Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you are having a nice day. I have a little art activity for you that I saw online and thought was nice.

Remember when we explored the visual elements in class? We talked a lot about the one called LINE. We experimented with different types of lines – wavy, straight, vertical, horizontal, broken, thick, narrow, etc.

This art activity is based on using straight lines, both vertical and horizontal, to create a tartan background; a bit like we did in Scottish Week.

Here is my tartan background – I used five colours. Can you spot all the patterns? Patterns are important when you create a tartan.

Next, we draw and colour the outline of any shape that reminds you of Scotland. I drew a thistle. Do you know why I chose this flower? Stick your drawing on top of your tartan background and HEY PRESTO, you have a lovely Scottish piece of artwork!

You could choose a different picture – like somebody doing some Scottish dancing, a stag, a highland cow, a squirrel, a Scottie dog, or something else that you think of.

Last night I was playing my violin for the first time in a while and I thought I would play a Scottish song for you to link in with our Scottish art. I hope you like it. It is called The Rowan Tree. You might have to plug your headphones in because the volume is not very high.

Take care everybody and have a great afternoon. We miss you all very much and love hearing from you. Remember to check out our school twitter tomorrow to see photos of all the fantastic work and play children in our school have been getting up to!

From your P1 Teachers!

Good morning everyone. I hope you had a nice afternoon and evening.

With the weather not being quite as nice at the moment, why not try some exercises indoors. Why not work with a grown up to make up your own set of challenges. Choose 6 activities, write them on a piece of paper, roll a dice and that will choose what exercise you do.

What will you put into your challenge? Can you make up any of your own new moves?

Or why not make up a dance routine to one of your favourite songs? Have a go at this dance routine to help inspire you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfkYzUwYFk

I have been busy at home with my boys. Like all of you, they have been busy doing lots of activities. My boys and I love to draw and do craft activities so we decided to make an egg carton into some flowers.

If you have an egg box that is being thrown out, why not make some flowers too. Decorate them with nice bright colours. Pens, crayons or paint work best.

My boys actually delivered them to their Grandma’s doorstep to cheer her up.

Lastly, thank you for the messages and pictures you have sent. It is so nice seeing everything you are doing and seeing how hard you are all working.  Although it is hard not seeing your smiling faces each day, you are making us all very proud.

Again, if you have any questions, please get in touch.

Keep up the fantastic work! Have a lovely day!

The Primary one Teachers 

Good afternoon boys and girls,

I hope you are all having a lovely day so far. During this time at home we have to make sure that we keep our bodies and minds active. I have been trying to do Joe Wicks most days with my big boy and girl if I can’t get outside. I have put the link below if you want to try it.

A good way to relax is with Cosmic Kids Zen Den. This one talks about all our different feelings and emotions that we have.

I wonder if you can show emotions using your face and ask an adult to guess what it is- you do this in drama with Mrs Chisholm.

To finish off today I thought I would share a collage I made of my family keeping active . We have even managed to find some rope swings and Roxy, our dog, had a swim to cool down in a local river.

Keep safe Primary 1 we are missing your smiling faces.

All the P1 teachers.

Good morning!

I hope you are all well this morning.

These lovely yellow roses are brightening up my day!

Remember – please send a message to say “Hello!” That would also brighten up my day!

Mrs Webster

Good morning everyone!

I hope you have had a nice start to the week. We have been hearing from lots of you all about the great things you are doing at home. Please keep sending us emails and photos and comments – we love hearing from you.

Today, or at some point when you have time, I would love it if you could do a wee activity with a grown up that I hope will remind you of how special you are.

All you have to do is look at the sheet here (I am AMAZING) and ask a grown up to read the start of each sentence to you. Your job is to tell them (or just think about it inside your head) how you could finish the sentence. You don’t need to print it or write anything down, it is just a nice chance to reflect on how unique and wonderful you all are.

We are so proud of you all; for all your super learning but also, and especially, for all the lovely things we hear that you have been doing, like helping around the house, playing with your brothers and sisters, being kind and making your families smile. You are all wonderful, never forget it!

I found a list of LOTS of fun things to do indoors for the days when the weather isn’t as nice as it has been lately – I will leave the link to it here (Fun Indoor Activities) for you to have a look at. You can try some of these if you want, but remember that you don’t have to. You might have already thought of some even better ideas yourself!

Please feel free to get in contact with us if you need help with anything at all – we are here to support you however we can.

Take care and have a lovely day,

Your P1 Teachers

Salut P1,

This afternoon I thought we could practise some of the French we have learned this year with our French teacher and in class. Let’s watch our French Greetings song and sing together to get us warmed up.

Bennie says SALUT everybody! Can you remember what that means?

Silly Bennie has forgotten to colour in the French flag – can you help him? What colours should he have used?

Memory Challenge!

Can you think back to what you have learned in school? See if you can tell a grown up how to say these common greetings in French. I bet they will help you look them up online if you have forgotten any.

Hi!     Good morning/day!     Good afternoon/evening!     Good night!     Good bye!     See you soon!

Check Bennie’s picture to see if you were right:

Here is a short video to help you with the pronunciation.

Did you spot a tall landmark on the laptop in the first picture? It is very famous. Here is a little information about it:

Perhaps you could research some other famous landmarks in France. If you get stuck, I have attached a PowerPoint all about France that might give you some hints!

All About France PowerPoint

Let us know in the comments how you got on if you tried this activity or if you found out anything new about somewhere nice in France.

Take care and have a lovely afternoon and evening,

Au revoir!

Your P1 Teachers

Good morning Primary 1 and Primary 2/1

Have you ever wanted to be in a band?

I wonder what instrument you would choose to play?

There is one thing you have to be good at in a band and that is keeping a steady beat and I know how well you can do that. Just to make sure I hope you are all ready to keep the beat with me using a new resource!Click on the link and find a song called Be in the Band! Next, find an instrument or something safe to tap or simply use your hands to clap or other parts of your body to keep the beat. I hope you have fun!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/bring-the-noise?exitGameUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.co.uk%2Fteach%2Fbring-the-noise%2Feyfs-ks1-music-play-it-bring-the-noise%2Fz4sq92p

I would love to see a picture of you playing your favourite instrument in your band or try this colouring sheet.

be_in_the_band_colouring

Hello Primary 1,

What beautiful weather we had at the weekend. Hopefully you all managed to get out in it for a while and had a nice weekend.

I hope you have had a good day so far.

Here are a few activities you can try.

Why not try math drop. You need a piece of paper, pencil and some coins. Draw circles on the paper and write numbers in the sections.  Drop the coins onto the paper (be gentle, you don’t want too many run away coins), then add up the numbers.

If that is too easy use three coins or make the numbers bigger.

Or give scribble art a go.

Draw a scribble on a piece of paper and see what you can turn it into, or swap scribbles with someone in your family and see what you both come up with.

A lovely activity you could do is the John Lewis Teddy Bear design competition.  #designyoursuperbear

https://www.johnlewis.com/content/your-partners-through-it-all/feel-good-friday

JL-DesignYourSuperBear-Templatepdf

Hope you have a lovely afternoon and evening.

From the Primary one teachers

Good morning, everyone!

Welcome to the start of a new week.  It`s another sunny day!

I am really enjoying finding out about all the lovely activities you have been doing! Did you see our Celebrating Success SWAY? Please keep in touch!