We have had a very busy September in primary 1. We are becoming more independent at the same time as learning lots of new skills. We are learning more about the our class routines and rules and are trying hard to follow these. We helped Mrs Simpson to create our class charter and we try so hard to follow these four important rules:
- Work hard
- Gentle hands
- Keep our classroom tidy
- Listen to adults when they are speaking
We love the praise and rewards that we receive if we follow these rules. We especially love Class Dojo, Star of the Week and when we receive head teacher certificates and stickers.
In literacy we have been continuing our active literacy programme and already know how to read and write s a t p i and n. We have been listening to jolly phonics songs to help us to learn our sounds. You can access these on YouTube by searching for ‘jolly phonics songs in order’. We can now build lots of words using our new sounds, and we practise this on the magnetic board in school. Our grown ups could help us practise reading and writing lots of simple words at home too (e.g. sat, pan, tip, sit, pit).
We have now learned 10 new common words. Mrs Simpson sends these common words home every week in our homework pack. We should keep all our words in a little tub at home and practise them every single day. This will help us learn them well and enable us to read and write them easily.
We have already begun to develop our writing skills in primary 1. We know that Charlie Checker is always there to make sure that we are meeting our core writing targets;
- Capital letters
- Full stops
- Finger spaces
- Writing on the line
We have been working hard on overwriting and underwriting. Mrs Simpson is so proud and has picked Star Writers each week.
In maths we have been learning numbers to 6. We are beginning to show that we understand that numbers represent quantities. We are learning to put numbers into the correct order and to find missing numbers. We love subitising. This is when we can recognise the number of objects in a group without counting. We love watching Jack Hartmann on Youtube. Please ask us to show you how well we can subitise at home. We are working hard on number formation. We try to remember to make our numbers point in the correct direction and not visit Back to Front Land.
Our class topic is Julia Donaldson. Julia Donaldson is a famous children’s book author who has written lots of super stories including The Gruffalo, The Smartest Giant in Town, Monkey Puzzle and A Squash and a Squeeze. We focus on one book per week and lots of our learning is related each story. We recently made our own fairground horses based on the book Sugarlump and the Unicorn. We also completed a range of Gruffalo themed challenges including creating a new home for the Gruffalo. As Halloween approaches we will look at the story Room on the Broom and complete lots of spooky activities.
In R.M.E we have been learning about belonging. We know that we belong to our families, and we enjoyed learning about all the other ways we belong. We made a Tree of Belonging for our class display and we thought about all the people in our school who make us feel like we belong. We made our primary 7 buddies thank you cards for making us feel so safe and loved in our new school. We know that we belong to God and that we should all look after each other. We try to show our friends kindness and love so that they feel like they belong.
We are looking forward to another exciting month in Primary 1. We are so excited to be entering into October because we know this is an Autumn month and ends with Halloween. We can’t wait for our school disco and all the Halloween related learning that we will experience.
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