Hello everyone and welcome!
This is a short week for us as the school is closed to pupils on Thursday and Friday for staff in-service training. We have, however, managed to fit a lot of exciting learning into 3 days. I’m sure you will agree.
We learned one sound this week and that was ‘z’. The action for ‘z’ is to pretend you are a bee. Tuck your elbows to your side, flap your hands and say “zzzzzzzzzz.”
We have continued to practise our words and sounds every day, and more of us have been able to take a book home to read. We are working our way through the ‘Miss Owen’ stories.
In number this week we have been using number flashcards and practising writing our numbers on our white boards. We have been counting to 10 and putting spots on laminated sheets to help us count.
On Monday we were very lucky to have M&M Productions at school and we all watched Sleeping Beauty. It was super fun! not too scary! We all sang along with the songs.
Strange things have also been happening! Bramble woods arrived along with a letter from the animals who are going to share our adventures in the Land of Me. We don’t know yet who they are or where they came from, but we watched video clips of animals in their natural habitat and looked at information books that they’d left us. We recorded our learning in our thinking books.
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- Bramble Woods
We went on our sponsored Autumn walk. Unfortunately, it was a dark, drizzly day but it didn’t stop us from having fun. We looked at all the changing colours on the trees and bushes and we picked up some interesting leaves etc.
We then had a sheet of paper headed – “What I found on my Autumn Walk” and stuck on all the interesting bits and pieces we had found.
Here are some of them.
We won’t be at school on Remembrance Day, so we talked about why we remember all the men and women who have died fighting for us and why we remember them with a poppy. We also talked about the fact that it wasn’t just about remembering wars that had happened a long time ago, men and women were still fighting and being killed and injured in Afghanistan. Some of us knew people who were out in Afghanistan.
We made poppies of our own to remember them.
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 jewellery must be removed for gym.
Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. There will be no open doors on Thursday 10th November, it will resume the following week on Thursday 17th November.
Land of Me story bags will be handed out on Monday, please go over them with your child.
Please continue to practise the speaking parts for P1’s Christmas show with your child.
I’m really impressed with all the learning that’s happening in p1. Your Autumn walk looked cold but good fun.