P1 Christmas Party was a hit!! Look at all these happy faces! Merry Christmas everyone, it has been such a fantastic year teaching you all ⭐️⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social @mrsdowds.bsky.social

A fab day in P1 today. Crafts and Ck sound activities in our new leaving space ⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Next customer please! P1 are loving the new shop for play! 🛍️🛒 @missmckechnie.bsky.social @mrsdowds.bsky.social

Primary 1 Play 🌟 🧩Brain Flakes - “Look, it’s standing!” 🎨Peg boards - “My pattern’s perfect!” 🚂Train tracks - “This bit goes here!” 🍟McDonald’s - “Order number 3!” So much creativity, language and problem-solving happening through play every single day. 💛

Our book of the week was the hungry caterpillar! As part of our stations this week we had a fine motor and craft table. We enjoyed watching the short film during snack 🐛 @missmckechnie.bsky.social @mrsdowds.bsky.social

A chicken nugget happy meal please! As a part of primary ones choice play we set up a McDonald’s shop in the classroom! Our learners even made their own sign- well done P1!! @missmckechnie.bsky.social @mrsdowds.bsky.social

FYI- We are happy to announce that we will be putting on a performance/ concert for p1-3 on the 8th and 9th of December! Everyone got this slip in their bag- Let us know if we need any extras! ⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social @mrsdowds.bsky.social

Fantastic adding and subtracting in Numeracy today! We used numicons to represent our answers! ⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social @mrsdowds.bsky.social

Yesterday morning in our creative stations these learners decided to design logos for a McDonalds restaurant! Keep your eyes peeled for what comes next 🍔🍟😃😃 @missmckechnie.bsky.social @mrsdowds.bsky.social

Today in our play we focused on the nativity story, built a “manger” for baby Jesus in the conservatory! ⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social @mrsdowds.bsky.social

What a fantastic Book and Biscuit afternoon today! Thank you to everyone for coming along ⭐️📚 @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Happy children in need day! Today we decorated pudsey themed spotty biscuits and made our own icing!! 🧸 @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Maybe too soon to mention the C word 🫣🎄 But fast approaching - ahead of our Nativity prep we learnt all about the Nativity story. We linked this to our writing and copied our own sentence in our jotters ⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Super proud of the number formation from these learners today! Well done boys ⭐️ We are focusing on learning our numbers to 20 🔢 @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Art with Mrs Wells! 🌈 @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Our sound of the week is D! Round the dinosaurs bottom, up his tall neck, down to his feet. Action: Pretend to beat a drum with your hands, saying d-d-d. @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Tooth brushing!! So proud of our superstars with their brushing. Back, front and side to side! We were all given our own tooth brushes for home too ⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Happy Guy Fawkes night! Today we made fantastic firework artwork! 🎆🎇

Spooky season success! Here are our P1s’ finished Halloween decorations! 🦇🧙

From wooden shapes to wickedly wonderful Halloween art - P1s are ready for Halloween! 🎃

These P1 pupils visited The Den this week and worked with a partner to carve a pumpkin. It was tricky to scrape out the insides and some of the children thought it was very gooey and sticky! #DunipaceSkills @missmckechnie.bsky.social @misscraig01.bsky.social

Some P1 learners have enjoyed building dens with the den building kit. Look at these brilliant creations #DunipaceSkills @missmckechnie.bsky.social @misscraig01.bsky.social

Putting names to faces and jobs - P1s are learning all about the people who help us every day! From scissors to glue, our P1s are learning to use tools with skill and control ✂️📄

As a part of our numeracy rotations we worked on our grip and number formation ⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Yesterday we loved music!! P1 were singing with the parachute and dancing as Yorik played the guitar. A lovely end to the morning 🎶

In outdoor play today we were cleaning the water tray! Fantastic scrubbing (we enjoyed all the bubbles too) @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Welcome back! I hope we all had a lovely October holiday. Today we started our new sound R! To remember how to say it we pretended to be lions! Rrrrrrr To practise at home- down the robots back and curl over his arm⭐️

Number 11 tasks with some fantastic cutting and sticking well done girls! ⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Play and learning time! ⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Last week during outdoor learning we made bubbles on the tuff tray. We even used our hands to try blow bubbles ⭐️ @missmckechnie.bsky.social

Today in Primary 1 in our phonics lesson we completed a cut and stick activity. Matching s a t p i n sounds to pictures with the same sound! ⭐️

P1s number of the week has been number 9! So proud of everyone’s number formation. We danced to the 9 song and were quizzed on our rhyme. Draw a curve and then a line that’s how we draw number nine! 9️⃣

Some P1 and P3 learners were learning how to safely make a fire 🔥 They learned that fire needs, oxygen, fuel and a heat source and learned how to stack the wood and add the firelighters inside the circle. They also learned to stay behind the safety circle of bricks when toasting their marshmallows.

We have loved our outdoor play this week in Primary 1!