This week Primary 1 got the chance to present their very first ‘Big Talk’.  We had a lovely time listening to confident presentations  about ‘My Family’. Everyone did a fantastic job and we are very proud of them!

We still have a few ‘Big Talks’ to hear next week and we are so looking forward to them!

In literacy, we have been continuing to work on our common words. We have been practising writing them, recognising them and making them out of playdough. We used our knowledge of our common words and sounding out to write some dictated sentences.

We also completed our monthly self-portrait for November. We are getting so good at adding lots of details in our drawings. Lots of us were able to write our name independently this month!

In numeracy, we continue to work on addition. We have an understanding that it doesn’t matter which way around you add, the answer will always be the same. We have been working on some ‘switcher’ calculations.

We are getting more confident using concrete materials such as numberlines, counters, tens frames and the rekenreks to add.

We have started completing ‘core’ and ‘challenge’ activities!

This week, we also held our Literacy Open Morning. We had a fantastic time completing  BookBug tasks made for us by our wonderful Primary 7 class. Here are some snaps taken on the day!

Finally, here is one last picture, taken this week whilst we were out and about in the community on a lovely frosty afternoon.

This week in literacy we have been learning about the ‘r’ and ‘m’ sounds. We have been working hard to say, make and form each sound correctly.  We consolidated our learning with lots of lovely activities. We made junk model robots, made rainbows, pictures with rulers and even went outside to launch a rocket! We made our own masks, playdoh muffins, doodled with ‘m’ and came up with some tasty meal ideas!

Here is a link to the jolly phonics rhyme and action. We really like learning these songs and find them helpful to remember our sounds.

In numeracy, we continue to work on adding. We are getting more confident using words like ‘total’ ‘altogether’ and ‘calculation’. We can use resources such as the rekenreks, numberlines and tens frame trains to help us add. Some of us are enjoying challenging ourselves to add within 20!

A reminder that next Thursday (20th November) is our Literacy Open Morning. We would love to welcome you into our classroom to take part in Literacy activities that have been organised by our brilliant P7 class.

It is the end of another busy week in Primary 1!

This week we have been consolidating our knowledge of the initial sounds covered so far (a, t, s, i, p, n) before we move onto new learning next week.

We also continued to work on our common words. We had lots of practise reading and writing them. We typed them on the computer, made them out of playdoh, did some rainbow writing on some very big paper and even managed to spot some of our common words in books from the class library.

In numeracy, we continued to work on forming numbers up to 20 and  addition. We looked at “one more and one less” using concrete materials like the cubes and used other strategies such as the number lines. We enjoyed playing partner games at our stations and enjoyed giving each other a ‘challenge’.

In writing, we did a detailed drawing of ‘I am splashing in wellies’.

Some of the detail in our drawings is improving lots and some of us even tried to write the sentence to match.  Take a look!

This week we also had a visit from the Firefighters, made fantastic firework artwork, went on a walk around the community, started a new dance topic in P.E and attended our very first ‘Discovery Dens’ where we took part in things like clay modelling and pancake making! Phew!

*note- all pupils have been sent home with a large piece of paper which can be used for Big Talk preparation/presentation*

It has been a lovely week catching up with everyone after the October Holiday. Primary 1 have come back ready for action as we continued our learning of the initial sounds. This week our focus sounds were ‘s’ and ‘i’.

Here are the links to the Jolly Phonics song and action videos which would be really useful to practise together at home.

Primary 1 were delighted to have some visitors to our class, including Inky the Mouse who took a quick selfie with our  class! We worked hard this week on our formation of each letter and began to look at building some words with the sounds we have learned so far. You can use the card sent home on parents night to do this at home, too! We also began to learn some ‘common words’ which sometimes cannot be sounded out.

We consolidated our learning with lots of activities including creating our own Sammy the Snake and Incy Wincy Spider crafts. You might have seen our wonderful creations coming home in our bags this week!

In numeracy, we learned how to ‘subitize’ which means looking at how many items are in a group, or in a pattern (like on a dice) without counting them. This is a really useful skill which lots of us found very fun to practise. We have also been looking at missing numbers, with some of us building and writing numbers up to 20. We will continue to work on ordering numbers in the coming weeks.

             Here are some other snaps taken during this busy week!

Finally, a quick note to say that our day for walking around the village will be changing from next week. We will now be walking on  Thursday with Mrs Hasson.

This week we have started learning about sounds. We will be introduced to two new sounds each week, from the ‘Active Literacy’ programme. We began our learning with the ‘a’ and ‘t’ sound.

Here is a link to the Jolly Phonics rhyme and action videos for each sound which could be used to support our learning at home. You could also begin to use the sound cards issued on parents night to practise each sound and begin to word build. We were amazed to discover that we can already build the word ‘at’ with the sounds we learned this week.

We worked hard on the formation of each letter and self assessed our work using tickled pink and green for growth.

In numeracy, we continued working on our number sense, formation and ordering. We used the rekenreks to make number and show them in different ways.

On Wednesday afternoon, we celebrated a wonderful first term in Primary 1 with a party. We danced, played games and all had a lovely time together to celebrate our hard work in P1.

Here are some other pictures from a fun filled week in P1! We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and we look forward to seeing you all again in Term 2.

What a super day we had in Primary 1.

We have had a very busy day today with lots of new routines and learning. We explored lots of the resources in our classroom and played and worked together beautifully.

We also went on a tour of the school and even popped in to visit Mrs Govans and Mrs Schendel in their offices. Before we knew it, it was time for lunch and we had some tasty food in the dinner hall.

After lunch, we took part in some more activities in our classroom. We finished our day by listening to a story while eating some delicious apples.

We are so excited to welcome you back tomorrow!