Next week is Big Talk week. Please find below details of when your child will present their talk. They should bring along any notes, pictures, posters or toys for their talk on this day.
Monday: Freddie, Ayla, Tommy, Ava and Murray.
Tuesday: Lawson, Ollie, Jayden, and Carter.
Wednesday: Ashlyn, Jack, Kobee and Jorgia.
Thursday: Daisy-Mai, Nuala, Zander and Hannah.
This has been another busy week in Primary 1 with lots of new learning. We were introduced to the ‘th’ digraph which we learned is quite special as it can make two different sounds. You could ask us about this at home.
We took part in lots of activities to practise this sound. We also continued our work on ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ and learned about summarising. We were able to retell the story, using only the most important details, to a friend. We then were able to sequence the story in the correct order.
In numeracy, we continued to develop our knowledge of number patterns and have been focussing on counting in 2s.
We also began some new learning about ‘Data Handling’ with Miss Kockaya. We went outside on a lovely sunny afternoon to collect some objects which we then counted and sorted. We also began to learn about pictograms. Take a look at some of our pictures!
We have also started to learn about ‘Castles’. We had lots of ‘wonders’ about castles and can’t wait to find out all about them!
We also had a visit from some of the boys and girls from the nursery as part of their transition. We had a great time welcoming them into our classroom and showing them some of our favourite toys and activities.
Another busy week in Primary 1.
This week we began learning to use digraphs, we had a focus on “sh”. We have been talking part in lots of activities, including shape art, building shops & ships, as well as reading and writing lots of words containing the sh digraph. We also enjoyed reading in our groups and creating a visualisation of the characters from “The Tiger Who Came To Tea”.
In numeracy, we are beginning to look at number patterns. We explored counting in 2s. We also continued to use different strategies at our calculation station and had a fantastic time creating our own ‘snakes and ladders’ games on the 100 squares. This helps us with our counting, number awareness, dot patterns and turn taking!
We got creative and designed some wonderful spring themed art for the Catrine Show competition. We talked about all of the wonderful things about spring, including the lovely weather, beautiful flowers, baby animals and buzzing bees. We tried to include lots of these in our design.
The highlight of the week however, for Mrs Hasson, Miss Kockaya and lots of our pupils was definitely stopping by the park during our Thursday afternoon walk. We had a fantastic time.
Twice a year, the children take part in our whole school ‘Big Talk Homework Challenge’. This is where your child gets the opportunity to prepare and present a talk to the class. The topic will change depending on the focus for that term. This term our topic is ‘My Favourite Toy’.
At home, your child should prepare and practise their talk. They can bring in a toy, photos or posters to help them. Please see below a great example of a poster that was made. They used lots of drawings instead of writing which helped the child remember what to say.
Some ideas to include in their talk might be:
The talk should be ready to be presented the week beginning Monday 11th May. More details will be given shortly (please check Blog) about which day that week your child will be giving their talk.
We look forward to hearing them!
As Term 3 comes to an end we would like to let you know how proud we are of the effort and progress that has been made by our fantastic Primary 1’s this term.
We can hardly believe that we will soon be heading into the final term of Primary 1.
Here are some pictures of the wonderful creations for our annual Egg Design competition and our ‘shared play’ with Primary 2. All of our designs were absolutely brilliant. We really do have some very creative boys and girls in Primary 1.
Congratulations to Hannah, the P1 winner of the competition. Hannah’s entry ‘Little Bunny Bun’ was imaginative, creative and had lots of attention to detail. Go Hannah!
We hope everyone has a lovely and restful Easter Holiday. We will be looking forward to seeing all of you after the holiday.
Happy Easter
It is the end of another busy week in Primary 1.
In literacy, our focus were ‘q’ and ‘x’. We learned all about the sounds they make and how to form each letter correctly. We used our new sounds when reading and writing words. Here are the links to the Jolly Phonics songs we use to practise.
To practise our sounds, we took part in lots of activities including playdoh, noughts and crosses, bingo, designing a crown for a queen and using the blocks to build her a castle!
In maths, we continued our learning about sharing. We have been exploring halving. We set up our own pizza shop and had to carefully split our pizza into two equal parts. We know that both parts need to be the same size for it to be a half.
We also had a chance to share objects out fairly between two people. This is also called halving. We learned about some pesky pirates who were not being very fair and helped them share their treasure equally.
We have also been continuing to learn about the months of the year and the seasons.
This week we have been working on something special ahead of Mother’s Day. In the middle of the week we drew portraits of our Mum and added lots of detail. At pick up time, we put each drawing in the window. We asked our families if they could guess which drawing was ours from all the details we added.
On Thursday and Friday, we worked on some beautiful drawings of flowers in a vase. We used paint sticks in lots of vibrant colours to bring our flowers to life. We then cut these out and stuck them onto a card. If you are a mum of a Primary 1 who would like a little surprise on Sunday, then look away now!
This week our Numeracy Homework is all about sharing. Please complete and return by Friday 13th March
We are at the end of another busy week in Primary 1. We have had an exciting week with world book day celebrations.
We enjoyed taking part in a book character puppet competition and there were some fabulous entries! Ashlyn impressed us all with her winning ‘Paper Dolls’ entry.
We enjoyed listening to a story ‘Nibbles -The Book Monster’. It was read to us by Miss Kockaya who will be joining us as a student teacher in Term 4.
We then got to take part in lots of lovely activities – including illustrating the main character Nibbles!
After that, it was time to go to the hall to choose a new book to take home as part of our school ‘Book’ swap.
We then had a chance to visit Primary 2. They have written their own amazing stories which they read to us. It was such a lovely activity that we all enjoyed.
In numeracy, we have continued learning about sharing. ‘. We set up our own ‘shell shack’ and took in a sharing shells activity. We are using new vocabulary such as ‘equal’ and ‘halving’.
We have also been working on days of the week and months of the year.
Across the curriculum, took part in a STEM challenge as we tried to build a bridge. We also took part in a collaging activity based around the book ‘The Colour Monster’ as we begin to look at emotions during Health & Wellbeing.
This week our focus sounds were J and V. We practised recognising, saying and forming the letters. We consolidated our learning by building jets, jungles, doing jigsaws and crafting jellyfish! We also created lovely artwork of flowers in vases and used vegetables to do some printing! We also had lots of practise reading and writing words with our sound in them, as well as playing games with our common words.
In numeracy, we have started to learn about sharing. We introduced our new concept using a lovely story called ‘The Doorbell Rang’. We listened to the story and took on roles to act it out. We got to share out some delicious cookies between our characters but just when we had managed to share them out fairly…uh oh! The doorbell rang and in came some new guests! We managed to share them out again but just as we did… the doorbell rang, AGAIN!
We had so much fun taking part in this activity and enjoyed combining literacy, numeracy and drama skills! We were also able to use our learning to work together and ensure that the Gingerbread Men had a ‘fair share’ of buttons.
We have also started to learn about time. This week we had a focus on the days of the week.
This week we took part in a push experiment in science and also watched a perfomance of ‘Oliver Twist’ in the hall. What a fun week!
P1 had a lovely first week in February with lots of excitement on our trip and as usual, lots of new learning!
This week we focussed on the ‘h’ and ‘w’ sounds. We practised forming the letters and word building. We enjoyed creating headbands, hand hedgehogs, building hospitals, drawing Mrs Watt, making wands and enjoyed some Where’s Wally books!
We have been enjoying reading and writing 3 letter CVC words!
Here are a few pictures of just some of the other things we have been up to this week!
Make sure to check our previous post to find out all about about our trip!
