Primary 1

Primary 1 – Maths Week

It’s been Maths Week and Primary 1 were lucky to have 2 visitors in class to talk about how they use numbers in their jobs.

We also took part in a different outdoor numeracy activity every afternoon. We made paper plate pictures and counted or ordered all the items we found and used to make our pictures. We had lots of balls to count! We had to try different strategies because it was difficult to count so many and they kept moving! We had a number trail, to count and show numbers in a ten frame. We even tried to count bubbles.

It was great to meet and talk to so many parents this week. Seesaw activities have now started with a revision of our first set of phonics, enjoy! New activities will be added on Mondays (unless it’s a holiday).

Learning in P2/1

This week has been maths week.

P2/1 were lucky to have three visitors!
Abby’s Mum is the owner of Abby J cakes and she told us how she uses maths in her job.
We had great fun learning about using money to buy the ingredients to make a cake, counting the ingredients into the bowl, turning the oven on, and lastly, making sure we shared the cake equally with all our friends! We came up with some fantastic flavours too!

Nola’s Mum worked as an environmental scientist. She told us all about ‘data’ and the numbers she looked at to make sure the water was clean. We loved her diagram to show how it worked and used our mental maths to see if our water would pass the test! If our number was too big, then the water wasn’t clean enough. We had good fun playing the game.

Norma visited us from the library. She told us how she used numbers in her work-spending money for the library and telling the time. We loved the story she read to us too.

We have had lots of fun learning maths outside. We learned about counting items and showing the numbers in different ways. Our favourite was the maths trail. We worked with partners to find the clues.

Maths Week in The Hive

We have enjoyed learning new Maths and Numeracy skills in a variety of ways during Maths Week! Some of the activities we did are :

Making 2d shapes using our geoboards and describing each shapes properties.

Using 3d shapes to make a rocket.

Making shapes using sticks in the woods.

Counting each bubble as we pop them.

Counting in 2’s, 5’s or 10’s as we pop each bubble.

Using jigsaw puzzles and Smartboard games to learn about shape and numbers.

Learning in P2/1

In P2/1 we’ve been learning about the artist Etel Annan. Etel grew up learning lots of languages. She created ‘leporellos’ which are small folded books showing pictures, poems or words that she loved. We created our own ‘leporellos’ in art. We used paint,pencil and pen.

It has been a busy few days in Primary 1. We continue to learn our phonics and have now completed the first set (s, a, t, i, p, n). We have been finding objects that begin with these sounds, playing ‘I hear, with my little ear’.

We continue to work with numbers to 10 and have been finding missing numbers on a number track.

We have also been able to meet with our Buddies, play in the classroom and enjoy stories in the school library.

P1

This week in Literacy, we have been learning to recognise our new sounds ‘t’ and ‘i’ and form our letters correctly. We have also been playing some listening games to practise the four good listening skills, and have enjoyed meeting and sharing stories with our buddies in the library.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have thought about healthy eating and designed our favourite meal, and we have also been discussing what makes a good friend.

In Numeracy, we have been trying to look for numbers all around us. It’s amazing how many we found at school! How many can you spot around your home , at the shops or in the street?

Numeracy and Maths in The Hive

The Hive children are all settled back into school life and our new children are getting used to the routines. We have been working hard to practise old and learn new concepts in Numeracy and Maths. Some of the children were learning about place value and addition of 2 digit numbers. We were also looking at different ways to make 20. Some of our children were working with patterns and shape.

Primary One PE

The primary one pupils have made an excellent start to PE by learning all the gym hall routines and safety rules. They have also been developing their catching, bouncing, running, dribbling, jumping and skipping. All of the children have enjoyed learning the ‘banana dance’ warm up. They might even be able to teach it to you at home!

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be exploring passing, throwing and rolling balls at targets.

Mr. Millar

P1 Starting School

Primary 1 have had a super start to school this week. They have been settling in well, learning all of our routines, and making new friends. We worked hard in the gym with Mr Miller, and our gym days this term will be Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Mrs Robertson came to class on Thursday. We listened to a story and pretended to be tigers. We had our first assembly today and watched it on the Smartboard.

Please bring a water bottle to class every day and remember your morning snack. Many thanks.

Looking forward to seeing you on Monday for another busy week.

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