It’s been a lovely first week back after the holidays. The children have worked so hard. This week we learned the ‘o’ sound in literacy and we practised the number bond of 10 in maths. The number bonds of 10 are the addition calculations that make 10 like 5+5, 9+1, 4+6 etc. in class we refer to them as the ‘best friends to make 10’ and the children are super at identifying the correct pair of numbers.
We had a ball at our Christmas Party on Wednesday. We all looked so smart in our party outfits and we had great fun playing party games and dancing.
We were even joined by a very special visitor!
We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and can’t wait to see all the children again on the 9th January.
What a busy week we have had this week! School shows, reward party, Christmas lunch and plenty of learning and playing! Lots of happy, and a little tired, faces this week! 😊🎅🏻🥳
The children in P1 will be performing their “Christmas Cracker” at the break of the school show ‘Panto Pandemonium’ on Wednesday and Thursday night this week.
Pupils should come to school on both evenings at 6.10pm wearing a Christmas jumper, hairband or hat if they have one. If they do not have something Christmassy to wear pupils should just come dressed in casual clothes.
Thanks for your support.
Mrs Ferguson
Our Numeracy Homework is a game called ‘The Secret Christmas Tree’. We played it in class today and had great fun! We hope you enjoy it too. Please complete and return all Scrapbooks before the end of term.
Well done to Ellie who won the competition in P1 for her beautifully bright jumper design on the “Be Bright, Be Seen” day last week. Here she is with her winning design and her prizes.
Mrs Ferguson was so proud of Poppy this week for conquering her fear of the big slide at the park. Just look at her go!
This week in literacy we have been learning the “g” and “l” sounds. As well as practising the formation of the letters and making words with the new sounds the children also completed fun activities relating to the sounds. They drew pictures of Mrs Govans and Mrs Goudie, they wrapped up some gifts and built houses for Goldilocks and the Three Bears for the “g” sound. They sliced up some lemons and squeezed them out to make lemonade, they made some lemon lollipops and built ladders for the “l” sound.
In Maths we have been working our socks off with addition calculations. We have been learning to use number lines and tools like a rekenrek to work out the answers. At the end of the week we focused on adding on 1 and 2 to a calculation which we all found super easy and I had to challenge everyone with some extra tricky calculations.
We have been working hard in the afternoons to practise our songs for the upcoming school show and we even managed to decorate the classroom on Thursday so we are all officially in the Christmas Spirit!
Have a lovely weekend and we’ll see you next week.
Our new Numeracy Homework is called ‘The Number Five’. It is due in on Monday 5th December.
First of all, Mrs Ferguson and I would like to thank everyone who attended our literacy morning on Wednesday. We know how hard it is to fit these things in around work and other commitments and we really appreciate those who were able to attend. We love having you in the school and the children love showing off their learning. We are so lucky to have such supportive parents and it really helps to strengthen the link between school and home. Here are just a few pictures as we were so busy chatting we forgot to take more!
Literacy Superstars
The children have been learning the ‘c’ and ‘k’ sounds this week and have had great fun doing activities relating to the sounds. We made Cards for someone we Care about, we typed our words on the Keyboard, we made Cakes, and Cookies with the Cutters and decorated them with Candles, we made beautiful Crowns fit for a King.
Here is the song to practise the ‘c’ and ‘k’ sounds.
In maths we have started looking at addition and Oh, My Goodness, the children have been absolutely AMAZING! We looked at part-part-whole models and used them to create our own calculations. The children have been practising using the addition and equals signs to create their calculations. Maybe you could practice this at home, especially with the magnets that came in the Book Bug P1 bags that were sent home.
The boys and girls looked fantastic in their casual clothes and Pudsey outfits today. We had a lovely relaxing time doing some Pudsey mindfulness colouring in this afternoon.
Just a reminder that next week is our first Big Talk Week so the children will be given a time to perform their talk to the class. Remember they can bring in toys, drawings or photos to help them with their talks. These should only be brought in on the day of their talk. Details as follows:
Monday 21st: Cole, Hunter, Harper, Logan
Tuesday 22nd: Lyle, Ellie, Shaun, Ayla
Wednesday 23rd: Ava, Harry, Demi, Harley
Thursday 24th: Matthew, Tyler, Carson, Poppy
Due to the success of the last dice game homework, we thought you’d like another easy game to enjoy called ‘Beetle’. In this game you roll the dice to try to be the first to draw a beetle. We had great fun playing the game in class today!
This homework is due on Monday 21st November.
