Monthly Archives: November 2010

Working Hard in P1

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Hello and welcome again to P1’s Blog. We have had another very busy week. We have learned a further 2 sounds, ‘w’ and ‘y’. We practise saying the sounds, doing the actions and singing the songs every day. We now know 22 sounds!

 

 We also discovered the ladybird maths box this week and talked about addition. We have become number detectives and use the bingo, lotto and domino games inside the box. We used the ladybird number lines to discuss the number before, the number after and the number in between. Next week we are going to put playdough spots on the ladybirds to help us to add. We have been using the dice in room 6 to help us to count and add 2 numbers together. We try to remember to start with the biggest number first!

    

We’ve also been continuing to work hard on our patterns as these pictures clearly show. We can even write out our numbers 0-10 in a pattern!

  

We read a story this week about St. Andrew and learned that he is the patron saint of Scotland. We hope to celebrate St. Andrew’s day next week by having a party with P2 and P3. We made our very own Saltires and we’re planning to wave them at our party next week. We used blue card and we ripped up small pieces of white tissue paper and glued them to make the St. Andrew’s cross.

  

Our rehearsals for The Grumpy Sheep are going well and we have started to get all the actors and chorus upon the stage. Keep singing the songs and learning those lines!

Dates for your diary:

Gym – Every Monday and Friday – Please ensure children have gym kits in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday from 3.00pm to 3.15pm.

St Andrew’s Day Party – Tuesday 30th November

Christmas Fayre – Saturday 4th December 10.00am – 12 noon. Please hand in donations for the cake and candy, priced and wrapped, on Friday 3rd December.

A busy week in P1!

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P1 have had another busy week!  

We have learned 2 more sounds this week, ‘z’ and ‘v’ and we have been practising hard learning the Jolly Phonics songs and actions that go along with our sounds.  

the 'z' sound
the 'v' sound
The action for 'v'. Can you tell we're driving vans?

We have also been searching for sounds and numbers hidden in the sand tray and we have been recording what we find onto a grid. 

look how many sounds and numbers we found!

We have also been very clever and used our knowledge of sounds to make words! How smart are we?  

 

In our number work this week we have been learning to count on 2 more using cubes and we have been writing what we learned in our thinking books. Counting Ted has also been helping us to remember the number after and the number before on the number washing line. 

 

Counting Ted is helping us!

We are still working hard on looking for patterns with Pattern Ted and making our own patterns.  

We have also been learning that in Autumn, food starts to become scarce for the birds and we made our own bird feeders using fir cones, peanut butter and bird seed. Birds won’t go hungry in our gardens.  

We are practising hard with the P2’s and the P3’s for our Christmas production of “The Grumpy Sheep.” I’m sure you’re hearing the songs at home! We had a competition to draw a design for the stage back drop. Keep your fingers crossed it’s someone in P1 who wins!

Important Dates

Gym – Mondays and Fridays

Please ensure gym kit is in school for these days

Open Doors – there will be no open doors this week, Wed. 24th Nov.

Autumn and Autumn Festivals

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Welcome to P1’s Blog. We hope to use our glow blog to share the learning experiences from rooms 1,2 and 6.      We have been very busy in primary 1 since coming back after the October holidays.
This term’s topic is Autumn and Autumn Festivals and the boys and girls enjoyed their walk around the community looking for signs of Autumn in the trees, gardens and alotments.    We gathered up leaves and used them in the classroom to make these wonderful Autumn tree pictures.    

                                             

  Primary 1 have also been learning about Divali, the Festival of Light, and the stories of Rama and Sita. We made diva lamps using clay and put tea lights inside them. We lit them in the classroom to have our own “Festival of Light”. We also made rangoli patterns using black paper and brightly coloured chalk.    

Festival of Light

 We celebrated Halloween by having a party at school. we found all sorts of bugs in sticky spaghetti and eye balls in gooey jelly! We played lots of games in the gym hall. We had great fun and everyone dressed up. Miss Simpson, Mrs Adams and Mrs Lynch were all Pirates! “Shiver me timbers!!”   

                                             

sticky spaghetti!                                                 gooey jelly!
 We have also been learning about people who help us. The Fire Brigade came to school and we were able to sit in the fire engine and make the hose shoot water into our playground. We also learned about all the Fire Fighters safety equipment.
                                                                                           
                                                                                                         

 Important dates:        

Open Doors – every Wednesday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Please come in and your child will show you all the work they’ve been doing during the week.       

Gym – Mondays and Fridays  Children require t-shirts, shorts and gym shoes on these days. Continue reading Autumn and Autumn Festivals →