Pumpkin 🎃 play in primary 1. Primary 1 were given a pumpkin to explore this week. We all talked about when we had seen one before, if anyone had tasted and the smell of them.

We had lots of fun scooping out the inside and discovering 🌱 seeds, we carefully washed them at sat them out to dry. The class decided that they would like to try to grow their own pumpkins…..watch this space.
The pumpkin was then made into a 🎃 Jack-o-lantern and then chopped up for soup. Some of us used the top of it to practice our screwing skills.

We had a lovely outdoor session this week, enjoying the Autumn 🍂 sunshine we headed to the park.

During the week we also got to participate in our committee groups, we did very well moving round the school to other classrooms and working with children from across the school to make important committee decisions.

On Friday we participated in mass with the whole school. We were all very respectful and listened really well to Father and the Primary 7’s.

Have a lovely holiday 😀

This week in Primary 1 we started our topic, Families. We thought about our own families and drew pictures to represent them. Lots of discussions we had about different types of families.

After  learning about the season of Autumn we read the story Pumpkin Soup and have been getting creative with materials to make pretend soup in class.
On Friday we got to vote for House Captains, we had to go up to the Primary 7 classroom to vote. We were all very sensible.

As we were upstairs in the school we took the opportunity to visit some of the other spaces and classrooms in the school, it was lots of fun.

Have a lovely weekend everyone 🥰

What a very messy afternoon we had at cooking club today!

We melted chocolate and made chocolate covered apples and bananas and decorated them with sprinkles 🍫 🍎 🍌 it was lots of fun and very messy! Once we decorated our apples and bananas we then got to dip marshmallows into the melted chocolate 🍫 it was very yummy and sticky.

Some of us ate all our goodies but some of us have them in the fridge to take home tomorrow.

We are looking forward to the next block of cooking club already 😀

We had lots of fun with numbers this week, lots of games and counting. We even managed to use the vegetables we collected from the garden to make a chart and practice counting.

On Friday we had the chance to come to breakfast club with our adults. We got to choose lots of tasty things and sit with our family and friends.

The adults then got to come into our class to to see us doing literacy work. We did our Free Writing Friday, and we showed our grown ups or writing and sounds jitters.

We loved showing our adults our classroom and our wonderful work.

Primary 1 have had a super learning week.

We spent some time in the garden harvesting some vegetables 🥔  🥕 and turnip. Finding our vegetable treasure was very exciting. We got to use garden tools and had to dig deep to find them. They were very dirty,  so we have spent time cleaning them. Lots of discussion was had on what we could make with them.

There was enough for us all to take one home!

The cleaning was lots of fun, we enjoyed looking at them once all the dirt was washed off.

We then peeled and chopped the vegetables and put them in a pot to make soup, we added water, lentils, stock cubes and mixed it before putting it on the cooker. We bought some extra vegetables from the shop to add to our soup.

Once the soup was cooked we buttered some bread and had a taste of it, some of us ate more than one bowl of soup, it was that tasty. Some of us just smelt the soup as we were unsure and some of us only had bread.

This week we made cheese and ham toasties with salad 🥗 and a hot chocolate ☕️.

Wow what a quick week in Primary 1!
We made the most of the sunshine ☀️ and got outside for some story time and some literacy. With chalk we wrote our sounds and our names in the playground.

As we will be starting to use Seesaw at home we spent some time practicing how to logon, to find an activity, using the tools and clicking the ✅ to submit our work. We all did very well.

As Autumn 🍂 is beginning we have been taking about what the changes are in our environment that lets us know it is Autumn. During our outdoor learning session we collected fallen leaves and sticks. Back in class we very carefully separated all the leaves 🍁 and put them between paper to press them dry. We can’t wait to have a look at them in once they are dry and use them.

Have a lovely weekend!