Maths

This week we have been learning how to subtract an amount from a group and then counting what is left to find the answer.

Scotland Focus

We started our Scotland topic by having a discussion about what we already know about Scotland. Here are the children’s responses:

Caleb – I live in Scotland

Andrew – The American president is Scottish and he is not a real president

Maizy – Scotland is a very cold place

Nathan – Scotland is a country

Andrew – I am a lucky boy because I was born and live in Scotland

Highlights of the week

Andrew – being a news reader, I was asking a person who saw Nessie questions

Emma – I learned about Nessie

Aakruti – we made a play dough Nessie

Maizy – Learning about subtraction, it’s when you take away

Maddie – the take away sign means subtraction

Sophia – Nessie lives in Loch Ness

Holly – I like doing word building, rock and sock rhyme, they end with special friend ck

Ms King – My highlight was noticing how much the children have grown over the two week holiday, not just in height but in their attitude towards learning.

Happy New Year to all, I hope you had a lovely rest over the festive holidays and are ready for a very busy term!

Ms King x

Nativity

Well done to all of the children from P1 & P2 who successfully performed their Wriggly Nativity, not once, not twice, but three times this week. You are all stars!

Paper Chains

The children have been busy decorating the classroom with number bond paper chains.

Christmas Feast

On Wednesday the children all enjoyed a very festive Christmas lunch. They had sparkly decorated tables, Christmas music and to top it all off Santa and the Elves were busy serving in the kitchen!

Nativity

During our learning reflection discussion, the children wanted to discuss what they have been enjoying about the Nativity rehearsals, here are their comments:

Holly – going on stage

Arya – playing the instruments, I play the bell for Twinkling Stars and Angels song

Nathan – I like doing the actions on stage

Caleb – speaking on stage, we’re watching our sheep, I am a shepherd

Poppy – I like Donkey Plodding and it’s fun when we fly on stage

Aakruti – I like to bow on the stage

Emma  – I ride all the way to Bethlehem because I am a wise person

Literacy

For writing this week the children designed posters to advertise their Nativity, these were hung around the school. The children all met the success criteria by creating posters with a bright picture, title, date, time and location. Well done P1 and good luck with the show!

Update for week ending 1.12.17

Enterprise

Your children have been very busy learning to sew running stitch this week and have made Christmas stockings to sell at the fair. I am sure you will agree they look fantastic.

Scottish Book Week

During Scottish Book week the children enjoyed bringing in and sharing books from home during story time. We all helped to decorate our class door with our favourite book ‘Fox in Socks’ by Dr. Seuss. The children all designed their own patterned socks to add to the display, I think they look great. The highlight of the week was each child receiving a Bookbug P1 family bag of books from the Scottish Book Trust.

Junior Road Safety Officers

The JRSO pupils came to talk to our class this week and they spoke to the whole school at assembly today.  They reminded us of the green cross code and the importance of being bright and being seen during the dark winter months.  Below are some comments the pupils made during our learning highlights conversation.

Aakruti – when the red light comes the cars need to stop

John – you press the button and wait for the green man

Nathan – when you cross the road you have got to hold a grown-up’s hand

Arya – when the green man is green you have to hold an adults hand and walk across the crossing.

Emma – car drivers can drive too fast they need to slow down

Big Maths

Arya – I like the learn its music

Holly – I liked learning double 1 and double 2

Sophia – I am learning double 3

Nathan – I like making numbers to ten

Hall decorations

We have been very busy this week making Christmas displays for the hall.  P1 have been developing their fine motor skills using scissors to snip and cut out paper hands, snowflakes and poinsettias. Although challenging P1 persevered and as a result, their cutting skills have developed further and they have created lovely festive displays.

Aakruti  – we made snowflakes you fold it into a triangle

Holly – you need to keep on folding it into a triangle 1 2 3 times. You cut shapes on it, you unfold it then you have a snowflake

Arya – we drew our hand and followed the line of our hand and cut the space between our finger to make a hand

Christmas Enterprise

The pupils have been developing their fine motor skills further this week by learning to sew running stitch. We are hoping to get our stockings finished in time for the Christmas fair.

Ten Frame

We had a conversation reflecting on our learning highlights this week. To begin with, the children were keen to discuss what they found out about using a ten frame.

Aakruti – using the ten square and counting different ways, I made different ways to make nine and eight we did four at the top and five at the bottom. Then for eight, four at the top and four at the bottom then six at the top and two at the bottom.

Sophia – I made five by adding two and three then three add two

Maddie –  and four add one

Nathan – five and five make ten and nine add one equals ten, and eight and two equals ten

Book Buddies

We also enjoyed a visit from our P4 Book Buddies this week.

Jamie – Some bits were funny.

Poppy – I like to read with my buddy.

Emma – Owen is kind to me and he read me a story with 3 little pigs.

P1 are enjoying taking home story sacks to read and explore with their families. Story sacks cost 50p and are handed out on a Tuesday and returned the following Monday.