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Fantástico week in P1D!

We have had a fun filled week in P1D again this week.

We have decided as a class what our highlights have been and decided to share some of them with you!

We have been learning all about time and are experts at exploring O’Clock times using analogue and digital clocks. Maybe you could quiz us at home!

We loved playing time games on the Smart board and i-pads, making our very own clock and using playdough to make a specific time.

In Literacy we have been learning new sounds. We have been using the sounds to help us read words, spell words and practise writing using joined up handwriting! One of the highlight was using glitter trays to practise writing shiny ‘sh’s’.

As part of our farming topic we ave been looking at Scottish produce and where in Scotland some of these come from. We loved our food tasting session where we tasted haggis, potatoes, strawberries, raspberries, tablet, oatcakes, shortbread, cheese and smoked salmon! After deciding what we liked and what we weren’t so keen on, we wrote about our favourite one in story writing.

We ended the week with a music lesson exploring pitch, sound and rhythm and were very musical when we introduced musical instruments to the mix!

Happy Friday!

Have a great weekend!

Our learning is never ending in P1D!

We have had a fun filled week in Primary 1D! We are loving our new topic all about farming. We have been learning about different animals and what they give us and all different types of farms. Why not ask us what we know when you see us? We are really enjoying our table top farm made up of different foods!

In maths we have been learning about the days of the week, months of the year and the seasons. We are VERY good at the days of the week in Spanish too…can you believe it? We have been ordering the days and months and trying to figure out which months our Birthday’s are in. This was tricky!

In literacy, we have been learning a very tricky sound, the ‘th’ sound! We are making excellent progress in reading and are enjoying using letterjoin to help us practise our tricky words. sometimes we forget how important letter formation is so we have been practising writing letter in a tray of flour. We are very good at using our sounds to build words and love using the cubes to help us do this.

In PE we have been developing our control skills using basketballs but progressed this week and are now using footballs. This was much more difficult!! We had a team game at the end and, as always, had a great team spirit cheering each other on!

Have a great weekend!

Working together to become better learners!

Yet another jam packed week in P1r, it’s been so busy I haven’t had much time to take photographs so I’ll share the few I do have with you!

In IDL we have continued to learn about farming, with a particular focus on animals and how they give us milk, meat and lots more. The children wanted to make a new collage in the classroom so with some sighs we took down one of our pirate displays. Everyone contributed to this display:

“I helped colour in the farmer” said Madison.

“I made some farm animals and wrote some signs” said Ahmad.

“I worked with the blue table to make the barn” said Alice.

In maths we are learning about time and this week focused on days of the week and months of the year. We enjoyed this and used songs and games to help us learn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIvQOab00OQ

A few of us found day before/after tricky so for homework next week I’ve given you some activities to help with this. We have also changed our maths wall to help us remember the days of the week and months of the year.

In literacy we continued learning tricky sounds and words, this week we introduced the rude sound, “th”. The children enjoyed sticking their tongues out at me when making this sound! To help us learn our tricky words we tried 2 new games this week, bean bag toss and the fly swat game. We had to work together in teams and take turns at being the teacher. In our written tasks we had to be a codebreaker and try to break the code, we also had to read ‘th’ words and then draw a picture for each word. Some of us got to build words with the letter cubes, “I was very good at this” said Elenta. Everyone was very focused at the reading table and every week I am amazed at how well they are all reading – I can’t keep up!!

In PE everyone progressed from dribbling with a basketball to a football, it was agreed by all that good control and focus was needed in these lessons. At the end of the lesson we had a team game, everyone was a great sport!

To end our week we took part in a competition organised by our local Hobbycraft store, we had to design a class Easter Bonnet. Voting starts tomorrow so please go into Hobbycraft and vote for St Ninian’s, if we are successful we will win vouchers up to £150 to spend in the store. We are all really excited about this and hope we can be one of the lucky winners!

One final thing, thank you to all the children who donated to our Lenten Appeal today and wore their PJ’s to school, I loved coming to school dressed in my PJ’s too!!

Healthy, happy learners!

Well as you can see from the title Health and Wellbeing has been a focus for us. We have been doing our daily mile most days and yesterday we managed the full mile in the allocated time – go team 1R! Ahmad says, “I’m really fast”! In PE we have now started a new block focusing on travelling with objects, we have been working with a partner and as a team using balls and hoops. Tomorrow sees the launch of our school healthy tuck shop which we posted on our class dojo story page.

In phonics we have been learning about ‘ou’ which is from Vowel House and we are confidently making sentences and reading ‘ou’ words. We enjoyed a new activity this week which was highlighting words in a story, Angelina said ‘ I love this activity’! There was a challenge at the reading station as the children had to make longer sentences which were muddled up, Matthew said, “I’m good at this” and he was!!

In maths we revisited the concept of money but challenged ourselves by now adding combinations of coins to make totals. We played at being the people who work in a bank by counting all the coins, played a game on the smartboard where we had to do the shopping and then work out the change and we played a team game of matching amounts.

We also started a new topic, “Farming”, the children used their talking book to plan the learning experiences for the rest of the term and they came up with some really good ideas – have a look in our book when you’re next in class. They started by building their very own farm which is now proudly standing up in our library corner (if you have any soft toy farm animals to add to our farm we would be really grateful) and worked well in teams to colour all the different parts. In art they used printing to make fantastic farm landscapes, our hands got very messy! They learned about the parts of a plant and new life in Religious Education, watch out for next week’s homework which involves some outdoor learning about this. In music we made a sound story for Old McDonald has a Farm, the children had to select instruments to play for each of the animals, it was good fun but noisy!

Have a lovely weekend!

Bookworms in P1R!

Happy World Book Day! We had great fun today with all our lessons themed around this – paired reading with P6/7, a reading carousel, writing book reports, sharing our favourite stories, reading a story with the nursery children and our Achievements Assembly. Well done to the children for making such an effort with their costumes!

Our Pirate adventure comes to an end!

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

Pirates at sea

Today was the day we had all been waiting for, Pirate Pete had set us a final challenge to find the hidden treasure. We followed the map all the way to Glasgow and found the treasure(and some rats) on the Tall Ship. A great day was had by all, the children were a credit to us all!

This week’s news in P1R – our values in action!

The week may have been short but it’s been action packed in P1R!

In phonics we spent time looking at the Vowel House story and learned the trickiest sound of all ‘igh’, ask your child if they remember the special name given to 3 letters that make the same sound and leave a message for us on this blog post,it’s worth 20 House Points!! The children were sorting sounds with the igh sound that had different spellings then made their own sentences, they had to write from memory and play phonics games on the smartboard and ipad. We all agreed that this work was challenging but everyone rose to the challenge and succeeded!

In maths we continued to revise shape, addition, subtraction and money. We had good fun working in teams to make a number line to 20 using number names which earned us extra dojo points, played a shape matching game in trios, gave change from 10p using a smartboard game and completed a maths assessment!

In PE we had a choice lesson before starting our new block next week. The children could choose 2 aspects to focus on from our Significant Aspects of learning in PE to focus on, they chose Rhythm and Co-ordination. After some discussion we decided to do some pirate dancing to demonstrate this and film it to review our performance.

Digging for buried treasure was the theme for outdoor learning this week with Mr Hunter, everyone had great fun trying to find the hidden treasures!

As promised some of us went to visit the nursery to share our use of technology with the children, the P1 children from both classes visited the AM and PM groups. I was really impressed at the leadership skills shown by our P1’s, they had the nursery children engrossed in what they had to say and took it in turns to use the various ipad apps. We will continue to provide opportunities to share our learning with the nursery children over the coming months.

I think you will agree that we have made sure our school values are at the heart of what we do in P1R!

Another short but busy week!

We have been busy in P1D even though we have only had a short week at school. We started the week with a visit to our Nursery following on from technologies week. We took our ipads over to share some of our favourite learning apps with them and in return they showed us some of their favourites.

We introduced the ‘igh’ sound this week which is really tricky. We were learning what it sounds like, what it looks like, how to use it in a word and how to write it…wait for it…using joined up handwriting! You could challenge us to see if we can remember what the name for a sound with 3 letters is called!

We have had lots of fun in maths learning about number names and trying to work on our shape names. We still love using the ipads to enhance our learning in maths.

We have been learning all about the weather and enjoyed acting out the different types of weather. Can you guess what types of weather some of our action shots are showing?

We finished off the week with our final infant skills academy. We all enjoyed our block and should have some new skills we could teach you. This is a snap shot of the ‘Hungry for Success’ skills academy with Miss Diamond.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Diamond and Primary 1D

Successful learners in P1R

This week in literacy we introduced a really tricky sound, ‘qu’, the children enjoyed learning a little rhyme to help them remember the rule when writing qu. If you click on the link you can learn the rule too!

QU rhyme

Here are some pictures of the children showing off their spelling skills!

In maths we decided to revise all the concepts taught so far, the children amazed me at how much they have learned and remembered! They enjoyed revising addition, subtraction and money using a variety of activities during carousel time – smartboard games, money sorting, smartpal worksheets, using the rekenrek, question time, etc.

The theme for Religious Education this week was Lent, the children learned about Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. On Shrove Tuesday we enjoyed learning about celebrations around the world and thought it was really funny that in France and USA it is called ‘Mardi Gras’ which translates as ‘fat or grease Tuesday’. We had the opportunity to try some pancakes with our favourite topping, chocolate sauce!! I was really proud of how well they all participated in our whole school Ash Wednesday Mass, it was lovely to see so many children joining in with their prayers and mass responses.

Technology was a whole school focus and we decided to look at food technology but with a pirates twist! We learned about how to prepare our work surface for making different foods, how to prepare ourselves and how to safely use utensils. We enjoyed making treasure map pizzas and pirate ships. Some of us also did some extra food technology at home and made pirate snacks for Friday morning, thanks to Harry and James for making everyone a pirate cake, they were yummy!!

We also had a visitor called Sharon who works in the construction industry. She showed us lots of pictures of different buildings and we were able to link this to previous learning by telling her about different materials they were made from. She set us a challenge in teams to copy a building she had made using bricks, this was really good fun and all teams managed the challenge! To finish off we had a go at P4 work, yes you heard us right, P4 work!! We were able to build a city using co-ordinates and a grid. Thanks Sharon!

Safer Internet Day was on Tuesday and we watched an animation which taught how us about how to stay safe on the internet, we were all really sensible and identified what we should do if people were being mean to us online.

It was also lovely to see our nursery friends as they celebrated Chinese New Year, they certainly celebrated loudly as we could hear them before we could see them! Next week we are going to visit both morning and afternoon groups to teach them how to use the ipads in preparation for when they come to big school.

Have a lovely holiday weekend and I look forward to seeing all the children back in school on Wednesday!