Christmas Party

Using computers

Today Primary 1 were learning how to click and drag with a mouse, to move objects around the computer screen. We decorated Christmas trees, and solved Rudolf and snowman puzzles. The children were fantastic at working with a partner to share the mouse, and are now able to use the mouse really well.

Presents

The children thought about presents they would like, and drew pictures of them. The children also wrote the names of their presents all by themselves! What fabulous writers we have in Primary 1!

Preparing for Christmas - Decorating our classroom

We have a Christmas tree in our classroom, and some of the children wanted to make decorations. As you can see, two girls made a beautiful star for the top, and  some fabulous paper chains have been added.

The Golden Tree

Our golden tree has now grown leaves and apples, because the children earned enough stickers on their flowers. Now we are collecting our stickers and putting them on the owls which live next to the tree. What will grow next on the tree?

Making books

As a homework task this week, the children have been drawing pictures of what they see at night. Next week, the children will help cut these out, and make a night time book.

Making books

This week, Primary 1 looked at some of the photographs of our class, and chose which ones to put in our 'Curriculum for Excellence' book.

What busy children!

Nocturnal Animals

This term, our first project is 'Day and Night'. We have started learning about nocturnal animals. These are the short movies we watched today:

Art inspired by Kandinsky

Today we looked at pictues of paintings by Wassily Kandinsky.
This is what the children said:

"I can see squares and circles"

"He likes circles"

"I can see a big triangle"

"Its rubbish and scribbly"

"It's good"

"I can see an alien"

"It's curvy"

"It's spidery and a wee bit scary"

"I can see a space rocket"

"It's horrible"

"I like it"

The children gasped at this one - they said it was colourful and nice.
Each child got a square piece of paper and tried painting their own circles. We're going to put them all together to make our own masterpiece!

Creating our masterpieces

Phonics

This week we have been revising the letters we have learned this term, by singing our sound songs, practising writing them, and making words with them.
This term we have learned the letters s, a, t, p, i, n, d, h, e, m, o, and g.
We have listened to lots of nursery rhymes to help us be able to listen to rhymes which helps us be able to hear the sounds in words.

At home, it would be great if children could listen to more nursery rhymes, and lots can be found here:

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/rindex.htm

If children are able to hear and identify rhymes, it helps them to write their own. We have tried making these rhyming words with magnetic letters:

pat cat rat mat sat hat

pen hen den men ten

tan man pan ran

pot hot dot

It's quite tricky! Primary 1 are a very clever class!

 

Fire Safety Visit

We had a visit today from the Fire Fighting team from Tollcross fire station, to tell us about firework safety. We learned that we must always use gloves if we are holding sparklers, and never to pick up sparklers if they fall on the ground. We know that we must never touch any other fireworks.

Planting daffodil bulbs

On Wednesday, each child in Primary 1 planted a daffodil bulb into a pot, and we will care for these over the winter months, ready for them to grow next year.
This is for a fundraising activity for Marie Curie nurses, called Mini Pots of Care.

This activity will help the children understand the importance of care, and help raise some money for the Marie Curie nurses. Once the bulbs grow next February, the children will bring home envelopes and ask for a small donation.

French Lessons

Bonjour! We have started having French lessons every Monday afternoon with Mrs Mathevet. She has been signing wonderful songs, telling us stories and bringing toys and puppets to help us learn some French words.

Baking Bread

Today we baked our own bread. We followed a recipe and used flour, yeast, water and a little salt and sugar. First we mixed the ingredients into a dough, then we kneaded it, and rolled pieces of the dough to make rolls. We left the dough to rise then Mrs Sutherland put it in the oven. We had such fun eating our rolls with some butter and jam that Mrs Sutherland forgot to take pictures! The children said it was tasty and delicious!