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This week we are discussing Global Goal 3. Talk about what you do at school and home to ensure your health and wellbeing is as good as it can be. Consider that this may not be the case globally. Log on to the globalgoals.org website for more information.
What a great week we’ve had in P1R this week, where shall we begin…
In literacy we have now learned all our P1 Sounds so have been focusing on revising the ones we found tricky, eg. Digraphs and oa/oi. Some of us even learned about alternative spellings of the vowel sound ai/ay. We played games in pairs, used letter join on the iPads, did some cut and stick word tasks, did a team task in our Talking Book and practised spelling in our journals. Lucy and Isla wanted to share this funny video with everyone:
In reading we are all progressing well and are quickly getting through different books. We enjoy our paired reading on a Tuesday with P7 and Mrs Docherty is now joining us for reading too which has been lovely!
Maths has been good fun as we continued to learn about time using little clocks, matching digital to analogue times, Stop the Clock (Dexter was our champion) on the smartboard and time bingo. We are all reminding Mrs Roy about lunchtime-12 o’clock and hometime-3 o’clock! You can download the Stop the Clock app onto your tablet or iPads at home if you want to try and beat your fastest time!
The Gruffalo continues to be our topic and we worked with the nursery to share our favourite characters, we all drew a picture and labelled it for our display while listening to the Gruffalo song. During Art we got out the paints and then created paintings of our favourite characters for our Art Gallery. We also finished our Gruffalo collage, we can’t wait to share it with you at Parent’s Night.
In writing we wrote a recount of our trip to the woods,congratulations to James and Klaudia who were our star writers.
As the sun was shining we took some learning outdoors for PE and Structured Play. We are all enjoying Athletics and are preparing well for Sports Day.
This is the topic for discussion this week. What are your thoughts on this? What could we do help achieve this goal? Think locally, nationally and globally.
Use this link for more information http://www.globalgoals.org/global-goals/no-hunger/
Time continued to be the focus in mathematics and we welcomed some of the AM nursery children into our lessons. We learned about o’clock and the important job the hands on the clock do. We discussed why do we need to learn about time and sang a time song. In carousels we made clocks, played bingo taking turns to be the bingo caller, worked in pairs to match times and lots more.
During topic time we invited the nursery PM gps over to continue our work on The Gruffalo. We listened to the Gruffalo song as a warm up then discussed the characters from the story. We each made a Gruffalo story wheel which we will use later to retell the story in our own words.
On Friday we attended our committee groups,here are some of the highlights:
I learned all about cooking equipment-Bernice
I learned about Marie Curie, we are planning a tea party for charity-Paul M
I was outside and had to think of how we could make our playground more fun-Isla
We made posters about Fairtrade-Ephraim and Dawid
I was talking about my favourite thing this year – Lucy
I went on a litter pick-Amber
I listened to the Rainbow story and worked with Paige- James
After a number of weeks of counting we have now gathered our totals which we have sent to St Margaret’s. We will be heading up to the academy during May or June to help make up the bags for the children of Malawi, we are really excited about this. Thank you for all your kind donations.
| Item | Total number collected |
| sharpeners
|
50 |
| soap
|
101 |
| gluesticks
|
4 |
| Scissors | 1 |
| Rulers | 9 |
| Water bottles
|
18
|
| Small toys | 99 |
| toothbrushes
|
162 |
| toothpaste
|
108 |
| Sweets | 545
|
| Small balls | 65 |
| Colouring pencils | 13 |
| Colouring pencils – packs
|
32 |
| Small tissue packs
|
13 |
| Writing Pencils | 540
|
| notebooks
|
173 |
| Coloured pens
Writing pens |
155
164 |
| pencilcases
|
44 |
| sponges | 28 |
| shoes | 3 |
| Shorts/leggings
Tops |
2
1 |
| Calculators
|
2
|
|
Story books |
12 |
| Rubbers
|
182 |
| bubbles | 83 |
| Glitter glue sticks | 18 |
| Microwave containers | 12 |
| Spoons | 20 |
| balloons | 30 |
| Sticker packs | 1 |
| Emoji stick on nail pack | 1 |
| Paint pack | 1 |
| Hair bobble pack | 50 in 1 pack |
| Kids plasters | 30 in 1 pack |
| Glow stick | 20 in 1 pack |
| Create your own fairy wings pack | 1 |
| 3d velvet glider packs | 1 |
Message from UN Ambassador’s:
In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Our governments have a plan to save our planet…it’s our job to make sure they stick to it.
Every week we will focus on a different goal for discussion. You can find out more at the global goals website:
As the title suggests we have started learning about time and this week the focus was on days of the week, months and daily routines. We listened to some catchy songs to engage us in our learning before doing some tasks. We did a cut and stick sequencing task, worked with a partner and in groups to discuss daily routines, made a class birthday chart and also tried to use simple timetables. Mrs Purdie popped in while we were making a birthday chart and we asked her when her birthday was, can you remember which month it was? Next week we will progress onto learning about analogue and digital clocks and how to tell o’clock times.
We planned out our new topic, The Gruffalo. We read the story and then came up with lots of ideas about activities we could do in class. We added this to our visible plan and our talking book. The nursery are working alongside us on this and we will have opportunities to share our learning as the topic progresses. One of the first suggestions was to create a collage for our classroom so we got to work in teams using different materials, felt, twigs, paint,crepe paper and feathers. It’s starting to look good on the wall and we add to it as we learn more. In reading we did a picture this activity when from memory we had to draw a detailed picture of the Gruffalo,we did really well with this. Then in writing we wrote a description of the Gruffalo using the drawings we had made. We added some of these to our class display.
Our transition work with the nursery continued and we invited the AM and PM groups over so we could share the Talking Transition Book with them. We told them all about school and answered some of their questions. Next week they will join us for a literacy and mathematics lesson.
Remember we are on holiday on Monday and PE kit (indoor and outdoor) needed for Tuesday.
This week we tried to take a lot of our learning outdoors and everyone had great fun.
In literacy we did some spelling work outside using the large chalks then played outdoor Frys word bingo. It got a bit messy but we all agreed that it was a fun way to practise our Frys words. Well done to Paul M for being our bingo winner!
In maths we were learning about positional language and directions. We played lots of fun games to help us, eg. Stand beside the door, sit on top of the table (don’t tell Mrs Purdie we were on top of the tables), sit under the table, stand beside the gate, etc. We also used hoops outside and had to follow more instructions, eg. Jump in the hoop, stand behind the hoop. Then Sahara had a great idea to help us remember left and right, she taught us all how to dab then we had to sing,” dab to the left, dab to the right”. We also used this song:
For our science learning we focused on seasons and went on a spring scavenger hunt. We had to use our senses to see,touch, hear and smell things. We all set to work and recorded our findings on our clipboards.
We then shared this learning with the PM nursery when we all joined together to go for a walk to the Dedridge pond and woods. It was a lovely afternoon and we were super excited to see lots of squirrels, ducks and 2 swans, we think the mummy swan was sitting on her nest guarding some eggs, we will go back in a few weeks to check how she is getting on. We also spotted some bat boxes and different types of flowers and trees.
To finish the week off we decided to stop off at the park for some fun and games. It was lovely to see everyone playing nicely together, seeing lots of smiles and hearing lots of laughter!
Message from UN Ambassador’s committee:
We have created a survey monkey to gather views about the RRS Award we are involved in. We would really appreciate if you could take the time to complete this before 21st April as this will help us evaluate our progress towards Level 2. This is the link you will need: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MGRYYTN
Thank you!
As the title suggests there has been a lot of excitement this week as the holidays approached. We have still managed to squeeze in lots of learning before the holidays begin….
It’s been revision week in literacy and numeracy to allow us time to assess our learning and decide on next steps for our final term. We have enjoyed choosing games and activities which have helped us learn, eg. Bug subtraction, The Bus Stop, digraph board games and lots more.
We liked using this song to help us learn about digraphs, click on the link to sing along with ua
In RE we have spent time learning about a very special story, The Easter Story. We have all been trying really hard to keep our Lenten promises and are looking forward to celebrating Easter with our families. We made some super ‘He is risen’ plates to show our understanding of the Easter Story.
Our structured play also had an Easter theme and we enjoyed Easter egg finger painting, making cone Spring animals, Easter themed maths playdough activities, Easter writing and Easter interactive games. On Friday we also made our own Easter bonnets.
We kept ourselves very busy during Ninian’s Natter this week – we had three stations – the kickstart station, reviewing our goals and GIRFEC wheel station and learning through technology station. Have a look in our online journals to see how we got on with reviewing our goals.
Today we celebrated achievements but also said goodbye to 2 members of our St Ninian’s family – Mrs Craig and Mrs Black. We will all miss you and wish you luck and happiness for the future!
Have a lovely holiday everyone, it has been a great term, I look forward to seeing you all on the 18th April!!!
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