P1 Class Blog 2021-2022
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Monday 27th June 2022
We had a wonderful time at the fund carnival that our P7 buddies made for us this morning! There was loads of activities to choose from such as nail painting, face painting, origami, coconut shy, basketball, football and many many more!
Monday 20th June 2022
We have had a fabulous afternoon with our P7 buddies who organised playground games for us! Thank you P7 we had a great time!
Friday 27th May 2022
P1 looked even brighter than normal today coming in to school wearing yellow in aid of Highland Hospice. Thank you all for the wonderful donations for such a worthy cause.
Monday 16th May 2022
As part of our class topic this term, we have been learning about the different types of farm that you can get in Scotland. Arable Farming is where farmers grow crops and food for us to eat. Livestock Farming is all about farming animals. We were busy trying to sort out lots of different types of farms into the correct category this afternoon!
Friday 6th May 2022
We have been having a go at data handling in class this week. We were counting farm animals as part of our topic and putting them into a graph. We made a super job of our graphs and can tell which farm animal had the most on the farm!
Monday 25th April 2022
We learned a new digraph sound again today. 'oi' is for coin! So we used our knowledge of coins we started learning last week to make our own £1 and £2 coins today! Great work everyone!
Friday 22nd April 2022
We have been busy learning about all the different types coins we can use to pay for items at the shops. We were helping the confused piggy bank today to show him the name for all of the correct money coins correctly.
Thursday 21st April 2022
One of our P1 super stars has managed to make all of the 'Numberblocks' characters out of unifix cubes in our classroom!!
Tuesday 29th March 2020
As part of our topic, 'Healthy Me' we have been looking at the importance of sleep to be healthy and making sure we get enough sleep so that we can enjoy the next day and learn lots of new things. We definitely do not want to be tired and miss anything!
Monday 28th March 2020
We hope all the mummies and special ladies in our lives had a wonderful Mothering Sunday yesterday! Here are a few pictures of the children getting busy being crafty making you their lovely cupcake cards for your special day!
Friday 25th March 2020
We logged into a SSPCA webinar today to listen to a very brave police dog called Finn who got really hurt trying to save his dog handler who is a police officer called Dave. We thought Finn was very brave and looked so cute! Finn and Dave have campaigned to get a law in place for the protection of service animals being injured whilst in service
Tuesday 22nd March 2022
We have been busy making up some healthy packed lunches as part of our 'Healthy Me' topic in class. We allowed ourselves one small treat in our lunch boxes and included lots of healthy options too!
Monday 21st March 2022
We have been working hard on our latest digraph sound which is 'oa' today. We thought of lots of different words that have the 'oa' sound in them and then made some very fancy looking tug boats for our phonics display!
Friday 18th March 2022 - Red Nose Day!
We all had a super time today celebrating comic relief activities! It was the comfiest day at school ever wearing our pjs!! We had some sporting fun outside in the MUGA with P1/2 and P2 in the morning. We took part in a 'Design Your Own Nose' competition run by the Duntelchaig House Captains and we had loads of fun doing a Red Nose Day Quiz!
Tuesday 15th March 2022
P1 choose LOVE!
Monday 14th March 2022
Today we made beautiful crane birds which symbolise 'hope' in the colours of the Ukrainian flag. We spelled out one of our core Lochardil values using the cranes for our window display. We hope the boys and girls of Ukraine find safety and above all we hope they have love in their lives.
Thursday 3rd March 2022
The children had a super day celebrating their love of books and reading for World Book Day! All the outfits look super!
Thursday 24th February 2022
We were working with our Tree of Knowledge Health and Wellbeing resource this afternoon, and read a lovely story about Cha Cha the Chameleon who was very nervous, and just wanted to blend into the background, and not stand out. Poor Cha Cha blended in so much that her classmates did not know very much about her at all! We talked about ways we could help Cha Cha if she was in our class. We also made our own Cha Cham Chameleons and wrote about things we thought we were GOOD at and then things we thought we were GREAT at! We certainly allowed our TRUE COLOURS to shine through in Primary 1!
Friday 18th February 2022
We have continued our work with fractions and helped Pedro in the Pizza parlour to cut pizzas into correct halves! We taught Pedro that that the two halves from the whole pizza had to be the same size! We then made our own pretend pizza toppings using halves of course!
Wednesday 16th February 2022
Jo Guthrie from Safe Strong and Free has been visiting us this week to tell us stories with important messages. We really enjoyed her puppets and joining in with the stories and getting new books to read at home too!
Tuesday 15th February 2022
We have made our own emotions wheels in class today. We have managed to correctly match up our mood monsters onto the correct feeling word on the wheel! We were sharing examples with each other of when we feel some of the feelings on the wheel too.
Monday 14th February 2022
We had so much fun making Valentine's Day cards for our loved ones at home!
'Dress to Express' - Dress Down Day Friday 11th February 2022
We had a super day to celebrate 'Dress to Express' and it has been a super way to finish off Children's Mental Health Week. It was lovely to see the wonderful outfits and hear why the outfits made the children feel good!
Internet Safety Day 2022
To celebrate Internet Safety Day we read a story about Buddy the Internet Safety dog who had a fun song for us to sing in order to help us to remember how to stay safe online when using our tablets at school or at home if we had some. Please ask us to sing the song to you! We then made our own colourful tablets and wrote a rule that Buddy had taught us, in how we could stay safe when using our tablets!
7th February 2022
This week is 'Mental Health Week' and to start off our learning we have made wonderful hot air balloons. Around the outside of our balloons, we wrote the names of people who help us to grow and learn new things in our life. These people are also there to help us when we feel life is a bit tough and tricky so they can support us too!
Friday 4th February 2022
We have been working hard in maths cutting different types of familiar food into halves! What was making this more difficult was we were doing this just before lunch time and we were getting extremely hungry!!
Wednesday 2nd February 2022
As promised in a previous post, here are our finished Scottish kilts, complete with springy legs!! We also did some work on simple Scots words which we decorated and attached to our wonderfully designed tartans!
Monday 31st January 2022
We have been working hard today learning our latest digraph sound, which is 'ee'. We made some bright busy bees to help us remember this sound.
Tuesday 25th January 2022
We have been celebrating Robert Burns in class today. We learned all about his life and made some funky tartan designs. We plan to do a bit more with our tartan designs so stay tuned to our blog to find out what we get up to next!
Friday 21st January 2022
We have been working on blending our sounds to form words. We were looking at the 'at' word family today and enjoyed listening to Dr. Seuss's 'Cat in the Hat'. Look at all the words we managed to make using the sounds we know!!
Wednesday 19th January 2022
The boys and girls have been busy with our Talk for Writing lesson today. We read 'The Three Little Pigs' and identified the wolf as the 'baddie' in the story. We then went on to make our own 'baddie' characters to make our own stories. We made WANTED posters and drew our characters; gave them names; and said what their crimes were and where they were last seen! We had super fun and cannot wait to engage further with our imaginative story!
Tuesday 18th January 2022
The boys and girls have been working really hard making addition number sentences from farm animal problems on the smart board! They have been super and are fast becoming addition whizzes!
Wednesday 12th January 2022
We have learned a new digraph sound today in class. 'ch' is for cheese! We made some cheeky mice nibbling on cheese! Don't our cheeky cheesy mice look cute!?
Monday 20th December 2020
We have had another busy day of learning today! We spent the afternoon looking at another festival celebrated by Jewish people at this time of year - Hanukkah. These are different to normal menorahs as they have 9 candles instead of 7. Did you know that they have to be lit from right to left?
Monday 20th December 2021
X is for X-ray! We learned all about the 'x' sound today in class and made x-ray pictures of our hands!
Friday 17th December 2021
We have had an absolute ball at our Christmas Party today! We had a very special visitor to class just before lunch......SANTA!!! Please look at our google classroom for the wonderful photos and videos of the children getting groovy to some party music. 🤶🎅🎁
The children have also gone home with a little Christmas friend for their school bag buddies, they were so excited and I am sure they will all sleep well tonight. They are partied out! ☃️❄️🧑🎄🤶🎅🧝🧝♀️🧝♂️👼🦌🎄🌟🎁
Enjoy your weekend everyone and see you on Monday!
Thursday 16th December 2021
We had a lovely afternoon crafting door hangers this afternoon. We want Santa to know exactly where to deliver our presents!! 🎅🎅🎅🎅
Friday 10th December 2021
We had a super day at school today wearing our festive Christmas Jumpers and having yummy Christmas dinner made by our fabulous cooks!
Thursday 2nd December 2021
We were learning a new phonics letter sound today - J is for jellyfish! We had so much fun making all of the colourful tentacles on our friendly jellyfish!
Wednesday 1st December 2021
We had a very special visitor arrive in the class and we have decided to call him Snowflake! I do hope he is going to be a well behaved elf, but the boys and girls think he may be a bit mischievous!
Wednesday 1st December 2021
In our Talk for Writing lessons, we have been working the story of 'The Little Red Hen'. We have been identifying all the characters and what they say in the story. We also worked really hard on making a story map, where we identify all the main events in the story and put them into the correct order in which they happened.
Tuesday 30th November 2021
We have been practicing a fun and well known Christmas song in class and have been doing British Sign Language actions, to match the song lyrics. We thought we would make lovely hats to wear while we perform the song! We will share our recording with you soon! Can you guess what the song might be from these pictures of us making our hats??
17th November 2021
The boys and girls have been busy learning all about odd and even numbers this week. We were getting so good at picking which numbers were odd and even from 0-20 that we started doing it with much bigger numbers!
16th November 2021
'L' is for Lion! We had lots of ROARS coming from the Primary 1 classroom today when we were learning our new phonics sound!
15th November 2021
It was lovely to have the majority of Primary 1 pupils back in the classroom today! We were very busy completing our 'Thumbkin Patch' paintings today and they children were very proud of them!
Remembrance Day - 11th November 2021
This week both at home and at school, we have been thinking about the symbol of the poppy and Remembrance Day. Classes across the school have drawn our own poppies to recognise the sacrifice all the people and animals have made in service to keep us safe.
We will remember them...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
The boys and girls looked absolutely super in their Halloween costumes today! We all had so much fun doing Halloween arts and crafts, Halloween phonics, Halloween counting, Halloween yoga and even a spooky Halloween quiz with all the other pupils in P1 - P3!! We had a spook-tacular time!! 👻🎃🦇🕷️🕸️🐈⬛
27th October 2021
We have been learning about Halloween this week and some of the unusual Halloween traditions that we have in Scotland. Today we were using our knowledge of phonics sounds to make some three letter Halloween words that all rhymed with 'at'. I wonder if you can remember them boys and girls??
👻💀🎃🦇🕷️🕸️🐈⬛
27th October 2021
Here is our completed 'Tree of Promises' that we hope to keep in order to help our planet.
26th October 2021
We have been busy today learning about climate change and the important meaning behind the COP-26 conference that is taking place next week. We have made a 'Tree of Promises' on our classroom door and we are making leaves complete with the promises we wish to keep to help our planet combat climate change. Here are a few photos of us working on our promises on leaves and our blank tree display.
5th October 2021
Some of the class had super fun out in the playground at lunch time today. They had lots of the playground toys out to use and have fun with. Even Mrs Kellacher got involved in some skipping!
4th October 2021
We had a visit from two of our local community Police Officers today. They talked to us a lot about road safety. We asked them lots of questions about their job and they gave us wonderful reflectors to help us keep safe on the road.
24th September 2021
As part of National Fitness Day this week, we had fun doing the Fitness Trail that the Ashie House Captains had kindly organised for us! Here are some pictures of our adventures in the sunshine and the super clues we had to work out!
23rd September 2021
Our school bag buddies were asking if we could build them a house so we obviously kindly obliged! We had so much fun with all of the different materials, especially the bright furry pieces! Our bag buddies are so impressed and pleased that they have promised all of the boys and girls a surprise present......exciting times ahead!
21st September 2021
Here are a few pictures of us having fun out in the MUGA for PE! It was rather difficult to get pictures of all of the boys and girls as they were so fast....far too fast for Mrs MacIver's photography skills! 😊
17th September 2021
A football star to be added to our wow wall in class!! ⚽🥅🏆
8th September 2021
As part of our topic this term, the boys and girls have been learning about our community, and specifically our school. We took a walk around the school grounds to tick off lots of things our school has on our scavenger hunt list and we also found three more things to draw that our school has which not all schools are lucky enough to have - a MUGA and a secret garden!
We wanted to find out more about our school, so we managed to put Mrs Kellacher in the hot seat and ask her some really tricky questions! Did you know that our school is 57 years old? Did you know that Mr Mackie was the very first head teacher, followed by Mrs Caddell and then Mrs Kellacher? Also the first children to come to Lochardil school were only in Primary 3!!
7th September 2021
We have been having lots of fun in the gym hall, trying to master the skill of throwing and catching larger balls with a partner.
3rd September 2021
We have been learning the days of the week in Primary 1. The boys and girls are really enjoying this song to help with their learning.
2nd September 2021
'i' is for igloo!
Here are some pictures of the boys and girls making wonderful igloos when they were learning their latest letter sound!
1st September 2021
We have been reading, 'The Invisible String' by Patrice Karst. We have re-made a scene from the book where our invisible strings can reach as dar as the deep deep ocean! We have also decorated our own hearts with very important people and pets in our lives that our invisible strings connect to!
30th August 2021
We have been very busy learning some new letter sounds. We have been making crafts to link with each sound. Here are some pictures of us making snakes and turtles for 's' and 't'.
As some of you will already be aware, we are a Rights Respecting School at Lochardil, which means we value pupil voice and take everyone's opinions into account across the school. It is therefore important to create a class charter at the beginning of the year so pupils can explain what they would like from us as adults in the school to make it a happy, fun and safe place to be and also to realise what they need to do as individuals to make Lochardil the best it can be! Here we are creating our robot themed class charter during our first week in Primary 1 and we will refer back to it's contents throughout the year ahead!
During our first week we read the story called, 'The Crayon Box that Talked' by Shane DeRolf. It is a story about all of us being different and unique which should be celebrated. However, when we all come together we make a wonderful team/class! Here are some photos of our finished crayon box display in our classroom!
We would like to introduce you to our P1 Schoolbag Buddies! These little creatures have started Primary 1 at exactly the same time as us! They were very nervous yesterday but all the children were so gentle and looked after their schoolbag buddy superbly so the nervous buddies turned into very excited school bag buddies! The schoolbag buddies will be coming home for adventures in the future, but for now they are settling into life at Lochardil and I am sure they will be really happy with their Primary 1 buddy looking after them!
Here are all of the Primary 1 superstars taking part in a fun photo booth on their very first day of school! Definitely a picture for the memory box!
