We have all settled well into P1 and have been learning lots of things already. We have been getting to know each other and we are very good at sharing and doing jobs that need teamwork. During our transition into Primary One we found out about Julia Donaldson. We decided to write her a letter with some of our questions. Her reply is in the first photograph. In literacy we have been making our own stories by ordering pictures on story stones and speaking our story into a voice recorder. With our buddies we have started practising retelling a familiar story and we will be making characters and a setting to act it out. Already we know the sounds a, t, s, i, and p. We have been learning how to write these sounds and talking about words containing these sounds. In number we have been ordering numbers, practising careful counting of objects, learning to recognise dice patterns and finger patterns and to write numbers 1 to 4. In the afternoons we have been finding out about our school. We have had lots of good ideas about what we can do. Mrs Stewart answered lots of our questions about her two jobs in the school and we learnt how we can help her too. We had a walk around the school and took lots of photographs and talked to people we met.

Here are our comments about what we like to play with and what we have been learning:

Aaron – I like the doll’s house. I’ve been learning about numbers. Butterfly Three.

Alfie – I like the painting table. I know t for tennis.

Cameron- I like the doll’s house. I have been learning about i for Inky Mouse.

Charlee- I like the water. I have learnt how to write.

Daniel – I like playing on the keyboard.

Ellen – I like the craft table. We have learnt to write letters.

Emin – I like doing gluing. I’ve been learning about letters and numbers and pictures.

Emma – I liked playing with animals and I liked Penguin 1.

Jack – I like drawing. I have learnt lots of new things like a and t and p and i.

Kai – I like the water. We do numbers like one and numbers after two.

Leon – I like brick. I learnt writing.

Levi – I like plasticine. I ‘ve learnt letters.

Monty – I like plasticine. Number one just goes down.

Pippa – I like the art table and we do good behaviour.

Ruby – I like bricks. I have done writing.

Theo – I like the water tray. We have been learning numbers and letters.

TJ – I like sand. I have been learning sounds.

Wiktoria – I like drawing. I have learnt letters and numbers.

Zoe – I like the shop. I have learnt s, a, p, t and the one with the dot!