This is our last week of being in school only in the mornings. From Monday we are here all day and we’re all excited and ready to be full time school boys and girls!!

We continued to learn new sounds this week and we learned ‘e’, ‘h‘, ‘r’ and ‘m’. Our favourite sound action was ‘r’. We had to pretend we were a puppy who was pulling his rag in his mouth and say ‘rrrrrrr’.

              

              

We have been practising our sounds in lots of different ways. We have been using the ipad, matching sounds, using our sounds bibs and practising on our whiteboards.

  

           

We also learned the numbers 5, 6, 7, and 8. We have been singing lots of number rhymes and songs. We have been making  numbers out of playdough and matching digits and pictures that are the same, e.g., 5 dots, 5 lines, the number 5 and a 5p. We’ve been practising writing our numbers on our whiteboards. This can be tricky as some of the numbers aren’t easy to master!

  

              

              

At the end of each week we look in our planners and decide how we have felt our learning has gone. If we felt it has gone well and we found our jobs quite easy we colour in the green traffic light. If we felt things were ok but we found some of the jobs a little bit tricky we colour in the orange traffic light. If we thought our jobs were really quite difficult and we needed lots of help with them we colour in the red traffic light. We all coloured in the traffic lights green or orange as we are all smart cookies and managed all our sounds and number jobs really well.

              

As we will be in school for a full day on Monday, we had an early school lunch to familiarise ourselves with the dinner hall and what we will have to do when we go for lunch next week. We all had a lovely lunch and a very big thank you to the cook and the dinner ladies who helped us!

  

Notices for parents:

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Thursday.

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

Primary 1 will be in a full school day, finishing at 3.15pm from Monday 3rd September 2012.

Our Open Afternoon is on Friday 7th September from 2pm. Invitations with the details will follow.