Alternative Sounds, Ramadan, Creating Animal Holes!

Another busy week in Primary 1!

We continue to explore non-fiction texts to find new information and interesting facts. We are becoming secure at being able to use the contents page to locate information, now we are beginning to learn about the index page!

We have began learning about alternative sounds. This week we focused on the different ways you can make the ai sound.

We made flowers and filled them with different ai words!

As we are building an awareness of alternative sounds, it is important that we can easily recognise the different sounds in stories or sentences.

Building on Instructional Writing, this week we wrote instructions about how to make a Jam sandwich.

We are becoming more secure at using different openers for each sentence and making sure we number each new instruction.

Number bonds, addition and subtraction! At the tuff spot, we were using playing cards to match, sort, add and subtract!

It is important when we gather information, we know how to analyse it and present it! This week, we asked our friends what their favourite snack is and recorded the information using tally marks.

Yay! We can recognise, read and write the time for o’clock! We continue to work on recognising half past.

As it is Ramadan, we have been learning the importance of Ramadan and what it entails.

Boys and Girls, noticed Miss Amin no longer eating or drinking and were fascinated to learn about Ramadan.

We made Ramadan Lanterns.

Ramadan Lanterns are a symbolism of hope.

In the woodland area, we noticed there were only a few animals holes. What did we do?

WE DUG MORE!

Next week is a short week, but an exciting one where we will be starting our new topic… SPACE! How exciting!

Have a fabulous weekend superstars!

 

We are Responsible Citizens!

Welcome back to our blog! We are so happy and excited to be reunited with our friends.  We have had a super busy week of learning too!

In Literacy, we continue to explore phonemes! We are learning to recognise, say and create words using phonemes.

Using our knowledge of phonemes, this is enabling us to increase our fluency of reading. It also helps us read challenging words!

We have been exploring non-fiction texts!

We used the contents page to locate information to help complete a Fact File about our chosen book.

In Writing, we have been learning about Instructional Writing. We are learning the functionalities of writing and how to correctly form instructions.

We have to do the following:

  • Use a new opener for each sentence
  • Number each new instruction
  • Create detailed instructions which make sense
  • Remember to use punctuation

This week, we wrote instructions on how to wash your hands! We wrote the equipment required and the entire method.

Using our reading books, we have been learning about questioning. We created questions for our peers to answer!

Summer is approaching! We have revisited Time, months of the year and days of the week.

We have been learning to identify o’clock, half past and quarter past!

Number bonds are continuous! We continue to practise our mental maths skills and explore different strategies to help us solve calculations.

Doubles and Halves! We are excellent at recalling doubles up to 10. However, we are now learning about halves of doubles. We used a mirror to help us too!

For example, the mirror showed that the half of 12 is 6!

We are super at skip counting in 2’s. Therefore, we are learning how to skip count in 5’s!

Our Woodland area required a big tidy-up after the Easter Holidays. P1B showed they are responsible citizens as they worked hard to reinstate the Woodland area to its former glory. We decided to rebuild all the areas, including the tyre trail and the picnic area.

What a week it has been! I wonder what we will learn next week… I cannot wait!

Have a wonderful weekend superstars!

 

An eventful week Baking Rocky Road, Completing an Easter Egg Hunt, Sketching and capturing our Creativity!

We have made it to the end of Term! We have had a fun filled week completing lots of Easter activities.

Today we went on an Easter Egg hunt which was indoors and outdoors!

We were delighted when we found all of the eggs!

We also baked Rocky Road using 4 ingredients:

  • Chocolate
  • Digestive Biscuits
  • Cherries
  • Vegetarian Marshmallows

We wrote instructions on the method of baking Rocky Road too! After the holidays, we will be focusing on the key aspects of Instructional Writing.

We were learning tips and tricks on how to make Rocky Road!

Using our knowledge of halves and quarters, we cut Raspberries safely using a knife.

We discussed how the temperature has an affect on the baking process. The chocolate turns from a liquid into a solid to allow the mixture to set.

We have been creating Spring Paintings using the method of Printing with cardboard tubes.

Not only that, using collage we created Easter Egg Wreaths!

We made Easter Bunny drawings and using the skill of sketching, we created a background.

To end our fun filled week, we watched a Musical show called Big Splash!

What a term it has been! I hope you all have a well earned rest and enjoy the sunshine! You have worked so hard and I am so proud of you!

I can’t wait to see you already! Have a wonderful Holiday!

Lots of love,

Miss Amin xxx