This week in P1 we have been working on developing our writing skills. We are really trying to challenge ourselves by using a sentence opener to describe when our stories took place, a joining word to join together two sentences and for some of us, extending our stories by writing an extra sentence. It is hard work and some of us fall in to the learning pit but having a positive mind-set to look for a solution, really helps us achieve good results.

We learned the sound ‘nk’ this week and made ‘nk’ words out of plasticine. We have also been working on sorting pictures to show the sound that they begin with as well as our blending and reading skills.

We have been looking at the different ways to make 9 using numicon and other concrete materials in numeracy.  Mrs Mackie thought she was being sneaky when she added some extra number bonds to different numbers in our tasks but she didn’t fool us and we managed to solve the problems!

A big thank you to Caitlin, Eva and Logan who volunteered to help out at the ‘Numeracy Biscuit and Blether’ this morning.  You did a great job telling the adults who came along how we use numicon in the classroom to help us.

We are still learning about money in Maths.  It’s quite tricky but we are beginning to recognise the different coins and add up their amounts to buy stuff.  We have been playing a super game on the internet to help us.

Use the link below to play the game at home:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

The snow and freezing cold weather didn’t stop us from keeping fit and healthy this week.  We couldn’t get outside for PE so we made sure that we worked out in the classroom.  It was hard work keeping up with the entire workout and we had nice rosy cheeks (and sweaty foreheads) afterwards!

Have a good weekend everyone!

P1 and Mrs Mackie

P1 were working hard on developing their story writing today.

Some of the children were challenged to produce a piece of writing that had a different beginning than just ‘I’ and the word ‘and’ to join two sentences.

They all tried very hard but two children in particular produced an amazing piece of work each.

Take a look at their work below.   You will both be presented with a Head Teacher’s award at assembly in the morning for your hard work, effort and for achieving the success criteria!

Well done  Riley and Ally!

What a busy week we have had in P1 with so much learning going on.

In Literacy we worked on the ‘ee’ sound.  We played snap ‘ee’ game, filled in missing letters to make ‘ee’ words, made words out of play-dough, sorted different sounds on the computer and even made our own sheep!

In our Numeracy tasks we were looking at different ways to make 5 using concrete materials and doing lots of counting of Christmas baubles, ladybird spots and even cars. In Maths we continued to learn about weight and used the pan scales to see which objects were heaviest.  We also learned about symmetry.

And of course, this week we performed in our Nativity, The Sleepy Shepherd.  It went really well and Mrs Mackie was so proud of us for learning so much in such a short time.

Next week, we will have our Christmas party on the afternoon of WEDNESDAY 19^th.  We can come to school in our party clothes or bring them in a labelled carrier bag and get changed after lunch.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Not long to go now!

Ho, ho, ho!

What a week we have had in P1 with lots of learning going on.

In Maths, we learned about capacity and helped Will the Wizard organise his potions in order from empty to half full and full.  Then we had to order his other potions in order from the least amount to the most amount.

We reinforced our learning by experimenting in the sand area, filling up different containers and talking confidently about whether they were empty or full or half full.

In Numeracy we have been continuing to ‘count on’.  The strategy we use for this is to put the ‘big’ number in our heads and use our fingers or other materials to help us add.  We have been using the computers to help reinforce this.

In our Plan, Play & Review groups we chose to find 2D shapes in the playground.  We found lots of different shapes and could name them.

We made colourful Christmas trees using strips of paper which we had to measure starting with the shortest to the longest piece.

We learned the sounds ‘l’ and ‘r’ in Literacy this week.  We wrote them in our jotters, on coloured paper with pens, pencils, chalks and crayons and in sand.  We also used cubes to build the sounds. We looked for the sounds in books, leaflets and magazines.

We had a surprise PE lesson with Mrs Logan on Tuesday.  She really made us work hard in our groups but it was great fun.

On Wednesday we had our Christmas lunch.  Ms Macrae rang a bell and we all walked along the corridor singing ‘Jingle Bells’.  The lunch was delicious and we enjoyed sitting together as a class to eat our lunch.  Mrs Mackie even had lunch with us!

We had our dress rehearsal for our nativity today in front of the other boys and girls.  It was good to perform in front of an audience and now we can’t wait until we get to perform for our families next week.  We haven’t included any photographs of our rehearsal as it is a surprise for Wednesday!

Enjoy the weekend everyone!

Just a reminder that tickets for the

P1 & P2 Nativity and P3 Christmas Songs show,

on Wednesday 12^th December,

are on sale in the school office.

Get your tickets before they sell out!

It has been a busy week in P1 again!

In Literacy,  we have been revising all of our sounds and using different activities to help us remember them.

We have been writing in sand and writing using different pens, pencils, crayons and chalks.

We have been looking for our sounds in books in our reading corner

In numeracy we have been working on careful counting skills.  We learned that it helps if we touch and move the objects we are counting or score them out (if they are on a worksheet) it stops us from counting them twice.  This is a good strategy to use!

We have been working on ‘counting on’ to help us with our addition skills.  We have to try and remember to put the big number in our heads before counting on the other numbers.

We have been using the laptops to play numeracy games to help reinforce our learning.

Mrs Mackie was pleased to hear that one of our class members has been working on his numeracy skills at home using the number activity pack that was in his Bookbug bag!  Well done A-Jay!

We have also been busy making our Christmas items which will be on sale at the Christmas Fayre on Wednesday 5^th December.

Our Nativity show is approaching soon.  Please remember to get your tickets from the school office as soon as you can as they are selling out fast!

Please remember that we will be having outdoor PE/outdoor learning even if it is cold or wet (unless it is not safe for us to be out) so please help us to wrap up warmly each day.

Have a good weekend.

P1

It has been another busy week in P1 with lots of learning going on.

This week we learned the sound ‘x’.  One of our tasks was to look in a dictionary to see what ‘x’ words we could find.  There weren’t many but we were still able to find the ‘x’ sound.

We have been doing lots of reinforcement of counting skills and adding using ‘counting on’ in our numeracy sessions.

On Wednesday we invited our parents along to the class to listen to one of the stories from our Bookbug Bags.  It was all about a little Robot called Benny and his emergency button!  Ask us about the story and we can tell you about the story. A big thank you to all the grown ups who came along to hear the story with us.

As part of Road Safety Week, we learned  about Road Safety on Thursday. We played games with Miss Kerfoot to help us learn about keeping ourselves safe . We used our cutting skills to make our own traffic lights and can talk about what the different colours mean to drivers on the road.  We can tell you about safe places to cross the road and how we cross a road safely.  We can demonstrate how to cross a road safely when out and about in our community.

Miss Kerfoot, who has been with us for the past 5 weeks has gone back to University.  We have enjoyed having her help us learn new things in our classroom and will miss her.  Good luck on your adventure Miss Kerfoot!

Remember to get your Nativity tickets next week from the school office next week.  There should be an order form in our school bags!

Have a good weekend!