This week we have been revising all the sounds we have learned so far. We’ve been singing our Jolly Phonics songs and practising writing on our white boards. We have also learned 2 new sounds! They are ‘e’ and ‘h’.

                     

The action for ‘e’ is to hold our hands as if we are cracking an egg into a pan and say “e,e,e“. The action for ‘h’ is to pretend we have run a very long race and are very tired and put our hand up to our mouth, panting and say “h,h,h,h”.

                   

We have also been revising all the words we have learned so far. Our beebot helps us to remember all our words.

                                    

We have also been working very hard in Mrs Lynch’s room. We have been looking at all the sounds on the wall and practising writing them on the big white board. Mrs Lynch has sounds cubes and she helps us to make words using the sounds we have already learned and some sounds we will be learning soon. It is great fun to find the correct sounds and make new words!

                   

We learned the numbers ‘6’ and ‘7’ this week. We sang the songs 6 fat sausages and 7 little fingers and practised writing the numbers on our white boards. We also revised and practised the numbers 0-5.

  

This week we have been talking and learning about patterns using 2 colours. We all made caterpillars using 2 different coloured circles making sure we were sticking them down in a pattern.

  

Here is our finished wall display, doesn’t it look fantastic?

                                

To carry on with our pattern work, each class has a very special Bear to take home. Every night one of us from each class takes Pattern Bear home and he helps us look for all different sorts of patterns in our own home. He comes with his own camera and we take pictures of all the patterns we find. Below is a picture of the first children from 1A, 1B and 1C to take their bears home for the night. Don’t they look pleased?

  

Mrs Johnstone, our Healthy Eating Assistant, started toothbrushing with us this week. We well be brushing our teeth every day after playtime. To explain the importance of having strong, healthy teeth and to eat healthy play pieces, Mrs Weir read us a story and introduced us to Trigger! Trigger showed us the proper way to clean our teeth.

                      

We have a very large 100 square in our corridor. It is there for us to mark and count our first full 100 days at school. Every day our teachers take us and we have to look and see how many days have been turned over and then we look and say  what we think the next number will be and when our teacher turns it over, we then can see if we chose the correct number! We will be counting all the way to 100 days.

    

We had our first “Open Doors” this week. Every Thursday from 3.00pm – 3.15pm our parents and carers can come into our classrooms and Mrs Lynch’s room and we show them all the things we have been doing during the week. We also have a Library area and we are allowed to take home a book to read and bring it back the next week. Our P7 pupils write down our names and the name of the book we are borrowing and our parent/carer signs their name. It’s just like a proper Library!

  

Notices for parents:

Gym – P1A –Wednesday & Friday, P1B – Thursday and Friday, P1C – Wednesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child has a full gym kit in school. Also please note that all jewellry must be removed for gym.

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Come into class and let your child show you all the hard work they’ve been doing.

The photographer will be in school on Monday 26th September. P1 class and individual photographs will be taken.