Category: Primary 1

Here are the children’s highlights of our learning this week:

Oliver: “the ‘s’ sound is blue.”

Seren: “it is blue because the back of our tongue is blue and the ‘s’ sound comes from our tongue.”

Chloe: “we were making the ‘s’ sound with pipe cleaners.”

Eve: “we made a Harry and the dinosaurs book.”

Kayla: “we stuck on the author and illustrators name onto the bottom of the book.”

Isabelle: “the title goes at the top of the book.”

Hanna: “we learned how to write the number 8.”

Mark: “we went a walk around the school and saw Mrs Roy.”

Liam: “I made a dinosaur and wrote about the dinosaur. I was the star writer.”

Victoria: “we were writing numbers in flour trays. I wrote the number 8.”

Robert: “we made dinosaurs using plasticine”

Chloe: “we took vidoes with our dinosaurs.”

Blake: “in PE when the music is on we done lots of travelling like running or galloping and when the music stops you freeze or find your own space.”

Evie: “We made a letter ‘p’ with pasta.”

Joshua: “We have a ‘s’ box and a ‘p’ box. Pasta is in the pink ‘p’ box and scissors are in the ‘s’ blue box.”

Below are some ideas to support learning at home:

If you make something at home e.g. a dinosaur, why don’t you make a movie by filming you acting out a story with your creation – great ideas for oral literacy and improving your technology skills!

We were learning about ‘heavy and light’ – what things can you find in your house that are heavy and what things are light?

‘s’ is a blue sound because we use our tongue to make this sound. Can you find the blue veins on the bottom of your tongue. ‘p’ is a pink sound, we make this sound from our lips. Some lip sounds are red because they are loud sounds like ‘m’ but ‘p’ is a quiet lip sound so this is a pink sound. Here are the songs we used to support learning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybiJTZNLvTI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlPKm1Hbl8

Remember to follow Miss Meechan on twitter for videos and photos of our learning @missm_stnps

Check out your child’s online journal for lots of updates too.

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to reading all of your comments on Monday.

Miss Meechan and P1M

 

What a busy week we have had in P1M.

In numeracy we have working on number formation, sequencing numbers within 5 and counting to 20. Below are some links for videos and games you can use at home to support learning.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers

 

In literacy we have introduced 2 sounds this week. The ‘m’ sound and the ‘c’ sound. We have learned that the ‘m’ sound is a red sound, because we make this sound from our lips and our lips are red. We put jam on our lips and made the long ‘mmmmmmmmm’ sound because the jam was very tasty! The ‘c’ sound, is a yellow sound. We make this sound from the back of our moths, we used a torch to look into the back of our partners mouth and when we shone the torch, their mouth turned yellow! Here are some songs we have learned to help us remember the ‘m’ and c’ sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFUhr2LToBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-g13UbDxu0

Next week we are learning the ‘s’ and ‘p’ sounds. Do you have the ‘s’ or ‘p’ sound in your name?

Finally, we continued our ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs’ topic by listening to the story ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs go to School’. We were able to compare the way Harry was feeling starting school with our own experiences. In the story, a boy called Jack named himself Jack-osaurus. We thought this was very funny so painted our own dinosaurs and gave them funny names. Mark’s dinosaur was called Mark-osaurus, Blake’s dinosaur was called Blake-osaurus – you get the idea! We can’t wait to show you our paintings!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Meechan and P1M

The fantastic children of P1M have had a super first week of school filled with fun and laughter.

Here are some of our highlights:

This week we have been getting to grips with our classroom routines. We have now mastered changing between our indoor and outdoor shoes really quickly and getting our coats off first thing in the morning. When we come into school there are always different activities for us to take part in straight away. The favourite ‘soft start’ task of this week was the construction, we have some fantastic builders and engineers in the making in P1M!

In numeracy this week we have working on numbers within 10. We have been learning how to form these numbers correctly using little rhymes to help us.

2 “half a heart says ‘I love you’, add a line, now I’ve made the number 2”

3 “around the tree, around the tree, now I’ve made the number 3”

4 “down and across and down once more, now I’ve made the number 4”

If you are practising writing your numbers at home, these rhymes will help you. What number do you think we will be learning about on Monday?

We have been forming our numbers using lots of fun ways, writing in our number formation booklet, using the glitter trays and using play-doh too. These are some other ideas for you to try out at home too.

We listened to the story ‘Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs’ this week and decided that this would be a very fun topic for our first ever topic at school. After listening to the story we thought about what different activities we would like to take part in based on this topic. Miss Meechan was very pleased with some of our ideas and we have displayed this on our ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs’ wall just outside our classroom. We took part in a dinosaur themed ‘structured play’ session after listening to this story. This was lots of fun!

We visited the morning nursery class to let our old friends know how we were getting on. We can’t wait to visit the afternoon class next week and speak to our old friends there too!

And of course, the favourite activity of the week had to be golden time! We can’t wait for golden time again next week. During golden time we get to play with our friends in P1B!

 

All the children are looking forward to full days next week and having their lunch in the lunch hall.

See you on Monday, have a lovely weekend.

Miss Meechan and P1M

What a fantastic last week we have had.

We went to a Gruffalo party with the PM Nursery Group, went to mass in the Lanthorn, had a class party, joined in with Crazy Hair Day and lots more!

We spent time discussing memories, here are the children’s thoughts:

James: Goldentime – I got to play with all my friends

Brooke: Christmas Party – Santa came and I enjoyed the food.

Amber: Playtime – I got to play with all my friends.

Lucy: Structured Play – I got to play with lots of things.

Bernice: Health Week – We had a fun run and got to do lots of sports.

Mark: Gruffalo Party – I liked singing the Gruffalo song with the nursery.

Dexter: Numberwork – Each day we got harder and harder sums to do.

Paul M : Pirates topic – I loved making the big pirate ship for our display.

Dawid: Art and Craft – I liked making things, especially the flower pictures with Mrs Thomson.

Ephraim: Movie night – I enjoyed coming back to school at night with a snack and cushion to watch a movie.

Lloyd: Crazy hair Day – It was funny when people came to school with crazy hair.

Sahara: Dress Down Days – I liked wearing my own clothes.

Isla: Numberwork – I liked learning all about numbers.

Abigail: Everything – I liked doing different things every day!

Klaudia: Maths – I liked learning about numbers.

Rafay: Goldentime – I liked playing with all the toys in the classroom.

It has been a fantastic year for everyone and I am really sad to say goodbye to them all. I wish them all the luck for P2 and P2/3 and hope they come to visit me in P6/7.

Have a lovely summer everyone and thank you for all your support/gifts over the last year – it’s been emotional!

Today we had some special visitors from Urban Nature as a House treat. It was a fantastic experience for everyone – thank you! Here are the photographs for you to have a look at:

Another busy week to report on in P1R. The children worked with Mrs Kerr on Monday and Tuesday and kept busy with their tasks as Mrs Roy was getting ready for the RRS visitors. She enjoyed her short visit and said the children worked very well for her.

Here are some of the highlights shared by the children:

Isla – I enjoyed seeing the nursery children coming into the lunch hall.
Ephraim – I enjoyed playing literacy and numeracy apps on the ipad.
Lloyd – I chose to play on the ipad during Goldentime.
Rafay – I enjoy doing homework, I have been working hard on my Fry’s words and reading.
Mark – I have liked playing Sumdog on the ipads.
Paul – I enjoyed playing with my friends.
Dexter – I enjoyed number work, I am really good with numbers to 20.
Brooke – I enjoyed learning the number names for 0-20, I also liked dressing up at Goldentime.
Bernice – I have loved everything at school this week.
Abigail – I enjoyed maths.
Lucy – I enjoyed playing a pirate app on the ipads.
James – I enjoyed playing with Klaudia.
Klaudia – During Goldentime I dressed up as a cat.
Nathan – I enjoy playing with the lego.

On Tuesday James and Ephraim represented our class at the meeting with the RRS visitors and they spoke confidently about their leaning and knowledge of the UN Convention and the Global Goals. Well done boys!!

Next week there are a few special events happening:
Monday – House Reward for winning house, Microfitness.
Party Animals visit in the afternoon.
Children will receive a letter telling them about their
new class for next year.

Tuesday – Sports Day 10am-11.30am on upper school playing field. Children will take part in potted sports in House teams to win points. Parents/families are welcome to come along and watch. Children to bring a water bottle and wear House colours that day.

Thursday – Moving Up Morning, children line up and register at P1 class then will be taken to their new class for the morning.

Friday – The Charity Committee have organised a Marie Curie Blooming Great Tea Party, a letter has been sent out with further information.

Due to all of these events there will be no formal homework issued next week. It might be a good opportunity for you to talk to your child about the move to their new class.

Kerr picked the name of our blog this week.

Writing

Adam: “everything in our classroom was upside down.”

Rutendo: “there was a monster in our classroom and turned our classroom upside down.”

Sophie: “he turned the chairs and tables upside down.”

Casper: “I think the lizard turned the classroom upside down.”

Esmee: “I think it was Mrs Gardner.”

Marcel: “I think it was Mrs Purdie.”

Patryk: “Mrs Purdie is naughty and she likes everything upside down.”

Jakub: “Mrs Purdie was wearing high heels and if she was wearing high heels then she can reach the things to turn them high heels but if she wasn’t wearing high heels she couldn’t do it.”

Number Work

Kaitlyn: “we had to sit on the upside down chair or on the floor to do number work because everything was upside down.”

Stefan: “I know that 9 add 2 is 11.”

Kaimee: “We were counting in 2’s.”

Daniel: “2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20”

MacKenzie: “I know some sums. 1+1 is 2 1+2 is 3.

PE

Jarred: “I liked on the ropes and climbing on them and swinging. This gives me exercise and gets me fit.”

Jakub: “I was balancing on the benches and people helped me.”

Casper: “I was throwing bean bags into hula hoops. I scored zero points.”

Kyle: “I scored 10 points.”

Kaitlyn: “We copied some exercise in the hall from Joe Wicks to get fit.”

Oliver: “I done the daily mile.”

Reading

Rutendo: “We got new books. My book was called ‘The Bus’.”

Adam: “My book was jungle shorts.”

Kayla: “My book was Robin Hood.”

Stefan: “My books was Drumsticks.”

Patryk: “My book was On The Mat.”

Patryk: “We had a vowel house that was all mixed up.”

Rutendo: “We had to put the vowel house in order.”

Play

Sophie: “I was playing doctors.”

Kaitlyn: “You can play in the sand pit and you had to match the sums.”

Jakub: “Making a Gruffalo.”

Poppy: “We were making cards for who we want as our new teachers. I made one for Miss Boyes.”

Hayley: “I made a card for Miss Boyes.”

Kerr: “We had to draw around peoples bodies and draw in the missing parts.”

Jakub: “You can make your own clock too.”