Category: Primary 1

Learning inP2/1

This week has been Scots Week at East Calder. P2/1 have enjoyed listening to stories about Katie Morag. We were really surprised and excited to receive a letter from her! She was asking us to design a new tartan skirt. Her one had been ruined when she was trying to deliver the mail. We used our fine motor skills to use a ruler and created these fantastic tartans.
In music we’ve been learning to keep a steady beat by clapping and dancing along to Scottish music. This is our favourite song:

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rhymes/katie-bairdie-audio

We did a brilliant job of reciting our poems in Scots and are really looking forward to hearing all the winners at our Scots school assembly next Friday.

(Article 28: We have the right to learn. Article 29: We have the right to develop our skills and abilities.)

 

Primary 1

Primary 1 have had fun during Scots Week.  We have read lots of stories in Scots, enjoyed different activities and loved hearing everyone say their chosen poem.

At the assembly tomorrow P1b are excited to present what they’ve been learning about.  They had great fun doing Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes’ and singing ‘Three Craws’.

Primary 1 have also decided what the class role play area should be and are busy making an opticians in P1a and a shop  in P1b.

Please remember to return reading books on a Thursday so they can be read by others the following week.

Primary 1

It has been a very exciting week in school!

We loved the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk and took part in lots of activities in class.  We even built our own beanstalk!

We have been busy practising our Nativity and trying on our costumes too!

Our new sound this week was ‘w’ and we have been learning to copy patterns, play pattern games and have started  making our  own patterns.

On Monday please return all reading books and book bags.  Also please send in clothes as requested for the nativity.

Many thanks

Christmas has arrived in The Hive!

The children (and staff!!) have been getting ready for Christmas.  Mr Fazakerley made an amazing Christmas tree for the Hive which the children helped to decorate.

We have also designed our own Christmas jumpers whilst wearing our Christmas jumpers! We wrote letters to Santa and made Christmas pictures using different 2d shape. Super learning and fun!

 

Learning in P2/1

We have been learning about money and have had a great time playing in our class shop. We are beginning to recognise different coins and starting to add coins together. We also love to play the ‘topmarks toy shop’ game in the iPads.

 We have been extending our vocabulary during our learning about the weather. We learned the words ‘condensation’, ‘evaporation’ and ‘precipitation’. We played one of our favourite games in class (corners) to help us remember the different words.

 

Primary 1

This week Primary 1 have been very busy learning about measure.  We used a balance scale and have been using the words heavier and lighter to describe the objects we weighed.  We then estimated what we thought some classroom items might weigh then recorded how many cubes it took to make the scale balance.  We used measuring cups to make reindeer food to sell tomorrow at the Christmas Fayre.

In Literacy we have been learning the new sound ‘j’.  Some of us have been identifying and writing beginning sounds and others have been writing small words; stretching out the words to write the beginning, ending and middle sound.

We have started going onto the stage to practise our nativity and were very excited when the tickets went home!

We have always been discussing how to stay safe near roads and have learnt Super Cat’s rules; Stop! Look both ways.  Listen.  Think!

Book Week Primary 1

What a busy Book Week Primary 1 have had!  It was great to meet so many parents in the library on Monday and receive Book Bags.  In class we have read each story and made bats, our own sea creature book and chosen clothes to dress for different weathers.

We were also surprised 3 times with secret readers and loved the stories.  We had a bookmark competition in class and are waiting to hear who our winners are.

Please remember to return reading books on Thursdays to ensure everyone can take one home the following week.

Book Week in P2/1

P2/1 have had a super Book Week. We’ve really enjoyed receiving our Bookbug bags (in P1) and our Read Write and Count bags (in P2). We were excited to have our parents and carers join us the school library! We loved hearing Mrs Robertson read us a story (and we also loved the juice and biscuits).
‘Scaredy Bat’ by Jonathan Meres inspired us to make our own bats. We like how they hang upside down on our washing line.

‘The Perfect Fit’ by Naomi Jones has lots of  different 2d shapes. We made 2d shape pictures with our partners.


We had lots of fun meeting our ‘secret readers’! Thank you so much to the parents who came into our class and read to us. We loved listening to some of our favourite stories and some new ones too.

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