Play is such a valuable part of children’s learning. It makes learning fun for children and they also learn important social skills, such as taking turns, listening, imagination and problem solving. We try to provide stimulating play activities for the children . We ask them what they would like. This week, the craft table and play doh were popular requests.
So…. what are these tricky words and word lists and what do we do with them? The answer is simple: read them! Choose a few a night. We don’t expect the children to learn them all every night. 🙀
Choose any of the word lists for your child to read. They will sound out the word, using their phonics and blend the sounds together, then watch as their little faces light up as say the word! As they get better, they will be able to look at the words and say them, without sounding them out, but this a work in progress and it all takes time. A lot of patience is required in Primary 1. Remember not to read a list from top to bottom, as the children are clever and will soon memorise it!
The tricky words are words that the children cannot sound out. They are, indeed, tricky words. ( The clue is in the title) You may want to cut the cards up and turn the cards over one at a time, or you might want to “lucky dip”and choose random words on the sheet. ( probably best to choose just a few words) Again, it is a work in progress. We reinforce all of these words in class every day. Quite often a child will pipe up “that is a tricky word!”as we read a story. Bingo!
Sometimes, we go outdoors to learn and it is a lot of fun. A group went out to learn some playground number games . Rules had to be followed, turns had to be taken and a lot of patience was to be had, but we got there!
One of children made us laugh as they explained that when they are a bit naughty, Mummy calls them by their ” naughty name”. This is usually your whole name. ( Sometimes it includes a middle name too!) So many children knew exactly what it was! Mrs Arbuckle is still called her naughty name by her Mummy and Daddy!
The second half of the class visited Asda today. It was great to do the shopping and then we all took it in turns to “beep” the item at the till. We then took the total of coins out of the till and we had to match them to big money cards. Thank you, Asda!
Some of us got to go to Asda this week as part of our Developing Young Workforce lessons. We became till operators and got to work with real money. We wore our special high viz jackets, so people didn’t think we were real workers! We had a brilliant experience. Some of our boys and girls will go next week.
We have waited patiently for our new touch screen board.
We had to decamp yesterday as the workmen arrived and fitted our lovely new board. We are highly delighted.
One of our lovely Depute Head’s, Mrs McGregor, came to read “Winnie The Witch” by Valerie Thomas and Korey Paul. It was a great story and we all listened very carefully.
We had lots of science fun at Hallowe’en. We looked at static electricity and gave everyone “frightened hair” by rubbing balloons on our hair; we did chemical reactions with bicarbonate soda and vinegar to make the pumpkin ” throw up”; we had a sensory pumpkin and gloop to feel. We put our hands in the frozen green jelly and touched the ice hands. Lots of laughter ensued. At the end, some P6 children came to sing us their Hallowe’en songs. They were very good.
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