Our first full week in Primary One has been fun but tiring!  We have been learning lots of new things and everyone is settling in nicely to the new Primary One routines.  This week in our literacy we have been learning the sounds m, a and s.  We looked for these letters in the sand, we made them out of playdoh, practised forming them at the writing table and told teddy how to write them.

In our number work we have been learning the numbers 0-5 and we are becoming really good at counting forwards and backwards.  Next week we will move on to numbers to 10.

We have been learning about staying safe while crossing the road and talked about how to use a zebra crossing, an underpass and the Green Man to help us.  We have been using Go Safe With Ziggy, check it out at home using the following link: https://roadsafety.scot/learning/go-safe-with-ziggy/road-safety-awareness/.

We have settled in quickly to the lunchtime routines and many of us have been enjoying the school dinners and going out to play with our buddies.

Thanks to all the parents who have remembered to name their children’s belongings, it has made returning misplaced items so much easier.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

P1 have been thoroughly enjoying our first week of fitness fortnight. On Monday we took part in sports day and loved all the different activities. On Tuesday we went to boot camp in the morning and football in the afternoon. On Wednesday we enjoyed meeting our new teacher and playing playground games with P1b. On Thursday we had great fun at aerobics with Mrs Brown where we were doing lunges, squats, the Highland fling plus lots more. We also enjoyed a taster session of Judo. In literacy this week we have been revising the sounds and tricky words learned this year. In writing we wrote about what we are looking forward to in Primary 2. In numeracy and maths this week we have been revising giving change from 10p and playing mental maths games. We have also been learning about the names of our body parts and talking about families and how they are all unique. On Thursday we had our star of the week circle time and Coben is our star of the week. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Lois: “I enjoyed learning about families and how they are all different.”

Ch: “I enjoyed doing Judo.”

Leighton: “I enjoyed maths this week and giving change from 10p.”

Rory: “I also enjoyed Judo this week.”

Isaac: “I enjoyed winning the race at sports day.”

Ziva: “I enjoyed Judo as well.”

Sam: “I enjoyed Judo. I liked when we were being turtles.”

In Literacy this week P1 have learned the new sound ‘oa’ as in boat and the tricky word watch. We taught ted how to write oa words, played roll and read, wrote the oa sound and oa words and completed a worksheet all about oa. In writing we wrote about our magic moments from our year in Primary 1. There was quite a range from learning how to read to taking part in our nativity. In Maths this week we were continuing to learn about symmetry and created more symmetrical patterns. In Numeracy we practised our doubles and number bonds to 20 through playing games. We held our star of the week circle time and Ziva is our new star. On Wednesday we had our sharing assembly for challenging our mind set. The majority of the week was taken up with preparation for our assembly about the life cycle of a butterfly. We had great fun learning our lines and song. Miss Maclachlan is very proud of how quick we learned our lines and how confident we have all become. We hope you enjoyed our assembly and thank you for coming along. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Ch: “I enjoyed all of our assembly.”

Sam: “I enjoyed assembly. I loved singing the song even although kneeling hurt my knees.”

Ziva: “I enjoyed assembly and watching the Hungry Caterpillar.”

Ayden: “I found learning the new sound oa easy.”

Leighton: “I enjoyed being a caterpillar. I also enjoyed the sharing assembly on Wednesday.”

Lois: “I enjoyed having our parents watching our assembly and I thought my friends looked great.”

Euan: “I enjoyed all of our assembly on the life cycle of a butterfly.”

Isaac: “I enjoyed our assembly.”

Sevinc: “I enjoyed our assembly and saying my lines.”