Spring Forward in Learning and Life – Becoming. Belonging. Believing.
This afternoon in P1 we held the Great Springfield Bake Off!
We had lots of fun creating our cakes using sponge, ‘icing’ and ‘sprinkles’…they looked so real we wished we could eat them!
Mrs Hocknull judged the competition and found it very tricky to pick her top 3…
Love P1B and Mrs Bell x
On 3rd of September we went to see the new rugby squad being announced. We also got to play a couple of games of rugby ourselves which was very fun and everyone enjoyed it.
IDL
On the 4th of September we started our topic on Brazil. We also practiced our note taking skills to use when we make a new writing piece.
MATHS
We learned how to do written method of multiplication. Some of us did two digit by two digit and the rest of us did three by three digit.
LITERACY
We learnt to use the Thesaurus this week and use our listening skills to take effective notes about Brazil.
HOUSE CAPTAINS
Congratulations to all the people who got the House and Vice Captain Roles.
Made by GF & MC(:
We began the week getting our new homework and working on our spelling skills at active stations. We also got new reading books and have enjoyed reading them throughout the week. We have begun to have some discussion about what we have read. As a group, we can chose to be either Word Wizards, Punctuation People, Character Cruzaders or Setting Soldiers – this gives our reading session a focus for discussion. Most of the groups chose to be Setting Soldiers this week.
In Numeracy we have continued our work on place value, working with larger numbers. We had active stations and completed many activities to allow us to practise. We really like the place value basket ball game that is on the topmarks website – it’s free and easily accessible if anyone wants to play it at home: www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball
In outer maths we learned more about symmetry. We were deciding whether objects or pictures were symmetrical and explaining the reasons for our answers. We also worked on identifying lines of symmetry. We enjoyed a symmetry hunt outside too.
We have also been working on capital letters and full stops as Mrs Kennedy had noticed that some of us are forgetting them as we write – some very long sentences 😉 We are now getting better at remembering capital letters in the correct places but it is tricky to decide when to use a full stop and begin a new sentence. We will continue to work on this.
In PE we continued to develop our skills for benchball – different types of throw this week. We have begun to think about what kind of throw to use depending on where our teammates are on the court.
We got together with P3B for a lesson on Islands on Tuesday. We suggested quite few islands that would be good for our geography topic. After a vote it was decided that Hawaii will be the island that we learn more about and compare to Scotland. If anyone has anything Hawaiin please let us know, if you’ve been maybe you could tell us about it?
Our assembly this Friday was a little different as we all attended a House Assembly for our own houses. The P7s who would like to be House Captains spoke to us then we voted for them. Lots of voting this week!
Enjoy the weekend, P3A and Mrs Kennedy
In PE this week we continued to learn how to play Bench Ball. We have been learning how to catch and pass the ball to the other players in our team. We held a mini game to see how good we were at moving and passing the ball.
This week we formed our new spelling groups and have started working on our new spelling patterns. To help us to learn our new spelling patters we have been learning to play different activities at our spelling stations to reinforce our learning.
In Maths we have been working on our place value and playing games to reinforce our learning. We have also started work on symmetry with Mr Vilanova.
We continued working on our space themed class charter and this week we decided what articles we would choose from the UNICEF Rights of the Child. The display work has almost been finished so we hope to have the display completed by next week. We have also made space rockets to display the articles on.
This week we received our new reading books and had a discussion about them in our groups before starting to read the new stories. We have to have our reading homework ready for Thursday 12th September so we can start our group discussions and activities.
In writing we have been revising the use of capital letters and full stops in our sentences. Some of us have forgotten when they need to be used so we will continue to work on this writing skill.
Mr Ritchie and the tiggerrific P3B’s
This week in Maths we did place value and symmetry.
In literacy this week we did reading in our reading groups. We looked at capital letters and we had a look at where we are supposed to place them. We also wrote a story of an Indian person.
In Health and Wellbeing we did getting to know each other better using a bingo question sheet.
In P.E. we did badminton and team sports
In art we made our Christmas card in September!
On Friday we all had our house assembly. We had to go in one house at a time to vote for our vice and house captain.
This blog was made by Mairi, Sammy & Ruth
Thank you for reading P4A’S blog J
We have had another busy week in P1a. We have been learning 2 new sounds this week, p for pig and n for nest. We have really enjoyed doing the jolly phonics actions and songs for these sounds. Everyone managed to make the sounds on magnetic and whiteboards, and then wrote the sounds in our jotters. Mrs Gordon can’t believe how well we can form our letters!
In numeracy we were learning about number 3 and 4, we found those quite tricky to write! In maths we learnt about 2D shape. We had great fun doing a shape hunt around the classroom.
We had our first French lesson this week with our friend Camembear! We loved seeing him and learnt to say bonjour and au revoir. We also were able to reply to “Comment t’appelles tu?” , “Je m’appelle…” with our names. Bravo!
Bon weekend from Mrs Gordon and P1a
Dates for the diary – P1 Curriculum Evening Wed 18th Sept 6pm P1 Classroom
Numeracy : this week we have been learning about units, tens all the way up to millions. We were ordering and sequencing them. We are going to continue with this next week. In maths we are learning about 3D shapes and their properties. There was lots of maths vocabulary we had to learn and next week we are going to cut up the shapes to investigates their nets.
Literacy: We are still completing our signs for our class library.
We got our reading books out and the stories look good.
We started homework this for spelling, our learning grids and reading.
For writing, we completed stories about “The Waking Giant”
IDL: We started a river fact file with Mrs McVay and will continue to work on it next week
In science we have been disussing global warming and different types of energy. We are going to make paper helicopters next week and discuss the potential and kinetic energy changes.
By Olivia and Rose
In Literacy this week we have been revising more vowel digraphs. We made ‘oa’ and ‘ow’ words on our magnetic boards and wrote sentences containing ‘oo’ and ‘ew’ words. On Wednesday, Miss Harrison had a holiday and we became the teachers! We worked with a partner and gave them ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ words to make on their magnetic board. We had to help our partners and check that their spelling was correct by reading their words.
This week we also got our first reading book in P2. We were learning to use our knowledge of phonics and common words to read aloud. We spotted some of our vowel digraphs in our reading books!
In Numeracy and Mathematics, we continued to explore symmetry. We learned to complete a symmetrical shape when we could see half of it and we created our own symmetrical designs. Some of us also made our own symmetrical butterflies, created symmetrical pictures with our natural resources and made symmetrical patterns on our peg boards.
This week we also started working with numbers to 100. We learned to sequence numbers to 100 and then to find numbers after, before and between.
In PE this week, we played some warm up games and then we rotated round different stations. We were working on skipping, throwing and catching, running and dribbling.
On Thursday afternoon, we had paired reading with our P6 pals. They came down to our classroom and read us our new P2 reading books. Next week our P6 pals are going to help us with using the laptops.
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend,
P2B and Miss Harrison xxx
Another busy week in P1, we are learning so much and making lots of progress.
In Phonics we have be learning the sounds p and n. We learned the Jolly phonics song, found the letters on magnetic letter boards, drew pictures of things that begin with p and n and had a go at forming the letters.
p – down the pirate’s plait and over the pirate’s face
n- down Nobby, back up Nobby and over his net
We even had a go at writing some words using the sounds – Mrs Bell was very impressed!
In Numeracy we have been learning about the numbers 2, 3 and 4. We found forming 2 and 3 quite tricky but we will keep practising. We also learned about 2D shapes – circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. We went on a shape hunt around our classroom:
On Thursday we met Camembert the bear who is visiting us from France. He was a little bit shy as he doesn’t speak any English. We had to speak to him in French! We learned how to say ‘hello’ and ‘my name is…’
Some photos of outdoor fun, reading to our friends and writing our names:
Admin for next week:
Thank you to those who handed homework folders in on Thursday. Please send homework folders in if you haven’t already so that we can give out new sounds on Monday.
Have a lovely weekend!
Love from P1B and Mrs Bell x
Numeracy and Mathematics
In Numeracy and Mathematics this week we have consolidating our learning of place value. This involved being able to explain the link between a digit, its place and its value. We reminded ourselves that a digit is a single numerical symbol whereas a number is a series of digits. When applying our learning, we were asked to find the ‘value’ of a particular digit within a number, e.g. what is the value of 7 in 37,560, to which we would (hopefully) say 7,000.
In mental maths this week we have been doing some Number Talks. This is when we are posed with a calculation and have to play with the number to increase our ‘number sense’, i.e. visualising problems, performing varied calculations quickly and being more flexible in our mathematical strategy. We were asked how many ways we could solve 357 + 444 before verbalising and demonstrating our strategies to the rest of the class. This will be a included in our Numeracy and Mathematics everyday throughout the year as a 10/15 minute warm-up. We’re hoping to become better ‘mathletes’ by the end of P5!
Literacy and English
In reading this week, we have been assigned our group novels for the term and used ‘prediction’ and ‘prior knowledge’ within group discussions. We discussed what would happen in the story and how the plot may unfold, and shared our prior knowledge of themes explored on the cover and within the blurb.
We also worked on some Japan reading comprehension after accessing an informative text about the country. We were posed with a range of literal and inferential questions and had to ensure we used the wording of the question to form our answers and full sentences at all times. The final set of questions were evaluative where we offered our own opinion and viewpoint.
Learning Across the Curriculum
Basketball continues to be our focus within P.E and we have been working on both our dribbling and passing skills during our two sessions this week. Whilst dribbling, we focused on:
We also used a range of passing types; chest, bounce and overhead, discussing scenarios when these would be most effective.
Our knowledge of Japan has been built upon this week as were introduced to key information about the country before using our notes to create fact files. We used headings, sub-headings and an appropriate layout to display this information is a clear way. Next week, we’ll be digging further into life in Japan and how this differs from life here in Scotland.
Achievements
Coming Up
Have a great weekend everyone!
P5 and Mr Logan
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