The children are learning about winter. They enjoyed sledging in the snow and making ice watching it melt in the water tray
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The children also enjoyed taking part in activities to celebrate Robert Burns birthday. They made tartan pictures, tried haggis, made shortbread biscuits and listened to Mrs Baird playing the bagpipes.
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It’s been another busy week in Primary 1 – here is some of our learning to share with you!
We are almost at the end of our topic on Scotland. We have been hearing all about Hamish McHaggis and we have a challenge to make his car or “Whirry Bang” at home. Mrs McKay and Mrs Sutherland are going to make a Whirry Bang too!
We looked at pictures of Hamish and also used what we could remember from the stories to make a mind map all about him. We know that he and his friends go for great adventures and they always take things to eat with them!
We have learned about different places in Scotland and have learned about postcards. You might get one of these from someone who is on holiday. Mrs Sutherland sent us a postcard from Edinburgh with these cute wee doggies!
Mrs Baird appeared in our class with the bagpipes to listen to. We thought that the bagpipes were noisy but we love having visitors!
We have been learning this week about odd and even numbers. We know an easy way to find out if a number is odd or even and here we are putting animals into groups of two (we know these are called pairs). If there is an odd one out we know we have an odd number and if all the animals have a partner then we have an even number. We listened to a story about two cousins called Odd Todd and Even Steven, then started to make our own posters to remind us of what the odd and even numbers are. We found a book in the cosy corner library about an odd number!
We had our Reward Time at the beginning of the week as we were so busy with our Scots poetry competition last Friday.
Here we are enjoying the different activities we can choose from. We love Mr and Mrs McColl’s Post Office which is outside the classroom. We have been doing lots of independent writing here, organising the deliveries, and taking it in turns to wear the postie’s uniform and carry the mail bag.
This week we have been learning the ‘wa’ sound. We have been making words with this sound and we have been reading words with this sound. Some of the words that we have made are;
Ross- wash
Erin – wasp
Aidan – water
Paige – was
Daniel – wander
Charlotte – walk
Keep an eye on our class blog to see a video of some of the children practicing their phonics.
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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.
