Category: Primary 1

What a fantastic week we have had in P1a. We all worked hard right  up until the end of the week learning our last singluar sound “z” and doing some consolidation of all of our number bonds to 10.

We had a lovely Christmas party and had fun doing Christmas activities. We especially loved watching the cbeebies pantomime “Thumbelina”.

Today we finished off our design project with our P7 buddies. We had to design a new sleigh for santa. We did a great job of explaining all the special features on our sleigh. Lots of us enjoyed creating features such as lasers and hot chocolate machines.

Happy Christmas from Mrs Gordon and P1a.

Our final week before Christmas!! The children in Primary 1 have all worked SO hard this term and I could not be more proud of them. The Nativity was incredible and thank you to all the parents and carers who came a long and supported us all. They really did sing their little hearts out.

This week we have been trying to keep some routine and structure so we did our daily Phonics lessons, consolidating our new sounds x, y and z. We have also had a big push on spelling our common words. We did some Christmas phonics reading and writing activities. We also did some AMAZING writing! We were doing our ‘Trapped in a Snowglobe’ mini project and had to use our imagination to describe what we would see if we were inside. Some of the language we were using really blew me away…….

“Glittering snow”

“Cosy house”

“Deep, crunchy snow”

“big, bare trees”

I could really see this week just how much progress all of the children have made with all of them writing 2 sentences and with support, using capital letters, fingers spaces and full stops. They used their fingers to sound out words and demonstrated a very positive attitude towards their writing.

We then used chalk to create our snow scene and learnt how to blend chalk with our finger. We used our facial expressions and body language to pretend we were scared because we were trapped. The children’s work will be displayed outside our classroom for all to see!

We have also been busy making Christmas cards for our special families. We chose the design we wanted to do and used finger painting to create our picture.

On Thursday we had fun making melting snowmen biscuits and enjoyed getting messy with the icing!

Thank you all so much for your support and kindness this term. I am so grateful and love working with all of the fabulous Primary 1 parents. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and enjoy making special memories together! Thank you all so, so much for the generous gifts that have been brought in this week. I am really overwhelmed by your kindness and I feel very lucky!

Be safe and see you all in January!

Mrs McAulay and P1B x

What a wonderful week we have had in P1a. We performed 3 shows of the “Wriggly nativity” including one on Monday for our friends at Linlithgow daycare centre. The children were fabulous and enjoyed it all so much they were still making their own wriggly nativity in class up until today!

In literacy we learnt our new sounds “x” and “y” and our new common words want, saw and no. This week we really focused on writing sentences and Mrs Gordon was very impressed with our use of full stops, capital letters and finger spaces.

In numeracy we continued to practice our number bonds to 10 and addition with numbers to 10. We are trying really hard to remember which numbers go together to make 10.

In PE we did some Scottish Country dancing. Mrs Gordon could not believe how quickly we managed to pick up a dance to “Bonnie Wee Jeannie McCall”. It was such fun.

The week ended with a great trip to the pantomime where we loved seeing Mr Wells on stage when he had to marry the dame.

Happy weekend, Mrs Gordon and P1a

We were very excited to see that Mrs Gordon had decorated the classroom this week ready for Christmas. We all really enjoyed visiting santa at the Christmas Fayre today and spending our money on lots of lovely things. Here are the snowflakes and calendars that we made to sell.

In literacy this week we continued on our phonics journey with the sounds “w” and “qu”. We are becoming very confident with our cvc (consonant, vowel, consonant) words, and really improving when we write sentences on our whiteboards or in our jotters.

In numeracy, more practice with our number bonds to 10. We focused on doubles and can all confidently say our doubles to 5. We also had a first lesson on time where we learnt how to tell the ‘o’ clock time on a clock face. Mrs Gordon could not believe how quickly we were able to know that the ‘o’clock time is the number the small hand points to.

We are very excited to share our nativity with you next week, and have been practising hard all week to make our wriggly nativity a huge success.

Happy weekend, Mrs Gordon and P1a.

We had a lot of fun this week with our book focus on Handa’s surprise. After our fantastic puppet/drama performances last Friday where we retold the story of Handa we had our first ever school trip…We went to Tesco to find out all about where fruit and vegetables come from. Emily was a wonderful guide and she showed us lots of different fruits from Africa to link in with our topic. We were then very lucky to get to go to the storeroom and then upstairs to do a fruit tasting of different fruits from Africa. We all loved the nectarine, strawberries and blueberries. Lots of children tried the pink grapefruit and apricots but were not so sure of those. It was lovely to see them try new things including dried mango which Mrs Gordon really enjoyed. We got a wee treat on the way out when we go to go in the freezer…

In literacy our new sounds this week were “j” and “v” and we had new common words his, put and was. We enjoyed making and tasting some “j” for jelly!

In numeracy we continued our addition journey by looking at all the different ways to make 9 and 10. We realised this is quite tricky, but luckily we have 10 fingers which can really help us work things out. We enjoyed lots of fun ways to work out our number bonds.

Happy weekend, Mrs Gordon and P1a

In literacy this week we learnt the sounds “k” and “ck”. We found out that these both make the same sound. We have been working hard at knowing what makes a good sentence and this week did some peer and self assessment of our sentences. It was great fun to be the teacher and mark someone else’s work! We also got to fly a kite, make a kite, look at how clocks work and make a rocket….busy boys and girls.

In numeracy we carried on our addition journey by looking at all the different ways to make 7 and 8. We also learnt about the 4 seasons of the year and worked out which season our birthday was in.

In IDL we continued our book focus on Handa’s surprise. We read the story again and then Mrs Gordon checked if we could remember the order by getting us to sequence pictures of the story in groups. We did really well with this as it was quite tricky.  We then talked about the beginning middle and end of a story and why these were important. Mrs Gordon couldn’t believe how well we were able to draw the key parts of the story and bring it to life. We then made puppets ready for tomorrow when we are going to act out the story in groups. How exciting!

Mrs Gordon and P1a