Thank you to those of you who made it along to our meet the teacher afternoon.
It was a joy to say that all the Primary 1s have settled fantastically and are often complimented for their excellent behaviour by others in the school.
Please find the powerpoint used at this event below:
We learned the Jolly Phonics sound ‘e’ today.
Tips for Phonics at home:
Try reading a familiar story book with rhyming patterns in it. This will train your child to hear sound patterns in words and spot blends quickly when blending.
We learned two interesting sounds today! We learned that the letters ‘c’, ‘k’ and ‘ck’ all make the same sound.
The picture in our Big Book today showed a Spanish dancer clicking castanets, so we watched a clip of Spanish dancing and gave it a go!
Tips for Phonics at Home:
Try to encourage your child to hear the sounds at the end of words as well as at the beginning. This forms an important part of blending and reading development. When discussing the sound learned each day as your child to identify where in the word they hear the sound, the start, middle or end?
We have been learning how to write our numbers in Primary 1 this week.
Miss Dunn taught us some catchy rhymes to help us remember how to form our letters correctly.
We then wrote these on whiteboards, with crayons, in the sand and in the air.
Click on the link below to access a copy of our number formation rhymes.
http://www.communication4all.co.uk/Numeracy/Number%20Formation%20Rhyme%20Cards.pdf
We learned our new sound ‘n’ today in Jolly Phonics.
We had lots of fun using whiteboards and pens to write our sounds with Mrs Watson.
Tips for Phonics at Home:
Help your child identify phonics sounds by having a sound hunt around the house. Write the sounds we have learned so far on post it notes and hide them around the house. When your child finds one ask them what sound it is.
We learned our new sound ‘p’ today in Jolly Phonics.
To help us learn the letter formation whilst also working out those tricky fine motor muscles, we made our sound using playdough!
Tips for Phonics at Home:
Use three coloured pens to write a rainbow letter ‘p’.
(Write the initial letter in pencil and trace over three times with colours of your child’s choice.)
Each day we learn a new sound we also learn an accompanying song. Click on the link below to access the Jolly Songs through youtube.
We are sure they will soon be stuck in you head, they are very catchy!
https://youtu.be/ybiJTZNLvTI?list=PLvJD8NvkFLop1HRwtVM6cZxGyv68Bknay
Please find the song words to the songs we learned this week below:
We learned our new sound ‘i’ today in Jolly Phonics.
We learned about letters and sounds using ICT today. Our favourite website had lots of images to help us identify the inital sounds of words.
Tips for phonics at home:
Access the website Starfall ABC. In the ABC section select our new sound ‘i’ and explore images and clips related to this sound.
We learned our new sound ‘t’ in Jolly Phonics today. 
We had lots of fun using a tennis ball and large letters to practice letter formation. We also made our own tinfoil letter ‘t’.
Tips for phonics at home:
Try searching for the letter ‘t’ in a newspaper, magazine or webpage. There will be lots to find!
