Author: Miss Harrison

Happy New Year and welcome back to our P1A blog! We have had a busy first week back at school.

This week our two new sounds were ‘qu’ and ‘x’ and our common words were ‘want’, ‘saw’ and ‘no’. We drew ‘qu’ pictures and made ‘qu’ words on graffiti walls, practised writing ‘qu’ words on our whiteboards, made ‘qu’ with play dough and played ‘Queen’s Quiz’ on Education City. When we were learning the ‘x’ sound, we practised writing ‘x’ with rainbow writing, played ‘Roll and Read’ and drew our own ‘x’ pictures. We also wrote ‘qu’ and ‘x’ words and sentences in our jotters. To learn our common words, we also played a pairs game on the smartboard, practised writing our common words on our whiteboards and played ‘Beat The Teacher’.

When Miss Baillie and Mr Wells came into our classroom this week they couldn’t believe that we were learning to solve missing number equations in maths and numeracy! We have been working really hard to find the missing number in our addition sums. We played Hexabonds on the smartboard, found the missing numbers on challenge cards and revised our number bonds for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

This term our gym day will be on a Thursday. On Thursday afternoon, we went to the Community Wing hall to practise our motor skills. We were jumping, hopping, skipping, balancing, kicking, throwing and catching. We had to listen carefully to instructions, use the equipment correctly, share with others and take turns.

This week we have been talking about our school values. We decided to make a Values display in our classroom and took photographs of us doing the action for each value. Our school values are resilient, respectful, kind, confident and included. Can you guess which is which?

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

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

What a busy fortnight we have had in P1A!

Last week our sounds were ‘k’ and ‘ck’ and our common words were ‘he’, ‘me’ and ‘is’. We played ‘Kit Kite’ on Education City, drew ‘k’ pictures, played ‘Roll & Read’ for ‘ck’ words, practised writing words and sentences on the whiteboards and wrote ‘k’ and ‘ck’ words in our jotters.

This week our sounds were ‘j’ and ‘v’ and our common words were ‘his’, ‘put’ and ‘was’. We made our own jellyfish, made ‘j’ with play dough and jewels, made a ‘v’ graffiti wall and practised writing ‘v’ with rainbow writing. We have been working very hard at writing words and sentences in our jotters and we have been practising writing our common words. We even looked for our common words which were hidden underneath paint!

Last week we learned addition facts for 7 and 8 and this week we learned addition facts for 9 and 10. We have been playing different number bonds games on the smartboard, looking for number facts on the dominoes, finding ways to make numbers with the play dough and using our number facts to play Christmas Dice Addition.

Last week, we finished learning about analogue and digital o’clock times. We played o’clock bingo, matched analogue and digital times, played o’clock games on the smartboard and finished our time workbooks. We have also been learning about the days of the week and the months of the year. For revision, this week we looked at patterns and symmetry but with a Christmas theme! We completed Christmas pictures to give them one line of symmetry, continued Christmas patterns and made our own patterns on Christmas lights!

Last week we performed our nativity ‘A Little Nativity’ to our families and the rest of the school. Miss Harrison was very proud of us as we remembered all of our words, we sang beautifully and we sang with lots of enthusiasm! We enjoyed performing our nativity. Here are some pictures of us ready to perform on Thursday night!

Last week we also had the PTA Christmas Fair. We made salt dough Christmas trees and reindeer lollipops to sell. We worked very hard on our salt dough Christmas trees and had to use a variety of materials. We also had to use our cutting skills and drawing skills to make our reindeer lollipops. We made about £42 on the day which was fantastic! We really enjoyed going round the fair and visiting Santa. Thank you to everyone for supporting us at our Nativity and at the Christmas Fair.

This week we worked really hard to make our winter display for the corridor. We made our own snowflakes by cutting out different shapes and we made penguins using black sugar paper, cotton wool and paint. We also used cotton wool for the snow on our display. Doesn’t it look brilliant!

Finally, we have been enjoying playing with our friends and using our new toys. We got some dinosaur fossils, dinosaur bones and magnifying glasses so we have set up an exploring area in our tuff tray. We also got some natural resources which we have been using for lots of different things. Miss Harrison also set up Santa’s Workshop in our role-play area so we have been busy writing letters, wrapping presents and designing and building toys!

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

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

 

 

 

This week we have been revising adding numbers to 5 and we have been learning addition facts for 6. We played with dominoes and looked for the dominoes which made 6, explored different ways to make 6 in our workbooks and played ‘Save the Whale’ on the smartboard. We needed to know our number bonds to 6 to save the whale!

On Thursday, we continued to look at reading o’clock times on analogue and digital clocks. We played ‘Hour Hero’ on Education City, played o’clock Bingo and matched written, analogue and digital o’clock times. We have also been learning songs about the days of the week and the months of the year.

Next week is our Christmas Nativity, ‘A Little Nativity’. There is lots of excitement in our class! This week we drew detailed line drawings of sheep for our hall decorations. We used paint, cotton wool, glitter and tinsel to make our sheep. Look out for our hall decorations next week! We have been participating extremely well in our songs and we are looking forward to performing for audiences.

This week our new sounds were ‘l’ and ‘c’. When learning about the ‘l’ sound, we played ‘l’ Bingo with words and pictures, practised writing ‘l’ and ‘l’ words, drew ‘l’ pictures and played ‘Lovely Lollipops’ on Education City. When learning about the ‘c’ sound, we made ‘c’ with jewels, pebbles and counters, made ‘c’ with rainbow writing and made a ‘c’ graffiti wall. On Friday we had a turn of being the teacher! We used Miss Harrison’s magnetic letter board on the smartboard to show the rest of our class ‘l’ and ‘c’ words! We have also been learning to read and write our common words. This week our common words were ‘he’, ‘me’ and ‘is’. We played ‘Beat the Teacher’ and we were able to read our common words so Miss Harrison didn’t get any points!

Thank you for reading our blog post.

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

This week we have been learning addition facts for 4 and 5. We made our own number sentences, explored different ways to make 4 and 5, made number bonds for 5 on robots and played number bond games on the smartboard.

On Thursday, we were learning to read o’clock times on analogue and digital clocks. We played ‘Watchman’ on Education City, worked with a partner to make o’clock times, matched o’clock analogue times, made o’clock times on blank clock faces and matched analogue and digital times.

This week we were looking at the vowels, learning the letter names and also focusing on hearing/identifying vowels in CVC words. We threw bean bags onto vowel stepping stones and read the vowels, used our magnetic boards to find missing vowel letters in CVC words, painted the vowels and CVC words, looked for vowels amongst other letters and played CVC word games on Education City.

Although Miss Harrison is trying to limit our Christmas activities until December, this week we made Christmas tree baubles for the Springfield Primary School Christmas Tree at Tesco, Linlithgow. We created our own patterns and images on our baubles and used different materials. You can see our baubles on the tree in the window beside the checkouts!

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

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

As part of our Anti-Bullying Week, we looked at kindness. We listened to the story ‘Last Stop on Market Street’ and talked about all the different things that CJ did which were kind. He gave up his seat up on the bus and he helped to give food to people at the soup kitchen. We then shared examples of when we had shown kindness. We drew detailed pictures of us being kind. When we have been playing this week we have shown kindness to others.

This week our new sounds were ‘u’ and ‘b’. When learning the ‘u’ sound, we made ‘u’ with play dough, practised writing ‘u’, played a memory game with ‘u’ words and pictures and made our own underpants! When we were learning the ‘b’ sound, we played ‘Bath Time Bubbles’ on Education City, found pictures beginning with ‘b’ and made ‘b’ words on the magnetic boards.

This week, we were learning to add one and two more and we were also finding addition facts for two and three.  We found different ways to make 3 with our play dough and ladybirds, made our own number sentences and played a game called ‘Ghostblasters’ on the smartboard to practise our addition facts.

On Thursday we were learning to describe and compare the capacity of objects. We looked at containers and circled which could hold more/less, used cubes to see how many cubes each container could hold, explored how many cups of sand filled different buckets and played a capacity game called ‘Pitcher Perfect’ on Education City.

This week we have been continuing to look at the story ‘Wee Granny’s Magic Bag’. We looked at wee Granny’s bag and discussed it’s pattern. We described what tartan looks like, the colours we could see and looked at examples of tartan. We made our own tartan using strips of red, white and green paper. Miss Harrison loved our tartan so much that she put it all up in our role play area. Now it is Wee Granny’s tartan kitchen!

Today was Children in Need Day. We came to school in spotty clothing and we helped to raise money by paying £1 to dress down and we went to the Pupil Council bake sale. We thought it was very funny that we got to eat cakes in our classroom! Thank you to everyone who helped support our Children in Need Day.

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

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

This week we learned two new sounds, ‘i’ and ‘s’. We used our magnetic boards to build words, made our sounds with play dough, wrote our sounds in salt, played games on the smartboard, made our sounds with stones and drew and wrote our sounds on a graffiti wall. On Thursday afternoon, we went outside with some chalk to practise our letter and number formation in the playground.

 

     

We have been continuing to work hard with our number formation. This week we looked at the numbers ‘7’ and ‘8’. We used spaghetti, jewels and cubes to make the number 7 and we used ropes and cars to make the number 8. We practised writing our numbers in our workbooks and on the whiteboards.

  

             

On Tuesday we went outside for PE to develop our ball skills. We played a game called Aeroplanes and Helicopters and then we began to perform movement skills in a sequence. We used the balls to learn how to throw and catch in different ways.

      

 

This week we have been continuing to look at the differences between Kenya and Scotland. Mrs King, Mr Campbell and Mr & Mrs Foster sent us photographs of different African animals which we enjoyed looking at. We have been working well in pairs and in small groups to make African animals for our African Surprise display. We wanted the monkey to swing from the trees so we worked in pairs to create the leaves for the tree tops. We have been using a variety of materials to make our display and we are very proud of it.

 

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

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂