A little reminder it is our Assembly next week, the 3rd of May.  Hope to see you all there! 🙂

We have been learning:

We wrote instructions on how to wash our hands – Anya

We have been learning our number names – Rachel

We were making times on a clock – Olly

We played a game to practise our counting in tens – Dean

We were making imaginative stories using story dice – Willow

We played toyshop (money) bingo – Patryk

Have a nice weekend from P2/1, Mrs Joyce and Miss Akram 🙂

We have had a busy week as always!

In Literacy we have been learning the sounds: z and g.  Ask us words/items beginning with these sounds! 🙂 To help us remember these sounds we created our own zebras and goats!

In Numeracy we have been learning to add and focusing on the concept of counting on.  We have been consolidating all the phrases associated with adding (count on, add on, jump on, add, more) and trying to keep “numbers in our head” and counting on.

We have been continuing with our Scotland focus in IDL.  We learned all about Scotland’s famous flower the Thistle, the Loch Ness Monster and Tartan.  We created our own tartan pattern by paper weaving!  This was tricky but none of us gave up!  We kept trying “like Ormie”.  (Ask us about Ormie…..you can even watch the little clip of Ormie on Youtube with your child! 🙂 )  In funky fingers we finger painted our very own Thistles and at our imagination station we created our own stories about Nessie!

Nativity practise has come to an end this week as we put on a dress Rehearsal of it for the whole school!  We hope to see you there on Wednesday.  We have worked so hard and want to show you our amazing singing! 🙂

Miss Akram and P2/1

Hi and welcome to P2/1’s first blog post!

Now that we have all our photo permissions you will be seeing us regularly! 🙂

We had a busy last week with Miss Akram and Miss Wyllie. Miss Wyllie was with us for 5 weeks but sadly she had to go back to university!  We will all miss her and appreciate all her hard work and input in teaching us! 🙂

We have been learning the sounds r and b this week.  We created buzzing bees and beautiful butterflies to help us remember the “b” sounds.  We created rabbits, roads and rainbows to help us with our “r” sound.  We have also been working hard on our blending so that we can read and write.  Ask us what strategy we use to blend!  Show us the words:

hat, bat and rat and see if we can show you our strategy to blend the sounds in these words to read 🙂

If your child is a P2 child show us the words: run, hop and bin 🙂

In Numeracy, we have been learning about addition and using the strategy of counting on to understand addition.  Show us a + sign and ask us what is called and what it means! 🙂

It was Road Safety week so we were learning how to cross a road safely and what the colours of a traffic light mean.

Thank you for the parents/carers who popped in to see us on Wednesday for the bookbug/Read, Write and Count bags launch and helped us design our own special robots!

Last week Miss Wyllie taught us Gaelic as we have been learning all about Scotland; ask us how to say Hello in Gaelic! 🙂

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Akram

Hi all,

It has been such a busy few weeks in Primary 1 that we haven’t had a chance to update you all with all the fun and learning we have had!

We have been looking at our sounds “igh” “oi” and “ou” and working on doing lots of blending to help us read and write.  The boys and girls have been working really hard on their blending and it is coming across in their reading and writing lessons! 😀

We have also been working on jumbled up sentences so we have an understanding on sentence structure and use our blending skills to read!

We have been looking at ensuring we are remembering our capital letters, full stops

and finger spaces a LOT the last few weeks as we are nearly Primary 2 so we should be really good at remembering them in our writing! We are having more fun with writing now because of our super “mighty writer” mat where we can create our own imaginative (silly/funny) stories!  We have had so many funny and silly stories over the last few weeks like dinosaurs flying on a plane and Aliens eating banana cake etc.  Using the mighty writer mat has improved our understanding of adjectives and verbs, along with our word boost!  The boys and girls are trying really hard to write WOW adjectives instead of words like happy, sad, big etc we have been using words like excited, hyper, upset, furious, massive etc.  They have been working really hard to remember adjectives are describing words and verbs are actions so if you can re-inforce this at home, that would be amazing! 😀 If you want to know what a mighty writer mat is follow this link – https://www.mightywriter.co.uk/

The Primary 1s LOVE it! Those children that once dreaded writing are now so engaged! 🙂

We have been doing lots of revision with our numbers.  Lot’s of number recognition, counting forwards and backwards,  number bonds, addition, subtraction, 1 more/1 less etc etc.  We also started looking at equal sharing this week and can share items equally between 2 people :).  In maths we have been looking at 2d and 3d shapes and revised money.  We hope to move on to Measure this week.

In topic we have been looking at our senses and enjoyed our trip to the Glasgow Science Centre a couple of weeks ago!

I think that is enough reading for one day for you lovely parents! 🙂 We have had a FABULOUS week which was topped with a SUPER FUN Sports day today!  The class earned their first whole class Head Teachers’ award because that is how awesome a week they have had! 😀

I will update you all next week!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Akram

We are learning about 2d and 3D shapes and were set a shape challenge.  We had to build a model from recycled materials such as cardboard tubes, cereal boxes etc but they had to include some of the 3D shapes that we had been learning about.   This was also an opportunity for the children to talk in front of the whole class and they were all confidently able to discuss their models.

Have a look at our fabulous models below! 😀

Looking forward to our trip tomorrow! 🙂 Hope you have had a lovely weekend and thanks again for coming to our Assembly last week!

Miss Akram 🙂

We have been learning our doubles in Numbers – Max

We have been learning our “igh” sound – Emily K

We have been looking at our money again  and what coins are what – Lucas W

We were learning to write our keywords – Hallie

We have been learning our new topic sense and started to learn about our eyes – Kiera

Our pupil is the black bit in our eye – Amy

Our coloured part is called the iris – Aaron R

Our eyes help us look and see – Olly

We were learning other words that mean big – Kieran

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

Miss Akram

We have been counting to 100 – Emily K

We were drawing and painting Charles Rennie McIntosh’s designs – Emily K

I was doing double sums – Alfie

We were looking at fact families – Emily Z

We were playing subtraction smash with play dough – Anya

We have been learning our “th” sound – Max

We had to find the right “th” word – Robyn

We have been reading lots – Lucas W

We have been counting in 5s – Aaron S

We have been trying harder to look after our school property – Hallie

We were cerebrating world book day today – Kiera

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Akram and P1 🙂

We have been learning about taking away – Emily Z

We made roses for mothers day – Max

We have been learning new sounds in Literacy like oa, wh, th – Amy and Kieran

We have been using our listening ears – Anya

We have been making sure we are tracking the speaker – Kiera

We have been making sure we sit nice when we are on the carpet – Aaron R

We need to make sure we are “Shining” – Hallie (You can ask the boys and girls what this means! :0) )

We had to write a letter why the pink crayon is important because the crayons quit! :O (“The day the crayons quit” book) and a letter to our glue sticks because they have ran away!!! :O – Kiera

We were painting our very own crayon – Robbie

We have been learning about looking after our class property better 🙁  – Emily Kyle

We have also been working on being kind and helpful and not being bossy! – Hallie

We have been using the dice to play a game in subtraction using Lego – Aaron S

You have to roll the dice and take that many lego off your tower – Robbie

Have a lovely weekend from P1 and Miss Akram 🙂

P.S. remember to check twitter regularly for our learning! 🙂

Good morning! Yet another snow day………….I hope you had a fun day in the snow yesterday! 🙂

Keep sending your photos on class dojo of all the fun and learning in the snow!   I seen these challenges (photos below) on twitter and thought maybe you and an adult would enjoy completing these.  They are for older boys and girls but I’m sure adults will enjoy these as much as the little ones! :D…..Every day is a school day!

Remember to share your photos on class dojo,

Miss Akram 🙂

Good Morning Primary 1

Snow day today! I hope you all have a fun day in the snow!  I have attached (below – “P1 snow learning”)  some winter fun learning activities that you can complete today whilst you are off.  You can do as many tasks as you like but I do look forward to either hearing or even seeing (upload any snow day pictures on to class dojo) what you did whilst you were off 🙂

Keep safe and warm today,

Miss Akram 🙂

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