Below is Primary 1’s Term 2 Plan for up until the Easter holidays.
Any questions, please email admin with the subject ‘For Miss Copeland’.
Author: Miss Copeland
Tuesday 24th January – p1
Scottish Week
Primary 1 are learning the poem Twa Leggit Mice this week, ready for Friday’s assembly and parent visit!
Worry Monster fun with our Primary 6 buddies
Ms Finalson set each of us the task to create a Worry Monster to help build our resilience. The aim is that the action of sharing your worries with your monster will bring you comfort. Sometimes the worry monsters each up your worries to! We planned, created and assessed our clay worry monsters with our Primary 6 buddies, using natural resources sources at Dunbar’s Close.
Lunar New Year
We have had so much fun exploring the Lunar (Chinese) New Year, especially making our masks and acting our The Great Race – How the Zodiac animals came to be!
Numeracy – Make it, draw it, write it!
We will be using a make it, draw it, write it approach when learning about numeral identification.
- How many cubes are there? (Can feel and move them)
- How many dots are there? (Point and count but can’t move)
- What number is this? (Instant recall when they see the numeral)
- Give me 3 cubes
- Draw me 3 dots
- Write the number 3
Number bonds – How many different ways can you make the number 3?
Today’s Number is a great game which helps practise this.
Rhyming
In the spirit of Robert Burns, we will be exploring poetry and rhyming. Below are two games and a song you could try at home.
Rhyme Round Up Game – https://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/RhymeRoundUp/play.html
Groovers Rhyme Time Game – https://pbskids.org/sesame/games/grovers-rhyme-time
Gymnastics
Construction
Read, Write, Count drawing competition
Each year the Read, Write, Count programme gifts over 120,000 bags of books and fun learning materials to every P2 and P3 child in Scotland. This year they are aiming to tackle waste by using a more environmentally friendly bag.
Their new bags are fully recyclable, made from 40% recycled content and are produced in a factory that uses 100% renewable energy. (Find your local recycling point(this will open in a new window) through Recycle Now.)
To celebrate their new bags, they are running an exciting art competition for all P1–3s across Scotland. They would love you to draw a design that represents looking after and loving our planet. The entries will be judged by an expert panel including bestselling author and illustrator Vivian French.
The winning design will be printed on all the new Read, Write, Count bags gifted during Book Week Scotland in November 2023.
Alongside the printed design, the winner will receive an artist’s goodie bag and their class will receive a book donation for their library. The second and third placed entries in each stage will also win a fantastic selection of books for their school.
The deadline to submit is Thursday 23 February and the winner will be revealed in March. So, grab your paint and get inspired by all things green!
Click here for more information
- Must be landscape
- Make sure your name is on the back in pencil
- The paper cannot be folded – so you need to bring it in flat and not crumpled
Welcome Back!
It is so lovely to have a full class again! We will continue to regularly wash our hands as we all want to stay healthy this new year!
Our vision for the new year
We have been ‘looking forward’ and setting new years resolutions. Sadly it is tricky to see on the photos due to the gold glitter pen used and lamination of the work. We hope you can see it up close soon!
Gymnastics – Pair Work
Playing the mirror game to show our understanding of symmetry
Counter Balances – Making sure to hold the wrists, for added security, communicating with each other to build trust and developing core strength
Small World
Primary 1 were very excited to play with their new mini-me characters. I wonder what adventures they will go on!
Chinese New Year
Our topic focus for the next two weeks will be exploring Chinese New Year. If there is a special date that your family enjoys celebrating, we would love to learn about it!
Mental Agility
We are moving around the rainbow to the yellow section – Number Recognition
Check out the grid below and see how many you can complete
Googling ‘Number Recognition Activities’ will also provide you with lots of fun games!
Online – Post the letter through the correct door https://ictgames.com/postAletter/
The Sleepy Shepherd
Congratulations Primary 1 on two fantastic performances. With so many pupils and staff being absent due to sickness in the last couple of weeks and for the shows, you did amazingly well to ‘stand in’ for each other and keep the show going. Well done!
Thank you to the family and friends who were able to attend yesterday’s show, we hope you enjoyed it. Thank you also for helping the pupils to practise the songs at home as it made such a difference to their confidence.
Thank you to Mrs Swan for our costumes, Colin and Ms Macauley for supporting the pupils during the rehearsals and also to Miss Appleby, Mr Madine, Mrs Wilson and Ms Robertson for helping out during the show and to Ms McEwan and Mrs Mancey for helping with refreshments.
Wow, what a team! Thank you everyone,
Miss Copeland
Royal Mile Primary School 