Author: Miss Diamond

This has been a very exciting week in Primary 1D! We have completed our Pirate adventure. Pirate Pete was in touch to tell us he had been caught in a storm and it wrecked it ship but worse than that…someone stole his treasure. We agreed as a class that this was a challenge we wanted to help with. We were very lucky to have our school trip to ‘The Tall Ship’ in Glasgow where we found the treasure. We had lots of fun and were exhausted by the end of the day. Some of our highlights were ringing the bell, scrubbing the deck and hunting for the sleeping cat.

We had to make treasure maps to help us find the treasure. Thankfully we have been learning all about directions in maths so we had a good understanding of where the treasure may be. One of  our favourite activities was listening to instructions and drawing objects in the correct places to complete a picture.

 

We made a collage of Captain Pete Pigeons ship wreck using a variety of materials. We are very creative in Primary 1D!

We have introduced the daily mile this week at school, even for Primary 1! So far we have managed to get round the track four and a half times in 15 minutes. The full mile requires five laps so we are very close! Are you impressed?

Some of the children’s highlights of the week:

Vanessa – “I liked looking for the treasure.”

Maja – “I like ringing the bell on the Tall Ship.”

Poppy – “I liked the school trip.”

Chloe – “I liked learning about directions and making a treasure map.”

Have a great weekend,

Miss Diamond and Primary 1D

We have had a fun filled technologies week in P1D. We have loved learning about food technology where we made treasure map pizzas and cheese and apple pirate ships! There is no end to our creativity.

We had a special visitor from Morrison construction called Sharon. She told us all about her job and even let us help her design and build a new city! How cool!

We have had lots of fun revisiting different maths concepts this week and you would have been so impressed with how much we have remembered!  We have enjoyed using different materials to explore numbers including rekenreks, ten frames and our favourite is our hidden bunny ears!

We have come on leaps and bounds in gymnastics. Our skills, control, balance and confidence has grown so much during this block. We have some very talented gymnasts in our class.

We have been preparing for Lent this week. We thoroughly enjoyed Shrove Tuesday and loved having a tasty little pancake. We participated well in the whole school Ash Wednesday mass.

We would like to thank you for your support at home with this weeks food technology homework! We loved showing off our Pirate snacks to one another!

Have a great weekend!

Miss Diamond and P1D.

We have had a brilliant week in Primary 1D! The highlight of the week was receiving a letter to tell us that Captain Pete Pigeon suspects that there may have been Pirates in the local woods and we had to go on a scavenger hunt to see if they had been in our playground! We found so many clues that would suggest they most definitely have been here! Thankfully we had made our pirate weapons earlier in the week in case we needed them! Kayden our photographer managed to capture some of the magic!

In maths, we have been learning all about 3D shapes! We found some in our classroom, we explored shapes by making different models with them using plastic shapes and creating playdough shapes and we even made shapes from nets! This was really tricky!  Impressive or what! Two of our favourite games was 3D shape bingo and playing shape dominoes with Mrs Simpson!

We are coming on leaps and bounds with our reading! We have been making predictions, hiding the pictures so that we can’t use picture clues to help us and even sequencing pictures to retell the story. We are still trying very hard with our tricky words and making good progress in our weekly tricky word check in with Mrs Gardner.

Have a good weekend!

Miss Diamond and P1D

We are fit to burst in Primary 1D with all of our learning this week! We have been learning about 2D shapes and have loved lots of the activities we have used to help us. Two of our favourites have been using shapes to draw shape pictures and trying to guess the ‘mystery shape’ hidden in a feely bag! This was very tricky!

We are coming on leaps and bounds in PE and are now using the apparatus in gymnastics. We are very sensible but have no fear! We are using lots of different skills and techniques and are supporting one another if someone finds it difficult. We are real team players in our class! Mr McCurdy had to do his forward roll to V-sit twice as he wasn’t happy with his first attempt! We caught him in the act :)!

We love our new story-line approach topic about pirates! This week has been very exciting because we received another letter from Pirate Pete Pigeon! He said we are welcome to join his crew after reading our application forms but we had to build our own Pirate Ship! We have learned about what Pirates do in their spare time and had an afternoon full of activities! Some of them include playing musical instruments, playing cards and building small pirate ships!

Have a great weekend!

Miss Diamond and Primary 1D!

We have had a great week in P1D!

We have been learning all about fractions in maths using shapes, pizza, flags and chocolate!

One of the highlights was when we had to cut a mini roll in half trying to make sure they were both equal. We were all very good at it so as a little treat, we got to eat the mini roll!

We have loved learning more about pirates and even know about two famous pirates! We made pirate hats as Captain Pete Pigeon won’t accept us into his crew if we don’t look the part.

We have been making such good progress with reading that we are now answering written questions about what we have read. This was a tricky task but we all enjoyed it.

Have a good weekend!

We are back in action in P1D after our first full week. We have been learning new sounds and have loved reading and building new words. We really enjoyed word bingo!

We have enjoyed lots of different activities which have helped us learn more about sharing equally! Sharing the ‘Counter Soup’ was a real favourite!

Anther highlight of our week has been our gymnastics lessons! We have done lots of exercises to strengthen our core and this week, we moved on to rolling! We had a go at pencil rolls and forward rolls! Some of us even managed to stand up onto our feet after our forward roll! Can you believe it?

We hope you have enjoyed looking at out learning!

Have a great weekend!

We had a lot of excitement in P1D last week. We had a letter delivered to us but it was not an ordinary letter. It came in a bottle! You guessed it; it was from a Pirate, Pirate Pete. He has invited us on a Pirate Adventure with him and his crew. We planned lots of different activities and discussed what we would like to learn about pirates during our adventure. We are so excited to get started!

We have been learning a new concept in Maths. We have been learning all about…wait for it… division!!! That’s right, division in Primary 1! We really enjoyed using toys and sweeties to help us learn about sharing equally and were very good at it.

We have had a very busy week in P1D. I am sure you would agree that we were Fantástico in our Nativity this week. We thoroughly enjoyed watching ourselves this morning on the big screen and were VERY enthusiastic when we were joining in with all the songs.

Our reading skills are coming on leaps and bounds, we have been working hard to put jumbled up sentences in the correct order by looking for key clues! Are you impressed?

We all have different aspirations in P1D and loved looking at each other’s choice of career today during the World of Work Day.

In maths we have been looking at doubling numbers. We had lots of fun playing a game on the smart board called ‘Hit the button’. Feel free to have a go!

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Have a good weekend, Miss Diamond.

P.s. The Christmas countdown is on :)!