Primary 1 have been enjoying lots of Chanukah celebrations. Our Chanukah party was a great success with lots of dancing, games and even party food in our classroom!
Monthly Archives: December 2016
What the Candles Saw…
Thank you to all the grown ups who came to see us perform in our show “What the Candles Saw” exploring Chanukah from the candles perspective.
We all had an amazing time and the feedback from our audience was first class – apparently it was even cuter than last year!
Please see the photos below for an individual snapshot of your children in their great costumes!
Sevi Von Investigations
We have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes this term. The triangles group have been exploring 2D shapes such as circle and square and the square and circles groups have been learning about complex 2D shapes such as pentagon and 3D shapes such as cube and sphere.
We have enjoyed using construction materials to make these shapes and took this a little further today. We decided to use magnetic shapes to try and build our very own Sevi Von!
We realised that you could make 3D shapes from 2D shapes, and Miss Dunn explained this was called a net. We used a net of a Sevi Von to try and make our own. It was tricky but we learned that if at first you find it tricky you try again with a new plan or the help of others.
Money, Money, Money!
This week we have been exploring money in class.
We are learning to identify, total and correctly make different amounts of money.
We are adding a shop into our home corner to further explore this learning.
Here are a few tips to try at home:
- use a variety of coins and crayons to make coin rubbings – try and identify each coin from the rubbing
- give your child their own purse with real coins in it and pretend play shops
- use the food offers leaflets that come through the post to discuss amounts and values of money – scan for how many £ signs you can see
Counting in 5s
Today the squares and circles maths groups learned the mental maths skill of counting in 5s.
We counted fingers and counters in groups of 5 then discovered it would help us to total money when counting using 5p.
Here is a fun song to dance along to at home to support this skill….
….and a slightly funkier one!
Chanukah Show
Some of you may have noticed this week’s homework mentioning Chanukah.
We have been learning about the story of Chanukah in our Kodesh lessons and preparing for our Chanukah Show.
Take a look at the powerpoint below for the full story of Chanukah:
We have been learning two new songs for the Chanukah show. Please find the songs and lyrics below:
Ner Li
Ner li, ner li, ner li dakik,
BaChanukah neri ‘adlik. BaChanukah neri ya’ir,
BaChanukah shiri ashir.
Ner li, ner li, ner li dakik,
BaChanukah neri ‘adlik. BaChanukah neri ya’ir,
BaChanukah shiri ashir.
Oh Chanukah, Oh Chanukah
Oh Chanukah, Oh Chanukah Come light the Menorah
Let’s have a party We’ll all dance the Horah
Gather around the table I’ll give you a treat
Sevivon to play with And latkes to eat
And while we are playing The candles are burning low
One for each night They shed a sweet light
To remind us of days long ago
One for each night They shed a sweet light
To remind us of days long ago
Mitzvah Day 2016
Primary one had a great time making paper flower crafts to give to the residents at the care home for elderly people.
We thought that the bright and beautiful flowers would really cheer up the residents.
We used our developing scissor and cutting skills to cut the paper and used crayons to add bright and attractive details.
Miss Dunn will deliver the flowers to West Acres Care Home and explain it was our Mitzvah for Mitzvah Day.
In Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday we also heard a story all about one good deed. The story explained that even though we think an act of kindness can be small and insignificant, it can actually have massive impacts.
