Weekly homework is now being posted on our Google Classroom. Please let me know if you cannot access it or have lost your child’s username and password.

Now we have completed the second set of 6 letter sounds – c/k, e, h, r, m and d. This week in school we will revise these sounds and do some activities to consolidate them. Matching pictures to their initial sound, forming the letter sounds and thinking of things which start with the letter sounds. We can now also continue to form words using the first 12 letter sounds – red, hat, den, cat, hip, men etc.

You could try to make some of these words together at home using the individual letter sounds. This is the start of blending where we say the sounds together to read the word.

Maths

This week we will continue to look at patterns. We will be thinking about colour patterns, shape patterns and number patterns.

We will also begin our CLIC sessions for numeracy.

As part of our Big Maths we do CLIC sessions in the class which at this stage of Primary 1 only involve –

C – counting and L – learn its (these are number facts which we learn so they can be quickly recalled without needing to work out the answer).

Counting – counting to 10 and 20 forwards and backwards

Learn its –  1 + 1 = 2 and 2 + 2 =4.

Topic

We continue with our Wider Topic, looking at Autumn, for the start of this term.  This week we will be doing some activities related to bonfire night.

Well done to Calvin, our latest pupil of the week. He has been following instructions well and has been motivated and successful on our first week back after the holidays.

Welcome back to the new term. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday.

This week we will be learning the sounds m and d. We will be thinking of things which start with these initial sounds and finding out how to form the letters.

Look out for the phonics homework on our Google Classroom. If you don’t manage to draw or cut and stick pictures beginning with these initial sounds, just have a chat with your child about different things which start with m and d.

Maths

This week we will be looking at patterns. We will be thinking about colour patterns, shape patterns and number patterns.

Look out for the suggested maths homework on our Google Classroom.

Topic

We continue with our Wider Topic, looking at Autumn, for the start of this term.  This week we will be doing some Halloween activities.

Look out for the suggested topic homework on our Google Classroom.

Well done to Olek, our latest pupil of the week. He has been very helpful and is fantastic at looking after our classroom.

Wear yellow to school on Friday 9th October and donate what you can for young people’s mental health.

This is our last week of term. We finish for the October break on Friday 9th October and we return for our next term on Monday 26th October.

This week we will be learning the sounds h and r. We will be thinking of things which start with these initial sounds and finding out how to form the letters.

Can you think of any things at home which start with these letters? You could draw some pictures or cut out and stick any pictures starting with h or r.

Maths

We will continue this week with some counting activities as well as thinking about one more and one less than, ordering numbers and forming numbers.

Topic

Last week we made some Autumn hedgehog pictures. This week we are going to find out some more about hedgehogs and have some hedgehog stories.  We will also continue our story The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark.

Well done to Oma, our latest pupil of the week. She has been a fantastic listener and always follows instructions in the classroom.