Category: Primary 1 Blog

Last week was International Languages Week

On Tuesday we were visited by Mrs Yang, Theodora’s mum [P2], who brought in objects and told us all about the Lunar New Year.

“The lady was showing us about Chinese New Year” Corey
“We were making dragons” Emily
“We made Chinese lanterns” Ethan
“There was a monster [Nian] who was scared of red things and light and noise” Safia
“We were making red dragons to scare away the monster” Tafari
“It is the year of the Tiger” Jack

Throughout the week, we enjoyed counting to 10 in English, Spanish and Chinese. Learning to write numbers in Chinese (Mandarin) using paintbrushes was fun!

“We learned how to count in Chinese all the way up to 10” Jack
“I was drawing lines” Georgie-Lee
“We were using paint brush to colour to 10” Oskar
“We were drawing for Chinese New Year and we done all of the lanterns” Alfie

“We were playing with noodles and playing shops. Ethan wanted some food” Alfie
“Clara was making the noodles then Alfie was passing them to the boys so they could eat it with chopsticks” Corey
“The red envelopes have money in them” Mason
“Sometimes they have sweeties in them” Jack

We enjoyed investigating Chinese New Year in our play, learning how to use chopsticks, gifting red envelopes, and

Signalong

We have been learning the song Lean On Me in Signalong. Below is our video!

Choosing time

Mohtada and David enjoyed continuing their learning from last week and made flags using a variety of art materials

“I made the Scotland flag and the England flag” Mohtada
“I made the English flag” David

Senses

Primary 1 enjoyed exploring the 5 senses through a fun, hands on afternoon!

“We were learning about our 5 senses and we smelled what was inside the box with our eyes closed then we had to guess what was inside it” Jack
“We were tasting and one of them was sweet and one of them was salty” Corey
“We were putting our hands in the box to feel what was inside of it and we had to guess what it was” Mason
“Sometimes the lines looked different but they were actually the same” Jack
“Optical illusions” Corey

Guess the sound – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1m4h79JZso

Senses song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXXiyIGqliE

Senses game – https://www.abcya.com/games/five_senses

This week

It’s a busy one!
This week is Equalities Week. Primary 1 will be focussing on visible and invisible disabilities, while continuing our learning about diversity, respect and celebrating our unique selves.
Tuesday is Safer Internet Day
We will also be enjoying some fun valentines day crafts, discussing love and families!

Greater Alligator

This week in maths we looked at

• ABCYA – https://www.abcya.com/games/comparing_number_values_jr
• Collection of games – https://www.mathbrix.com/skills/comparison
• BBC Bitesize – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82/articles/zvnxjsg

To see Miss Copeland’s Videos from last year’s lockdown on this subject, including how to make some non-standard unit scales at home, click the links below

• Weight Lesson 1 – How to make a balance scale
• Weight Lesson 2
• Greater Alligator 1
• Greater Alligator 2

Scottish Week

“It is the Scotland flag. It has an x on it” Emily
“It is the Saltire Cross” Corey
Christians believe that “Saint Andrew died on a x shaped cross” Clara
“Jesus died on the cross that looks like the English flag” Jack

Art

“We were were painting tartan” Corey
“We were painting straight lines” Mason
“We had lots of paintbrushes. The thick ones make the lines bigger” Mohtada
“We were making straight line patterns and the white is a square” Ethan

Scots Language

Last week we were challenged by Primary 4 to learn a poem where some of the words were in Scots. To help us, we had a visitor from Primary 7 teach us some Scots language. On Friday we invited our challengers back to our classroom so we could perform the poem to them. They rewarded us with a Scottish badge each!

Hear the recording of our poem performance below!

Food Technology

We worked together to prepare the tatties for our Burns Supper by washing, peeling, chopping and mashing the potatoes. We made sure to wash our hands at every stage as we know that germs can transfer from our hands, to our food, to our mouths.

Burns Party

After decorating our classroom with bunting and laying our placemats and plates, we served up the ‘tatties’ which P1 made, along with the vegetarian haggis and neeps. We enjoyed the song Auld Lang Syne then tried the traditional food. Finally we put our dancing shoes on for a ceilidh and of course some freestyle too!

Building Resilience – Keep Connected

Here is Mason’s fantastic wanted poster that he made for Ms Finlayson’s home learning task. Mason said that he would want a friend who is strong, patient, kind and happy. Excellent work! ⭐⭐⭐

This week is Languages Week Scotland.

We will be learning about the words unique, similar and different, as well as diversity.

We will be celebrating the diversity of our class, as well as the Lunar New Year.
We will have classroom visits from the following adults:

• Ms Speedie – Our school’s Language Lead
• Mrs Ho (Teacher) and Ms Yang (parent)
• Mrs Henry – Head Teacher

If you would like to share any poems, songs, instruments or dances from your home culture, we would love to hear from you!

Welcome to Scottish Week!

Thank you to Primary 4 for our challenge to learn and perform our poem in Scots. We are so excited to video this.