Category: Primary 1 Blog

Building Resilience

We have been learning that Talking Things Over with my Back-up Team can help me build resilience.

Below we have drawn who is in our back-up teams.

Pancake Day Fun!

We have been learning about the origins of pancake day – Shrove Tuesday.

Below are some of the things Primary 1 would give up if they were participating in Lent, which started on Ash Wednesday. We chose things that we want but don’t need.

• Ps4 – Clay
• Playing on my iPad – Aiden
• Watching YouTube – Mustapha
• Watching TV- Lola
• All my toys – Sidrah
• Watching things on the phone – Sarah
• My purple tablet – Yasmine
• Watch tv – Eddy
• Watching tv – Jana
• Biscuits – Mohamed
• Chocolate – Loai
• Strawberry jelly – Daniel

Addition

Below shows how we use our fingers to help with counting on

We also find it helpful to tap the dots or images with our pencil and count as we touch them

Gymnastics

We will be celebrating World Book Day on Friday 3rd March 2023.

Children are invited to wear something that describes an adjective; a colour, spots, stripes, big, short etc.

Below are some examples!

Building Resilience – Talk Things Over

After listening to The Huge Bag of Worries Primary 1 discussed what a worry is, what it feels like and what sort of worries we have. We then drew our worries on a bubble to share them and let it float away…

Here is the home activity for this period of the Building Resilience Programme

Internet Safety

Tuesday was Safer Internet Day . We discussed what we use to access the internet such as a phone, tablet, iPad, TV, XBox, as well as what we use it for. We used a questionnaire called a Menti to collect the information. You can see the class’s collective answers below. Thinkuknow is a brilliant website which has fun and catchy videos designed for children aged 4-7. I would thoroughly recommend a watch!

Our Families

Following the Scottish RSHP programme, this week we have been discussing families; which people make up their families, what we call those people, what love is and how this can look different for different people. We also focus on the UNRC rights of the child, and how all children have the right to be safe, cared for and healthy. Primary 1 did some excellent writing around this topic – drawing and labelling their picture, as well as writing the title and information about their family. All pupils progress at different speeds and we were incredibly proud of the effort that each pupil put into this work, well done!

Numeracy

We enjoyed creating number pages, finding objects from around the room which matched their number. The pupils selected their picture and photographed their own work so we can see what they were doing when working independently.

Using Dienes blocks to make numbers. Try practising your skills at home with the following 2 games

Basketball Place Value – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Shark Numbers – https://ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html

Number are everywhere, even in books!

This song is very popular in our class, you can hear the pupils singing it, even at lunch time!

Wishing you all a very happy half term and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday 20th February

Numicon

Matching the number shape to the silhouette – some times we need to use two to fill the space – this helps with our number bonds to 10 e.g. 9 and 1, 5 and 5, 7 and 3.

Ball Pit Fun!

Find a ball, read the number, tell it to Miss Copeland, put it back in the box to reload!

Musical Numbers

When the music stops, jump on a number tile and then shout the number before going back into the middle. Go to a different tile each time!

Homework superstar

Well done to Sarah who created this beautiful poster!

In Spanish!

We have been learning to count to 10 in Spanish using this catchy song (stopping half way)

We then played this counting game, saying the numbers in Spanish!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting