Happy New Year from Primary 1! We were excited to get back to school, to see our friends and get back to our learning. To begin 2022 we talked about the things that we would like to get better at in our learning. We talked about this with our friends and teachers.
In Literacy we have been continuing to learn our alphabet sounds. We only have 4 sounds left to learn until we know all of them! We need to continue to work on our sounds at home to make sure we know them very well. Our magnetic boards help us to use our sounds to build words. Lots of our children can now read independently and Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Byrne are delighted that the children use their reading finger to jump from word to word, read from left to write and sound out their letters to blend/read their words. Fantastic work! We love reading and pick stories from our library every day. We are learning to write sentences independently and can write our own ideas in our stories. Our teachers remind us to write on the line, use finger spaces and full stops. We are continuing to learn more about capital letters and how to use them in our sentences. Here we are working hard on our literacy tasks.
In Numeracy we have been continuing to learn more about numbers. Some of us can even count all the way to 100! We are learning to count in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. Ask us to show you how we can do this at home. Our teachers have been helping us to remember to write our numbers facing the correct way. We need to practise this every day. We have been learning all about money and can recognise coins up to £2. Over the next few weeks we are going to learn even more about adding coins, giving change and playing in our shop. Mrs Byrne has been helping us to learn more about measuring and we have had so much fun measuring in the classroom and playground.
We love to be healthy in Primary 1! We talk about how we feel every day and ‘check-in’ with our adults to talk about our emotions. Fuzzy Wuzzy our worry monster eats up all of our worries so that we can be happy and healthy at school. We have been enjoying getting fit and working as a team to play games and improve our skills. We created our own games and made rules for our friends to follow.
In RME we have been learning about how God created our world for us. We know that God created the seasons, plants and animals. We will continue to learn about the 4 seasons that God created and thank God for his wonderful gifts. During our prayer time we are continuing to learn the Our Father, Hail Mary and praying the rosary together. We are very good at saying our Holy Family Prayer. Ask us to say our prayers at home to help us get even better at them.
We have chosen Scotland as our topic for this term and have enjoyed learning about Scottish Hogmanay. We talked about Scottish traditions and why Hogmanay is special for us. With our teachers we planned what we like to learn about during this topic. Mrs Stevenson’s dad let us borrow lots of exciting Scottish artefacts that we loved learning more about. Our favourite thing was the plaque with William Wallace on it.
We asked to learn about the Loch Ness Monster first. Here are our very own Nessie’s!
On 25th January we had a Burns celebration with our friends. We enjoyed Tunnock teacakes and some country dancing. We learned all about the Scottish Poet Robert Burns. After listening to 2 of Burns’ famous poems we coloured in some pictures of a rose and a mouse. We thought some of the Scots language was very funny and we are going to learn more about this.
We hope you enjoyed our update this month and will look forward to sharing what we get up to in February!
