took advantage of some of the (limited) sunshine this week to get outside for a bit of numeracy and movement. We drew our own larger than life number lines and took it in turns to shout out number stories. It was tricky deciding whether to jumps backwards or forwards depending on whether the story was adding or taking away.

In Health and Wellbeing this week we have been talking about relationships and our families. We had great fun playing a game where we had to go around the class and find members of our family, we were each given a card with different animals and the only way to find our family member was to make the noise of that animal. We think that Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Walker definitely had the most fun, seeing we played the game at least three times!

We then spent a bit of time talking about how all families are different and unique. We finished the session by saying why our families are so special to us. Here are some of the wonderful and heart warming reasons that came up in our discussions.

Kaleb – My family are special because they keep me out of danger.

Arianna – My family are special because they keep me safe.

Bryan – My family are special because they look after me.

Kellan – My family are special because they let me play.

We hope you enjoyed reading our blog this week.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

 

It’s been a super short week but we have managed to cram lots of fun learning into a short space of time. Here is a little snapshot of one of our learning experiences this week.

One of our learning highlights this week has taken from our focus on a new maths topic  ‘Measure’. We have been exploring all the different things we can measure both inside our classroom and outside in the natural environment. On Wednesday we took our learning outside to find natural resources as units for non standard measure. We had lots of fun experimenting with all the different things we found. Here are some pictures to explain further.

We were lucky enough to have Mrs Anderson teaching us some more yoga this week also. We focused our yoga on one of a favourite texts ‘The Wonky Donkey’. There was lots of stretching and breathing but also an awful lot of giggling!!

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

 

This has been an exciting week in Primary 1B.

A pleasant Surprise!

On Monday we had a very extraordinary occurrence! After lunch we returned to our classroom to find a very suspicious trail of sparkly green glitter.

We followed the glitter all the way to our library corner, only to find a very burnt and stained rolled up piece of paper. It was such a mystery. We didn’t know what to think. Some of us thought a fairy or a leprechaun had been in our room. Upon reading the letter we found out it was actually from a very sad dragon, who had lost his home ‘Fairy Land’.

We have decided to help this sad dragon and rebuild Fairy Land in our classroom. We wrote some letters to ask Mrs Stewart if that would be ok because it’s going to be quite a big change!!

      

 

One of the problems the dragon had was that nobody was reading any Fairy tales anymore. We thought we would help out by reading the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. We decided that Jack definitely needed a beanstalk so we have started to make one alongside some sparkly magic beans because we all know that is how the beanstalk started! We used all sorts of different materials like, paint, collage and crayons, putting our artistic skills to good use. Some of us even added little beasties to the leaves in black pen. We definitely think the dragon will be impressed.

 

Watch this space for our final result, we think that Jack will be very pleased that he can climb his beanstalk again.

Health and Wellbeing

We were also very lucky this week to have the opportunity to meet Mrs Anderson (who has been delivering online Yoga sessions to us) in person!! Lotus Learn Yoga (her fabulous company) visited our playground on a very sunny Wednesday morning. We took part in a fun, energetic and dramatic yoga session. It was lots of fun and we cannot wait until our next session!

Thank you for reading our blog. This is only a snapshot of our very busy a super packed week in Primary 1B. We are looking forward to a lovely long weekend and hope that the sun shines for us.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

We have had a wonderful and very busy first week back in Primary 1B. It has been lovely to see so many smiling faces and see so many of the children so eager to resume their learning.

Health and Wellbeing

We have begun to explore a new topic this term focusing on ‘Healthy Me’. We started by discussing what the word Healthy meant to us. We drew some pictures of us making our own healthy choices and wrote about what we do to keep our bodies healthy.

        

The children all had fantastic ways to suggest how to keep our bodies healthy. We are a healthy bunch in Primary 1B.

Kellan – Brush your teeth twice a day.

Leighton – You should eat bananas.

Reuben – You can eat lots of vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes and cauliflower.

Kaleb – We can keep our bodies clean by washing our faces and hands.

Cooper – We get fresh air and exercise.

We read a wonderful story about a very unhealthy wolf called Wilfred who managed to turn his life around to become fitter and healthier.

This story inspired us to pledge to make our own healthy choices. Here are some of our ideas…..

                     

Writing

This week in writing we had a go at writing a ‘recount’ piece of text. This is where we think of an event which has happened and we retell it in our own words. To begin with we kept it simple and wrote about ‘playing’. We talked about a time we had great fun playing and simply wrote about it. Have a look at some examples below, we are very proud of our hard word.

  

Numeracy

This week we have been working on our subtraction skills. Seeing the weather has been kind to us, we decided to take our learning outside to practise this skill. We had lots of fun making up our own subtraction number stories.

We hope that the sun continues to shine for us next week too. We hope you enjoyed reading our blog.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B