Author: Miss Harrison

Last week we finished revising all of our digraphs. We revised the digraphs ‘ou’ and ‘ow’. We wrote ‘ou’ words in clouds, played ‘ou’ bingo, wrote ‘ou’ and ‘ow’ words to match pictures, made ‘ou’ and ‘ow’ words with play dough, played Roll and Read for ‘ow’ words and wrote sentences containing different digraphs in our literacy jotters.  This week we practised our handwriting and letter formation. We wrote letters and words with chalk, practised writing lowercase and uppercase letters on alphabet strips, completed a handwriting activity with ‘b’ and ‘d’ and played games on our iPad and Promethean board.

In Maths and Numeracy we have been continuing to learn our subtraction facts to 10. Last week we learned subtraction facts for 7, 8 and 9. We wrote subtraction facts on our whiteboards, completed subtraction challenge cards, played Snakes and Ladders, played ‘Simple Take Away’ and ‘Lazy Lambs’ on the Promethean board and used our knowledge to complete subtraction sums in our workbooks. Last week we also continued to learn about fractions. We looked at splitting shapes into quarters. We made our own pizzas and put different toppings in each quarter, we played ‘Shape It Up’ on Education City, made the missing quarters on cakes and pizzas with our play dough and coloured in quarters of shapes with Miss Harrison. This week we have been learning subtraction facts for 10 and we have also been linking our addition and subtraction facts to 10. We played number fact games on the Promethean board, made our own number sentences and used our addition and subtraction skills to complete a pirate addition and subtraction to 10 activity.

This week we went to Springfield’s Got Talent. We really enjoyed watching all of the acts and we were a very supportive audience. Well done to the P1A girls who performed a dance to ‘A Million Dreams’. We thought you were fantastic! Miss Harrison was very proud of everyone who auditioned for Springfield’s Got Talent. We have lots of confidence and talent in P1A!

This week we have been learning how to stay safe when using the internet. We played a game where we had to sort ourselves into different groups according to certain characteristics. When Miss Harrison asked us to sort ourselves into groups with the same first and last name, we ended up being on our own. We learned that this was personal information and when you are using the internet, you shouldn’t give away any personal information. We watched an episode of Hector’s World and we learned how to keep safe when using the internet.

This week we looked at the visual elements; line, shape and colour. We looked at different lines and shapes that you can use in art and we looked at using oil pastels to blend and to make bright colours. We created our own pictures using line, shape and colour.

On Thursday this week we had a Teddy Bear’s Picnic with our P7 buddies. It was very hot so we stayed in the shade! We really enjoyed spending time with our buddies and we would like to thank them for all their support, kindness and care over our year in P1.

We hope that you have a lovely, happy and safe summer. Thank you for reading all of our blog posts throughout our year in P1.

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a busy Fitness Week we have had in P1A!

On Monday morning we had a golf session from The Stephen Gallacher Foundation. We learned how to hold the golf club correctly and practised swinging the club to hit the ball. We worked well together in our teams to get the ball into the target. On Tuesday morning we had a football session from Jordan. We played different games to practise our dribbling skills and then we had turns at trying to kick the ball into the net. We really enjoyed our golf and football sessions!

This week we were revising the digraphs ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. We looked for ‘oy’ words with magnifying glasses, made ‘oi’ words with play dough, wrote ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sentences on our whiteboards, played games to revise our digraphs on Education City and practised writing ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ words to match pictures.

For writing this week we looked at writing instructions. Since it was Fitness Week, we focused on Food and Health and we wrote instructions on how to wash our hands. We watched a video about hand washing and we washed our own hands and discussed the main steps. Miss Harrison showed us how to use numbers to order our steps. Our instructions were very clear and easy to follow.

In Numeracy and Mathematics this week we learned subtraction facts for the number 6. We played Subtraction Smash and Subtraction Bowling, made our own subtraction facts for 6 on our whiteboards and played Subtraction Snakes and Ladders. We also completed an activity in our workbooks on subtraction facts for 6.

This week we also started to learn about fractions. We looked at sharing a pizza into halves and quarters and we talked about how the smaller parts had to be equal. We made pizzas with different toppings on each half, used our play dough to make the last half or quarter of cakes, found and coloured different fractions of shapes and played ‘Half Your Cake and Eat It’ on Education City.

As part of Fitness Week, we looked at the main food groups. We learned that the main food groups are Fruit and Vegetables, Carbohydrates, Protein, Milk and Dairy Products and Fats and Sugars. We looked at photographs of each food group and identified foods that belonged in each group. We played ‘Make a balanced plate’ where you had to put the food in the right food group, made our own healthy eating plates and drew pictures of our favourite food in each food group.

On Thursday this week we made smoothies. We had lots of ingredients to pick from such as pineapple, mango, blueberries, bananas, oranges, apples, raspberries and apple and orange juice. We picked the ingredients we wanted in our smoothies and then Miss Harrison blended them together. We got to try our smoothies and we thought that they were delicious!

The highlight of our week was Sports Day. We took part in Potted Sports in the morning and completed activities such as hurdles, javelin throw, space hoppers, football, running, cheerleading and an obstacle course. Then we had class races in the afternoon.  We showed excellent teamwork and we were also kind, resilient and respectful.

Thank you very much for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂

This week we have been revising the digraphs ‘igh’, ‘-y’, ‘oa’ and ‘ow’. We used our sounds to write words to match pictures, created ‘igh’ and ‘-y’ words using light bulbs, used magnifying glasses to spot ‘igh’ and ‘-y’ words, played Roll and Read, played ‘oa’ and ‘ow’ bingo and played ‘oa’ and ‘ow’ Snakes and Ladders. We also played games to revise our digraphs on our Promethean board and wrote sentences containing our sounds in our literacy jotters. This week we have continued to revise our common words. We used our magnetic letters to make common words, played a common words Snakes and Ladders and played a common words game on our IPad.

For writing this week we created our own stories which included our meerkats, Sergei or Bogdan and Mr Fluff. Miss Harrison read us ‘Castle Adventure’ and we discussed the adventure Gran took in the story. Then we looked at photographs of Sergei’s adventures in our local area. He went to Linlithgow Palace, Igloo, Tesco, the Union Canal, Linlithgow Leisure Centre and Taste! With our learning partner, we talked about what adventures Sergei might have in each setting. We invented our own story and took our chosen character on an adventure in our local area. We worked really hard on our stories and Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie loved reading all the stories!

In Maths and Numeracy this week we were learning ‘one less than’ and ‘two less than’, as well as revising subtracting all or none to 10. We played ‘Two Less Than’ on our Promethean board, worked out ‘one less than’ or ‘two less than’ on whiteboards, completed a space themed subtraction activity sheet and completed a subtraction page in our subtraction workbook.

On Thursday we also finished our money topic. We revised coin recognition and looked at using our coins to buy items and work out what change we would get. We played coin throw with hoops to practise our addition and subtraction skills, we used coins to buy items in a shop and get change, played ‘Coin Game’ on our Promethean board and completed a coin addition and subtraction activity in our money workbooks.

This week we have been learning about people who help us at school. We looked at who the different people that help us at school are and talked about some of their roles and responsibilities. We learned about teachers, pupil support workers, cooks, playground supervisors, office people, lollipop people, janitors and cleaners. With our learning partners, we selected someone who helps us at school and we used actions, gestures and movement to act out their responsibilities. The rest of the class had to guess who we were acting out!

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend!

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 😊

This week we have been revising the digraphs ‘ee’, ‘ea’, ‘ai’ and ‘ay’. We highlighted ‘ee’ words in a comic strip, read and drew ‘ee’ captions and used magnifying glasses to spot ‘ee’ and ‘ea’ words. When revising ‘ai’ and ‘ay’, we made ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ words with play dough and used our sounds to write words to match pictures. We also played games to revise our digraphs on our Promethean board and wrote sentences containing our sounds in our literacy jotters. This week we have also been revising our common words. We used our magnetic letters to make common words, played a common words Snakes and Ladders game and played a common words game on our IPad.

For writing this week we made posters for the Transition Linlithgow competition. Transition Linlithgow are running a campaign to remove plastic straws from Linlithgow. We watched a clip from Blue Planet II on plastic pollution in the oceans and talked about how the plastic could have ended up in the water. We learned that the plastic was dangerous for animals that live in the ocean. We revised features of a poster and made sure that our posters included a title and a picture and that our posters were eye-catching. We worked really hard on our posters and were able to convey the message of the importance of not using straws in our posters too.

In Maths and Numeracy this week we were learning to link our addition and subtraction facts to 5. We used our addition and subtraction facts to colour a Space picture, we played ‘Mummy Sheep’ on Education City, created our own addition and subtraction sums on our whiteboards and completed an addition and subtraction cut and stick activity. We also completed some pages in our subtraction workbooks on linking addition and subtraction facts.

We also used our addition skills this week to add money amounts. We matched money amounts to coins, counted up coins and money totals in piggy banks, played a ‘Pick and Mix’ money game on our Promethean board and used our money fans to make different amounts.

This week we have continued to develop our mapping skills. We used our maps of our classroom that we made last week to find hidden objects in the classroom. We were able to read our maps and locate the objects.  Next we looked at our playground and worked with a partner to make a map of our playground. We included all of the main features and even included more detail than Miss Harrison’s playground map!

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂

This week we have been revising some of our digraphs. We revised the ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘th’ and ‘wh’ digraphs. We made ‘ch’ with play dough, used shells to make ‘sh’, played Roll and Read for ‘th’ and made ‘wh’ with play dough. We also unscrambled sentences and wrote our own sentences containing these digraphs. Finally, we played games on Education City to revise these sounds.

For writing this week, we wrote ‘thank you’ letters to Doctor Steve. We revised the features of a letter and wrote letters to convey a message. We were able to include an address, the date, a greeting and a closing farewell. We told Doctor Steve what we liked about his visit and he really enjoyed reading our letters.

In Numeracy and Maths this week, we have been learning how to use a number line to help us to solve our subtraction facts. We were confident with using this strategy to accurately solve subtraction sums to 5. This week we also used our subtraction skills to take away with coins and give change from values to 10p. Next week we will begin to look at linking our addition and subtraction facts.

This week we have been continuing with our People Who Help Us and Local Area learning focus. We have been using our observing and recording skills to draw and create different people who help us for our classroom display. We worked really well in our groups and we were able to take turns, build on each other’s strengths and share resources. On Thursday, we looked at mapping. We spoke about who might use a map and why we use maps with our learning partner. We then worked with a partner to make a map of our classroom. We were able to include all of the main features of our classroom on our maps. We will be continuing to look at mapping next week.

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely, sunny weekend!

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂

What a busy week and a half we have had in P1A!

Last week we looked at uppercase letters. We learned the sounds and names of uppercase letters and we talked about when we use capital letters. We matched lowercase and uppercase letters, played ‘Going Spare’ and ‘Hatching Eggs’ on Education City, traced capital letters, wrote uppercase letters beside lowercase letters on a car track, used stencils to make uppercase letters and used loose parts to make capital letters.

This week our new sounds were ‘au’ and ‘aw’. When learning the ‘au’ sound, we made ‘au’ with shaving foam, made ‘au’ with play dough, played ‘au’ Roll and Read, practised writing ‘au’ words on our whiteboards and practised reading ‘au’ words in our pairs game. When learning the ‘aw’ sound we made ‘aw’ words in the hoops, played an ‘aw’ words pairs game, played ‘White Paw’ on Education City and wrote ‘aw’ sentences in our literacy jotters.

Over the last week and a half we have been continuing to learn our subtraction facts to 10. We looked at subtraction facts for 4 and 5 and we also learned to solve subtraction word problems. We played Subtraction Smash and Subtraction Bowling, practised our subtraction facts for 4 and 5 on our whiteboards, completed a flower subtraction activity, played Subtraction Snakes & Ladders and played a subtraction game on our Promethean board.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have also been continuing to learn to use 1p, 2p and 5p coins to make money totals. We counted up coins in money jars, ordered coins according to their value, played money bingo and played ‘Pick and Mix’ on the Promethean board.

This week we released our butterflies! We looked at the life cycle of a butterfly and we made our own butterfly life cycle diagrams. We also designed our own butterflies, completed a butterfly life cycle cut and stick activity and played Roll, Say, Colour Life Cycle of a Butterfly. We enjoyed releasing our butterflies on Thursday afternoon although we were a little sad to see them go since we have had them from caterpillars!

Last week we started our new learning focus on our Local Area and People Who Help Us in our Community. We talked about places that we had been in our local area, looked at them on Google maps and we drew pictures of them in our Talking Floor book. We also talked about people who help us and ways that these people help in the community. We set up our role play area as a police station and a doctor’s surgery and we have been enjoying taking on different roles during our imaginative play.

On Friday last week we learned what the police do to help us. For writing this week, we wrote letters to Miss Harrison’s brother who is a policeman to find out more about his job. We looked at the features of a letter and we made sure that we included our school address, the date, a greeting and a closing farewell in our letters. Our letters are currently in the post and we will be getting a reply soon.

On Wednesday this week we had a very special visitor. Mr Foster came in to talk to us about his job as a paediatrician. He told us all about how he helps people and we asked him questions. He showed us some of the equipment that he uses in his job and we looked at x-rays. We really enjoyed listening to Mr Foster and we would like to thank him very much for coming in to visit us.

Over the last week and a half we have also had a couple of visits from children from the nursery. They have been coming up to experience the Primary 1 environment, learn and have fun! We have been very welcoming and caring to the nursery children and we have done a fantastic job of showing them what it is like in Primary 1.

Thank you very much for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂

This week our new sounds were ‘ou’ and ‘ow’. When learning the ‘ou’ sound, we wrote ‘ou’ words in clouds, made ‘ou’ words with play dough, played ‘Mouse in the House’ on Education City and completed an ‘ou’ spelling activity. We also wrote ‘ou’ sentences in our literacy jotters. When learning the ‘ow’ sound, we made ‘ow’ words in hoops, wrote ‘ow’ words in cows, practised writing ‘ow’ words and sentences on our whiteboards, played an ‘ow’ words pairs game and played Roll and Read.

In Numeracy and Maths this week we have been continuing to learn our subtraction facts to 10. We looked at subtracting 1 and 2 from a number and we learned subtraction facts involving 0. We completed subtraction sums on trains, used our subtraction facts to colour a fish, practised subtraction sums on our whiteboards, completed subtraction to 10 sums on subtraction cards, played ‘Rabbit Takeaway’ and worked on our subtraction workbooks.

On Thursday, we continued to look at using 1p, 2p and 5p coins to buy items. We ordered coins according to their value, used coins to buy items in a shop, played ‘Ice Cream’ on Education City, sorted coins and completed a coin addition activity in our money workbooks.

This week we looked at the story ‘George Saves The World By Lunchtime’ as part of our Global Citizenship focus. Miss Hardie read us the story and we discussed ways that George saved the world such as recycling, travelling by bike, saving electricity and re-using materials. We looked at different objects in our talking tub and talked about how these different objects helped to save the world. Finally, we looked at writing to convey ideas and messages and we wrote statements about how we could save the world.

On Friday we had our class assembly. It was on transport and journeys. We told our audience all about transport from the past, our trip to Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway and we reflected on our P1 journey so far. Everyone was incredibly proud of us. We spoke clearly to the audience, our behaviour was fantastic and we sang our song beautifully. Thank you to everyone who came to support us today.

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely long weekend!

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂

This week our new sounds were ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. When learning ‘oi’, we wrote ‘oi’ words with chalk, made ‘oi’ words with loose parts and play dough, built ‘oi’ words in hoops and looked for ‘oi’ words in the books in our class library. When learning the ‘oy’ sound, we wrote ‘oy’ words in toys, used magnifying glasses to find ‘oy’ words and highlighted ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ words in a story called ‘The Lost Toy’. We also wrote ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sentences in our literacy jotters.

This week we started to learn our subtraction facts to 10. We started to look at subtraction by using objects and pictures and ‘taking away’. We played Subtraction Bowling and Subtraction Smash and we practised our subtraction facts on our whiteboards. We also played ‘Hop Off’ on Education City and started our new subtraction workbook.

On Thursday we looked at using 1p, 2p and 5p coins. We used our adding to add coins up to 10p. We played money bingo, used coins to buy items in a toy shop, played a game called ‘Money Match’ on our Promethean board and added coins up to 10p in our money workbooks.

In writing this week, we were looking at invitations. We looked at party invitations and spoke about the different features. In our invitations, we needed to include a picture, give information and make our invitations colourful. Our parents will find out why we were making invitations soon!

This week we have also been practising for our class assembly. Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie have been so impressed with how well we already know our speaking parts. We are a little nervous about next Friday but our teachers think that we will be great!

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂

This week we were learning the number names to 20. We played number names bingo, matched the number names to the numerals, practised writing the number words, made a number names graffiti wall and made the number names with our play dough. We also played ‘Teddy Numbers’ on our new Promethean board and matched number names to numerals in our workbooks.

 

This week we started to learn about money. We looked at all the coins up to £2. We played ‘Dino Day Out’ on Education City, sorted coins into the correct money amounts, played coin bingo and cut out coins and matched them to the correct amount.

This week our new sound was ‘ew’. We made ‘ew’ words on our magnetic boards, made ‘ew’ words with play dough, practised writing ‘ew’ words on our whiteboards, wrote ‘oo’ and ‘ew’ sentences in our literacy jotters and played ‘Matthew’s Stew’ on Education City.

On Thursday we took part in our whole school litter pick. We worked in teams to look for any litter in our school grounds and we used litter picks and bags to collect the litter. We made sure that we washed our hands afterwards and Miss Harrison even made us use hand gel!

This week we have been learning about life cycles as part of our P1 Health and Wellbeing ‘Relationships’ trail. We looked at the life cycle of a frog. We cut out pictures to make our own frog life cycle diagrams and we wrote a sentence about the life cycle underneath. We also played ‘Roll, Say, Colour’ using the frog life cycle, coloured and labelled a diagram and played a frog life cycle game on the Promethean board. On Thursday, we looked at the human life cycle. We drew pictures of what we look like now then we drew pictures of what we think we will look like as an adult and as an elderly person! We also talked about the basic needs of a baby.

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A , Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂

Welcome back to the final term of P1A. We have had a busy first week back at school!

This week we learned the ‘oo’ sound. We drew ‘oo’ pictures, made ‘oo’ looking glasses, made ‘oo’ words with Cheerios and play dough, looked for ‘oo’ words with magnifying glasses and played ‘Big Cook Book’ on Education City. We also practised writing our common words.

     

On Tuesday we went on our first school trip to Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway (Please see our separate blog post about our trip). On Wednesday and Thursday we looked at the photographs from our trip and we wrote a report using words such as ‘first’, ‘then’, ‘next’ and ‘finally’. We were able to write the events in order and use capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and joining words. We worked very hard with our writing and we included lots of detail.

In Numeracy and Maths, we looked at ordinal numbers. We stood in a line and worked out who was first, second, third, fourth and fifth. Then we ordered ordinal number cards, raced cars and awarded them with medals, played ‘Tractor Race’ on Education City, completed an ordinal numbers transport cut and stick activity and coloured in animals according to their ordinal number.

This week we also looked at the story ‘The Snail and the Whale’. We looked at the rhyming words in the text and we also talked about the characters, events and ideas in the story. The snail and the whale were good friends and helped each other. On Monday afternoon we completed different activities relating to the story. Some of us wrote letters to the snail or the whale to thank them for being helpful, some of us used paint and paper plates to make snails, some of us used glitter paint and practised our common words using glitter trails and some of us made spirals with play dough and loose parts.

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂