Happy New Year!

Primary 1 have had a great start to the the new year.  We listened to the story of ‘Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution’  and thought of our own resolutions.  We used different materials and loose parts to create a winter picture.  We developed our understanding of addition by using ten frames and numicon.  We used oil pastels and water resist paints to make a Snowflake picture.  We had the opportunity to use our creativity and problem solving skills to build different structures with the large wooden blocks.  We were very imaginative and worked really well as a team.

Primary 1 have had a very exciting week.  We presented our nativity to the school community at the Church on Tuesday evening and in the school on Wednesday afternoon.  We put on amazing performances, Mrs Taylor was very proud of us.  We went to the pantomine ‘Cinderella’ at Howden Park on Monday.  We had our Christmas lunch on Thursday, it was delicious!  On Friday we sold our keyrings at our Christmas Fayre.

Primary 1 have had a busy week.  We walked to the church to rehearse our nativity and we also presented to the school.  We were really confident and sang beautifully! We listened to the story ‘Stick Man’ and sequenced the story in the correct order and then wrote a super sentence.  We used a variety of materials to create our very own Stick Man.  We discussed how Stick Man felt at each part of the story.  We are continuing to develop our partitioning skills in maths and are able to describe how to partition numbers within 10.

We have been showing off our writing skills in Primary 1 this week.  We have a really good understanding of sentence structure and are able to apply these skills when writing our own sentence.  We listened to the story ‘Kipper’s Toybox’ and we sequenced the events in the story by creating a storymap.  We taught our buddies in Primary 7 the nativity songs and actions.  We have listened to lots of different stories this week to celebrate ‘Book Week Scotland’.

This week in Primary 1 we have been learning all about partitioning.  We have been outside collecting natural materials to partition and we have used the numicon playdough mats to show our understanding of whole/part-part models. We are developing our skills in ‘working together’, ‘problem solving’ and ‘communication’ and we have been discussing the jobs we could have in the future.  Our nativity practice is coming on really well and we are enjoying singing the songs and going into role.

This week in Primary 1 we have been learning all about Firework safety.  We have been creating firework pictures using playdough and loose parts.  In topic we have been designing pictures of toys, working collaboratively to build toys using building blocks, learning all about the world of work through setting up our own toy shop and investigating forces by playing with the cars and ramps. We are continuing to develop our roles in the nativity and have even tried on our costumes, we look great!

Primary 1 have had a great start to the Christmas term.  We have started our nativity and are very excited to perform it to the St Joseph’s community in December.  We are continuing to learn our sounds and are getting more confident segmenting and blending to read and write three letter words.  We have also been introduced to common words and are reading them in a sentence.  We used different materials to design a broomstick for the witch from ‘Room on a Broom’.  We made up a Witches potion using our knowledge of sounds. We looked amazing on Halloween when we dressed up! We had a reward afternoon which was lots of fun!

It’s been another busy week in Primary 1.  We have been continuing to learn our new sounds ‘d’ and ‘o’ and have been segmenting and blending to build three letter words.  We have been developing syllable blending skills with Mrs Aitken.  In maths we have been learning about the number 5.  We have been using the rekenreks and numicon to develop our understanding and learning number rhymes to help with our number formation.  We have been introduced to ‘Sid’ a cheeky monkey and ‘Shanarri’ a friendly spider to learn about how we can keep ourselves safe through stories of their adventures in the ‘Wellbeing Wood’.

Primary 1 have had a great week.  We went out to our playground with the Gardening Gang and harvested the apples and pears from our fruit trees.  We even got the opportunity to taste the apples, they were delicious! We have been creating a storymap of the story ‘Everywhere Bear’.  We had to sequence the events in the correct order.  In maths we have been learning the story of 4 and forming our numbers.  We have been using the numicon to build a castle and a city. We created an autumn tree using corks to print the leaves.  The buddies came to read us a story, we had lots of fun!

Primary 1 have had a great week.  We have been word building with the sounds ‘a’, ‘t’, ‘p’ and ‘n’.  Mrs Aitken from Murrayfield Language Centre came in to do a group activity using musical instruments. We had to listen to the sounds and decide whether they were the same or different, it was lots of fun! In maths we have been learning to form the numbers 1, 2 and 3 and we used the numicon to match numbers within 10.  In topic we are continuing our adventures with ‘Everywhere Bear’.  We have made our own playdough and created Everywhere Bears.  We have drawn detailed pictures of bears and have used the Beebots to follow a map of the school.