Hi all,
on Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th of November we are holding a stay and read session in our classes for our Primary one children and their parents/carers. 🙂
We are inviting you in to our class at 2.30pm.
You can come along to either one of these sessions or both if you can :). It will be different books read to the children on both days.
This is a great opportunity to come in and see the great learning that takes place in our class as well as helping your child with an art/craft based on the book we read that day.
Thank you,
Miss Akram and Mrs Mackie

[UNCRC article 3: Adults must do what is best for me.

UNCRC article 28:  I have the right to an education.

UNCRC article 29: I have the right to an education which develops my personality, respect for others’ rights and the environment.]

Yet another busy week in Primary 1.  We have been looking at number bonds of 6 and 7 in Numeracy.  In Literacy we revised all our sounds and looked at how we can use words to create a sentence.  We listened out for beginning and end sounds in words, and some of us even managed to listen for the correct words out of two choices.  We are focusing on listening and attention at all times in Primary 1.  Ask us what makes a good listener! 🙂

We did lot’s of writing this week! We wrote a letter asking the government to save the habitats of bears and not cut trees.

On Tuesday we ventured out in to the community again and went looking for leaves again.  However, the main reason we went out in to the local area was to pick up rubbish as we have been focusing on Hedgehogs in our Scottish Wildlife topic.  We wanted to tidy up the hedgehogs’ habitat and make it lovelier for them. We learned how important recycling is for not only animals but us too. We then used our leaves to create our own hedgehogs.   On Thursday we went to Vue in Livingston with the whole school to watch Sing.  We all enjoyed our trip and were very good listeners throughout the trip. 🙂  We came back to school that day and worked hard to write a letter to a hedgehog asking him to eat bugs and worms.  On Friday we bought some treats in aid of Children in Need and enjoyed coming in to school in our “dots and spots”.

Our word boost words this week were: delicious, gobble, trudge and howl.  Make sure to ask us what they mean and even act them out! 🙂

Here is what we have to say about our week;

I liked learning our number bonds – Emily K

I liked counting our 1 to 100 song – Fraya

I liked making our hedgehogs with leaves – Aaron S

I liked listening to our story about the bear and his habitat – Hunter

We ALL liked going on our walk to find leaves and rubbish we could recycle – Robyn

I liked writing our letter to the hedgehog – Amy

I liked going to the cinema – Rachel

I liked learning our number bonds to 5, 6 and 7 bonds – Alfie

I liked learning our sounds – Robbie

I liked writing a letter to say “don’t cut trees” to save the bears’ habitat – Max

We learned about animals that are nocturnal – Emily K

Have a lovely weekend, Miss Akram 🙂

[UNCRC article 3: Adults must do what is best for me.

UNCRC article 13: I have the right to find out and share information.

UNCRC article 28:  I have the right to an education.

UNCRC article 29: I have the right to an education which develops my personality, respect for others’ rights and the environment.]

We have had a busy week as always in Primary 1! Busy but fun of course 🙂

We have focused on our number bonds of 5 this week in numeracy and can demonstrate how to make 5 in various ways such as: fingers, numicon, cubes etc.  We also continued to practice our number formation.

In Literacy we were learning our sounds “b” and “e”.  We also looked at comparing “b” and “p” as we tend to get ourselves confused with these two sounds!   We started worst boost this week and our storybook this week was called “Leo’s dream”.  The children really enjoyed not only learning our new word boost words; investigate, reply, celebrate and enormous but also loved the story itself and we managed to discuss emotions through this book also.  Please make sure you ask us what each of our word boost words mean or even ask us to mime the word :).  We got ourselves a little confused over celebrate starting with the “c” letter but makes a “s” sound so we learned that not all of our sounds follow the rules and our English language is actually a little confusing sometimes! 😮

In our topic Scottish Wildlife we looked at habitats this week and enjoyed drawing our favourite animal and it’s habitat.  We also made a line drawing

of a fox and managed to follow Miss Akram’s directions step by step to create this drawing 🙂 as we are focusing a lot this term on listening and attention skills.

What we have to say about our week of learning this week:

I liked doing our count to 100 song – Aaron R

I liked learning the numbers to 5 – Enily Kyle

I liked learning my sound “e” and “b” – Max Purdie

I know that 4 and 1 make 5 – Ross M

I learned that enormous means something very very big – Gabriels

I know that balloon starts with our b sound – Aaron S

I like our boost word “investigate” – Fraser

I know that investigate means to find out about something – Amy

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Akram 

(UNCRC – article 28:  I have the right to an education
article 29: I have the right to an education which develops my personality, respect for others’ rights and the environment)

What have we been learning in Primary 1;

Kiera – We have been practising our numbers with Miss Mann

Lucas W – We were practising  writng, reading and finding “the” on Monday

Olly – We have been learning the sound “o”

Max – We made a witches hat

Amy – We have been colouring in our sounds

Aaron R – we have been learning our sounds

Aaron S – We have been learning to add with Miss Mann

Alfie – I liked colouring in our sounds

Emily K – I liked learning about fireworks and keeping safe

Gabriels – I liked learning everything

We started our new topic Scottish wildlife this week as well and have been busy every day practising our nativity songs.  (Yes, sorry the Christmas prep has commenced!  Santa cams are well and truly on!)

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Akram 🙂

(UNCRC – article 28:  I have the right to an education
article 29: I have the right to an education which develops my personality, respect for others’ rights and the environment)

We have had a short but busy week in Primary 1!

We have been revising all our learning from term 1 this week.  In numeracy we continued to revise all our numbers from 0-10 and have been working with ten frames this week.  In literacy we were focused on our common word “The” and even went on a “the” hunt round our classroom.   All children managed to write “the” on their whiteboards and practiced the formation of this word all week.  They were even challenged to build “the” using lego and all managed the challenging task! Well done! 🙂

We finished off our Autumn topic this week and looked at patterns through our topic.  The children had to continue  an Autumn pattern.

The children also had lot’s of fun last night at their Halloween Disco!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Akram 🙂

(UNCRC – article 28:  I have the right to an education
article 29: I have the right to an education which develops my personality, respect for others’ rights and the environment)

It has been a busy last 2 weeks in P1.  From Bikeability to Batty to Belle!  We also squeezed in an eventful little afternoon outside into the community!  In amongst all this excitement we managed to do lot’s of learning in class too. 🙂

The last 2 weeks in literacy we were learning our sounds ‘n’, ‘k’, ‘ck’ and revising our ‘m c s a t p i n’ sounds.  In numeracy we have been looking at 9 and 10 then revising all numbers from 0-10.  After the much loved count to 100 song, P1 now have another favourite!  We have been learning to skip count in 10s and really enjoy our new song which the boys and girls love dancing to.

We started our new topic of Autumn as well.  We observed and discussed the changes around us and created our very own Autumn hand print trees.  We also created our own pictures of what Autumn looks like to us. Whether this was a squirrel or an acorn or Halloween or leaves falling from the trees, the boys and girls all have a different picture in their head when they think of Autumn.  On Tuesday of this week, we ventured out into the community and went on our very own Autumn walk! We searched for the various different colours of leaves and any other signs of Autumn.  The children had lot’s of fun looking for their own leaves and berries.

After our visit to the park for our Autumn walk we went to the library where the lovely librarian read us a book called ‘The Huge Bag of Worries’.  We then explored the books available to us at the library and enjoyed just spending time to read these books.  On Thursday we wrote a short story comparing Autumn to the colours of Autumn.  For example; “Autumn is as red as an apple……Autumn is as yellow as a banana” etc.

Last week we had an eventful week that started off with cycling around the playground and for som

e learning how to cycle! 🙂 A huge well done to Emily Zeilnis who demonstrated great resilience and manged to ride a bike for the first time without stabilisers! Super proud!  The next day we visited some stalls set up in the hall that gave us lot’s of information on how to keep safe when cycling.  On Wednesday of last week was the day the children were looking forward to; meeting Sean Batty.

On Friday of last week we had a suprise guest arrive!  Princess Belle came to visit us, although it was apparently to give Miss Akram some lessons too!  You can ask the children why I was in need of Princess lessons. 🙂

A busy and eventful last 2 weeks of the first term.  Thank you to the boys and girls for their hard work this term and making it an enjoyable first term :).

Happy Holidays from Miss Akram.

(UNCRC – article 17: I have the right to get information in lots of ways, so long as it’s safe.

article 28:  I have the right to an education.
article 29: I have the right to an education which develops my personality, respect for others’ rights and the environment.

article 31: I have a right to relax and play)