This week the children have been learning the sounds ‘th’ and ‘w’. In numeracy we have been continuing with addition and subtraction within 10. P1 have also enjoyed taking part in the 12 Sways of Christmas challenges. So far they have designed Christmas crackers, carried out a survey of favourite class Christmas snacks and designed glasses suitable for a reindeer. The children have also been learning BSL Christmas songs. On Wednesday the children were out in the garden with Ms Wigham putting up bird feeders, just in time for the snow! The highlight of the week for us all was sitting around the campfire with Mrs Smith and toasting marshmallows to make s’mores, yum, yum!

Reflection Comments:

Oliver – I enjoyed designing reindeer glasses. My glasses have a walkie talkie and also a hood and decorations!

Georgia – I made reindeer glasses with a rainbow.

Lily – We have an elf in the classroom. It’s in a jar because of the virus. We are crossing off the days so it can come out!

Grace – We have an elf in the classroom. We are only allowed to let it out when we have crossed off all the days we have 10 days left.

Rhy-Lee – We made a fire and we put the marshmallows beside it. Then we put the marshmallow on biscuits.

Josh – We learned the ‘th’ sound you need a ‘t’ and a ‘h’!

Kade – We were guessing the reindeer’s name. I guessed Santa Claus!

Alexander – You can open the elf in 10 days!

Jack – We are learning the 12 days of Christmas. We are learning sign language!

Izaan – We went into the back garden. We put some bird things on the trees with bird food.

Ella – We learned sign language for jingle Bells!

12 Sways of Christmas

Feeding our Garden Birds

Campfire

This week in P1 our sound focus was v and y. The children have been busy word building and making sentences using words with y and v sounds. In numeracy the children have been exploring subtracting from 10.  The children enjoyed writing their sums using highlighters then checking the answers using an ultraviolet torch which we borrowed from Miss Greig! Our numbertalks focus is looking at the different number patterns we see in dot patterns.  P1 have been learning to sign The 12 days of Christmas using BSL. They are all very good at it and have managed to learn all the way to five gold rings!

Reflection Comments:

Olivia – We are making stockings. Today I was stitching the sparkly bit onto the stocking.

Jessica – We are learning sign language. You need to be very careful or you might forget one of the signs.

Grace – For Freewriting Friday I drew a Christmas tree!

Jack – I liked playing in the garden, we are building a place to hide penguins.

Kade – We made monkeys for our emotion tree. We put the monkeys on it.  If you are happy you go at the top if you are sad you go at the bottom. My monkey is up, I am happy!

Rhy-Lee – We learned the ‘v’ sound, you go down the line and up the line. Van has the ‘v’ sound.

Kyra – I liked colouring in the monkeys too. We put them on the emotion tree. It shows if we feel happy or sad. My monkey is on a high branch because I am happy.

Weronika – We learned the ‘y’ sound!

Louis – We learned the ‘v’ sound!

Scottish Book Week 

In P1 this week the children have been busy drawing all their favourite books. We used these to turn our classroom door into a bookshelf! The children enjoyed receiving their own P1 bookbug bag from the Scottish Book Trust!

Outdoor Learning

During outdoor learning, the children collected five interesting things for their story bags. Once we had selected the best five interesting things we sat on mats in a circle. Then we shared stories using our interesting finds as characters and settings!

Magic Pencil from P7

P7 surprised us with a magic pencil this week. They made a sway telling us about John Muir and his love for nature. They also told us how we can plant our magic pencils when they are small. They will grow into tomato plants. P1 love tomatoes so we are busy writing so we can plant our magic pencils in the spring!

Reflection Comments:

Josh  – We learned the ‘j’ sound, you go down and curl then a dot. My name begins with the ‘j’ sound.

Ella – We learned the ‘r’ sound. Rug and run have the ‘r’ sound at the start.

Rhy-Lee – In numbertalks we had to questions for the number 10. I did 8 and 2 makes 10.

Oliver – We made shelves on our door. We put books on it that we drew on the front.

Grace – In the woods this week we were telling stories. We had to collect five things when we were walking. We used them to tell stories. I collected some leaves and a stick.

Izaan – We were sewing a stocking we put a bell on in the middle.

Alexander – We were learning numbers in French.

Jessica – P7 gave us a magic pencil because it can grow into a tomato plant.

This week in P1 we have been learning the digraph sounds ck and sh. A digraph is when two sounds go together to make a new sound! For hold a sentence this week the children successfully used their learned sounds to write a sentence using punctuation and finger spaces. For numeracy, we have been using a ten frame to count on, add two sets to make 10. For number talks, we started with the answer and had to think of lots of different questions. We found lots of different questions which give the answer 7, 5+2, 10-3, 11-4, 4+3, 6+1, and 14-7. For PE this week the children enjoyed learning to play the game port/starboard in the playground.  We also started to learn a dance called The Sid, it was quite a challenge to remember all the steps in the right order!

We took all the red poppy stones that we have been painting over to the church on Remembrance day. We laid them out to make a big poppy.  When we got back to school we watched a video all about why we wear poppies in November.

The children have been enterprising little elves this week. They have learned to sew a running stitch and have made a great start sewing Christmas decorations.

Something mysterious happened in P1 this week. We came back from lunch yesterday to find strange footprints leading up to an egg! The children have lots of different ideas as to whom or what made the prints and left the egg. It could be a dinosaur, the Easter bunny, a monster, a werewolf or a cat! So to begin with we might find out what hatches from an egg!

Oliver –  There is a mysterious egg in our classroom!

Grace – There is a mysterious egg left in our class. There were footprints and an egg. The footprints look a bit like swan or penguin footprints.

Josh – We were learning to count to 10 in French. I can count up to 30 in French!

Izaan – We are learning to sew. We are making a stocking. It was tricky to pull the needle. I sewed the heart on!

Georgia – We sewed a love heart on our stocking.

Caleb – We learned the sh sound, s and h make the sh sound!

Oliver – we were learning the sound ‘l’. To write ‘l’ you start at the top and go down the leg!

Grace – we learned the ‘h’ sound. You go down the horse and round the back to its hooves!

Rhy-lee – we were sorting buttons different ways. We sorted them by colour, shapes, holes in the middle and matching pairs.

Jessica – we did number talk for 5. You can have 10 and take 5 away to make 5. We found lots of different ways.

Josh – 3 and 2 make 5!

Elyas – We did a number talk about 4. I did 2 and 2 make 4!

Josh – 200 take away 196 makes 4!

This week in P1 the children have been exploring the properties of 3D shapes. They have been busy hunting, building, printing, describing and sorting them. Our focused sounds this week were f and e. The children enjoyed playing a matching game reading CVC words and some were reading sentences and matching them to the correct picture. P1 had lots of Hallowe’en fun today,  it was great to see all the children in their super-spooky costumes!

Oliver – We learned the ‘f’ sound. It’s a pink sound because it’s a soft sound, fat has the ‘f’ sound.

Georgia – A triangular prism is a tent shape!

Grace – We learned the ‘e’ sound. We were doing tell Ted, we had to say how we write the ‘e’ sound.

Josh – I liked today it’s a fun day we are all dressed up, I am Harry Potter!

Olivia – I sounded out the sentences and matched them to the picture.