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Seasons

Fireworks Investigation

When discussing events in November, we discussed the exciting events that occur on the 5th of November.

 

“It’s Fireworks night!” -Nina

“I’ve never been to see the fireworks but I will this year.” – Jamin

“They are loud and go POP!” – Noah

“Rolo our pet doesn’t like the fireworks because they are so loud.” -Ava

 

We learned some safety rules for Fireworks night. Have a look at these at home together using the powerpoint below:

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Miss Dunn explained that Firework’s night has another name. Sometimes the 5th of November is called Guy Fawkes Night.

 

Miss Dunn set us a challenge at home to find out why it is called Guy Fawkes Night. Hopefully some people will have information to share about this tomorrow!

 

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Social Studies

Our Community

Social Studies

We have been exploring the Experience and Outcome:

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I am aware that different types of evidence can help me to find out about the world around me.

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By exploring my local community, I have discovered the different roles people play and how they can help.

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You will have seen an example of our learning in the Social Studies jotters that came home over the weekend.

As part of our learning we have explored maps and features of our local community. We made a map of the community surrounding the school in class and as a home link challenge made a representation of our own community around where we live.

Miss Dunn would like to say a huge thank you for all the hard work that everyone put  in if choosing to complete the task.  We used the class scanner and scanned in our projects. Please look below for some examples!

 

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Literacy and English

Jolly Jelly

We had lots of fun learning the sound ‘j’ when we made jelly in our class.

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We all got a chance to follow instructions to make our own jelly and then took it home for a yummy treat at the end of the day.

After making the jelly we wrote instructions in our writing jotters.

 

Primary 1 Making Jelly Recipe

 

You will need:

One sachet jelly

One bowl

One spoon

Kettle

Jug

Moulds

Fridge

 

Method:

  1. First wash your hands.
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  3. Measure two cups hot water
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  5. Mix until all jelly melts.dsc00655 dsc00658 dsc00664 dsc00663
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  7. Place in fridge to set.
Literacy and English

New sound! Jolly Phonics – 14th September

We learned our first double sound today in Jolly Phonics!

A double sound has two letters that make one sound in a word.

We learned that when two vowels go walking together in a word the first one shouts its name. Listen to the song link below to find out more.

 

We then used our new sound ‘ai’ to blend some words.

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Tips for phonics at Home:

Remember the difference between the sound a letter makes (e.g ssss) and the name e.g S (esss). Try to reinforce this at home in discussions.

Social Studies

Social Studies: Our Community

Our Social Studies focus this term is:

By exploring my local community, I have discovered the

different roles people play and how they can help.

SOC 0-16a

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We have decided to explore this learning through the context of Our Community.

We started our learning by investigating what the word community meant. Ian thought it meant home and Lori thought it meant the places you live in and around you. We came up with the definition “our community is the people and places around us that make a difference in our lives”.

 

To record our learning we wrote about our family in our jotters and made our house in a technology challenge.