Hi there and welcome to our blog! We hope everyone who was off for the “tattie” holidays had a great time. We have come back to school all refreshed ready to start our new term.

We have re-capped all our sounds this week but we have also learned 4 new sounds. They are ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘th’ and ‘qu’. Our favourite action is for ‘th’ as we have to stick our tongue out and pretend to be a cheeky clown!

              

              

We also got our word packs this week. They go home with us every night and we learn them every day and very soon we will be getting our own book. We are very excited about that!

We have been re-capping all our numbers to 10 this week. We have been working with our number washing lines and playing matching games, number skittles and interactive white board games.

We have also been counting out leaves and matching the correct amount to the correct number on our hopscotch game.

  

  

We also met Luke this week. Luke is a frog and brings number lily pads with him and he counts in ones. We practised counting forwards up to 10 and then backwards. We also got number lines and we used our pointing finger to help ‘jump’ up the number line.

                   

We have started new topics this week.

P1A’s new topic is called ‘Our Environment’. We have been looking at nature and our natural environment. We have been gathering leaves and have started to look at plants and trees. We have a weather station in our classroom and we have been learning all about the seasons.

P1B’s new topic is ‘The World Around Us’. We read the story of the Jolly Postman and we discussed letters, addresses, what an address is for and where we would see an address. We are going to be finding out our own addresses and we drew our own house and who we live with. In our classroom there is a very large map of Fintry, our local area. Over the next few weeks we are going to find and mark our own homes on the map.

P1C’s topic is ‘Percy The park Keeper’. Our teacher introduced us to Percy and the Percy stories and we found out that Percy had a hut. We thought about what we would want in our own hut and we turned our role-play area in our classroom into Percy’s hut. We then thought about what our own dream hut would look like and we drew our designs.

As it is Halloween next week we have been making some Halloween crafts to decorate our classrooms ready for our Halloween party. We have been making some scary skeletons and some spooky pumpkins!!!

  

We had a visitor to our classes on Friday. Yvonne from Asda came to school and gave us a lesson all about weighing pumpkins. We had to look and see which one was the biggest pumpkin and which one we thought was the heaviest pumpkin.

              

Parent Notices

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Thursday for P1A and P1C and a Tuesday and a Wednesday for P1B. Also please note that all jewellery must be removed for gym.

Your child has been given a blue homework packet, please ensure your child brings this to school every day.

The boys and girls will be painting in P1, please provide your child with a painting apron. An old shirt is perfectly acceptable.

Open Doors – Every Friday from 3.00 – 3.15pm. Come into class and see all your child’s hard work.

We will be having a Halloween party on Wednesday aftermoon 31st October. Children can wear their fancy dress costume all day, or bring it in a bag and staff will help them change after lunchtime or they can go home for lunch and come dressed in their costume in the afternoon. Please give your child £1.00 to help towards the party food.

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