P1 Parents & Carers – Scottish Book Trust needs your help!

Every November, Scottish Book Trust gifts a free bag of books to every P1 child in Scotland to help them with their reading, writing and counting and to encourage them to develop a life-long love of books. Scottish Book Trust is asking parents and carers of children in P1 to complete a short online survey about the Bookbug Primary 1 Family Bag. Please click hereto take part in the survey, which shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to complete. Your feedback will help us to improve the Bookbug P1 Family Bag in the future and you could win a free bundle of books! The deadline for completing the survey is 10 February 2017

The children in Primary 1 have learned lots about Scotland through our Scottish topic.  We have learned a poem called ‘Sair Teeth’ and had a competition in class where each child had the opportunity to recite the poem, Mrs Sutherland and Mrs McKay were very impressed and had great difficulty choosing winners!  We have enjoyed finding out about different places in Scotland using the Hamish McHaggis stories.  We created our own ‘Whirry Bang’ cars in the classrooms and worked well as a group to explain how our Whirry Bangs were made and why we had selected the items used.

P1M are very proud to introduce Nutty our class squirrel.  We had a class vote to choose his name, we think Nutty suits him nicely.  One child can take him home each night.  We use a random name picker to see who will be next-it is very exciting!

Our Reward Time has taken on a Scottish twist! We sign up for our Reward Time activities at the start of the week and can choose whether to work in the P1M or P1S classroom.  It is a great way to mix with children who are not in our class.  The children love playing in the Post Office and have been making and writing their own post cards.  Some children opted to do some Scottish dancing-it was lots of fun and really tired the children out!

Primary 1 have had a very busy January already and we would like to share some of our learning with you.

We have started off by learning about Scotland. Here are some things we already know, such as what people might eat, some celebrations, story characters and places.

We have been listening to some stories about Katie Morag and watched a programme where the author, Mairi Hedderwick, talked about the Isle of Struay and read the story of Katie Morag and Tiresome Ted. Poor Ted ended up in a very bad way as you will see from the pastel crayon drawings we made of him. Can you see where he had to be patched up and stitched? Katie Morag’s mummy and daddy own the Post Office on the island and we have made our own Post Office outside the classroom with uniforms to wear and a post box for letters and cards that we can write.

We have learned the names of some animals too. Can you guess what these are? Tod, dug, moose, hoolit? We heard some of the names in The Gruffalo in Scots which Logan’s mummy kindly sent in. Mrs Sutherland quite enjoyed reading it but we thought she sounded funny!

We are learning a Scots poem called Sair Teeth which is about another poor teddy. This one has sore teeth. Next Friday we are having a poetry competition in the two Primary 1 classes with some special Scots prizes.

In Literacy we looked at some lovely winter pictures and used them to think of and make our own list of winter words. Here they are.

In our number work, we have been doing lots of practice on our addition work and will be starting to add three numbers together. We have done some revision of counting backwards. We have been learning about doubles of numbers and have made our own number lines using cones and stars. Here are two of us being busy mathematicians!

A lovely, busy, fun start to 2017 – Mrs McKay and Mrs Sutherland are very pleased with us!