Monthly Archives: August 2020
Numeracy: Learning through play
It is wonderful to see the pupils applying their counting, matching and sorting skills during play. This was led by the children showing their ability to develop their ideas and build on previously learned skills.
It started with one pupil laying the cards on the carpet to create a number line from right to left. The same pupil then added blocks to the cards. 
The number line and blocks were left for some time before two more pupils added to it. They spaced out the blocks, made sure the correct number were there and then counted out gems for each number. Sorting, matching and counting through play.
Sound Scavenger Hunt
On Thursday, we started our morning phonics activities and play with a sound scavenger hunt! Everyone looked for as many items beginning with s, a, t, i, p, n as they could. Interestingly, some names of items were changed to suit the task. e.g. a caterpillar became an insect, blocks became sticks and lots of items just became ‘toys.’ Creative minds in the making… or just trying to pull the wool over my eyes? Either way, the pupils were very engaged and loved the challenge. Pupils also practised the formation of these sounds using playdough and writing them in our busy books. Well done 1.4.
Phonics & Numeracy
We have been very busy learning new sounds and practising our formation of both letters and numbers. We are now learning how to blend sounds together to read words and are matching numbers with quantities.
Week 1
Hello and welcome to P1.4’s blog.
The first three days of P1 are now complete and the children have settled very well into their new learning environment.
On day 1, first-day pictures were taken by Mrs Kelly. These will be shared with you very soon. The rest of the week was spent familiarising the boys and girls with our school rules, daily routines, school layout and of course opportunities to play! We have already noticed the children becoming faster with our toilet visits and handwashing which is fantastic!
As we cannot have our usual ‘meet the teacher’ this year, on Friday 29th August we will be sharing a video with you where we hope to address any questions you may have and inform you of what to expect throughout primary 1.
We are looking forward to our first full week with p1.4. Monday will see the introduction to phonics and exploration of number. Expect some very tired boys and girls on Friday!
Mrs Stephenson & Mrs Hamilton
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